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A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables

By Adam Alexander, Prof. Tim Lang

A Century in Oil : The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997

By Stephen Howarth

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding

Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

By Rosina Harrison

Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

By M. Foucault

A Just Measure of Pain

By Michael Ignatieff

The Sociology of Deviance

By Colin Sumner

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

By D.J. Taylor

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By David Gibbins

Lists of Note

By Shaun Usher

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

By Frank Perry, Lotte Moeller

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Canons)

By Rebecca Solnit

Out Skerries: An Island Community

By Joan Dey

From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s

By Derek J. Oddy

The Underworld

By Duncan Campbell

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

By Bruce Pascoe

LOCHS & GLENS

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

A Square Meal: A Culinary History Of The Great Depression

By Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe

Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London

By Asa Briggs

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis