The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends by Camilla Townsend
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Myths Ser.
From their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico, with a belief system that was one of the most complex and vital in the ancient world. Historian Camilla Townsend returns to the original tales, ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
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Category: General Non Fiction
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Hannibal of Carthage by Lindsay Powell (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (General Editor)
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
With a new introduction, comes the story of Hannibal, often regarded as a successor to the mantle of Alexander the Great, at a time when Carthage, in North Africa, and Rome were rivals for land and power across the Mediterranean sea. A masterful tactician, a resourceful planner and courageous general, H ...Show more
The Sinking of the Titanic - Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Jay Henry Mowbray; Stephen Haddelsey (Editor); Bruce Beveridge (Preface by)
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Category: General Non Fiction
"I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship.""There fell on the ear the most appalling noise that ever human ear l ...Show more
Deck of Stars: A Guide to the Night Sky by Dr Sara Webb
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Category: General Non Fiction
Across human cultures and history, we have looked up to the heavens and discovered the constellations, from Auriga to Cassiopeia and Cygnus to Lyra. Each cluster of stars has its own story, both mythic and scientific. With The Deck of Stars, you can learn about both.With 50 cards, this deck teaches you ...Show more
Conspiracy Theories: A Compendium of History's Greatest Mysteries and More Recent Cover-Ups by Jamie King
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Category: General Non Fiction
Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Is the food in ...Show more
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
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Category: General Non Fiction
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan.*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian*Everyone is origina ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
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Category: General Non Fiction
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
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Category: General Non Fiction
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new mas ...Show more
Unsolved Mysteries - Unexplained Events and Paranormal Phenomena from Around the World by Jamie King
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Category: General Non Fiction
Seek the truth at the heart of the world's most bizarre cases in this chilling collection of unsolved mysteriesDid you hear about the woman who died inside a tree?What about the legend of the Beast of Bodmin Moor?Do you know that UFOs flew over Belgium?Intriguing, captivating and downright bizarre, this ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
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Category: General Non Fiction
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
Dinopedia by Darren Naish
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Pedia A Brief Compendium
An illuminating and entertaining collection of dinosaur facts, from A to Z Dinopedia is an illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia of all things dinosaurian. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from hadrosaur nesting colonies to modern fossil hunters and paleontologists such as Halszka Osmól ...Show more