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Horten flying wing in world war ii - the history and development of the ho

Pre-cursor to modern Stealth technology, a jet powered version flew in February 1945.
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The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire

The British Empire is often seen as triumphant, but it was shaped by resistance from Indigenous and non-European peoples. David Veevers, in The Great Defiance, highlights figures like West African kings and American Paramount Chiefs, showing how they challenged British imperial dominance.
€9.70 excl tax

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

'One of the most extraordinary stories of World War II - a howitzer of a tale that more people should know about' Daily Mail
€7.50 excl tax

LEGO® Minifigure A Visual History New Edition: With exclusive LEGO spaceman minifigure!

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure. Features an orange spaceman minifigure! Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigure population could circle the globe more than five times! Starring more than 2,000 of the most popular and rarest minifigures from the LEGO® Minifigure Series and theme
€19.40 excl tax

Star Wars Year by Year

Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history. Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition presents a unique Star Wars timeline-the full history of the amazing Star Wars phenomenon as you've never seen it before. This stunning visual journey feat
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A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf´s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited
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Anubis—Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection

A practical guide to working with Anubis, ancient Egypt´s god of death and the afterlife.   Anubis is among the most recognizable gods of ancient Egypt. His image has become a symbol of ancient Egypt, but who is he? Is Anubis a relic of the past, or is he actively venerated now? Author Charlie Larson, a longtime priest and devotee of Anubis, answers these questions and more. Portrayed as
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Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have co
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Underground

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.   On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing
€7.50 excl tax

Neurotribes

This New York Times–bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. “Beautifully told, humanizing, important.”—The New York Times Book Review “Breathtaking.”—The Boston Globe “Epic and often shocking.”—Chicago Tribune   WIN
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How Civil Wars Start

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Eyeliner

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick “Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir gives the makeup its eye-opening due.” —The New York Times Book Review “An impressive, rigorously researched, winding path through centuries and over continents.” —NPR.org “I loved Eye
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

From the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a "nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one" (The New York Times). At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England. He arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and cr
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Who are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group. In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent electio
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The Journey of Humanity

A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species´ progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers. “Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating.´—The Washington Post “Breathtaking. A new Sapiens!” —L'Express “Completely brilliant and utterly original ... a book for our epoch.”—Jon Snow,
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The 1619 Project

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defi

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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered “good,” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live Why do women equate self-denial with being good? We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in
€10.80 excl tax

Mother Tongue

“A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor.” ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post “[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe women´s bodies, des
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New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America´s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping´s China and Vladimir Putin´s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon   “[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with
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Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”—S
€9.50 excl tax