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Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

By David Taylor

Ultimate Risk

By Adam Raphael

Folkestone in Old Photographs: A Second Selection

By Alan F. Taylor, Eamonn D. Rooney

The Bookseller's Tale

By Latham, Martin

FairBreak

By Karen Motyka, Shaun Martyn

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)

Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

By Bee Wilson

School of the Moon: The Highland Cattle-raiding Tradition

By Stuart McHardy

Forgotten English

By Jeffrey Kacirk

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

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

Learning Languages in Early Modern England

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

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

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

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

By R. J. Tayler

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

By Krista Halverson

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)

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)

The Ivy: The Restaurant and its Recipes

By A A Gill, Harriet Logan, Henry Bourne

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

By Andrew Davies, Davies, Andrew T

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...

A University Education

By David Willetts

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

By Country Life

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)

An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams

By Peter Thonemann (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford)

This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

By Robert Colls (Professor of Cultural History, Professor of Cultural History, De Montfort University)

The London Restaurant, 1840-1914

By Brenda Assael (Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Lecturer in Modern History, Swansea University)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia

By Alison K. Smith (associate professor of history, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, Toronto)

The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland

By Breandan Mac Suibhne (Professor of History, Professor of History, Centenary College, New Jersey)

Jung: A Very Short Introduction: 40 (Very Short Introductions)

By Stevens, Anthony

Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction

By Andrew Robinson (Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge)