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A History Of God by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.70The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim... -
Visit Britain's Cathedrals: A guidebook and logbook for visiting 97 cathedrals in England, Wales and Scotland: 2023 by Heritage Hunter 9781905315802
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905315802Author Heritage HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint -
Liverpool Docks by Michael Stammers 9780752417127
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74The story of Liverpool is, in many ways, the story of its docks. Before the docks, trade was limited by the tides and at the mercy of the Mersey's currents. After dock construction began, the city... -
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon Joyce Tyldesley 9781781250518
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the 'heretic pharaoh' Akhenaten... -
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone 9781784744670
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
NEW Higher History: Revise for SQA Exams (Leckie Complete Revision & Practice) by John Kerr
Booksplease Price: $23.08Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: History Two books in one! Combining a revision guide and a full set... -
The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain... -
The Tower of London: The Biography by Stephen Porter
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22The Tower of London is an icon of England's history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066 to dominate London, and it has become infamous as a place of... -
England's Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.69'Inspired . . . encourages us to take a fresh look at the familiar' - The TimesEngland's cathedrals are the nation's glory. They tower over its landscape, outranking palaces, castles and mansions... -
Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America Marie Arana 9781780226170
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit'... -
My Name is River by Emma Rea 9781913102142
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.75Dylan's mum thinks he's on the school Geography trip. Dylan's teacher thinks he's at home with the flu. In fact he's 30,000 feet up in th air on the way to Brazil. When Dylans' farm is snatched... -
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.78The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him 'The first masterpiece in comic book... -
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of... -
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness by Joe Moran
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand... -
Aircraft, Tanks and Artillery of the Ukraine War by Martin J Dougherty 9781838863500
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.28Illustrated with accurate artworks of aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles, artillery and missiles, Aircraft, Tanks & Artillery of the Ukraine War is a detailed guide to all the weaponry currently... -
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March... -
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: The rise and fall of Fascism in Italy c1911-46 Sarah Ward 9781471876523
Booksplease Price: $24.15Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.51Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of... -
Family Cars of the 1970s by James Taylor
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.57The 1970s was a critical decade for the British motor industry. A downward spiral in industrial relations led to crippling strikes, two major oil crises made thirsty older designs virtually... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. ... -
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser 9780141990316
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar 'Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history,... -
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.91In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic... -
Illustrated Tales of Cornwall by John Husband 9781398113275
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.13Cornwall's landscape is intertwined with the county's folklore and legends. In Illustrated Tales of Cornwall, author John Husband explores a multitude of mysterious happenings, haunted places and... -
Gunn: The Origins of the Clan Gunn and Their Place in History by Harry Conroy 9781852170943
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852170943Author Harry ConroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.57A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate... -
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne 9780007548149
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. ... -
The Apocryphal Gospels Simon Gathercole 9780241340554
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryphal' gospels, alternative versions of the story of... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.73In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras,... -
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. '- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Harald Sigurdsson burst into... -
Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43 by Chris McNab
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43. As the Axis invasion of the... -
Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Brian Lane
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $16.04'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a... -
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The... -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes... -
A People's History of Football Mickael Correia 9780745346861
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.74'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling...