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The Illustrated Eric
2024 || Paperback || terry pratchett e.a. || Orion
Motherland
500,000 Years of African History, Cultures and Identity
2025 || Paperback || Luke Pepera || Orion
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The Lion and the Dragon
Britain and China: A History of Conflict
2024 || Paperback || Lawrence James || Orion
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
2024 || Paperback || Bettany Hughes || Orion
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases of the reaches of human imagination. Now only the pyramid remains, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonder...
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The Missing Thread
A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
2024 || Paperback || Daisy Dunn || Orion
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope famously unpicks the threads of a shroud at night to put off marrying a hapless suitor. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Philomela weaves the story of her rape into a tapestry after she is deprived of the power of speech. Male writers were generally happy to imagine mythological women turning their daily chores into creative exercises in self-expression. It did not always occur to men that real women might be up to something just as interesting. These women, the missing t...
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How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
2024 || Paperback || Kohei Saito || Orion
Karl Marx called religion "the opium of the masses" because of the illusory relief it offered from the cold realities of capitalism. Today, the hard reality that we must face is that we have fundamentally and irrevocably damaged life on Earth, and while distracting opiates are everywhere, it is clear that the root cause is none other than capitalism itself.
Building upon a completely unexplored facet of Marx's thought that has been lying dormant for more than a century, Japanese sta...