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Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice by Michael Hunter 9780230574762
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson
RRP: $48.75$32.35Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: $21.43$14.55* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
The D-Day Landing Beaches: The Guide by Georges Bernage 9782840481379
RRP: $25.33$18.21A spectacular, large format, full colour book, packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts. The book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944.Book InformationISBN 9782840481379Author Georges BernageFormat... -
Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic by Moshe Idel 9780791417348
$55.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791417348Author Moshe IdelFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain by Roberta E. Bivins 9780198725282
RRP: $120.90$119.91It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5... -
Arab Armour vs Israeli Armour: Six-Day War 1967 by Chris McNab
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Six-Day War in 1967 was a lightning Israeli campaign that changed the face of the Middle East. Israel's armoured brigades, despite being heavily outnumbered on paper by Arab AFVs, managed to dominate the Arab forces tactically and technologically,... -
Northumberland: Strange But True by Robert Woodhouse
RRP: $31.18$24.24Northumberland - Strange but True brings together a series of unusual, curious and altogether extraordinary buildings, incidents and people from all parts of the county. Included in these pages are the amazing achievements of Sir Charles Algernon... -
The rise and fall of KING COAL: British mining from beginning to end by Nick Piggott
RRP: $58.48$43.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658634Author Nick PiggottFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1506gDimensions(mm) 300mm... -
Lion Rampant: Second Edition: Medieval Wargaming Rules by Daniel Mersey
RRP: $39.00$31.47WINNER OF THE 2023 ORIGINS AWARDS FOR BEST MINIATURES GAME. An expanded edition of the Origins Award-nominated Lion Rampant, featuring new rules, scenarios, and sample armies. Take to the battlefield as Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Arc or William... -
Norwich in the 1960s: Ten Years That Altered a City by Pete Goodrum
RRP: $31.18$21.16Changed by the 1950s, Norwich was to alter even more during the 1960s. Increased traffic would be met with widened roads and a new flyover, while London Street became pedestrians only. After centuries of trading there the cattle market would move out of... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West 9781526613158
RRP: $48.75$43.27**Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and... -
The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James: Based on Family Records, Forensic Evidence, and His Personal Journals by Daniel J. Duke 9781620559666
RRP: $25.33$16.40A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death * Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records * Provides photographic evidence, a journal... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Casey Tefertiller (San Bruno, California) 9780471283621
RRP: $39.00$26.03"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $29.23$21.35Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of... -
Roman Warriors: The Paintings of Graham Sumner by Sumner, Graham 9781784387198
RRP: $78.00$54.93This book represents the fruit of many years of study by a well respected author in the field. It is well written so as to be very readable for the non-academic whilst presenting a huge, and surely definitive, array of evidence - Roman Army Talk on... -
Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 9780712354066
RRP: $17.53$12.46The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman explore a world of contrast, where the supernatural erupts out of authentically drawn portraits of New England life. This is a world of witchcraft, secrecy, domestic spaces turned uncanny and ancestral... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
RRP: $25.33$17.22The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air... -
Simply Perfect: Number 4 in series by Mary Balogh
RRP: $19.48$13.65Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, Joseph Fawcitt is the epitome of male perfection. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband. As headmistress of Miss Martin's School for Girls, she long ago resigned herself to a life of... -
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps by Helen Morgan
RRP: $29.23$19.31In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guessed that the envelopes bearing these stamps would one... -
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone 9780241508749
RRP: $25.33$18.21'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times'Erudite..... -
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs
RRP: $19.48$13.34Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government. The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about... -
Edinburgh: Mapping the City by Chris Fleet 9781839830433
RRP: $68.25$49.67Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This... -
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World by Maxim Samson 9781800814998
RRP: $42.90$28.68'An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography.' Financial Times 'A truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place.' Simon Jenkins 'A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known... -
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness by Joe Moran
RRP: $21.43$15.95Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush... -
A People's History of Football Mickael Correia 9780745346861
RRP: $33.13$22.83'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that can change minds and even topple governments' Dave Zirin... -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: $39.00$28.29There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: $39.00$28.45What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
50 Things About Us: What We Really Need to Know About Britain Mark Thomas 9781912836550
RRP: $25.33$16.97In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom. Based on... -
Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion by Fern Riddell
RRP: $19.48$13.46'Fierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting, twisty and very very timely.' Lucy WorsleyIn Death in Ten Minutes Fern Riddell uncovers the story of radical suffragette... -
The Birth of The Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York Summer Strevens 9781445633466
RRP: $31.18$21.16One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree's, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York's chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of... -
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE Simon Garfield 9781474610797
RRP: $21.43$14.63'Witty and geekily eclectic' The TimesAn erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times'A pleasure' Spectator'An infectiously enthusiastic history' Times Literary... -
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Sir Noel Malcolm 9780198886334
RRP: $48.75$42.10A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored... -
Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland: A history of amiable excess by Patricia McCarthy
$68.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510134Author Patricia McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight 9780300273403
RRP: $25.33$22.35The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: $35.08$23.79In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it, as a work of genius... Here is a book... -
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
RRP: $23.38$20.30Bill Hayton tells the story of how "China" came to think of itself as China-and what it means for our world today "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism."-Foreign Policy In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's... -
The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: $17.53$11.72THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tessa Dunlop...succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry of experiences.' Independent'A warm-hearted and engaging read, The Century Girls is replete with wonderful characters.' Sunday Express'A delightful book... all about women and... -
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century by Charles Homer Haskins 9780674760752
RRP: $68.15$54.97The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century which saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of the Gothic; the emergence of vernacular languages; the... -
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
RRP: $29.23$21.35A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its...