Social & Urban History Biographies

Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?

By Immi Tallgren (Professor of International Law, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki)

Married To A Bedouin

By Marguerite van Geldermalsen

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Where I Was From

By Joan Didion

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

By Krista Halverson

The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions

By Champkins, Mark, Jones, Peter

Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography

By Franklin D. Margiotta, John Keegan

Son of Escobar: First Born

By Roberto Sendoya Escobar

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

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)

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

By Gyles Brandreth

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations

By Lynette Ater Tanner

The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down

By Colin Woodard

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd

Bullet Magnet: Britain's Most Highly Decorated Frontline Soldier

By Flynn, Mick

D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander

By Sgt Trevor Greenwood, S. V. Partington

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By Wendy Lower

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

By Jeremy Adelman

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

FairBreak

By Karen Motyka, Shaun Martyn

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books)

By Sheehan, Neil

Tales of London Docklands

By Henry T. Bradford

Over Here

By Seitz, Raymond

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By David Remnick, Salman Rushdie, Stuart Wilson

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny

By Ai Weiwei

Black Stars of the Civil Rights Movement

By Jim Haskins (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

Wittgenstein's Poker

By Edmonds, David, Eidinow, John

Venice

By Morris, Jan