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Lost Federations: The Unmade History of Star Trek by A. J. Black 9781915359117
RRP: £14.99£10.89SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early... -
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: £26.00£24.85China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
Roman Shields by M.C. Bishop
RRP: £14.99£11.75The introduction of the scutum in the 4th century BC revolutionized the way the Romans fought. Instead of being purely defensive, the shield became a weapon in its own right. Using the top edge or boss to punch an opponent, or the lower rim to smash down... -
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell by Prof Paul Bew 9780192873705
RRP: £25.00£21.19The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles
RRP: £5.99£4.11Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels.We begin with the... -
KJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £40.00£32.57This beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type,... -
Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Suleyman by Kaya Sahin 9780197531631
RRP: £24.49£20.78A full life and times biography of Suleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to... -
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
RRP: £10.99£8.65Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' Sunday Times'A... -
A Prince and a Spy: The gripping novel from the master of the wartime spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: £14.99£11.54In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.'A master of the wartime spy... -
The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Toward a Theory of Maqasid al-Aqida by Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour 9780197648636
RRP: £70.00£59.48In the Islamic tradition, fiqh (Islamic law) is generally regarded as the science of furu'al-din (matters complementary to the Islamic faith), as opposed to kalam (Islamic theology) which is known as the science of usul al-din (matters primary to the... -
Old York Paul Chrystal 9781840338508
RRP: £19.95£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338508Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm -
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead. Inferno is a searing account... -
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by Maurizio Isabella
RRP: £35.00£27.74An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the SouthAfter the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to... -
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Clements 9781529332421
RRP: £25.00£16.78'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A... -
Cruiser Birmingham: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Conrad Waters 9781526724977
RRP: £30.00£21.95The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the `as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99£9.80In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested,... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
RRP: £37.50£21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory 9780008601713
RRP: £14.99£13.16A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES ... -
To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman 9780374298340
RRP: £32.00£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298340Author Noah FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth 9780415118460
RRP: £37.99£33.38St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: £13.75£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997553307Author Dagnija NeimaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dagnija NeimanePublisher Dagnija NeimaneWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Prehistoric Lancashire by David Barrowclough 9780752447087
RRP: £25.00£18.94What was life like for the prehistoric inhabitants of Lancashire? This is the first book to look at the history of the county from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age period. What emerges is a picture of a complex society that changed and developed with the... -
UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44: The Most Bombed Place on Earth by S. A. M. Hudson
RRP: £14.99£11.95As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal... -
Battleship Warspite: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Robert Brown 9781526719379
RRP: £30.00£21.95The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam 9780691233765
RRP: £22.00£16.52A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new... -
Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands by Harold Briley
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Journalists are said to write the first rough drafts of history. But I was only the messenger.'When Argentine troops surged onto the shores of the Falkland Islands, it was Harold Briley who broke the news to Britain and the rest of the world. As the BBC... -
The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Europe 950-1250 Robert I. Moore (formerly University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK) 9781405129640
RRP: £27.95£24.25The tenth to the thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the Inquisition, the expropriation and mass murder of Jews, and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and... -
Changing Scarborough by Paul Chrystal 9781781552544
RRP: £14.99£11.55Scarborough has a rich and varied history extending from the Roman signal station and the marauding hordes of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson and Harald III of Norway through its revival under Henry II who built the Angevin stone castle and granted... -
Pastoral Care in Medieval England: Interdisciplinary Approaches Peter Clarke (University of Southampton, UK) 9781032091150
RRP: £39.99£35.06Pastoral Care, the religious mission of the Church to minister to the laity and care for their spiritual welfare, has been a subject of growing interest in medieval studies. This volume breaks new ground with its broad chronological scope (from the early... -
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880390Author Matthew DelmontFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 by John C. G. Rohl 9781107544192
RRP: £54.99£51.76This final volume of John Roehl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Kaiser's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with... -
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface by Ross E. Dunn 9780520272927
RRP: £30.00£23.29Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of... -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza 9781944700829
RRP: £17.00£11.68"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve." -Garrard Conley ... -
British Political History, 1867-2001: Democracy and Decline by Malcolm Pearce
RRP: £36.99£33.53This third edition of British Political History, 1867-2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years.Analyzing the changing nature of British society and Britain's role on the world stage, Malcolm... -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: £23.00£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy
RRP: £23.99£19.14In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings... -
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £15.99£14.79This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana... -
Cher Ami: Based on the World War I Legend of the Fearless Pigeon by Melisande Potter
RRP: £12.99£9.70In October 1918, during World War I, nearly seven hundred American soldiers were trapped behind enemy lines with no prospect of rescue. Allied troops did not have access to their location, and every attempt at communication provoked more casualties... -
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 by Matthew H Spring
£27.23The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis...