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Life in Early Medieval Wales by Prof Nancy Edwards 9780198733218
RRP: £100.00£90.50Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales... -
Russia's War by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99£9.34In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the course of human history there has probably been no more... -
A Force Like No Other: The Next Shift: More Real Stories from the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen
RRP: £9.99£8.27In this follow-up to his bestselling A Force Like No Other, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. Includes stories about the IRA border campaign (1958-62), the Shankill Butchers... -
Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai by Alexandra Kollontai 9780393009743
RRP: £21.00£16.76Alexandra Kollontai-the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR's first Minister of Social Welfare-is known today as a historic contributor to the international women's movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-41 John Wright 9781471861970
£23.02Exam 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... -
Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City by Jim Krane
RRP: £10.99£7.54Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran and India. Dubai... -
AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People Abdul Mohamud 9781471886249
£20.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris by David H. Pinkney 9780691655406
RRP: £45.00£40.73In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets,... -
Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food: A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War by Arabella Boxer
RRP: £15.99£11.61A Book of English Food is an elegant compendium of brilliant recipes adapted from the cookery books of the 1920s and 1930s by Arabella Boxer, with beautiful new illustrations by Cressida Bell.Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food describes the delicious... -
Napoleon: Life of an Emperor by Mike Lepine 9781915343420
RRP: £21.99£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343420Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited -
The European and American University since 1800 by Sheldon Rothblatt 9780521431651
RRP: £110.00£82.41Universities are said to be the 'powerhouses' of modern society. They educate leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. Yet historically they have been vulnerable when meeting the challenges of dynamic industrial democracies or... -
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 9781469651880
RRP: £32.95£30.34This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period... -
InDesign in easy steps Robert Shufflebotham 9781840789362
RRP: £11.99£8.10Master the essentials of Adobe's InDesign, and then enjoy the full creative potential of this popular desktop publishing software - in easy steps. Written by an industry professional with over 30 years' experience of training in electronic publishing... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress Frances Osbourne 9781844084807
RRP: £10.99£7.50On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
Little Children's Dinosaur Puzzles by Kirsteen Robson 9781474985376
RRP: £7.99£4.93This exciting activity book is packed with dinosaur-themed word, number and picture puzzles for young children. Spot the difference between long-necked leaf-eaters and toothy tyrannosaurs, lead a team of scientists through a maze to a pit full of... -
Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King by Audrey Truschke
RRP: £16.99£15.07The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the... -
A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing Elaine Showalter 9781844084968
RRP: £14.99£9.90When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the... -
Marcus Agrippa: Right-Hand Man of Caesar Augustus by Lindsay Powell 9781399024808
RRP: £14.99£12.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Viking Diaspora Judith Jesch 9781138020795
RRP: £43.99£42.59The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of 'diaspora'. It discusses the ways in which... -
The Talavera Campaign 1809 by Tim Saunders 9781399040037
RRP: £28.00£19.62Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley returned to the Peninsular in 1809 convinced that the country could be held against the French. His audacious crossing of the Duoro and speedy victory at Oporto in May, followed by the deceptively easy ejection of... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £16.99£12.68This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution... -
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc Nancy Goldstone 9781780220291
RRP: £10.99£7.50An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon.How did an illiterate seventeen-year-old peasant girl manage to become one of histories most salient females? It is almost 600 years since Joan of Arc... -
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99£8.66Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love... -
A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present Ellis Wasson (University of Delaware, USA) 9781118869017
RRP: £30.95£28.06Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the... -
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
RRP: £16.99£11.27The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book. 'Both a brilliant idea and an engrossing book that tells... -
Amstrads and Ataris: UK Home Computers in the 1980s by Andrew Morten
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1980s was the era when affordable computers came to UK homes. They were known as microcomputers as their 'brain' was a microprocessor chip. Before then, computers were either found in the IT centres of big companies, taking up a whole room, or were... -
Modern British Beer by Matthew Curtis 9781852493707
RRP: £15.99£11.06Modern British Beer aims to highlight the cultural development of beer in the United Kingdom since the turn of the century. The first-person narrative will be told through the stories of approximately 80 different beers and the brewers who made them, and... -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6: Volumes 4,5,6 The Eastern Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: £60.00£44.12The first three volumes of Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years. This year is the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, which has... -
A Special Duty: A Crew's Secret War With 148 (SD) Squadron by Jennifer Elkin 9780993336072
RRP: £12.25£10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993336072Author Jennifer ElkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mention the War PublicationsPublisher Aviation Books Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty Natalie Livingstone 9781529366716
RRP: £25.00£17.38'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.69**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: £25.00£16.99Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art) by T. H. Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or... -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself by Teresa of Avila
RRP: £12.99£9.34Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it... -
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: £18.99£13.11This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, which encompasses the entirety of her career as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of her remarkable life in... -
The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament by Ben Jackson 9781801506601
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Africa Cup of Nations explores the vibrant history of one of football's iconic but often overlooked international tournaments.For a long time, the Africa Cup of Nations has been seen as a nuisance to European clubs and fans. However, the tournament... -
Royalists and Royalism During the Interregnum by Jason McElligott 9780719081613
RRP: £90.00£74.26What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell's Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade... -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: £12.95£8.98John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhanced ...