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The Seven Games of Leadership
Navigating the Inner Journey of Leaders
2024 || Hardcover || Paolo Gallo || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A fresh take on assessing your priorities - both professionally and personally - to ensure you are in the best position to make a positive difference to the people and places around you, and in the process to transform your own life.
The disruptive moment in which we find ourselves living demands that we are our own agents of change. The Seven Games of Leadership is a guide for readers through seven key phases of personal and professional development, with the aim not of climbing a corporate ...
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Letters for the Ages Great Scientists
Private Letters from the Greatest Minds in Science
2024 || Hardcover || James Drake e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists.
?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character' - Albert Einstein
Scientists are not often remembered for their character, but rather for the enduring impact of their ideas, inventions, and discoveries. Letters for the Ages: The Great Scientists delves beyond the known historical facts and narratives to uncover the personal writings of so...
The Power of Nuclear
2024 || Hardcover || Marco Visscher || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Antarctica
A History in 100 Objects
2024 || Hardcover || Dr Jean de Pomereu e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Weimar Years
Rise and Fall 1918–1933
2024 || Hardcover || Frank McDonough || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The prequel to Frank McDonough's Hitler Years series, covering the period of German history that led to the rise of Hitler in 1933.
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Putin's Wars
From Chechnya to Ukraine
2024 || Hardcover || Mark Galeotti || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics
'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times
A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.
Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the...
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Populista
The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman
2024 || Hardcover || Will Grant || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An exploration of the phenomenon of the caudillo figure in Latin American politics and the rise of populism through the modern histories of the continent.
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger
The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
2024 || Hardcover || Netherlands) Hans (The Van Gogh Museum Luijten || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.'
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIOT, 1922
'It is a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent's glory.'
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER ON THE SALE OF 'THE SUNFLOWERS' TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, UK, 1924
Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger was sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, wife of his brother, Theo. When the brothers died soo...
The Spitfire Pocket Manual
1939-1945
2017 || Hardcover || UK) Martin (University of Exeter Robson || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Developed in 1938 from a Schneider trophy-winning design by the aeronautical engineer and designer R.J Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire went on to become the definitive Allied fighter of the Second World War, and ranks amongst the most famous aircraft of all time. This pocket manual presents an accessible collection of fascinating historical documents to help readers explore the technical and tactical developments relating to the design and use of this famous aircraft. Sources include the A...
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Providence Lost
The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
2024 || Hardcover || Paul Lay || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extraordinary but neglected periods in British history.