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Tracing Russia's story from the settlement of Kiev onwards, this title includes a chapter on the role of Putin and Medvedev, and their impact on Russi

In a sweeping narrative, Geoffrey Hosking, one of the English-speaking world’s leading historians of Russia, follows the country’s history from the fi

Vanuit een gesloten, Engelse pub – De Papieren Lantaarn – in een dorp grenzend aan het landgoed Chequers (het officiële buitenverblijf van Britse prem

**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vie

This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples from

Dealing with the densities of the poets expression, and the forces in his syntax and rhythms, this poetry aims to achieve a strength, memorability and

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece a

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in Classi

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain

Het gezaghebbende blad Record Collector gaf dit boek 4 sterren: ‘het slotakkoord van een wereldband’. The Beatles hebben inmiddels een iconische statu

In ‘De mannen die we oogstten’ schetst de gelauwerde Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Jesmyn Ward vijf liefdevolle portretten van de dierbare mannen die z

Annis is de dochter van een wrede plantagehouder en vandiens tot slaaf gemaakte huishoudster. Als ze troost zoekt bij een vriendin wordt ze verkocht d

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fict

A smorgasbord of the senses from a professor of animal behaviour: how they work, why they're there, and what they mean for both human and animal lives

Fenomenale spanning voor de fans van Thomas Olde Heuvelt, J.D. Barker en Gillian FlynnWhistler Bay, 1989. Wilder Harlow brengt de zomer door in het va

The second novel from the author of the phenomenon, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: more tales from Cafe Funiculi Funicula, where customers may travel ba

The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible forThe Civil War and Baseball.Continuing in the tradition of their critical

A new edition of the ground-breaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar, now reorganised to align fully with the award-winning