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The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention (Women in American History)

By Judith Wellman

London: The Illustrated History

By Ross, Cathy, Clark, John, Museum of London, Hall, Simon

Erik Erikson

By Welchman, Kit

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Einstein's Universe

By Alpha Development Group

Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience (People's History)

By Greene, Meg

Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought For Civil Rights

By Rochelle, Belinda

Great African Americans in Civil Rights (Great African Americans S.)

By Redigar, Pat

Coping with Love (Coping S.)

By Corey, Peter, Reeve, Philip

Growing Up in Restaurants: The Story of Eating Out in Britain from 55BC to Nowadays

By James Pembroke

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

By Sprawson, Charles, Liptrot, Amy

Emmeline Pankhurst: 8 (Little People, BIG DREAMS)

By Lisbeth Kaiser, Kaiser, Lisbeth, Sanfelippo, Ana

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By Hague, WILLIAM

The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners

By Milne, Seumas

Lenin: A Biography

By Service, Robert

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

By Abou El Fadl, Khaled

Wilberforce: God's Statesman

By Pollock, John

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Yousafzai, Malala, Lamb, Christina

Marx

By McLellan, David

But You Did Not Come Back

By Loridan-Ivens, Marceline, Smith, Sandra

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Thomas Mann and His Family

By Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ralph Manheim

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

The Most Evil Men and Women in History

By Twiss, Miranda

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War

By Waugh, Alexander

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)

By Arendt, Hannah

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

By Shorto, Russell

Events That Changed the World (The Top Ten)

By Ganeri, Anita

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

By Haste, Cate

Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

By Moore, Peter

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

By Broeck, Charlotte Van den, McKay, David