A Good Time to Be a Girl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 (9) Five years have passed since women were exhorted to 'Lean In'. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone 'lean in' to a p... Verifica stoc
Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 As David Cameron's director of Politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum - the biggest
THE ART OF WAR SUN TZU ♡ 9 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and
Brief History: The Dynasties of China ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye
The Briefing ♡ 13 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump's press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean
John Henry Newman ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.', From An
Coromandel ♡ 17 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Coromandel. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula
Plugging Into Your Past ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A contributing editor to Family Tree Magazine shows readers how to navigate digitized records, CD-ROMs, and other electronic sources in the search for family information,...
Confidence Men ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping
Everything in Moderation ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He
Shooting Victoria ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The extraordinary stories of the eight men who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria combine to create a compellingly original portrait of the entire Victorian era.
Action Likely in Pacific ♡ 22 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of Asian
The Price of Freedom ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West.
Witnessing Waterloo ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon’s escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace
Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If Osama bin Laden is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can't
People Like Us ♡ 17 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side
Austerity Britain: A world to build ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 David Kynaston's 'Austerity Britain 1945-51', the first book in his series 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', was a major 'Sunday Times' bestseller in 2007. Here
The Federalist Papers ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became thi...
After Suez ♡ 21 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 'A British Prime Minister urging a sceptical public to war in the Middle East. A project, both desperate and ambitious, to radically change the political
A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Personal reminiscences of an esteemed Tibetan Buddhist master, ranging from touching memoir to humorous storytelling, from sharp cultural commentary to deeply felt...
Abraham Lincoln ♡ 18 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The
The Reckoning ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 From best-selling author of Fighter Boys, a gripping true detective story into a shooting that had momentous consequences for the modern world. What happened when
WATERLOO: THE BATTLE THAT BROUGHT DOWN NAPOLEON ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on
Theresa May ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Only the second woman to hold office at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May inherits the most difficult political mandate of recent times: to negotiate Britain’s
West Like Lightning ♡ 21 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 'A GROUNDBREAKING WORK,' hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich
The Great War In Portraits ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and
The Accidental Capitalist ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new
Unmanned ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new
The Sugar King of Havana ♡ 20 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait.' -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man
Spy in Moscow Station ♡ 13 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Moscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed withbureaucratic infighting, had left the country unspeakably
Whatever It Took ♡ 15 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper
Gate to China ♡ 8 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 O lucrare încântătoare de scris și de cercetare care descrie istoria remarcabilă din spatele predării acestui oraș unic și incitant” Jasper Becker „Aprofundat cercetat ...
Waterloo General ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had rendered very brilliant and important services and was
A CENTURY OF CHANGE ♡ 20 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day.
Kitchener ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The words 'Britons Wants You' and 'Your Country Needs You' are echoes from the First World War - a time very different from today but
Modern Women ♡ 20 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Modern Women este o celebrare a unora dintre femeile influente și impresionante care au schimbat lumea prin viața, prin munca și prin acțiunile lor. De
The Dignity of Chartism ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between on-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well a...
Conspiracy Theories ♡ 17 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Is the world as we know it a lie? Could the truth be something far different to what we're told it is? Whether it's the
A Brief History of Slavery ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 În 'A Brief History of Slavery' istoricul Jeremy Black explorează sclavia de la originile sale și până la manifestările sale contemporane, sub forma traficului de
The Art of Resistance ♡ 16 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from
Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral ♡ 14 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Salisbury Cathedral is one of Europe’s most admired medieval buildings, and a thriving centre of cultural, intellectual, and religious life, 800 years after it was
A Strange Eventful History ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Susținerea privatizării de către Tony Blair înainte de alegerile generale din 1997 a stins în cele din urmă viața socialismului ca forță politică semnificativă în
ZERO SIX BRAVO ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 bestsellerul nr. 1 din Sunday Times. Aceasta este povestea adevărată și nespusă a celei mai disperate bătălii purtate de forțele speciale britanice și aliate prinse
My Friend the Mercenary ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of
A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere 'pup' among
Peace and War: Britain In 1914 ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war suffragette agitation was
Zero Night ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true. Oflag
Speaking With the Spirits of the Old Southwest ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 DISCOVER THE CHILLING TRUE STORIES OF THE SPIRITS WHO HAUNT THE OTHERWORLDLY LANDSCAPE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Out in the Arizona desert, among the crumbling
The History of The Channel Tunnel ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early
Reporting on Hitler : Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Berlin by Will Wainewright ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Fuhrer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily
Not for Patching ♡ 15 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 In his famous report of 1942, the economist and social reformer William Beveridgewrote that the war was a 'revolutionary moment in the world's history' and
Sex and the City of Ladies ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 In 1405 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies , was built around preserving
To Fight Alongside Friends : The First World War Diary of Charlie May ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A
Holocaust Child : Lalechka ♡ 14 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of
Charlie Company Journeys Home ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Folosind nenumărate interviuri, precum și jurnale și scrisori originale, Andrew Wiest dezvăluie oroarea războiului din Vietnam pentru cei rămași în urmă și luptele durab...
The Devil In The White City ♡ 10 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 The author of In the Garden of Beasts brings turn-of-the-century Chicago to vivid life in this gripping history, a finalist for the National Book Award.
Darling Winston ♡ 21 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Churchill's life across this period follows a trajectory of adventure and political ambition - army service in India, escape from a Boer POW camp, swift
Red Knight ♡ 14 17 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joining
Victoria Cross Heroes of World War One ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 For the first time all 627 WWI Victoria Cross winners are portrayed in photographs as well as their actions recounted. Contemporary facsimile newspaper extracts reveal
Reconfiguring Slavery ♡ 29 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also consider...