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The sex workers of Kotha No. 300 raise their children, cook for their lovers, visit temples, shrines and mosques, complain about pimps and brothel owners, listen to film songs, and solicit and entertain customers.

THE SHADOW WORLDis the harrowing, behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments...

The Shakespeare Bookand brings the work of William Shakespeare to life with full-color photography, images, idea webs, timelines, and quotes that help you understand the context of Shakespeare's plays and poems.From Shakespeare's most-famous plays, such asand Romeo and Julietand andand Julius Caesar, to less-frequently...

The Shining OnesA" were members of an advanced culture that was almost lost; but their wisdom and their power survived. They preserved the secrets of their advanced knowledge in mythology and legend; they embedded their secret codes in symbolism in art, architecture, the mystery...

The Shipwrecked Orphans, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern...

The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victimsIn Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She was the first victim of the notorious thalidomide epidemic. There would be over 10,000 more across 46 countries.For years the world believed the...

The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference.Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba strike up a close...

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The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.

The sixth edition of the authoritative and acclaimed commercial law text 'A great book ... will be equally useful to legal practitioners, students and business people' Financial Times This sixth edition of Goode on Commercial Law, now retitled Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law,...

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only...

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to name only a few. The idealism of the cause - defending democracy from fascism at a...

The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis....

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The Spirit of Islam is considered one of the best and most well-written sources of information on the life of Mohammed the prophet and the history of Islam. Consisting of two parts, "The Life and Ministry of the Prophet" and "The Spirit of Islam,"...

The standard image of the Raj is of an aloof, pampered and prejudiced British elite lording it over an oppressed and hostile Indian subject population. Like most caricatures, this obscures as much truth as it reveals. The British had not always been so aloof....

The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author ofand Stasi Child.______________________Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police homicide...

The State of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War and, more recently, the War on Terror. It, inter Alia, sheds light on the domestic and international processes behind the rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on...

The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There's Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw...

The stories of some of the most secret and outrageous operations that were conceived, many of which would have changed the course of history From a NATO nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to a Warsaw Pact land assault on Western Europe; from building...

The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged.Greek Myths: Gods and Goddessesand is part...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them,and from the Cultural Revolution to today.Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon,and The Book...

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand....

The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and important in the history of twentieth century visual culture. From its roots in the development of printing, graphic design has evolved as a means of identification, information and promotion to become a...

The story of how Ashoka the Fierce became known as Ashoka the Great. andampltp/andampgt As a boy, Ashoka was overlooked as a successor to his father, the emperor. He grew to become arrogant, impatient, and above all, angry. Wanting nothing more than to be...

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.From the very beginning, Caesar's story makes dazzling reading. In his late teens he narrowly avoided execution for opposing the military dictator Sulla. He was decorated for valour in...

The story of philosophy is an epic tale - an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular classic, Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, first published in 1945, there has...

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The story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is yet another proof that the revolutionary moment was global. In that year, following a long period of tumult, a radical coalition - led by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - brought down...

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of...

The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. “The thirteen months of 1947-48, writes Fenby, “provide trenchant examples of how realpolitik can serve a wider purpose if those in power know how to use it. Crucible captures perfectly the urgency...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award'Wonderful'and The Spectator'Magnificent'and Observer'Unforgettable'and GuardianMy Name is Red is an unforgettable murder mystery, set amid the splendour of sixteenth century Istanbul, from the Nobel prizewinning authorIn the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly...

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east.For centuries, fame and fortune was...

THEand SUNDAY TIMESand ART BOOK OF THE YEARAand Sunday Timesand Best Paperback of 2022Christie's Best Art Books of the Year'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger,and Sunday Times'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER andamp; THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies… one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FTFollow bioarchaeologist Cat...

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Theand Sunday Timesand Bestseller and featured on Ben Fogle'sand New Lives in the Wild.Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK - his dog Jet in tow - and rebuilds his life, step by step. With a foreword from longtime...

THEand SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDThis is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERand AND WINNER OF THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARDuncan Hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of the sociable,...

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people...

Theand Sunday Timesand bestseller!FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARDIn the start of an all-new trilogy, the bestselling author ofand Uprootedand andand Spinning Silverand introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death -- until one girl begins to rewrite...

_______________THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured inand The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMSand Erebusand undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War, yet it has also become one of the most misunderstood.Max Hastings tells the gripping...

Theand Sunday Timesand bestseller An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century … I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece'and TelegraphAfter her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve'and GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From...

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THEand SUNDAY TIMESand NO. 1 BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER'Explosive'and The Sun'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before'and The Times'Bombshell'and The MirrorIn 2018 the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle was a dizzy success. Watched and celebrated all over the...