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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance,... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 Alan Farmer 9781510418097
Booksplease Price: $27.37Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
How to Pass National 5 History: Second Edition John Kerr 9781510420960
Booksplease Price: $29.75Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018Fully updated to account for the removal of Unit Assessments and the changes to the National 5... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered... -
On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $61.88Booksplease Price: $47.36Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial studies writing today. In "On the Postcolony" he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a... -
Maus I & II Paperback Box Set by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $32.89A SPECIAL-EDITION BOXSET CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $67.81Booksplease Price: $50.60By 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... -
Hunting Evil by Guy Walters
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history -... -
Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII by Taylor Downing
Booksplease Price: $35.70The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and... -
The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events... -
The Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: $32.11Booksplease Price: $24.59Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our... -
The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.06In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter... -
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh 9781804291344
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $30.92Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for... -
The Little Book of Pembrokeshire by Dr Russell Grigg
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.16The Little Book of Pembrokeshire is a highly readable guide to the history, culture and landscape of a very special place. Dr Russell Grigg traces Pembrokeshire's enduring appeal, including its rich... -
Kill or Get Killed by Rex Applegate 9781474539661
Booksplease Price: $40.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474539661Author Rex ApplegateFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Chindit by Richard Rhodes James
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.'Heroic, punishing... -
Vespa and Lambretta Motor Scooters by Stuart Owen
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.78Vespa and Lambretta remain the two most iconic motor scooter brands, even four decades after the latter's demise. But what made them such a European sensation in the postwar era? And why were they... -
The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann 9781471181665
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.66'Beautifully told by David Grann, one of the best true-crime writers around... Nuanced and gripping' Evening StandardNow a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old... -
The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.20Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe... -
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van der Vat
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.95At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the... -
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair 9780141012742
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs'As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care... -
Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus
Booksplease Price: $59.43A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC)... -
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of... -
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo by Paul Strathern
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.01Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40THE 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... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius 9781541673854
RRP: $66.64Booksplease Price: $39.41Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and... -
When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum 9780063349285
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $43.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063349285Author Howard BlumFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos 9781538770184
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $24.44George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of... -
The Barn: The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm Sally Coulthard 9781800240865
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book' Country Smallholding 'Engaging and filled with gentle humour and... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires by Sara Cockerill 9781398112391
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80In the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win. In fact her story sometimes seems so extreme it ought to be made up. The headlines: orphaned as a child, Duchess in her... -
The Last Reunion: The thrilling and achingly romantic new historical novel from the international bestselling author by Kayte Nunn
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $26.87*THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAYTE NUNN!*'Absolutely magnificent' NATASHA LESTER'Hugely engaging' DAILY MAILWar would bring them together.But would it ultimately tear... -
Mad Mitch's Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire by Aaron Edwards 9781780577005
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.51Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are... -
Women in the Middle Ages by Joseph Gies
Booksplease Price: $26.16Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceAbout the... -
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden Mark Owen 9781405911894
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind... -
Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton 9781399014304
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britains canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth... -
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day E J Hobsbawm 9780140257885
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special... -
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.51Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military... -
Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids, The by Jim Marrs
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71What secrets connect Egypt's Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Marrs examines the world's most closely guarded... -
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue... -
A Force Like No Other: The Final Shift by Colin Breen
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $24.80In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. 'A most powerful...