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  • The Library of Lost Maps

    An Archive of a World in Progress

    "A beautifully illustrated book." -The Wall Street Journal"An enlightening and lovingly presented tribute to the necessity and wonder of libraries and archives." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A concise and engrossing study of cartographers' urge to make the world behave." -Kirkus ReviewsJoin renowned geographer James Cheshire on a tour through a forgotten collection of maps tha... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Library of Lost Maps

    Narrated by Elliot Chapman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Library of Lost Maps by James Cheshire, read by Elliot Chapman."A beautifully illustrated book." —The Wall Street Journal"An enlightening and lovingly presented tribute to the necessity and wonder of libraries and archives." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A concise and engrossing study of cartographers' urge to make the world behave." —Kirkus Reviews... ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps

    This beautifully illustrated history of twentieth century cartography charts a century of social and political change through 100 fascinating maps.The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking. Maps were employed not only to chart geography and history but also myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the twentieth century that reveal ... Read more

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  • Interesting Times

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short century” which is the ... Read more

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  • Invisible Lines

    Boundaries and Belts That Define the World

    by Maxim Samson ...
    An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious—an ocean, or a mountain range—to subtle differences in language or climate. We cross boundaries all the time, sometimes without realizing it. They can be subjective: our perceptions of a boundary may not be shared by others. ... Read more

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  • Every Monument Will Fall

    A Story of Remembering and Forgetting

    by Dan Hicks ...
    ‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Alienation Effect

    How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century

    'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' GuardianBritain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Sea View Has Me Again

    Uwe Johnson in Sheerness

    The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Singapore Flings

    Literary Stopovers from Chekhov to Tagore

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Literary greats have long visited Singapore, fascinated by its culture and history. Explore the experiences of writers like Anton Chekhov, Rabindranath Tagore, Noël Coward, Isabella Bird, Pablo Neruda and Joseph Conrad, among others, and discover how Singapore remained a lasting part of their creative imagination. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Unconformities

    Speculations on Lost Time

    by Hugh Raffles ...
    From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present.Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I You We Them, Vol. 1

    Walking into the World of the Desk Killer

    by Dan Gretton ...
    Series Book 1 - I You We Them
    A "powerful" historical investigation into crimes against humanity—and those who give the orders from the safety of their desks ( The Spectator).A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Spectator (UK) Best Book of the YearI You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shock of the Old

    Technology and Global History since 1900

    From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He ... Read more

    $26.59 USD