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Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction

By Andreas Onnerfors (Associate Professor of the History of Sciences and Ideas, University of Gothenburg)

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

By Michael MacDonald (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo)

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb

By Allison L. C. Emmerson (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University)

Renaissance Architecture

By Christy Anderson (Associate Professor, University of Toronto)

Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain

By Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style: Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017

By Oswyn Murray (Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford), Vanessa Cazzato (Visiting Fellow, Radboud University Nijmegen)

Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys

By Vincent DiGirolamo (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College of the City University of New York)

The Glory of the Garden: A Horticultural Celebration (Country Life)

By Country Life

A University Education

By David Willetts

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America

By Erika Lee (Director, Asian American Studies Program and Assoc, Director, University of Minnesota), Judy Yung (Professor Emerita of American Studies, Professor Emerita of American Studies, University of Californ...

When I Were A Lad...: Snapshots from a Time That Health and Safety Forgot

By Andrew Davies, Davies, Andrew T

The Ivy: The Restaurant and its Recipes

By A A Gill, Harriet Logan, Henry Bourne

The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

By Eric Adler (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland)

History of the Royal Astronomical Society: vol 1: 1820-1920

By J.L.E. Dreyer (President), H.H. Turner (Past President, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford)

Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

By Krista Halverson

History of the Royal Astronomical Society: v. 2: 1920-80

By R. J. Tayler

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

By Elizabeth Kelly Gray (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Towson University)

Learning Languages in Early Modern England

By John Gallagher (Lecturer in Early Modern History, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Leeds)

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation

By Konstantina Zanou (Assistant Professor of Italian, Assistant Professor of Italian, Columbia University)

Forgotten English

By Jeffrey Kacirk

School of the Moon: The Highland Cattle-raiding Tradition

By Stuart McHardy

Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

By Bee Wilson

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

By Ben Shapiro

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them

By Collins, Philip

These Truths: A History of the United States

By Jill Lepore

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland

By Juliane Furst (Head of Department of Communism and Society, Head of Department of Communism and Society, Leibniz Centre of Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam)

Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

By Ioanna Iordanou (Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University)