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The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking by Hanneke Grootenboer 9780226829449
RRP: $39.00$37.83Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual... -
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe 9780142002544
RRP: $46.80$32.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002544Author Barry CunliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm... -
The Master of Measham Hall by Anna Abney
RRP: $17.53$13.03Alethea Hawthorne will not allow Measham Hall to fall into the hands of lesser men... 1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the English Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land... -
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
RRP: $19.48$13.65How an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoIn 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous... -
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
RRP: $21.43$14.63Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the... -
Berwick Upon Tweed: History & Guide by Jim Walker 9780752422626
RRP: $48.75$36.15A history of Berwick upon TweedBook InformationISBN 9780752422626Author Jim WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 172mm * 10mm -
A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals by Brandon, Ed 9781399008730
RRP: $33.13$23.95From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial... -
The Arab of the Future: Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf
RRP: $38.98$26.93VOLUME 1 IN THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CHILDHOODThe Arab of the Future tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of three dictators - Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father.A GUARDIAN BOOK... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
$43.33Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical... -
The Wisdom of the Native Americans by Kent Nerburn 9781577310792
RRP: $29.23$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577310792Author Kent NerburnFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Essential SQA Exam Practice: Higher History Questions and Papers: From the publisher of How to Pass Hodder Gibson 9781510471795
RRP: $19.48$18.90Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryPractice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher History exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and the most popular topics, plus two... -
A Falklands Family at War: Diaries of the 1982 Conflict Neville Bennett 9781399010276
RRP: $33.13$23.95Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the... -
A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva 9781780766157
RRP: $29.23$27.85Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct... -
Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade by Zoe Oldenbourg
RRP: $33.13$22.50A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $33.13$22.58The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and... -
The Crystal Palace by Patrick Beaver 9781860771989
RRP: $39.00$30.11The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the treasures of the world for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It became a microcosm of Victorian life, industry and leisure, reflecting every aspect of its age. Designed by Joseph Paxton as a temporary... -
Inspector Morse on Location: The Companion to the Original and Bestselling Guide to the Oxford of Inspector Morse Including Lewis Fully Illustrated with Location Maps by Antony Richards 9781901091304
RRP: $17.53$14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091304Author Antony RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
Gunshots & Goalposts: The Story of Northern Irish Football by Benjamin Roberts 9781905575114
RRP: $19.48$12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905575114Author Benjamin RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Avenue BooksPublisher Avenue Books -
First World War For Dummies Sean Lang 9781118679999
RRP: $40.93$27.81From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a global perspective of this global conflict, proving insight into the... -
Railway Guns of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$17.92World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the introduction of a number of new classes,... -
This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC Charlotte Higgins (Arts Correspondent) 9781783350728
RRP: $25.33$16.89A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its origins to the present day.'The book could scarcely be better or better timed. It is elegantly written, closely argued, balanced, pulls no punches.' MELVYN BRAGG, GUARDIANCharlotte... -
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut James Hanning 9781472155955
RRP: $48.75$32.72'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William BoydLove & Deception is the extraordinary story of how Eleanor, an able, cultured American living in the... -
Boulton Paul Defiant: An Illustrated History by Alec Brew
RRP: $33.13$22.37Fighting over the beaches of Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain, guarding the night skies during the perilous months of the Blitz, pioneering electronic countermeasures, and serving air-sea rescue roles all around our coasts, the Boulton Paul Defiant... -
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents Dominic Selwood 9781472131898
RRP: $58.50$39.78From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled... -
Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: A Biographical and Genealogical Guide, 1816-1922 by Jim Herlihy 9781846826269
RRP: $48.65$48.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826269Author Jim HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600-1100 BC Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781849081955
RRP: $29.23$21.35More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decorated artefacts of the entombed warriors, whose bodies still lay in their graves, confirmed that Homer's epic... -
Arctic Convoys 1942: The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline by Mark Lardas
RRP: $29.23$21.35A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter. Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of... -
Among the Kings: The Unknown Warrior, an Untold Story by Mark Scott
RRP: $23.38$21.35"Known Unto God" It was the war to end all wars and became one of the bloodiest and cruellest conflicts in history. Into the hands of author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those nightmare years - a notebook carried through the trenches by... -
Origins of the Sphinx: Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization by Robert M. Schoch 9781620555255
RRP: $37.03$24.51In this provocative collaboration from two Egyptology outsiders, Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., and Robert Bauval combine their decades of research to show how the Sphinx is thousands of years older than the conventional Egyptological timeline and was built by... -
Last Children Of The Raj, Volume 2 (1939-1950): British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming
RRP: $29.25$18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660218Author Mark TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 30mm -
Fallschirmjager: German Paratroopers - 1942-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Francois Cochet
RRP: $29.23$21.35As elite troops, the German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) were regularly engaged in front line combat during the Second World War. Their famed actions such as the fighting in Scandinavia, the taking of the Belgian fortress Eden-Emal in May 1940, and the... -
Belgian Waffen-SS Legions & Brigades, 1941-1944: Wallonie, Wallonien, Flandern & Langemarck by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $23.38$16.63From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: $62.38$54.07American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America", an era that-according to prevailing accounts-laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, the acclaimed historian Pekka... -
Guderian 1941: The Barbarossa Campaign by David R. Higgins 9781526762122
RRP: $48.75$34.36During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group played a leading role, cutting through the defences on the border, then taking part in the massive encirclement... -
With the Peasants of Aragon by Augustin Souchy 9780995660908
RRP: $17.55$13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660908Author Augustin SouchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Theory and PracticePublisher Theory and Practice -
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC-AD 450 Patricia Southern 9781445611907
RRP: $37.03$24.78For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north-western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Though it was small, it was not insignificant. There were more Roman soldiers in Britain than there were in the provinces of... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: $48.75$31.45'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 by John Foot
RRP: $33.13$23.95'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Journey by Caroline Alexander 9780375404030
RRP: $58.50$43.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375404030Author Caroline AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A... -
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray 9780803270763
RRP: $31.18$28.20"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it." -Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been...