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The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

By Alan English

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By Jon Ronson (Jon Ronson)

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

Letters from Russia, 1919

By P. D. Ouspensky

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

By Njongonkulu Ndungane

Biko: A Life

By Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela

Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By Kathleen Mary Butler

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot (Picador Classic, 79)

By Skloot, Rebecca, Moss, Sarah

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

One Hundred Years of Protest

By Christopher Catherwood (Author)

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

The Asquiths

By Colin W. G. Clifford

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIX

By Ron Johnston FBA (, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

TheReckoning The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Nicholl, Charles ( Author ) ON Oct-03-2002, Paperback

By Nicholl, Charles

Jung

By Anthony Stevens

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924

By Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

By Ramita Navai

A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey

By Leila Ahmed

Infidel

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History

By John Docker (University of Technology, Sydney)

How To Be Extraordinary

By Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Annabel Tempest

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

By Georgina Lawton

On Boxing PB

By Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)

Once More, With Feeling: How we tried to make the greatest porn film ever

By Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton

The People's Game: How to Save Football: THE AWARD WINNING BESTSELLER

By Gary Neville