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Manchester: Making the Modern City Alan Kidd (Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom)) 9781846318788
£16.79Every town and city has its story, but few have a history that is essential to understanding how the modern world was made. Manchester was the first industrial city and arguably the first modern city. During the industrial revolution it became the centre... -
An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
RRP: £25.00£20.70The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was... -
Nostradamus; The Illustrated Prophecies Peter Lemesurier 9781903816486
RRP: £19.99£17.37The predictions of Nostradamus have been continuously in print since his death and count, alongside the Bible, as one of the two best selling books in publishing history. Today, interest has never been higher, with claims that he foretold recent events... -
Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology by Graham Connah
RRP: £41.99£36.75Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining... -
Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II: 1939-1945 by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.39Illustrated with colourful artworks of carrier aircraft and their markings, Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Allied navies from 1939 to 1945. Organised chronologically by type and... -
Medieval Pets Kathleen Walker-Meikle 9781783275694
RRP: £19.99£16.97An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature. Animals in the Middle Ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for... -
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee 9780316509091
RRP: £28.00£17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316509091Author Daniel LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm -
Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games Matthew Sherry 9781474613668
RRP: £10.99£7.50An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.The NFL has become the most lucrative sports league in the world, yet it has not always been a roaring success story. It is a rocky road filled with detours and... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: £9.99£4.81A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom HollandWinding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the... -
Bizarre Scotland by David Long
RRP: £16.99£11.54From the world's oldest indoor loo to a theatre where spectators fill their pockets with poo, the definitive guide to the stranger side of Scotland shows there's a lot more to the place than tartan, haggis and tossing the caber. Inside you'll find: The... -
An Advertisement for Toothpaste by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £3.00£2.63'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War PolandPenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler 9780197518786
RRP: £30.99£22.85These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £5.99£4.56Discover Wollstonecraft's classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In... -
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket by Christian Ryan
RRP: £11.99£8.03**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering expose of the tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as viewed... -
1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid Derek Tait 9781445609775
RRP: £9.99£6.74With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £8.99£6.65By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
Cold War Boys: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES OF DERRING-DO FROM LIGHTNING, PHANTOM AND HUNTER PILOTS by Richard Pike
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and... -
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies Gordon Corera 9781780227849
RRP: £12.99£8.70The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied on in today's interconnected world? This is the exhilarating secret history of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon... -
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition by Sunil Khilnani 9780374537623
RRP: £21.00£13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537623Author Sunil KhilnaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs by Timothy Freke
RRP: £9.99£8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426928Author Timothy FrekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99£8.45Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter... -
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison 9781789544701
RRP: £9.99£7.21Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended... -
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History by James L. Gelvin
RRP: £26.99£23.84Now in its fourth edition, James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. The book traces the struggle from the emergence of... -
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: £20.00£15.34In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and... -
Lost Kilmarnock Frank Beattie 9781398118232
RRP: £15.99£10.85Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire and a major centre for the west of Scotland. It expanded hugely during the Industrial Revolution and in recent decades has rebuilt itself extensively, streets and structures built by Victorian planners being... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691178370
RRP: £17.99£14.68"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a... -
The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream by Marc Burrows
RRP: £20.00£14.29Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock... -
Remembering Tommy: The British Soldier in the First World War by Peter Doyle 9780752479552
RRP: £25.00£19.34The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervour, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles... -
A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair Belinda Black 9781529429657
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it... -
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: £14.99£10.95This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an... -
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Dr Michael Livingston
RRP: £10.99£7.87'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series Late in AD 937, four armies met at Brunanburh. On one side stood... -
When Men Fell from the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe by Claire Andrieu
RRP: £29.99£26.34Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany... -
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair 9780141012742
RRP: £12.99£9.34Hackney, 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 as to which might be the most direct... -
Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Jennifer R. March 9781782976356
£44.79Jenny March's acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a... -
The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos 9780415436458
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood, ancient people. Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians then broadened their civilization with influences from... -
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East by Uri Kaufman 9781250281883
RRP: £32.00£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250281883Author Uri KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: £11.99£9.96In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization,... -
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani
RRP: £13.99£10.95The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan,to American eyes,has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror... -
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation Julie Bindel (Freelance journalist) 9781472132611
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an... -
Cyril of Jerusalem by Edward Yarnold
RRP: £37.99£33.38Cyril was bishop in Jerusalem from c350-351 AD until 386 AD. His writings are an important source for the history of early Christian doctrine. This book provides full English translations, with explanatory commentary, of his most important works. The...