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Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
2024 || Hardcover || Dr Sara Caputo || Profile Books Ltd
A vivid history of how the marks left on maps by travellers tell the story of the modern world
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Fabric
The Hidden History of the Material World
2024 || Paperback || Victoria Finlay || Profile Books Ltd
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.
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The Notebook
A History of Thinking on Paper: A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year
2024 || Hardcover || Roland Allen || Profile Books Ltd
Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.
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Medieval Bodies
Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
2024 || Paperback || Jack Hartnell || Profile Books Ltd
A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours.
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
The International Bestseller
2024 || Paperback || Rashid I. Khalidi || Profile Books Ltd
This is the story of Palestine told from the inside.
Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town
The Life of a Roman Town
2009 || Paperback || Professor Mary Beard || Profile Books Ltd
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probab...
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Vermeer's Hat
The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Brook || Profile Books Ltd
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.
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1913
The Year before the Storm
2024 || Paperback || Florian Illies || Profile Books Ltd
From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.
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The Border
The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
2024 || Paperback || Diarmaid Ferriter || Profile Books Ltd
The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
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The Wordhord
Daily Life in Old English
2024 || Paperback || Hana Videen || Profile Books Ltd
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.