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Modern History/Current Affairs
Modern History/Current Affairs
Modern History and Current Affairs, economics and 20th century events. Major historians from TV and the academic world in print, in full, in their own words.
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| NELSON MADELA & JOHN CARLIN Book Number: 80658 |
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In 2005, Reader's Digest spoke with Nelson Mandela and explored his hopes, concerns and faiths for the future of his beloved South Africa. In 1990 he walked out of prison, free after 27 years, to ...
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| LOUISA THOMAS Book Number: 83895 |
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In late August 1918, Norman Thomas received telegrams. One said that his brother Evan, a conscientious objector, had been hospitalised at a military training camp in Kansas during a hunger strike a...
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| GREG CLYDESDALE Book Number: 84537 |
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How many items in your home state Made in China? Looking beyond Sun Tzu, the Silk Road and Marco Polo into the past, present and future of China's inexorable economic rise, we are all aware that C...
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| REBECCA LEMOV Book Number: 84693 |
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Sub-titled 'The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity' here is the precursor to Facebook, Twitter and today's social media, a rich account of an attempt to record the world of subjective experiences. Dec...
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| TINA BROWN Book Number: 85241 |
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Vanity Fair represented the last word in literary prestige, social glamour and visual ravishment. It was published by Condé Montrose Nast (1872-1942), the dashing Casanova and publishing entrepren...
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| HISHAN MATAR Book Number: 84981 |
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'I am reluctant to give Libya any more than it has already taken.' 'In the 36 years since we left Libya, my family and I had built associations with several surrogate cities: Nairobi, where we wen...
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| MICHAEL WOLFF Book Number: 85427 |
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Among those running the Trump campaign there was an unspoken assumption that not only would Trump not be president, but neither should he be and even The Donald himself regarded the campaign as gre...
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| EDITED BY P. COWLEY & R. FORD Book Number: 85750 |
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A follow up to code 85769, here is another 50 things you need to know about elections. 50 leading political experts delve into the fascinating field of electoral politics, shedding a light on how ...
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| JEREMY PAXMAN Book Number: 85647 |
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Paxman "looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guest because he by and large is." - Andrew Marr. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman is an incisive political inter...
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| RALPH MILIBAND Book Number: 85809 |
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When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labelled Ralph Miliband "The Man Who Hated Britain", those who had worked with him - from both left and right - praised his work and character. He was lauded as "one o...
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| T. M. RIVES Book Number: 86266 |
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In 1945, City Hall Station was shut down and remains sealed, decked with coloured tiles, Guastavino vaults and chandeliers, considered New York's handsomest station ever. Today you can see its gho...
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| MICHAEL HOPKINS Book Number: 86147 |
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An academic from the University of Liverpool describes the geopolitical contest between the US and its Allies on one side, and the Soviet Union, China and their associates on the other. The Cold W...
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| S. D. TUCKER Book Number: 86750 |
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Sub-titled 'The Strangest, Least Successful and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans and Crazies of All Time'. When it comes to Brexit, the vast majority of economists warned the public in incr...
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| FRANK ISZAK Book Number: 86754 |
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Sub-titled 'The True Story Of The Cold War's Greatest Escape'. On the afternoon of Friday 13th July 1956, seven desperate young people boarded a plane in the People's Republic of Hungary with the ...
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| LESLIE BERLIN Book Number: 86791 |
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Sub-titled 'How A Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented The Future' here is a fascinating book at a time when five of the most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms. The bo...
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| CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD Book Number: 86792 |
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Sub-titled 'John F. Kennedy's Special Relationship With Great Britain' this richly researched book gives a whole new meaning to this phrase. It is plain to see that John Kennedy differed from his ...
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| MIHIR BOSE Book Number: 86508 |
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Journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC has been perfectly placed to observe changes on the sub-continent. India's midnight hour saw Jawaharlal Nehru, the Harrow and Cambridge-educated barr...
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| STEPHEN D. KING Book Number: 86575 |
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Sub-titled 'The End of Globalisation, The Return of History', the book asks why globalisation is being rejected. What will a world ruled by rival states with conflicting aims look like and will th...
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| HISHAM MATAR Book Number: 86592 |
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Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His first novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Pr...
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| VIRGINIA NICHOLSON Book Number: 86844 |
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The title of this book is a nod towards an omnipresent and inescapable 1950s fantasy world where for a generation of men and women marriage and home were the twin pinnacles of aspiration. Virginia...
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| SIMON CHASE & RALPH PEZZULLO Book Number: 86855 |
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Armoured cars, burner phones, cutting-edge weaponry, top-secret missions - this is the life of today's private military contractor. Like Simon Chase, many PMCs were once the world's top military o...
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| CAT BANYARD Book Number: 87039 |
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Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. This prompts many questions - should it be legal to...
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| ANDREW KEEN Book Number: 87176 |
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Sub-titled 'Staying Human in the Digital Age', "Keen offers tools for righting our societies and principals" - in the words of Steve Jobs. He has been described as 'a visionary critic' and 'one of...
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| SHIMON PERES Book Number: 87182 |
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Sub-titled 'Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel' in the words of Barack Obama "All of us have much to learn from his story, which now belongs to the ages." In 1934, 11 year old Sh...
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| DAVID HOWARTH, M. MATTHEWS Book Number: 82915 |
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Tort is a rich, complicated and fluid area of the law designed to afford civil redress for victims of wrongs. It provides legal remedies, often the payment of money, to those who have been damaged...
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| CHRISTOPHER HILTON Book Number: 87394 |
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Sub-titled 'Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again', in the aftermath of the Second World War, Germany would be divided and Germans forced to live in different countries, East and West, with a wa...
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| BONNIE MORRIS & D. M. WITHERS Book Number: 87676 |
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Sub-titled 'The Struggle For Women's Liberation 1966-1988', today slut shaming and misinformation continue and despite the huge advances made by the women's liberation movements, entrenched views o...
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| ASFA-WOSSEN ASSERATE Book Number: 87697 |
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Cambridge educated author Asserate is a member of the Imperial House of Ethiopia, who became a refugee in 1974 after the overthrow of the monarchy. He works as a consultant for African and Middle ...
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| EMMA CREWE Book Number: 87705 |
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Not just for the sake of democracy, but also because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of British politics, this excellent little book pulls back the curtain on both the upper H...
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| JULIET GARDINER Book Number: 87755 |
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Age 16 in 1960, Juliet Gardiner was writing 'amusing' anecdotes to the Letters Page of Woman's Realm and had run away from home. It was the start of a decade that was to be momentous in changing B...
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