Viking Folk and Fairy Tales - Ancient Wisdom, Fables and Folkore by J. K. Jackson (Editor); S. Hodge (Introduction by)
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the gods: treasured tales from Hans Christian A ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
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Category: social issues
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Legends of Norse Mythology by Tom Birkett
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Legends of Norse Mythology is a fully illustrated anthology of Norse gods, giants, monsters, and heroes retold anew. Featuring beautiful and otherworldly portraits of mythological characters from Isabella Mazzanti and enchanting text from Old English scholar and Norse mythology expert Dr Thomas Birket ...Show more
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement by Henry Reynolds
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Category: History
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole conti ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
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Category: History
A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area. Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic and diverse regi ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
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Category: social issues
Big History professor and bestselling author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book, taking in history, philosophy, theology, physics, biology, chemistry and, of course, futurology...Every second of our lives - whether we're looki ...Show more
Greek Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From the birth of Zeus, to Prometheus, Pandora and Helen of Troy, Odysseus and Jason and the Argonauts, the myths of the Greeks and, later, the Romans, are passionate and powerfully told. The Gods are jealous of each other's powers, subject to mighty outbursts of love and a ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
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Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
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Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
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Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more