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The Oxford History of the Reformation by Peter Marshall 9780192895264
RRP: $19.34$14.13'a vital resource' TLS 'Compelling collection' Literary Review The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world. Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of... -
The French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Peter McPhee 9780199244140
RRP: $39.33$37.36This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates... -
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $14.18$10.02Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.About... -
Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge by Margaret Willson
RRP: $28.37$20.85Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thuridur Einarsdottir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863. "Wait,"... -
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
RRP: $32.25$24.02A sumptuous treasury of original fairytales from the brothers Grimm, introduced by award-winning author Cornelia Funke and with full colour illustrations by artists Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Helen Oxenbury and Emma... -
A Short History Of China by Gordon Kerr 9781842439685
RRP: $16.76$11.73The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known in the west. From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship with the 'Great... -
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World Richard Evans 9781032177601
RRP: $51.59$45.23Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities.The chronological... -
Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond by Alvin Jackson
RRP: $37.35$32.86Receiving widespread critical acclaim when first published, Ireland 1798-1998 has been revised to include coverage of the most recent developments. Jackson's stylish and impartial interpretation continues to provide the most up-to-date and important... -
Cartography: The Ideal and Its History by Matthew H Edney 9780226605685
RRP: $33.54$32.06Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has... -
War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence by Kevin Mitchell
RRP: $16.76$11.7325th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, unforgiving combat both in the ring and outside it. Ostensibly, they were fighting for a world title and... -
Mappa Mundi: Hereford's Curious Map by Sarah Arrowsmith
RRP: $12.90$10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663919Author Sarah ArrowsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$15.58From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a "vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography" (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of... -
Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides by Christian G. Appy
RRP: $28.38$20.67In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky... -
Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia by Frederick Courteney Selous 9781644396186
RRP: $30.90$26.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644396186Author Frederick Courteney SelousFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing... -
Bethnal Green: Images of London by Gary Haines
RRP: $20.63$15.80Gary Haines, East Ender, historian, once volunteer with Tower Hamlets Archives and now Archivist of the Whitechapel Gallery, has compiled this fascinating collection of over 200 archive photographs looking at the changes that have taken place in Bethnal... -
Ayrshire's Lost Villages Dane Love 9781911043027
RRP: $19.35$16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043027Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
Best. State. Ever. by Dave Barry
RRP: $21.92$15.23A New York Times bestseller-a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every... -
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Philip Hardie
RRP: $54.18$42.62A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and... -
The Lost Executioner by Nic Dunlop 9781408804018
RRP: $19.34$15.16Between 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two million people were killed. As head of the Khmer Rouge's secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for... -
Westhoughton by Ken Beevers
RRP: $16.76$12.41This compilation of over 200 archive photographs of Westhoughton illustrated the changes that have taken place in this part of Lancashire during the twentieth century, and the changing fortunes of a town that once relied heavily on the textile and coal... -
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath 9780062405371
RRP: $24.50$18.46Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog... -
Tewkesbury 1471: The Lasy Yorkist Victory by Christopher Gravett
$16.98Following their victory at Towton in 1461, The House of York continued to triumph. By 1470, however, relations between Edward and his lieutenant, Eari of Warwick, had broken down and Warwick had joined the Lancastrian cause. On 14 April 1471 at Barnet,... -
Haunted Poole by Julie Harwood 9780752445038
RRP: $16.76$12.41From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection of stories contains new and well-known spooky tales from in and around Poole. Drawing on... -
Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal, and Unexplained by R.C. Bramhall 9781493075768
RRP: $23.21$17.60Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all... -
Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963
RRP: $11.60$8.32"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with... -
Littlehampton Revisited by Rolf Zeegers
RRP: $16.76$12.41Illustrated with over 200 captivating photographs, Littlehampton Revisited takes the reader on a nostalgic journey through the seaside resort.Featured are street scenes and coastal pictures, all depicting Littlehampton and its people through the ages.The... -
Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: $21.92$18.19This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys... -
A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997 Steve Tsang (Oxford University, UK.) 9781350137769
RRP: $28.37$23.87This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium... -
Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s by James Brooke-Smith
RRP: $25.80$19.40The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a... -
Tyne + Weird II by Rob Kilburn
RRP: $16.76$12.41'Stories like this tend to have a life of their own...'From privateers to monkey murderers, kleptomaniacs to automatons and giant bugs to fart lamps - it's time to gather round the fire once again for more tales of North East madness. In this second... -
Old South Uist: with Eriskay and Benbecula by Bill Innes 9781840333817
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333817Author Bill InnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 158gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940 by John Kiszely 9781316646427
RRP: $47.72$41.47The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons... -
Early Christian Ireland by T. M. Charles-Edwards
RRP: $49.01$45.70This book provides a fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, from St Patrick to the Vikings - the earliest period for which historical records are available. It opens with the Irish raids and... -
The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History by Andrew Rose
RRP: $12.89$8.77The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Half a century before Dodi and Diana, another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy Egyptian "prince." Prince Edward was the future King of... -
The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Eric Paul Roorda
RRP: $30.95$27.40From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader... -
Dover Castle: England's First Line of Defence by Roy S. Humphreys
RRP: $19.34$14.90The towering fortress of Dover Castle has stood as the gateway to England for many centuries, an imposing and, to an enemy at least, threatening sight. But on the high white cliffs and overlooking the Channel, from where it was intended to protect the... -
Little Book of London Style: The fashion story of the iconic city by Karen Homer
RRP: $16.76$10.17An inspiration to countless designers and the stomping ground of fashion's in-crowd, London is the capital of subculture.From Mary Quant to Alexander McQueen, from punks to goths, and from Twiggy to Naomi Campbell, Little Book of London Style is the... -
Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People by Joanna Bourke 9780192846631
RRP: $51.59$44.16Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it... -
Halifax Revisited by Vera Chapman
RRP: $19.34$14.90This thoughtfully compiled collection of over 200 archive postcards and images illustrates the history of Halifax from around the mid-eighteenth century.The district is characterised by steep slopes and deep valleys, sett-paved streets and nearby... -
Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn by Barbara Duden 9780674212671
RRP: $24.45$19.83In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced "quickening"-she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience once...