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Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
RRP: $25.33$17.22Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing... -
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science by Simon Schama 9781471169922
RRP: $25.33$16.40'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
The Lion's Share: A History of British Imperialism 1850 to the Present by Bernard Porter 9780367426989
$74.65Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its 'imperial' implications, the sixth edition of The Lion's Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present.Well-known for... -
The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore by Lynn Knight
RRP: $21.43$15.58A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight's family - each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s,... -
British Rail by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $58.50$41.63The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organized and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________You think you know British Rail. But you don't... -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 9780007580576
RRP: $21.43$14.33The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
Stockton-on-Tees: Britain In Old Photographs by Charlie Emett
RRP: $29.23$22.85Charlie Emett has compiled a pictorial history of Stockton-on-Tees. With this superb collection of over 200 photographs, he illustrates many aspects of the town's development - both as a port and as a commercial centre - following the opening of the... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 Barbara Mervyn 9781471861819
$45.59Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour by Carol Mavor
RRP: $35.10$25.66The sea, the sky, the veins of your hands, the earth when photographed from space--blue sometimes seems to overwhelm all the other shades of our world in its all-encompassing presence. The blues of Blue Mythologies include those present in the world's... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: $42.90$31.24'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our... -
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
RRP: $21.43$15.58'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered... -
Knights by Stephanie Turnbull
RRP: $11.68$7.51Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own. Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text. Developed with reading experts at the University of... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: $58.50$52.03Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the... -
Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince by Anne F. Sutton 9781803996318
RRP: $39.00$30.11Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This characteristic, among others, has enabled Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs to reconstruct his library,... -
London's Secret Square Mile by David Long
RRP: $25.33$19.25The streetscape of London's historic square mile has been evolving for centuries, but the City's busy commercial heart still boasts an extensive network of narrow passages and alleyways, secret squares and half-hidden courtyards.Using his wealth of local... -
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That Al Murray 9781529411829
RRP: $29.23$17.10'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt FordeA fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100... -
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $48.75$41.57A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and... -
Alistair Cooke's America: 50th Anniversary Edition by Alistair Cooke
RRP: $37.03$24.78For more than sixty years Alistair Cooke wrote and broadcast on every facet of American life with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his 'personal history' of America, the best-selling book that accompanied his legendary BBC television series which was... -
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires David Chaffetz 9781324051466
RRP: $48.75$39.02No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a small, shy animal, hunted for food. Over time, the domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires: Persian, Mongol, Mughal... -
Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War by James H. Willbanks
$69.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames H. Willbanks is a professor in the Combat Studies Institute at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KansasReviewsThe... -
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers
RRP: $33.13$23.95Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: $33.13$24.32In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence 9780198779544
RRP: $35.08$30.26Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through the... -
The Vikings in Britain and Ireland Jayne Carroll 9780714128313
RRP: $21.43$14.63For nearly three hundred years, the Vikings set out on voyages from Scandinavia reaching every corner of the northern world. As raiders, traders, explorers and colonizers, they had a profound impact on those cultures with which they came into contact... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $21.43$14.29'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
Wildflower Girl Marita Conlon-McKenna 9780862782832
RRP: $17.53$13.59The second book in the famine trilogy At seven, Peggy made a terrifying journey through famine-stricken Ireland. Now thirteen, and determined to make a new life for herself, she sets off alone across the Atlantic to America. Will she ever see her... -
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
$29.72This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism,... -
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
RRP: $25.33$18.21'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts... -
Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond by Arran Lomas
RRP: $29.23$26.79From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire.The British people have always been eccentric, occasionally ingenious and,... -
To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly
RRP: $21.43$15.89Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married only months before the Second World War erupted. So... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $25.33$18.21From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
RRP: $29.23$19.62The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: $25.33$17.76A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
Aethelred II: King of the English by Ryan Lavelle 9780752446783
RRP: $25.33$19.25Too often dismissed as the unready king - unprepared, ill-advised, and incapable of dealing with the military and political crises that faced the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, not least of which were a series of Viking onslaughts - King Aethelred has gone down in... -
Connecting History: Higher Britain, 1851-1951 by Euan M. Duncan
RRP: $37.03$36.39Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: $48.75$34.36Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire by David Veevers 9781529109962
RRP: $21.43$15.58The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire... -
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent 9781471146992
RRP: $21.43$14.06Indianapolis is the thrilling true story of the greatest naval disaster in United States history - the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II - and the fight for survival and redemption that followed. Four days after delivering the... -
The Bodyline Fix: How Women Saved Cricket by Marion Stell 9780702265785
RRP: $38.98$28.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702265785Author Marion StellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults by Michael B. Cosmopoulos
RRP: $77.98$68.37Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults.With a lack of written evidence that exists for...