Allen Lane

History of Masculinity, A: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice [9780241458792]

What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, or a good friend? In this urgent, clear-sighted analysis, …

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The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present [9780241519332]

'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed …

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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe [9780241004104]

In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Eu…

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The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty [9780241388648]

AUTHOR: Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Politics at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxf…

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The Book of All Books [9780241446720]

A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, by the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.A man named Saul is sent to search for some …

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Functioning Anarchy?, A: Essays for Ramachandra Guha [9780670093700]

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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World [9780241413388]

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffe…

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story SIGNED [A780241512470]

'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air …

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Democracy Rules [9780241382936]

One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first centuryEveryone knows that democracy is in troubl…

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The World According to Colour: A Cultural History [9781846148248]

The subject of this book is mankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and thro…

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Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 [9780713995626]

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this w…

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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History [9780241481851]

'Funny, moving but also deadly serious, this book will be read for years to come. . . Beautifully brings together the personal and the political to c…

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Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War [9780241423509]

This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's d…

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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch [9780241413333]

George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sov…

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Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 [9780241285817]

This dazzling, original and hugely engaging book tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. To many foreigner observers, sevente…

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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters [9780241380277]

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help you understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Rational…

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