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All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
All You Need to Know About Our World by Age 7 by Alice James
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
A perfect first introduction to geography and our planetFollow a cast of curious bugs as they travel the world, finding out what continents and oceans are, what makes a capital city, where people live, and what's happening in the natural world. With interactive questions and activities.
All the Maths You Need to Know by Age 7 by Katie Daynes
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
A fun, friendly introduction to maths, covering all the topics taught in school. Join a cast of entertaining bugs as they explore maths through everyday examples, from handling numbers and times tables to weighing ingredients and telling the time. Fun puzzles allow readers to practise what they've learn ...Show more
All the Science You Need to Know Before Age 7 by Katie Daynes
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
Engage in the world around you with this lively and enlightening introduction to science. From materials, light and space to humans, animals and plants, this book covers an impressive range of topics in a simple, accessible way. Friendly, bright illustrations by Stefano Tognetti. Full of fun experiments ...Show more
Napoleon - A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World? or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Born in Corsica, and a brilliant military leader during the French revolution, Napoleon became Emperor in 1804 and dominated European and indeed global affairs for the next ten years, leading France against a series of coalitions in what were later called the Napoleonic wars. His victories are the stuff ...Show more
Russia and Its Rulers - The Turbulent History of a Country Which Has Never Come to Terms with the Modern World by Caroline Brooke
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Russia and its Rulers is a book which traces the history of Russia since the last days of the tsars until modern times. Caroline Brooke shows how Alexander II tried to reform his vast, backward and almost entirely rural domain in the second half of the 19th century, reorganising the judiciary, abolishin ...Show more
Sexuality - A History of Human Sexuality from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age by Charlotte McGann
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Charlotte McGann tells the story of human sexuality from the days of the hunter gatherers through to modern times. She explores the attitudes of the ancient Greeks and Romans to sex - and at the many ways in which their attitudes and mores mirrored our own. She takes us rapidly through history, from the ...Show more
Slavery - The History and Legacy of One of the World's Most Brutal Institutions by James Walvin
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enfor ...Show more
The American Civil War - The Story You Must Understand to Make Sense of Modern America by Adam Smith
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
The war in North America between 1861 and 1865 cost around three quarters of a million lives. Few societies in world history have lost a higher percentage of their military-aged men in battle than did the white South. Unsurprisingly, its scars lie deep on the American soul - especially so in the former ...Show more
The British Empire - How It Was Built and How It Fell by Piers Brendon
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonia ...Show more
The European Union: What Is It? Is Britain Right to Be Leaving It? by Jane Lewis
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know
History is littered with failed attempts to unite Europe by force, from the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire onwards. By contrast, the European Union began as a small and unglamorous attempt to unite the continent after the terrible devastation wrought by the Nazis - in the hope that it would preve ...Show more
The Prophet Mohammed - The Epic Tale of the Illiterate Orphan Who Became the Founder of Islam by Barnaby Rogerson
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Ignorance about Islam runs deep in the West - ignorance of its rites, its beliefs, and above all its prophet. Who was Mohammad, the founder of Islam, and the man Muslims believe was God's last prophet on earth? In this concise and colorful account, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson ...Show more
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