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The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine: Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music

By K. Chaddock

Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom: Domestic Elites and Policy-making

By Andreas Heinrich, Heiko Pleines

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45

By Peter Haining

Napoleon: How He Did It - the Memoirs of Baron Fain, First Secretary of the Emperor's Cabinet

By Proctor Jones

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

By K. Cooper, E. Short

Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis

By Richard Webster

Pioneers of Psychology

By Raymond E. Fancher

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners

By R. Warnicke

Indography: Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England

By J. Harris

Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815

By J. Solinger

From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day

By Feng Jicai

City and Nation in the Italian Unification: The National Festivals of Dante Alighieri

By Mahnaz Yousefzadeh

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter

By Lucinda Hawksley

Durkheim

By Anthony Giddens

Paupers and Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland, a Somerset Parson, 1799-1818 (Country Library)

By William Holland

Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian

By Bernard Lewis, PH D (Princeton University (Emeritus)), Buntzie Ellis Churchill

History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood

By Fred Inglis

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography

By Kent Worcester

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

By N. Levtzion, J.F.P. Hopkins

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

Joe's War - My Father Decoded: A Daughter's Search for Her Father's War

By Annette Kobak

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

Mikidadi wa Mafia. Maisha ya Mwanaharakati na Familia Yake Nchini Tanzania

By Pat Caplan

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

By Paddy Ashdown