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    Waves Across The South
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    Waves Across The South

    WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 ‘Helps re-centre how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Global history at its...
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    This Land of Promise
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    This Land of Promise

    ‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today’s toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH How have those who arrived on Britain’s shores...
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    In the Shadow of Vesuvius
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    In the Shadow of Vesuvius

    ‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life’ Tom Holland, Literary Review‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful...
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    Return to My Trees
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    Return to My Trees

    When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature and how do we find it again?Matthew Yeomans seeks to answer these questions as he walks more than 300 miles through the ancient and modern forests of Wales, losing himself in their stories (and...
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    The Railway Atlas of Scotland
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    The Railway Atlas of Scotland

    The rich diversity of Scotland's railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 100 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country's railways from the early nineteenth century to...
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    All Mapped Out
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    All Mapped Out

    Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book takes you on a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave...
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    The Borders
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    The Borders

    In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary visitors for hundreds of years.The hunter-gatherers, who first...
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    The Empire of Climate
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    The Empire of Climate

    How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the...
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    Isle of Skye Jigsaw Puzzle
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    Isle of Skye Jigsaw Puzzle

    The isle of Skye is one of the most dramatically beautiful of all the Hebridean islands. At fifty miles long, it is also the largest of the Inner Hebrides and boasts a rich history and a huge range of wildlife. It is also a top destination for walkers...
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    The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle
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    The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle

    Iona is one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish Hebrides, and full of historical associations. It was here that St Columba came by boat in 563 from Ireland, bringing Christianity to Scotland and establishing a monastery that became one of the...
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    The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
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    The spatiality and temporality of urban violence

    This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that...
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    Amerasia
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    Amerasia

    A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuumAmerica and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492...
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    Islamic Maps
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    Islamic Maps

    Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and...
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    Majestic River
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    Majestic River

    Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger is about geography, exploration, and a 2000-year-old geographical mystery. By the eighteenth century, the river Niger was to Europeans a source of wonder, potential wealth, and a two-part...
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    Forth Rail Bridge Jigsaw
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    Forth Rail Bridge Jigsaw

    The Forth Rail Bridge is one of the world's great engineering feats, and one of its most well-known. When it opened in 1890, the cantilevered bridge had one of the world's longest spans, at 541 metres. Its distinctive and innovative design marks it as an...
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    The Scottish Picture Map Jigsaw
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    The Scottish Picture Map Jigsaw

    This unique and delightful map of mainland Scotland and the Hebrides, from the collection of the National Library of Scotland, is a magnificent pictorial map of Scotland. Not just annotated with beautiful calligraphy, it also includes dozens of vignettes...
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    Lifting As They Climbed
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    Lifting As They Climbed

    An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed...
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    Incredible Crossings
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    Incredible Crossings

    Historian and bestselling author Derek Hayes brings hundreds of colour photographs, archival images and illustrations together with a meticulously researched commentary on the bridges, tunnels and inland ferries that connect British Columbia.The very...
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    Imperial inequalities
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    Imperial inequalities

    Imperial inequalities takes Western European empires, and their legacies, as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of...
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    Crowns and colonies
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    Crowns and colonies

    Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections...
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    Ten Years That Shook the City

    A collection of essays spans the tumultuous decade from 1968, the year of the San Francisco State University strike, to 1978 and the twin traumas of the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. This...
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    Lost Edinburgh
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    Lost Edinburgh

    From mean beginnings 'wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds', visiting French knights complained in 1341 the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural wonders of the world. But over the centuries many of those...
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    Atlas of Abandoned Places
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    Atlas of Abandoned Places

    The globe is littered with forgotten monuments, their beauty matched only by the secrets of their past. A glorious palace lies abandoned by a fallen dictator. A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain. Two never-launched space...
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    Golden Atlas
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    Golden Atlas

    The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created.  The book reveals how the...
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    To the Ends of the Earth
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    To the Ends of the Earth

    Offers a unique insight into the evolution of map-making and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone...
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    Atlas of Atlases
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    Atlas of Atlases

    This beatutiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by rulers, explorers, and adventures these books were used...
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