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These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales

By B. L. Coombes, Bill Jones, Chris Williams

God's People in God's Land

By Christopher J. H. Wright

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

By Elizabeth Blackwell, Amy Sue Bix

The Eyes Have it: A Personal View

By Christopher Liu

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The Search for Cleopatra

By Michael Foss

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Thirty Years in a Turtleneck Sweater

Max Weber

By Frank Parkin

Black Scientists & Inventors: Bk. 1

By Ava Henry, Michael Williams, Jeorge Asare-Djan, Carol Cumberbatch, Zikomo Wamakuta

Men of War: The Changing Face of Heroism in the 19th Century Navy

By David Crane

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Sailor in the Wardrobe

By Hugo Hamilton

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

By Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp

Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By Shawcross

The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

By Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The Passion of Michel Foucault

By James Miller

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Moore, Lucy

Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

By Pietro Pinti, Jenny Bawtree

The Grand Quarrel: Women's Memoirs of the English Civil War

By Hudso Roger, Roger Hudson

Mick's Archaeology

By Michael Aston

Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

Life, Death and Biscuits

By Anthea Allen

Milton and the English Revolution

By Hill, Christopher

The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Nicholas Timmins

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Through the Palace Keyhole

By Ann Sawalha