The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
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Category: History SPECIALS | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Category: History SPECIALS
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a dif ...Show more
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook by Karina Urbach
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Category: History SPECIALS
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned i ...Show more
The Vagabonds - The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn
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Category: History SPECIALS
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thom ...Show more
The Times: Explorers A History in Photographs by MADELEINE, Richard
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Category: History SPECIALS
Medicine: A Magnificently Illustrated History by Briony Hudson
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Category: History SPECIALS
This visually extraordinary book presents the history of medicine as it has never been seen before... perfect for readers aged 9+. From potions and ointments to modern day bionics, the journey through medicine has been one full of experiments, trials and breakthroughs. Humankind's battle to stay alive h ...Show more
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky - A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia by Robert Carmichael
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Category: History SPECIALS
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
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Category: History SPECIALS
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
How the Mountains Grew by John Dvorak
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Category: History SPECIALS
From the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Earthquake Storms comes the incredible story of the creation of a continet. For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: There were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to ris ...Show more
In Our Time - The Companion by Melvyn Bragg; Simon Tillotson
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Category: History SPECIALS
'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme.'In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat. Those who know what they're talking about, talk about it, and they do it under the benevolent if occasion ...Show more
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy and the end of the Victorian Age by Greg King and Penny Wilson
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Category: History SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the ...Show more
SORDID SEX LIVES by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: History SPECIALS
Sordid Sex Lives features 45 profiles of history's most shocking sexual deviants, fetishists and perverts, revealing the sex secrets of some of history's greatest figures: from the sexual excesses of the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero to the masochist tendencies, coprophilia and underwear fetishes of ...Show more