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The Four Horsemen by Emily Mayhew 9781529401714
RRP: £20.00£13.75The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us in our own time. This original and inspiring study bycelebrated historian Emily Mayhew traces the... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £4.99£4.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
RRP: £2.99£2.48One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The... -
The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis by Marcus Kreuzer
RRP: £23.99£20.94Kreuzer offers guidance to scholars looking to comparative historical analysis (CHA) for the tools to analyze macro-historical questions. Like history, CHA uses the past to formulate research questions, describe social transformations, and generate... -
The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren McGarvey 9781529104080
RRP: £20.00£14.69*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times'This is McGarvey at his best' - Observer'Breaks your heart and boils your blood' - Big IssueIf all the best people are in all... -
Safeguarding Autistic Girls: Strategies for Professionals by Carly Jones
RRP: £21.99£20.32This honest, to-the-point guide illuminates the experience of young Autistic girls and explores the situations they can easily fall victim to.Powerful case studies show how easily misunderstandings can arise for Autistic girls and help the reader to... -
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson 9781911590491
RRP: £9.99£6.70A BRACINGLY ORIGINAL, BOUNDARY BREAKING EXPLORATION OF COOKING AND THE KITCHEN, FROM A RISING STAR IN FOOD WRITING 'A manifesto for reclaiming cooking as an intellectual... a brave, honest book' SUNDAY TIMES 'An intense thought-provoking enquiry... -
The Girls Bathroom: The Must-Have Book for Messy, Wonderful Women by Cinzia Baylis-Zullo
RRP: £14.99£8.54ALL THE LIFE ADVICE AND UPLIFTING CHAT YOU'D EXPECT IN THE GIRLS' BATHROOM ON A NIGHT OUTWe all need incredible women in our life to build us up and keep us on track. To give us those tips and tricks we never knew were essential, and to advise us against... -
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
RRP: £30.00£23.69The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen 9780141993171
RRP: £14.99£10.95A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Financial Times'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also,... -
Butler to the World: How Britain Lost an Empire and Found a Role by Oliver Bullough
RRP: £20.00£16.04A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * ECONOMIST DAILY MAIL * DAILY MIRROR * NEW YORKER * SPECTATOR PROSPECT * WATERSTONES * IRISH TIMES LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 PRESENTER OF THE BBC... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
Uncharitable - How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta 9781684581245
RRP: £24.00£18.10Uncharitable investigates how for-profit strategies could and should be used by nonprofits. Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Where other texts suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing... -
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding 9781398503236
RRP: £20.00£12.86WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2021WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEARTHE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARTHE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The best book about racism I've ever... -
How to do Action Research for Transformations: At a Time of Eco-Social Crisis by Hilary Bradbury 9781035320325
RRP: £32.95£29.96Capturing years of innovation within contemporary action research, Hilary Bradbury highlights where action research for transformations (ART) is directed: towards responding to climate change and achieving global sustainability goals. Paying particular... -
A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People by B. A. Botkin 9781493025350
RRP: £30.00£23.03Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project... -
Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their game by Suzanne Wrack
RRP: £15.99£9.06Overpower. Overtake. Overcome. - Serena WilliamsThroughout history, every woman pulling on spikes, lacing up boots and picking up a racquet has been a rebel - and this explosive book aims to uncover the often hidden histories behind 50 of these... -
I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One by Rick Stroud 9781398507067
RRP: £22.00£14.05'A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance' The Lady'Fascinating' Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine'A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me' Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two... -
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: £10.99£7.77LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and... -
Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries by Lorraine Evans 9781526706676
RRP: £19.99£14.28Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington Wold, there lies a rather unusual burial ground, an Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery. Twelve skeletons were unearthed by archaeologists, ten without skulls, later examination of the... -
Counselling Skills for Working with Shame by Christiane Sanderson
RRP: £28.99£28.16Counselling Skills for Working with Shame helps professionals to understand and identify shame and to build shame resilience in both the client and themselves.Shame is ubiquitous in counselling where there is an increased vulnerability and risk of... -
The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker 9781399403184
RRP: £17.99£13.80WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023. Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation's ecosystems. ... -
Residential Child Care in Practice: Making a Difference by Mark Smith
RRP: £23.99£18.66Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which... -
The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting by Umberto Pappalardo
RRP: £40.00£34.59This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the finest ancient frescos found in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Rome. Visitors to the residences of ancient Rome cannot help but be astonished by their grand architecture and enchanting wall... -
Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under by Sam Heughan 9781804190760
RRP: £22.00£12.70*With a foreword by Sir Peter Jackson*Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride.They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are no strangers to the rugged beauty of Scotland. But this time they're... -
The English by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: £12.99£9.09In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even... -
The Basque History Of The World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the world. Whilst... -
Scoops: The BBC's Most Shocking Interviews from Prince Andrew to Steven Seagal by Sam McAlister
RRP: £9.99£6.75'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly 'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph 'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan She is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with... -
Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £9.99£6.70'For a long while Beowulf leaned on the blood-stained sword; his heart was pounding. A man with the strength of thirty! Slayer of Grendel and slayer of the sea-wolf! A hero without equal in this middle-world!' The story of Beowulf was written down as... -
Sapiens Graphic Novel Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £18.99£15.34Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and... -
Discovering Sociology by Mark McCormack
£29.58This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the... -
The Vanishing of Margaret Small: An uplifting and page-turning mystery by Neil Alexander 9781471414510
RRP: £9.99£8.76'An evocative, endearing, entertaining and thoroughly delicious character portrait and a terrific first novel' - Donal MacIntyre, TV presenter'A tender, thought-provoking and totally gripping novel from a wonderful storyteller...deserves to be a huge... -
The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King's murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone... -
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob by T. J. English
RRP: £11.99£8.43Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s... -
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter 9781592404940
RRP: £17.00£10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592404940Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 129mm *... -
Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics by Erika Dyck 9780262546935
RRP: £52.00£36.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546935Author Erika DyckFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Crude Britannia: How Big Oil Shaped a Country's Past and Future by James Marriott
RRP: £12.99£9.00'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling... -
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade
RRP: £18.99£12.83*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade's] argument has needed saying for years' Janan Ganesh, Financial Times'Compelling and admirable' Sunday Times'Passionate and timely' Observer'Excellent' Telegraph'Illuminating' The Times'Timely [and]... -
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert by Sunaura Taylor 9780520393066
RRP: £21.00£17.03A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund... -
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: £10.99£7.25From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES ...