books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A Mazrui

Mafeking Diary

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

Negroland: A Memoir

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

Free At Last: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Good Ally

A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

The Roman Republic (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

A.J. Ayer: A Life

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

Emily Wilding Davison

God's Callgirl

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

Ulendo: Claude's African Journey into War and Passion

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
