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Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century - Mark Mazower

The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of twentieth century. It tells the story of a century of division, charting struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind.

DKK 118.95

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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader - Various

An anthology of 19th-century Russian literature containing extracts of poetry, prose and drama including lyric poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev; short stories by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy; and passages from Herzen's memoirs and Chekhov's plays.

DKK 283.95

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Berlin - Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century - Sinclair McKay

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wonderful aid' David Aaronovitch, The TimesThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World..

DKK 196.95

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The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton

A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR. AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. STOLEN LETTERS. SCHEMING SERVANTS. SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY.THIS IS THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY.__________There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma.Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the..

DKK 238.95

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The Confession of a Child of the Century - Alfred de Musset

Offering a vivid, opulent portrayal of obsession and despair, this title is also a philosophical portrait of a man and his times, expressing the failed idealism of the Romantic generation of the early nineteenth century. It presents a honest, passionate account of a young man's rite of passage.

DKK 126.95

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Tomorrow's People - How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel - Baroness Susan Greenfield

Presents an exploration of how 21st Century is going to change not just the way we think, but also what we actually think with - our own individual minds.

DKK 126.95

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Victorious Century - The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 - David Cannadine

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the Editor of the National Dictionary of Biography. His major works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and Mellon: An American Life. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. Victorious Century is his volume for the former series.

DKK 145.95

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Thrown - Kerry Howley

Three years and two fighters - one ageing, tired, struggling from one backstreet dive to another; and one young, fast, going places, punching it out in packed Las Vegas arenas. One on the way up and the other on the way out. This is a journey into the world of Mixed Martial Arts.

DKK 156.95

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Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World - Noel Malcolm

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. This title describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family.

DKK 166.95

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The Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature\I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism,\ Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time,..

DKK 106.95

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation - A Twentieth-Century History - David Edgerton

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. He is the author of a sequence of ground-breaking books in 20th century British history: Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970; Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970; as well as Britain's War Machine, and England and the Aeroplane, both published by Penguin. He is also the author of the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of..

DKK 166.95

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The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition - Robert Service

Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter, Robert Service explores the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Tsar Nicholas II, through the..

DKK 186.95

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That Green Eyed Girl - Be transported to mid-century New York in this evocative and page-turning debut - Julie Owen Moylan

Transport yourself to mid-century New York in this compelling and evocative story of secrets, jealousy and hidden love'BOOK OF THE MONTH' WOMAN & HOME'DAZZLING DEBUT' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'SUPERLATIVE' RED'SO VIVIDLY EVOKED' CLARE CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF SMALL PLEASURES'I WAS GRIPPED FROM THE FIRST PAGE' SARA COX 'BROKE ME, PUT ME BACK TOGETHER. JUST BUY THIS. YOU WON'T REGRET IT' 5* READER REVIEW _________1955In an apartment on the Lower East Side, school teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers. Dancing..

DKK 146.95

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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry - Various

This text features selections from Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier and Holmes. It includes poems by Poe and Emerson as well as Whitman, Dickinson and Melville. The introduction discusses the impact of American intellectual, social and political trends on poetry.

DKK 248.95

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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain - Daniel Defoe

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth century.

DKK 146.95

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The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse

Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and second, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

DKK 186.95

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The Souls of Black Folk - W. Du Bois

Provides insights into life at the turn of the 20th century.

DKK 158.95

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World - Andrew Jotischky

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the Middle Ages from the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century to the first voyages to the New World in the 16th century.

DKK 153.95

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Social Class in the 21st Century - Mike Savage

Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today? How has the meaning of class changed? What does this mean for social mobility and inequality? This title looks beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre.

DKK 106.95

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The Gentleman from San Francisco - And Other Stories - David Richards

Presents stories which are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia.

DKK 126.95

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A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. This is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society.

DKK 113.95

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The Wave Theory of Angels - Alison MacLeod

Two widowed fathers named Giles. The first, woodcarver Giles of Beauvais in thirteenth-century France, whose unearthly skill leads the medieval Church to suspect him of heresy. The second, maverick twenty-first-century physicist Giles Carver, who risks his reputation and livelihood for a heretical theory.

DKK 156.95

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Japanese No Dramas - Penguin Group (UK)

\No Plays\ are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers.

DKK 146.95

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Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this title captures America during the Jazz Age.

DKK 146.95

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Devil-Land - England Under Siege, 1588-1688 - Clare Jackson

*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular \Island Story\. And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country..

DKK 166.95

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Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century - Mark Mazower

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader - Various

Berlin - Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century - Sinclair McKay

The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton

The Confession of a Child of the Century - Alfred de Musset

Tomorrow's People - How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel - Baroness Susan Greenfield

Victorious Century - The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 - David Cannadine

Thrown - Kerry Howley

Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World - Noel Malcolm

The Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation - A Twentieth-Century History - David Edgerton

The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition - Robert Service

That Green Eyed Girl - Be transported to mid-century New York in this evocative and page-turning debut - Julie Owen Moylan

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry - Various

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain - Daniel Defoe

The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse

The Souls of Black Folk - W. Du Bois

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World - Andrew Jotischky

Social Class in the 21st Century - Mike Savage

The Gentleman from San Francisco - And Other Stories - David Richards

A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

The Wave Theory of Angels - Alison MacLeod

Japanese No Dramas - Penguin Group (UK)

Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Devil-Land - England Under Siege, 1588-1688 - Clare Jackson

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