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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay 9780300276091
RRP: $21.43$18.74"Fascinating."-Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."-Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."-Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week PickA provocative and original history of the scientists and... -
The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society by Dana Arnold
RRP: $38.98$29.87The country house was the focal point of Georgian architecture, landscape and society. This book explores the meaning of this distinct cultural form using a wide range of examples and approaches. Dana Arnold presents an analysis of the social and... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime Bradley Hope 9781399806190
RRP: $21.43$14.63'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna FifieldHOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A... -
No Cook's Tour by Derek (Nobby) Clarke 9780755201617
$29.62Sapper Derek Clarke tells the true and gripping tale of his journey to the front line and fight against the Japanese Imperial Army and life as a Prisoner of War in Changi, Taiwan and Tokyo prison camps 1941-1945.In moving description and fine original... -
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century by Michael Howard 9780198204282
$99.14Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel... -
The Somme by Robin Prior
RRP: $23.38$20.30Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. "A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . ... -
BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission by Steve Gibson 9780750987721
RRP: $25.33$21.47BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and... -
The Long Range Desert Group in Action 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777416
RRP: $31.18$23.95The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range Patrol in North Africa, tasked with intelligence... -
The Penguin Book of Hell by Scott G. Bruce
RRP: $23.38$16.89Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern AmericaFrom the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us... -
Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel 9781416526193
RRP: $21.43$14.06In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been... -
Independence or Union: Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present by T. M. Devine
RRP: $21.43$15.58'Deserves to be read by everyone interested in the future of the United Kingdom' Andrew Marr, The Sunday TimesThere can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: $19.48$14.06""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Spitfire!: The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399082808
RRP: $37.03$28.49As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere -and... -
If This Is Man And The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: $35.08$25.25Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war... -
Walking the Old Ways of Herefordshire: The History in the Landscape Explored Through 52 Circular Walks by Andy Johnson
RRP: $29.25$24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663865Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon 9780486834436
RRP: $7.78$5.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834436Author Sei ShonagonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm)... -
Greater Manchester Buses 1986-2006 by Keith A. Jenkinson
RRP: $31.18$21.16Manchester and its surrounds, such as Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham and Stockport, have always been a haven for bus enthusiasts, with a wide variety of operators and liveries to be seen. Deregulation in 1986 changed the scene dramatically with the... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: $29.25$21.37What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village street, often far away in their own fields. But the... -
Romney Marsh: Survival on a Frontier by Jill Eddison 9780752414867
RRP: $48.75$36.70It brings together the recent work of archaeologists, historians and geographers, and presents an up-to-date interpretation of the area. With numerous illustrations (many in full colour), this book will delight and inform anyone interested in Romney... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364736
RRP: $21.43$14.63'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK TIMES'Gripping'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Funny, startling . . . a... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $25.33$18.21In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches... -
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $23.38$16.89Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I... -
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich 9780300108835
RRP: $33.13$29.27The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A Little... -
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard 9780060845797
$22.25Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would-be entrepreneurs. This bestselling classic joins the Collins Business Essentials line-up with... -
Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour by Carol Mavor
RRP: $35.10$33.97The 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... -
The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick
RRP: $21.43$14.84'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home 'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph**********************Eleanor of AquitaineA loving mother. A betrayed wife. A queen... -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens Lisa Hilton 9780753826119
RRP: $25.33$17.22England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: $25.33$17.16Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and... -
Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion by J. H. Elliott 9780300253382
RRP: $25.33$22.35A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar 9780199540624
RRP: $21.43$15.58`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself... -
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: $29.23$21.35It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by... -
Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict by Julian Thompson
RRP: $33.13$23.95From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy more... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: $25.33$17.92DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley
RRP: $25.33$22.35The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful... -
Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society by Frank Mort 9780300118797
RRP: $73.13$72.60An arresting history of sex and politics in London during the 1950s and '60s that charts the course of modern British society and the birth of the so-called permissive society A series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life during the... -
Wigan: Fifty Golden Years by "Wigan Observer"
$31.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915036Author "Wigan Observer"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Remembering Refugees: Then and Now by Tony Kushner 9780719068836
RRP: $38.98$35.30Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: $25.33$16.97'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $29.23$21.35A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population... -
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Morton 9781789293739
RRP: $19.48$13.55'The best account so far of the most notorious woman... Andrew Morton presents a convincing picture of Wallis Simpson's rip-roaring sexual and social adventures and her curious marriage to the Duke of Windsor... His new research adds to our knowledge of...