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Florence Nightingale

By Stewart Ross

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Collins, Jeff, Mayblin, Bill

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

By Christina Lamb

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

By Charlie Porter

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Charles Gore: Radical Anglican: Charles Gore and his writings

By Peter Waddell

The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought

By Bullock, Alan, Trombley, Stephen

Lonergan

By Frederick E. Crowe, S. J.

A Talent for Humanity: The Life and Work of Lady Henry Somerset

By Ros Black

Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story

King of Dust: Adventures in forgotten sculpture

By Alex Woodcock

The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Romance

By Penny Rimbaud

Truth About Rudolf Hess

By Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

By John Morris

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House

By John F. Harris

Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything

By David D. Nolte (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dept of Physics, Purdue University, USA)

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

The Mystery of Easter Island

By Katherine Pease Routledge

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

By Kara Cooney

The Picture Man: Photographs by Paul Buchanan

By Bruce Morton

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

By Van Emden, Richard

The Castrato and His Wife

By Helen Berry (Reader in Early Modern History, Newcastle University)

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

Malthus: A Very Short Introduction

By Donald Winch (Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex)

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

By Gertrude Bell

Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

By Gary Gutting (John A. O'Brien Chair in Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Notre Dame)

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

By Richard Dawkins

Small Change: Why Business Wont Save the World

By Michael Edwards