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Pacific Profiles Volume 10: Allied Fighters: P-47d Thunderbolt Series Southwest Pacific 1943-1945 by Michael Claringbould 9780645700404
RRP: $58.40$40.79The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a... -
No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women within Catholicism by Debra Maria Flint 9781590567227
RRP: $37.03$26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567227Author Debra Maria FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas
RRP: $39.00$31.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299397Author Chantal ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Heresy and Inquisition in France, 1200-1300 by Rosemary Horrox
RRP: $48.75$35.72Heresy and inquisition in France, 1200-1300 is an invaluable collection of primary sources in translation, aimed at students and academics alike. It provides a wide array of materials on both heresy (Cathars and Waldensians) and the persecution of heresy... -
The Jungle War Against the Japanese: Ensanguined Asia, 1941-1945 by Tim Heath
RRP: $38.98$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526759863Author Tim HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Monologion and Proslogion: with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Saint Anselm
RRP: $25.33$23.32Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana UniversityAbout the AuthorThomas Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious... -
O-umajirushi: A 17th-Century Compendium of Samurai Heraldry by Xavid "kihō" Pretzer 9780692377406
RRP: $48.75$35.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692377406Author Xavid "kihō" PretzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Xavid PretzerPublisher Xavid PretzerWeight(grams) 626g -
A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres 9780500516348
RRP: $68.25$44.52Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a... -
German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann by Ursula Hartman
RRP: $107.23$70.61Here is the life story of the most successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air combat victories - who spent ten and a half years behind Soviet barbed wire, surviving prison uprisings, hunger strikes, resistance against the NKVD and forced labor... -
Old English Lives of Saints, Volume III by Aelfric
RRP: $58.40$49.43Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late... -
Histories by Herodotus
$31.53David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the... -
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures by Lionel Robbins
RRP: $87.75$70.20Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published. Lord Robbins... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364323
RRP: $39.00$23.50From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and well being. Yet most of us live... -
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life by Farah Al-Nakib 9780804798525
RRP: $42.88$38.01As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed... -
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web by David Weinberger
$35.28In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming... -
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
RRP: $40.93$24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180088Author Richard 9hompson FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War by Kyle J. Anderson
RRP: $87.75$75.80During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work handling military logistics in Europe and the Middle East. British authorities... -
Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad by John Hudson
RRP: $19.48$15.15By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy inflicted deaths on the home front, when German warships bombarded three north-east coastal towns;... -
The Woman Writer: The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists by Sylvia Kent 9780752451596
RRP: $29.23$22.85Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. From its early days when at least 200 women applied to join, the... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: $26.81$24.32Apologies 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 *... -
The German Army at Ypres 1914 by Sheldon, Jack 9781399014526
RRP: $33.13$23.95This book will be the first complete account of the operations of the German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914/. The main emphasis will be placed on the battles around Ypres against the Old Contemptibles of the BEF, but the... -
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America by Sam Roberts
RRP: $29.23$21.90In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the one hundred year old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks... -
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century by Chris Wickham 9780691181141
RRP: $42.90$34.38A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy... -
Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: A Theological Perspective by Don Matzat
RRP: $21.43$14.55Don Matzat here provides a new perspective on the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the infamous Henry VIII. While most biographers suggest that Katherine chose to marry the obese, irascible monarch in order to further some reformation... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: $54.60$48.61Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a... -
Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers by Christopher R. Browning 9780521774901
RRP: $38.98$33.40Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers focuses on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population... -
Fifty Key Thinkers on History by Marnie Hughes-Warrington 9780415703598
RRP: $72.13$63.43Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome,... -
The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method by Marc Trachtenberg 9780691125695
RRP: $68.25$54.50This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history... -
Rebels in Government: Is Sinn Fein Ready for Power? by Agnes Maillot
RRP: $29.23$21.68The February 2020 general election in the Republic of Ireland sent shockwaves through the country's political system. Sinn Fein, ahead of all other parties in terms of first preference votes, secured its place as a potential coalition partner, a role it... -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC by J. G. Manning
RRP: $68.25$62.36The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs... -
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Scott Gac (Trinity College, Connecticut) 9781316511886
RRP: $48.75$35.14Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: $29.23$20.42In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
Cocaine Dominic Streatfeild 9780753506271
RRP: $35.08$25.64Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. All because of a small, unremarkable-looking shrub... -
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman
RRP: $58.50$42.90*AWARD WINNER* of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author / and the NCBR Recognition AwardA gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers-famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature,... -
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
RRP: $42.88$28.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476718965Author John Ralston SaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Ilfracombe by Sue Pullen 9780752425382
RRP: $29.23$22.85From it's scenic vantage point on the North Devon coast, the seaside town of Ilfracombe has seen many changes in its long history. In this unique selection of 220 old images from the archives of the Ilfracombe Museum, many of which are previously... -
JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick by Francis Richard Conolly
RRP: $54.50$36.31JFK to 911 is already a global phenomenon, having began as a Youtube video which achieved over a billion hits by becoming the first documentary in human history to untangle all the establishment lies and reveal the entire truth about the Kennedy... -
The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Toward a Theory of Maqasid al-Aqida by Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour 9780197648636
RRP: $136.50$115.99In 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... -
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508
RRP: $48.75$37.93What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... -
Privacy: A Short History David Vincent (The Open University) 9780745671130
RRP: $33.13$30.15Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept...