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#404

The Edge of the Empire: A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall

2014 • 335 pages

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#405

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

2005 • 153 Readers • 295 pages • 3.5

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#406

The human side of science

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#407

The long weekend life in the English country house, 1918-1939

2015 • 4 Readers • 344 pages • 3

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#408

Cover 3

2009 • 2 Readers • 2

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Strange Glow

2016 • 5 Readers • 512 pages

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Idiot Brain

2016 • 42 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

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#411

Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

2014 • 1 Reader • 482 pages • 4

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How the Post Office Created America: A History

2016 • 22 Readers • 338 pages • 3.5

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Shady characters

2013 • 35 Readers • 352 pages • 4

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#414

How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

#2 of 3 in How to Be

2015 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

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#415

Life Moves Pretty Fast

2016 • 352 pages

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#416

Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

#1 of 2 in Now I Know

2013 • 3 Readers • 256 pages • 3

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#417

Seven Skeletons

2016 • 1 Reader • 276 pages

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#418

The Book

2016 • 26 Readers • 400 pages • 4

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#419

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

2016 • 449 Readers • 366 pages • 4

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#420

God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

2012 • 4 Readers • 310 pages • 3

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#421

The Lion in the Living Room

2016 • 8 Readers • 243 pages • 4.3

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

2016 • 3 Readers • 480 pages • 3

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Northmen

2016 • 7 Readers • 400 pages • 3

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King John and the Road to Magna Carta

2015 • 2 Readers

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Game of Queens

2016 • 19 Readers • 351 pages • 3

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Cover 1

8 Readers • 3

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#427

A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System

2015 • 272 pages

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#428

Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World

2017 • 3 Readers • 304 pages

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#429

Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still

2016 • 26 Readers • 257 pages • 4.2

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#430

Crown of Blood

2016 • 13 Readers • 400 pages • 3.3

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#431

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

2012 • 20 Readers • 592 pages • 3.4

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#433

Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions

2015 • 1 Reader • 152 pages • 4

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#434

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

2012 • 29 Readers • 521 pages • 3.6

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#435

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

2012 • 4 Readers

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#436

Egyptomania: A History of  Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

2 Readers • 5

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#437

Rome: An Empire's Story

2012 • 4 Readers • 384 pages • 3.5

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#438

Lives of the Romans

2008 • 1 Reader • 304 pages • 3

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#439

Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual

7 Ancient Warrior Guide

2009 • 5 Readers • 208 pages • 3.5

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Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual

7 Ancient Warrior Guide

2011 • 1 Reader • 3

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#441

A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

2016 • 1 Reader • 246 pages • 3

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#442

Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide

2016 • 4 Readers • 197 pages • 4

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#443

A History of Medicine in 50 Objects

2016 • 6 Readers • 3.3

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#444

Knight

1 Reader • 3

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#445

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

2017 • 3 Readers • 339 pages • 5

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#446

Get Well Soon

2017 • 90 Readers • 336 pages • 4.2

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#447

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

2017 • 114 Readers • 296 pages • 4.4

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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen

2017 • 1 Reader

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#449

Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste

2017 • 1 Reader

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#450

City of Light, City of Poison

2017 • 9 Readers • 3

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Four Princes

2017 • 16 Readers • 305 pages • 3.3

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Young and Damned and Fair

2017 • 11 Readers • 464 pages • 3.5

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#453

And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara

2016 • 24 Readers • 258 pages • 3.7

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#454

The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699

#3 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

2017 • 1 Reader • 464 pages

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#455

Victoria

2016 • 52 Readers • 696 pages • 4.5

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#456

So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot

2017 • 1 Reader

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#457

The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History

2017 • 1 Reader • 418 pages • 2

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#458

Fun Science

2016 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 5

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#459

Mask of the sun

1 Reader

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#460

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

2017 • 46 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

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#461

Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies

2017 • 3 Readers • 624 pages • 4

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#462

Cover 4

2016 • 3 Readers • 3

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#463

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty

2016 • 1 Reader • 448 pages • 3

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#464

The Little Book of Big History

1 Reader • 3

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#465

Jane Austen at Home

2017 • 55 Readers • 418 pages • 4.2

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#466

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

2016 • 8 Readers • 3

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#467

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books

2017 • 4 Readers • 397 pages • 3.8

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#468

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

2017 • 74 Readers • 448 pages • 3.4

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#469

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

2018 • 6 Readers • 432 pages • 4.5

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#470

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

2017 • 79 Readers • 344 pages • 3.5

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#471

Revolution

#4 of 5 in The History of England

2016 • 14 Readers • 400 pages • 4.2

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#472

So Great a Prince: The Accession of Henry VIII - 1509

2016 • 1 Reader • 330 pages • 3

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#473

Six Wives

15 Readers • 3.5

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#474

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

2017 • 122 Readers • 308 pages • 4.2

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#475

Christmas: A Biography

2017 • 7 Readers • 246 pages • 3

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#476

A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

2016 • 106 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

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#477

Queens of the Conquest

#1 of 3 in England's Medieval Queens

2017 • 25 Readers • 468 pages • 3.3

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#478

The Fate of Rome

1 The Princeton History of the Ancient World

2017 • 30 Readers • 417 pages • 4.4

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#479

Periodic Tales

2011 • 36 Readers • 428 pages • 3.9

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#480

How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages

2015 • 1 Reader • 432 pages

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Soonish

2017 • 109 Readers • 368 pages • 4

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#482

Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

2015 • 2 Readers • 416 pages • 3

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#483

The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes

2016 • 1 Reader • 150 pages • 3

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#484

Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics

2016 • 2 Readers • 543 pages • 4

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#485

Timekeepers

2016 • 15 Readers • 349 pages • 3

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#486

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

2012 • 2 Readers • 474 pages • 3

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#487

Wallis in Love : The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

2018 • 1 Reader • 416 pages

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#488

The Plantagenets

106 Readers • 20h 50m • 4.2

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#489

The Secret Lives of Colour

2018 • 108 Readers • 328 pages • 4.1

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#490

The Radium Girls

2016 • 496 pages

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#491

A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

2018 • 320 pages

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#492

Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair

2017 • 1 Reader • 304 pages • 4

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#493

I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals

2017 • 1 Reader • 337 pages • 3

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#494

The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

2017 • 27 Readers • 3.9

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#495

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

2016 • 26 Readers • 256 pages • 3

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#496

A Short History of Drunkenness

2018 • 22 Readers • 256 pages • 4.3

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Daughters of the Winter Queen

2018 • 8 Readers • 481 pages • 4

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The Prodigal Tongue

2018 • 19 Readers • 370 pages • 3.5

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Hadrian's Wall

2018 • 2 Readers

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#500

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

#1 of 5 in The Rise and Fall

2018 • 348 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

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#501

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

2018 • 51 Readers • 416 pages • 3.9

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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

2017 • 8 Readers • 3

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#503

Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

2018 • 1 Reader • 304 pages • 3

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#504

Origin Story A Big History of Everything

2008 • 90 Readers • 368 pages • 4

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