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History books allow you to travel back in time. They let you discover a whole different era than our own with different lifestyles, morale compases and crises. To understand history is to understand, who you are, and what you come from. It is the foundation of today’s society and culture. In Tales’ selection of history and society books you can investigate both religion, mythologies, and wars with competent authors and scholars giving their interpretation of how events happened as they did and how we ended up with today’s society. Are you ready to get wiser of both past and present?
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    - How a Small Scottish Village Changed History
    by Andrew C. Scott
    £15.49

    The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.

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    - The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
    by Lisa Taddeo
    £9.49

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    - An Unusual History of Land and Legend
    by Christopher Hadley
    £10.99

    In the Middle Ages a remarkable tomb was carved to cover the bones of an English hero. For centuries the grave spawned tales about dragons and devils, giants and winged hounds. To understand why this happened, Christopher Hadley takes us on a journey through 1,000 years of history.

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    by Morgan Daimler
    £14.99

    A detailed and easy to use resource for Fairylore.

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    - Notes from Black Europe
    by Johny Pitts
    £9.49

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    - A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (and Therefore the World)
    by Pam Grout
    £14.99

    Re-imagining the evergreen A Course In Miracles text for the busy, frazzled, modern mind, New York Times bestselling author Pam Grout offers up a 365-lesson workbook with humorous daily lessons that feel deeply relatable yet profoundly spiritual and healing. Pam''s unique blend of eternal truths with pop culture references and personal anecdotes makes this book a fun tool to ease you into a transformative spiritual journey.

  • - Rodjdestvensky's Russian Fleet, the Dogger Bank Incident & the Russo-Japanese War at Sea, 1904-05-From Libau to Tsushima with Two Short Accounts of the North Sea Incident
    by Eugene S Politovsky, Walter Wood & John Bassett Moore
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  • by Alexander S Morton
    £24.49

    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

  • - An Offering of Nietzschean Philosophy to the Soldiers of the Third Reich
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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    - a history of the county, burghs, parishes, and lands, memoirs of families, and notices of industries carried on in the Lennox district (Volume II) Parishes
    by Joseph Irving
    £33.99

    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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    - Punk & post punk graphics 1976-1986
    by Andrew Krivine
    £25.49

    This book represents over 650 original scans of punk and post-punk posters, flyers, covers and ads from the prime years of the movement which changed the world of graphic design forever.

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    - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    by Hallie Rubenhold
    £9.49

  • - An Artistic and Contemplative Approach to an Enduring Enigma
    by Eckart Boehmer
    £10.99

    An artistic approach to the historical mystery of Kaspar Hauser.

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    - How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
    by Robert Spalding
    £18.99

    China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America''s national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America''s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure--and they''re winning. It''s almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China''s motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China''s most brilliant ploys, including:  •  Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.  •  Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.  •  Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.Spalding''s concern isn''t merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights. Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it''s still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat--and win--China''s stealth war.

  • - A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific
    by A.B. Abrams
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    by Adam Shefts
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  • - The Book - Complete Collection, 1993-1995: (Animal Liberation Zine Collection)
     
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    Together in one book, for the first time: The complete collection of this animal liberation zine from the mid-1990s. The Militant Vegan was a small, photocopied zine covering animal rights activism, and the Animal Liberation Front.

  • by Eilert Ekwall
    £20.99

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    - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    by Caroline Criado Perez
    £10.99

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    by Various
    £25.49

    This collection of Chinese myths and folk tales draws on the rich folklore of Chinese culture.

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    - How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
    by Joan Kuyek
    £12.49

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    by Color Joy
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  • by William J Hussey
    £22.49

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    - A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests
    by John Wright
    £11.99

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    - Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
    by Dan Piepenbring & Tom O'Neill
    £9.49

    In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O'Neill finds the story of California in the sixties: when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away.

  • by P H Ditchfield
    £19.49

  • - The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
    by Arlene Diane Landau
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  • - A Career in the Masses
    by George Walden
    £9.49

    For the first time in British history, our culture and politics are now often in the hands of inverted elites: well-born, privately educated men (mostly) who affect populist attitudes.

History
The concept history covers a large range of topics all with its different focus. On top of Tales’ history books list, you find history books giving their in-depth view of some of World History’s most tragic events in modern time - World War 1 and World War 2. The two world wars affected most of the world and so many people lost their lives to them - both soldiers and civilians. The wars changed the world forever, and to understand how and why you need to dive into one of our many brilliant history books about the historic wars, giving you all the analysis and nuances you need - because we all know history books best, when they are thorough and give us new perspectives on historical events. 
If you instead are interested in politics during different historical periods, our selection of history books also contains that. The political system of a nation is a defining factor for how the citizens are treated and what conditions of life they have. The political factors can also lead to crises and wars, and in that way politics can make its mark on a whole historical era, but it can also lead to better times, giving the citizens better conditions and possibilities of social mobility. If you are interested, you will find all the history books in english right here. 
If you want to travel back to the fascinating Antiquity you should try reading the classics The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. However they can be hard to understand in their original form. That is why we recommend you to dive into Stephen Fry’s fascinating interpretations of the antic classics. The works of the Antic Greeks, especially Homer, have that special kind of universality that all the classics refer to, even though the lyrics are about ancient mythological heroes such as Achilleus and Heracles (better known as Hercules) and their challenging adventures. The historical tales leave the reader with universal morales of life. In Stephen Fry’s version called Heroes the tales are giving a modern language and new relevans - especially for young people. 
It is also important to teach your kids about our common history and that is why you also find history books for kids in Tales’ wide selection. 

Society
A society is formed by a community of individuals and has gone through many changes throughout history. The history of our society has gone through many different stages, and in order to contain this diversity Tales’ collection has a rich amount of societal books from different time periods. You can find society books concerning and analyzing all from the traditional society, the modern society, and the post-modern society to the humanistic society. 

Educational textbooks
If you study history or social science Tales’ collection of History and Society is the perfect place to find your next educational textbook. History is one of the most important humanistic disciplines educating the future historians and museum inspectors. Without historians there will be nobody to investigate the historical data and texts and no one to evaluate them critically, and most importantly there would be no one to arrange history and the historical sources. Without them we would in fact lack a lot of vital information about who we are and what we come from, and we would not have the same ability to learn from history, which would be a great loss. That is why you need to start your journey as a history student in Tales’ selection of history books. 
Social science is also a cornerstone in understanding who we are and why we act as we act. As a social science student you should dive into our selection of societal books in order to get inspired for your next case study. 

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