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Psychedelics
Vintage Minis
2024 || Paperback || Aldous Huxley || Vintage Publishing
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. In this book, he gives an account of his experience, and his vision for psychedelics.
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Amsterdam
A brief life of the city
2024 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Vintage Publishing
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.
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The Trader, The Owner, The Slave
Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
2024 || Paperback || Professor James Walvin || Vintage Publishing
James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
2024 || Paperback || Dr Ross King || Vintage Publishing
Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy and religion.
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Pepita
2024 || Paperback || Vita Sackville-West || Vintage Publishing
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women – this book tells their stories.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
(Patterns of Life)
2024 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Vintage Publishing
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?
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Stranger Than Fiction
Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
2024 || Paperback || Edwin Frank || Vintage Publishing
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Being Human
How our biology shaped world history
2024 || Paperback || Lewis Dartnell || Vintage Publishing
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
2024 || Paperback || Ian Mortimer || Vintage Publishing
Discover an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a completely different world: England in the Middle Ages. Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century.