 | An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 unique, brilliant, unforgettable - you won't find anything else quite like this out there
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 | Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.49 what a great idea - a biography of a CONTINENT!
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 | The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £8.99 an art epic - it may even convert the non-enthusiast
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 | The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £1.80 the father of it all - of lies as well?? Some great stories though
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 | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Buy new: £5.97 wonderfully conveys the exuberance and fears of the Romantic era of scientific discovery - a thrill from beginning to end
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 | Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 there are lots of quirky history books around like this, these days - but this is one of the first - and fascinating
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 | Big Bangs: Five Musical Revolutions by Howard Goodall
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.72 Howard Goodall is a genius - a brilliant teacher and simplifier who is never simplistic - a great way into music
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 | The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
Buy new: £8.18 / Used from: £4.89 20th Century music is impenetrable for many - but this is ground-breaking in introducing its progression, and refuses to accept crass distinctions between high and low, popular and arcane. Brilliant!
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 | Colour (Sceptre 21's) by Victoria Finlay
Buy used from: £5.32 we take our multicoloured world so much for granted - this will put a stop to that immediately
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 | Hammer And Tickle: A History Of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes by Ben Lewis
Buy new: £6.79 / Used from: £3.12 not as quirky or odd an idea as it first might seem - a brilliant and insightful account of a grim, terrifying but sometimes darkly hilarious chapter in world history
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 | America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £17.40 an excellent, scholarly but very readable path through American history, right up to the election of Obama - especially good on the innate paradoxes and contradictions of America's DNA
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 | The Oxford History of Twentieth Century
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.89 Don't be intimidated - succinct clear and helpful range of articles by different people that give an amazing overview of the whole world in the last 100 years. Astonishing achievement
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 | The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance by John North
Buy used from: £4.81 It's extraordinary how a painting can provide a window into European politics, intrigue, scientific discovery and religious turmoil - and yet this masterly account of Holbein's shows just how.
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 | The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.13 Brings an almost explosive event to life
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 | Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance by Giles Milton
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £8.62 Milton does a great job at bringing forgotten moments to attention and life - a chilling moment in European history, this captures both individuals and the tectonic shifts in early 1900s Europe.
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