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Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction by Shaun Blanchard
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the life of the Catholic Church since the... -
Footmarks: A Journey into Our Restless Past by Jim Leary 9781837730254
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME... -
Britain Begins by Sir Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $48.44The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.59New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will... -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.74The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless,... -
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West by Ian Bradley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book... -
The Anunnaki Chronicles: A Zecharia Sitchin Reader by Zecharia Sitchin
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16What if the tales from the Old Testament and other ancient writings, such as those from Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, and Greece, were not myths or allegory but accounts of actual historical events? Known... -
The Hittites: Lost Civilizations by Damien Stone
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $26.50An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BC. They... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $55.56Booksplease Price: $46.86By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our... -
Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Bahn
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $11.60This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $26.81From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the... -
The Outer Hebrides: A Historical Guide by Mary MacLeod Rivett
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and... -
Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and Answered by Oswald Mosley 9781913176341
Booksplease Price: $31.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176341Author Oswald MosleyFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint < -
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World by John Boardman
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $26.29A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the... -
The Wealden Iron Industry by Jeremy Hodgkinson
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.64For two periods of British history - the first part of the Roman occupation and the Tudor and early Stuart periods - the Weald of south-east England was the most productive iron-producing region in... -
Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe 9780851246499
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $28.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246499Author V. Gordon ChildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint
House Histories: The Secrets Behind Your Front Door by Melanie Backe-Hansen
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.60In House Histories, Britain's leading house historian uncovers the hidden stories and secrets of ordinary and extraordinary houses across the country. The wide range of houses, from workers' cottages...
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross 9781788730273
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.63"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone...
Romano-British Mosaics by Peter Johnson 9780852638910
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.68A concise introduction to the floor mosaics of Roman Britain. Romano-British Mosaics first chronicles the history of mosaic discovery in Britain and discusses the changing attitudes towards mosaics,...
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson 9780520280434
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.21John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today - that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book...
50 Objects from Vindolanda Barbara Birley 9781398116580
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.78The excavations at Vindolanda have revealed some of the most precious and unique artefacts in Roman history. From leather boxing gloves and children’s shoes to wooden hair combs and the first...
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.61A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a...
The Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $46.37The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon...
Built Before the Flood: The Problem of the Tiahuanaco Ruins by H S Bellamy 9781585093960
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093960Author H S BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.70Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth...
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.28Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to...
The Toll-Houses of Staffordshire by Tim Jenkinson 9781907154072
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154072Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint
Uses of Heritage by Laurajane Smith 9780415318310
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $72.13Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that...
Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art by Salima Ikram
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.34A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most...
Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind Professor Lord Colin Renfrew 9780753824276
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize...
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and...
Mudlarks: Treasures from the Thames by Jason Sandy 9781739178109
Booksplease Price: $88.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739178109Author Jason SandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint
The Age and Purpose of the Pyramids, as Indicated by Sirius by Mahmoud Bey 9781913378141
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84A translation from the original French by Tessa Dickinson of an unpublished original manuscript dated 11 May 1862, in the possession of Robert Temple, LondonBook InformationISBN 9781913378141Author...
Oxford Bible Atlas by Adrian Curtis 9780199560462
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.57This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology...
Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited by Martin Carver 9781842173954
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $61.80This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Previous ...
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History by Alistair Moffat 9781780278575
Booksplease Price: $48.95Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of...
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.48** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest...
Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent by Stephen Muecke
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $11.97Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the...
Prehistory Decoded by Martin Sweatman 9781789016383
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.02Nearly 13,000 years ago millions of people and animals were wiped out, and the world plunged abruptly into a new ice-age. It was more than a thousand years before the climate, and mankind, recovered...