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Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action Kevin Guyan 9781350230729
RRP: $38.98$32.02Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind Professor Lord Colin Renfrew 9780753824276
RRP: $19.48$13.65A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the... -
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilisation by Anthony Everitt
RRP: $48.75$32.82The story of Athens is truly intriguing: how did a tiny community of 200,000 citizens manage to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavour, create one of the greatest civilizations in history, and lay the foundations of our own... -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $21.43$15.58Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `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 receive... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: $17.53$12.97The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Old Port Glasgow Joy Monteith 9781840332506
RRP: $23.30$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332506Author Joy MonteithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 234mm * 3mm -
The German Freikorps 1918-23 by Carlos Caballero Jurado
RRP: $29.23$24.47This book charts the seemingly spontaneous growth of the 'Free Corps' movement from the ashes of the Imperial German Army following the 1918 Armistice. Large numbers of former officers and soldiers - often from elite units - assembled in 'private armies'... -
Lord Liverpool: A Political Life William Anthony Hay (Customer) 9781783272822
RRP: $58.50$49.24Shaped by eighteenth-century assumptions, Liverpool nonetheless laid the foundations for the nineteenth-century Britain that emerged from the Reform era. Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828), 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was Britain's longest serving prime... -
Kohima 1944: The Battle That Saved India by Robert Lyman 9781846039393
RRP: $33.13$25.66In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention... -
Tupolev Tu - 144: The Soviet Supersonic Airliner by Yefim Gordon 9780764348945
RRP: $107.23$78.82Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological achievement for the Soviet aircraft industry. The book provides... -
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn
RRP: $25.33$17.22A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would... -
Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: $39.00$28.65AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021 This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982. When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands in April 1982, the British... -
Question Everything! by Susan Martineau
RRP: $11.68$8.21CRITICAL LITERACY SKILLS FOR ALL! We live in an information jungle! Join us to find your way through it with essential critical literacy skills. From spotting fake news to solving mysteries and investigating disasters, you will be able to THINK FOR... -
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956 Gavin Maxwell 9780907871149
RRP: $25.33$17.22the greatest Moroccan travel book of all time:vital reading for the new upmarket Marrakesh tourism - one of the bibles of British twentieth-century Orientalism - by the author of A Ring of Bright Water - describes the extraordinary medieval nature of... -
Parmenides' Vision: A Study of Parmenides' Poem by Stuart B. Martin
RRP: $152.10$134.32This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth,"... -
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Brothers Who Led the Native American Resistance Peter Cozzens 9781838951511
RRP: $21.43$14.47A History Book of the Year in The Times 'Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.' The Times'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' S.C... -
Norway by Claudia Martin
RRP: $19.48$13.55Did you know that Oslo is the only capital city in Europe where you can go cross-country skiing? Just take your skis on the metro to the suburbs and ski off from the platform across the frozen, snowy landscape. Stretching so far from north to south, and... -
A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--And Projects to Help You Become One by Danielle Krysa 9780762463794
RRP: $42.90$39.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
To Kill a King by David Gilman 9781801108096
RRP: $42.90$31.24The eighth gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acclaimed Master of War series set in fourteenth-century Europe. Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his... -
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $21.43$15.66From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of... -
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum by Robert Roberts 9781901341010
RRP: $25.33$23.30With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that... -
Seaforth World Naval Review: 2024 by Conrad Waters 9781399023115
RRP: $68.25$49.32For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships, and... -
For Every Sailor Afloat, Every Soldier at the Front: Princess Mary's Christmas Gift 1914 by Peter Doyle 9781913491536
RRP: $39.00$28.20In 1914, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V, was just 17. Yet with the world war two months old, the young princess was destined to make her mark. She would send a Christmas gift to all those serving in uniform, 'afloat and at the front.'... -
The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320 Malcolm Barber (University of Reading, UK) 9780415174152
RRP: $77.98$70.32First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the... -
Warwick A Short History and Guide by Christine M. Cluley
RRP: $31.18$21.16For 1,400 years Warwick has graced the Midlands with its fine castle, attractive architecture and sense of history. However, there has not been a comprehensive guidebook available for visitors and locals alike. This book provides a detailed but... -
The Age Of Arthur by John Morris
RRP: $33.13$23.28A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain, the... -
The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 Erika Fatland 9780857057815
RRP: $58.50$38.42A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the... -
Warsaw 1920 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had... -
Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 by Victoria Avery
RRP: $48.75$47.33The UK Winner of the Entertaining category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020, Feast and Fast explores our evolving relationship with food with treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations -... -
Case Red: The Collapse of France by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $25.33$17.92Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940. Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson
RRP: $25.33$18.51Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics,... -
Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's most Fascinating Places by DK
RRP: $48.75$35.92Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises, cities have marked the progress of civilisation. Written in the form of illustrated "biographies",... -
The Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett
RRP: $25.33$18.27The 'knight in shining armour' has become a staple figure in popular culture, and images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction. But what was the medieval... -
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Jane Burbank
RRP: $54.60$53.25Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a... -
Krays: The Final Word - the definitive account of the Krays' life and crimes by James Morton
RRP: $29.23$22.13Think you know everything about the Krays?Think again.Britain's most infamous criminals: the Kray twins. The extent of their activities has always been uncertain. But now, it is time for the conclusive account of their story, from their East End... -
USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Alan Beechey
RRP: $21.43$16.22Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims with contrasts and contradictions. It is a culture of... -
The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books 36-40 by Cassius Dio 9780198822882
RRP: $21.43$15.58'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.' Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last... -
Screenwriting For Dummies by Laura Schellhardt 9781119835752
RRP: $40.93$27.63Suspend your disbelief-you can make it as a screenwriter Behind every blockbuster film and binge-worthy show, there's a screenwriter-and that writer could be you! Turn your brainstorming sessions into dynamic scripts with the help of Screenwriting For... -
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
$35.02Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked ... -
The Little Book of the Isle of Wight by Jan Toms 9780752458175
RRP: $21.43$16.52Did you know? A new species of cat-like dinosaur, yet to be named, was discovered on the Isle of Wight in 1988. Darwin began his world famous 'On the Origin of the Species' while staying at the Kings Head Hotel. There are 21 tourists to every Island...