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    Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900

    Simon Schama

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with…

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    The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)

    Simon Schama, CBE

    Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians…

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    Foreign Bodies

    Simon Schama

    An epic story of humanity's struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster

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    Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

    Simon Schama

    Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events.

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    The Story of the Jews, Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900

    Simon Schama

    Originally published as Belonging: the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 in Great Britain in 2017 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK –Verso.

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    Art: Vintage Minis

    Simon Schama, CBE

    Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.‘ In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master…

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    Landscape And Memory

    Simon Schama

    Chosen by Time as One of the Best Books of the Year , Landscape and Memory is a bravura exploration of the ancient relationship between natural landscapes and the human…

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    Foreign Bodies

    Simon Schama

    Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But…

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    Hang-Ups: A Collection of Essays on Art

    Simon Schama

    From the author whose writing has been called sublime and whose ability to bring art and history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide, Hang-Ups is Schamas rallying cry…

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    Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

    Simon Schama

    Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s France. A New York Times…

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    The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

    Simon Schama

    In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of…

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    Edward Burtynsky: Extraction / Abstraction

    'Burtynsky's visions are often ravishing: optical vibrations, hypnotically immersive.' - Simon Schama

    Published on the occasion of Edward Burtynsky's largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date, at the Saatchi Gallery…

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    A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000

    Simon Schama

    Asks crucial questions about the nature of empire, journeying from celebrations of industrial and imperialist power at the Great Exhibition, to the catastrophic Irish potato famine and the Indian Mutiny…

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    The Power of Art

    Simon Schama

    Closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art for ever. This title…

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    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

    Simon Schama

    Presents the story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. This title…

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    A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776

    Simon Schama

    Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on…

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    The American Future: A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama

    Simon Schama

    Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world’s most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than…

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    Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother

    Simon Schama

    Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and…

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    A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603

    Simon Schama

    Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama’s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash…

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    Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

    Simon Schama

    The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs–and at times reinvents–the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the 1849 murder of the Boston brahmin…

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    The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits

    Simon Schama

    From acclaimed best-selling historian Simon Schama comes the story of Britain as told through its portraits. This unique way of telling history consists of a remarkable range of visually revealing…

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    The American Future: A History

    Simon Schama

    The American Future: A History, written by an author who has spent half his life there, takes the long view of how the United States has come to this anguished…

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    The American Future: A History

    Simon Schama

    Schama, an acclaimed historian and award-winning author, offers an essential, outsider’s perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America’s original ideal.

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    The American Future: A History

    Simon Schama

    Schama, an acclaimed historian and award-winning author, offers an essential, outsider’s perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America’s original ideal.

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    Foreign Bodies

    Simon Schama

    A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama

    Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate…

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    Wordy

    Simon Schama

    A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

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    The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900

    Simon Schama

    Originally published as Belonging: the story of the Jews, 1492-1900 in Great Britain in 2017 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK –Verso.

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    Wordy

    Simon Schama

    A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

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    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

    Simon Schama

    Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped from farms, plantations, and cities to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation…

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    The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation’s Portraits

    Simon Schama

    ‘A work of dazzling panache … a book to devour’ - Sunday Times

    Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run…

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    Patriots and Liberators

    Simon Schama

    A reissue of Simon Schama’s landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation’s desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European…

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    A Tale of Two Cities: Introduction by Simon Schama

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    Presents Dickens’ classic novel of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution.

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    Foreign Bodies

    Simon Schama

    A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama

    Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what…

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    The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

    Simon Schama, CBE

    Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK. A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2013 by Ecco, an…

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    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    The grim tale of the people who were caught up in the wave of violence and murder which marked the French Revolution.

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    Rough Crossings

    Simon Schama

    As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on a journey in search of freedom. This novel is a true…

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    Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington

    Sally Mann

    A look inside the studio of leading contemporary artist Cy Twombly, as documented by renowned photographer Sally Mann

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    The Netherlands and Nazi Germany

    Louis de Jong,Simon Schama

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    The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond?: The Munk Debates

    Louise Arbour,Simon Schama,Nigel Farage,Mark Steyn

    The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four…

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    The Essential Cy Twombly

    An authoritative overview of Cy Twombly’s complex body of work, bringing together the most important of his paintings and painting cycles, as well as a selection of his drawings, sculptures…

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    Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

    Damien Hirst,Francois Pinault

    This fully illustrated catalog accompanies Damien Hirst’s (born 1965) most ambitious project to date, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable.

    The exhibition of 189 works is now on display…

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    Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming

    An epic exploration of the artist internationally renowned for his unique gunpowder art

    This is the first publication to synthesize the fundamental concepts and methodological pursuits behind the art of…

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