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A History of Opera
Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker
The first full new history of opera for sixty years: a magnificent, definitive work
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Governing the World
Mark Mazower
A dazzling new book from the award-winning author of Dark Continent and Hitler's Empire
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
A provocative new account of how Europe destroyed itself
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Unfinished Empire
John Darwin
How on earth did a small, rainy island in the Atlantic come to rule most of the world?
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Jerry Brotton
A magical book which explores how the world was seen at twelve points in history, through twelve extraordinary maps and the minds of those who made them
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Christian Beginnings
Geza Vermes
The story of the origins of the Christian Church – from 'the greatest Jesus scholar of his generation' Sunday Telegraph
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A totally new idea that tells us how to thrive in a world that is unpredictable, chaotic and full of shocks
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The Watchers
Stephen Alford
The enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabeth's rule
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La Folie Baudelaire
Roberto Calasso
In a mosaic of stories, insights, commentaries on poems and paintings, Calasso brings Baudelaire's Paris to life
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Interventions
Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh
An unparalleled personal history of global statecraft during one of the most consequential eras of recent history
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The Big Screen
David Thomson
'What Thomson does not know or feel about films is not worth knowing or feeling' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
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The Eagle Unbowed
Halik Kochanski
A powerful, compelling testimony to endurance under impossible conditions, and an untold story of World War Two
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KANDAK
Patrick Hennessey
A powerful story of culture clashes and bonds of friendships formed under fire
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Wine Grapes
Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding, José Vouillamoz
A new and indispensable book for every wine lover from one of the world's best known wine writers
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Underground
David Bownes, Oliver Green, Sam Mullins
A richly illustrated history to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest underground railway
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From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
How China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world – in their own image, not that of the West
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage
David Priestland
A fundamental, radical look at who really rules the world and how
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Tombstone
Yang Jisheng
The most powerful book you'll read this year
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There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recallilng Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on one of his country's most tragic civil wars
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Short Walks from Bogotá
Tom Feiling
Stunning 'state of the nation' reportage on Colombia, Latin America's most controversial country
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The Arab Awakening
Tariq Ramadan
After the uprisings, what now? Tariq Ramadan offers a challenge to the Middle East
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Private Empire
Steve Coll
Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll tells the shocking story of one of the most powerful private corporations in the world
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Iron Curtain
Anne Applebaum
A major new work of historical and moral reckoning from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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The Democracy Project
David Graeber
The story of the biggest, truly international grassroots social movement in years, from the man who was there
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Unmastered
Katherine Angel
More personal than a memoir, more moving than a philosophical text, this book thinks afresh about the idea of desire
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Shakespeare's Restless World
Neil MacGregor
An enthralling exploration of Shakespeare's world, and of the minds of his audiences, based on Neil MacGregor's 20-part BBC Radio 4 series
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Permanent Present Tense
Suzanne Corkin
A renowned neuroscientist recounts the story of her relationship with the brain-damaged patient whose case afforded untold advances in the study of memory
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Gravity's Engines
Caleb Scharf
A renowned astrophysicist reveals how our universe's capacity for life may be ultimately governed by black holes
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The Price of Inequality
Joseph Stiglitz
In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality – and why this inequality is not inevitable
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