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The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London by Hannah Greig 9780198861188
RRP: $26.31$23.15The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in 18th-century London Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $25.33$7.14Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
The Ottoman Empire: The History of the Turkish Empire that Lasted Over 600 Years by History Titans 9780648934400
RRP: $15.58$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648934400Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g -
Waging War in America 1775-1783: Operational Challenges of Five Armies during the American Revolution by Don N Hagist 9781804513460
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513460Author Don N HagistFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781472530264
RRP: $54.58$49.61In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in... -
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques by Steve Nison
RRP: $224.25$129.30A form of technical analysis, Japanese candlestick charts are a versatile tool that can be fused with any other technical tool, and will help improve any technician's market analysis. They can be used for speculation and hedging, for futures, equities... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $39.00$28.65*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
Manet/Degas by Stephan Wolohojian 9781588397638
RRP: $97.50$72.81The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson 9781784973940
RRP: $39.00$34.36A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern... -
The Great God Pan by John Kruse 9781838132453
RRP: $25.33$17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838132453Author John KruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams) 150g -
The Imagination Muscle by Albert Read 9780349134796
RRP: $25.33$16.97'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone - should read this book' EDWARD ENNINFUL'An extraordinary book - an... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions Arash Azizi 9780861541171
RRP: $21.43$14.06'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the... -
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 by Alexander Morrison
RRP: $155.98$142.66The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains... -
Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany Marie Jalowicz-Simon 9781781254158
RRP: $25.33$17.92Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. ... -
Wilde in Love by Eloisa James
RRP: $19.48$13.65'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series The first book in Eloisa James's dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and charm... -
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond Robert D. Kaplan 9780812986624
RRP: $29.23$19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Czechoslovak Armies 1939–45 by Nigel Thomas 9781472856852
RRP: $25.33$17.92Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II. Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich... -
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
RRP: $17.53$16.22The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and... -
Anglo-Saxon England: 400-790 by Sally Crawford
RRP: $17.53$14.86The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was beginning to move towards urbanisation, establishing... -
House of Spies: St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage by Peter Matthews
RRP: $19.48$15.15St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less... -
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France by Shelley Puhak
RRP: $21.43$15.35A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval... -
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 by Toby Harnden
RRP: $37.03$25.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316540971Author Toby HarndenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *... -
Arms and Armour of Late Medieval Europe by Robert C. Woosnam-Savage 9780948092770
RRP: $19.48$13.96The idea of late medieval arms and armour often conjures up images of lumbering warriors, clad in heavy plate armour, hacking away at with each other with enormous weapons - depictions perpetuated in both bad literature and bad movies. In this... -
A Short History of the IRA: From 1916 Onwards by Brendan O'Brien 9781788490788
RRP: $17.53$13.59An accessible, clearly-written account of the IRA from 1916 to today. It covers the origins and history of the organisation, its aims, the political and military thinking which has driven its activities, and the major personalities who have shaped the... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: $33.13$23.95The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: $29.23$22.37'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains by Andrew Martin
RRP: $21.43$15.35In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to... -
The Class of '37: Telling Tales of Girlhood from Before the War by Claire Langhamer 9781789464054
RRP: $33.13$22.93'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History MagazineIt is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of... -
Wandsworth by Patrick Loobey 9780752400266
RRP: $29.23$22.85This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752400266Author Patrick... -
West African Folk Tales by J.K. Jackson
RRP: $13.63$10.34Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to... -
The Ruhr 1943: The RAF's brutal fight for Germany's industrial heartland Richard Worrall 9781472846563
RRP: $29.23$21.35This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running. ... -
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
RRP: $33.13$22.83Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' Philip Jowett 9781472850454
RRP: $23.38$16.63This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus by Lucy Ward 9780861545186
RRP: $21.43$14.06A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The Times A killer virus...an all-powerful Empress...an... -
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti
RRP: $21.43$15.35The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ranging freely back... -
Africa: A Modern History by Guy Arnold
RRP: $78.00$56.30A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1963, thirty African states created the Organization of... -
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre
RRP: $50.68$43.56A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives-and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China,... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: $15.58$12.56Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: $31.18$23.89'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an... -
Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne
RRP: $37.03$26.54In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human...