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Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. …
The Forgotten Slave Trade
A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being …
The Real World of Victorian Steampunk
In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, …
Nicholas Breakspear: The Pope from England
The Parliament of Fowls: by Geoffrey Chaucer, in a Modern English Verse Translation
Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls' is a story about love, lust, honour, nature . . . and ducks. Simon Webb's highly accessible modern English verse translation conveys the humour and …
The Life and Times of Paul Cuffe
The free-born son of an African ex-slave and a Native American woman, Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) made a fortune trading up and down the Atlantic coast of America, eventually mounting …
Suffragette Fascists
Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was …
Aubrey's Brief Lives: Thomas Hobbes: With Hobbes's Latin Prose Autobiography, translated by William Duggan
The Malmesbury philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously said that life was 'nasty, brutish and short'; but, as Simon Webb's introduction makes clear, the author of 'Leviathan' was not …
The Life and Times of Jeremiah Dixon: Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line
An English Quaker from County Durham, in 1763 Jeremiah Dixon became the joint architect of one of the most important boundaries in history: the Mason-Dixon line between …
The Battle of Neville's Cross: The Whole Story
In October 1346 the Scottish king David II invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand men at his back. The outcome of the battle he was soon forced to fight at Neville's …
A 1970s Teenager
What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a record …