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Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy by K. J. P. Lowe 9780691246840
RRP: £38.00£32.59A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods"... -
Living with Ghosts by Brian Rowan
RRP: £16.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374036Author Brian RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Roman Republican Legionary 298–105 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: £14.99£12.55Soon after the Caudine Forks fiasco in 321 BC, the tactical formation adopted by the Roman Army underwent a radical change. Introduced as part of the Servian reforms, the legion had originally operated as a Greek-style phalanx. Now, however, the Romans... -
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry E. Tise 9780820323961
£34.16Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the... -
Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: £16.99£12.28Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles's Ancient Worlds tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are. The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and... -
The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys by G H Bennett 9781399077910
RRP: £25.00£18.02War for England's Shores examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines,... -
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots by Simon Elliott
RRP: £15.99£11.61'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't shed a tear for any of them.' - The Scotsman The SpectatorSince 1975 much new archaeological evidence has come to light to illuminate the... -
Warrior of Woden by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £8.99£6.55AD 642. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the fifth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Oswald has reigned over Northumbria for eight years and Beobrand has led the king to... -
Land: The Ownership of Everywhere by Simon Winchester
RRP: £25.00£22.19From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced... -
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' ageThe idea that nothing happens by... -
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin
RRP: £22.99£20.01Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like... -
Things I Have Withheld Kei Miller 9781838852795
RRP: £14.99£9.90SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEIn this astonishing collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this... -
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing
RRP: £12.99£8.71"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a... -
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea by Shiraz Maher
RRP: £10.99£7.87'A groundbreaking study ... a masterclass in how to do intellectual history, and one that nobody with an interest in radical Islam should miss' Tom Holland, New Statesman'Readers looking for a rigorous but lucid account of Islamic State's ideas will... -
Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo by Ernesto Che Guevara
RRP: £14.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Richard III by David Baldwin
RRP: £10.99£7.46Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of... -
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution Katherine Spillar 9780593321560
RRP: £42.00£26.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593321560Author Katherine SpillarFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel by Kate Bowler 9780190876739
RRP: £25.99£19.04How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity... -
Citizen Soldiers: From The Normandy Beaches To The Surrender Of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471158339
RRP: £12.99£8.41This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the... -
WW2 Vehicles: Through the Lens Volume 3 by Tom Cockle 9786156602213
RRP: £25.99£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602213Author Tom CockleFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed 9781848844735
RRP: £16.99£12.28This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential travelling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle... -
Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells: From Abraxas to Zoar by Claude Lecouteux
RRP: £25.00£23.30From Abracadabra to the now famous spells of the Harry Potter series, magic words are no longer confined to the practices of pagans, alchemists, witches, and occultists. They have become part of the popular imagination of the Western world. Passed down... -
Storm of Steel by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £8.99£6.55AD 643. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the sixth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Heading south to lands he once considered his home, Beobrand is plunged into a dark world of piracy and slavery when an old... -
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
RRP: £12.99£11.41In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the... -
How to Survive in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford 9781526757869
RRP: £14.99£10.95Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you were... -
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin 9781472157881
RRP: £16.99£11.54'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend of engineering and travelogue, urban planning and... -
British Paratrooper 1940-45 by Rebecca Skinner
RRP: £14.99£10.95Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjager in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Airborne Force in June 1940. From these beginnings The Parachute Regiment became one of the foremost units of... -
The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974 by Mark Simmons
RRP: £17.99£13.64The relationship between Britain and Cyprus over the course of the past 100 years has been a constantly evolving one. Since the First World War, Cyprus has played a key role in British defence strategy, and, after the withdrawal from Egypt, the island... -
Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma by Jack Bowsher 9781916556386
£22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916556386Author Jack BowsherFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Chiselbury PublishingPublisher Chiselbury Publishing -
IX Squadron Profile by Chris Ward 9781915335180
£25.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915335180Author Chris WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mention the War PublicationsPublisher Aviation Books Ltd. -
Favourite Irish Crochet Designs by Rita Weiss
RRP: £8.99£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486249629Author Rita WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)... -
Defence Speeches by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.99'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the... -
Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £31.49£22.94What is it about Brittany that makes it such a favourite destination for the British? To answer this question, Bretons and Britons explores the long history of the Bretons, from the time of the first farmers around 5400 BC to the present, and the very... -
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children by Clare Mulley
RRP: £12.99£9.19An unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb, not particularly fond of children herself, nevertheless dedicated her life to establishing Save the Children and promoting her revolutionary concept of human rights. In this... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£5.57In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He... -
In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9780691019499
RRP: £50.00£39.82Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: £12.99£9.34Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
Titanic: A Passenger's Guide Pocket Book by John Blake
RRP: £9.99£6.72An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle. Compiled from authentic period sources with nostalgic illustrations. Launched in May 1911, the triple-screw steamer Titanic was the pride of the White... -
The Secret History of Lucifer (New Edition) by Lynn Picknett
RRP: £10.99£7.50In her new account of an old religion, Lynn Picknett explains that Lucifer means 'the light bringer' and was a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. 'He' was originally 'she' -- a divine representation of love, light and...