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That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £35.00£28.35How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers... -
Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily by Rosemary Horrox 9780719082023
RRP: £25.00£22.03This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: £21.00£20.71Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands
RRP: £25.00£18.49By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as... -
The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 by Salim Tamari 9781566569255
RRP: £23.99£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569255Author Wasif JawhariyyehFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99£6.67'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times'Fascinating' ObserverThe humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's... -
Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
£16.76The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader by Michael Parenti 9780872864825
RRP: £24.99£22.46Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti's work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects. Here is a rich... -
Ink: The Mark Of Human Identity by Ted Bishop 9780143169574
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143169574Author Ted BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Little Girl's War Wendy Appleton 9781445606392
RRP: £9.99£7.21Wendy ran home through the streets of Bexleyheath with the air-raid siren wailing, her little gas mask box bumping against her hip. Just as she reached her front gate, a Spitfire spiralled out of the air and crashed into the school field at the end of... -
Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Matthew Dillon
RRP: £49.99£44.50In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the first lines of Greek literature to the death of... -
Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali: Containing his yoga aphorisms with Vyasa's commentary in Sanskrit and a translation with annotations including many suggestions for the practice of yoga by Swami Aranya Hariharananda 9780873957298
£39.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873957298Author Swami Aranya HariharanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536 by Matthew Stevens 9781786834843
RRP: £24.99£18.80This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes include the evolution of the agrarian economy; the foundation and growth of towns; the adoption of a money... -
A History of Irish Thought by Thomas Duddy 9780415206938
RRP: £35.99£32.09The first complete introduction to the subject ever published, A History of Irish Thought presents an inclusive survey of Irish thought and the history of Irish ideas against the backdrop of current political and social change in Ireland.Clearly written... -
The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present by Stephen Lovell
RRP: £28.95£25.07Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only... -
Jews, God And History: 2nd Edition by Max Isaac Dimont 9780451529404
RRP: £7.99£6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529404Author Max I. DimontFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 280g -
Landscape Detective: Discovering a Countryside by Richard Muir 9780953863020
RRP: £16.99£10.30The countryside is a gigantic puzzle which contains within it the keys to its own history. This book takes the reader through the process of landscape detection, by way of a journey through a fascinating landscape in the Yorkshire Dalc; The countryside... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 1, Politics and Diplomacy by Michael Broers
£110.84Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire. Leading historians from around the world come together to... -
Poole Park: The People's Park by Geoffrey Budworth
RRP: £12.99£9.87Constructed on 90 acres of land donated by Lord Wimborne for the express purpose of building a People's Park, Poole Park has catered for the town's residents through the decades with a variety of features, including a freshwater lake and duck pond,... -
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
RRP: £13.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *... -
A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan, 1969-1971 by Major General (Retd.) Khadim Hussain Raja 9780190704230
RRP: £10.99£10.18The 1971 East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military but also a collapse of civil society in the West Wing. The few voices raised against the military action were too feeble to make the army change its course, a course that lead to... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: £30.00£18.81A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: £16.99£11.71'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
Plymouth Colony by Lisa Brooks
RRP: £47.99£33.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536737Author Lisa BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 1300Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Edge of the World by Michael Powell 9780571153060
RRP: £16.99£11.58Describes the author's attempt to make a film about how the outer Isles of Scotland were being de-populated. The book reveals that the islanders plight was mirrored in the obstacles the film crew themselves had to overcome.Book InformationISBN... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles 9780349006086
RRP: £10.99£6.67'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women. She remains a heroine for those determined to... -
Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk by Thomas R. Wellock
RRP: £42.00£33.44Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts... -
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Philip Hardie
RRP: £42.00£33.30A 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 U.S. Constitution and Other Writings by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: £19.99£16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684120987Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressPage Count 544Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 841gDimensions(mm)... -
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by G.J.Barker- Benfield 9780226037141
RRP: £48.00£46.39G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of... -
Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £22.00£14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986204Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940 by Andrew Miles
RRP: £37.99£33.38Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social... -
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen 9780367734398
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of the subject and then presents fifteen essays that... -
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 9780807871973
£38.95This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what... -
The Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-3 Vol. II by Dariusz Paduch
RRP: £24.00£16.96The I-200 fighter project was a compromise between design office's capabilities, realities of the Soviet aviation industry, with its available technologies, and military requirements.According to the brief description of the MiG-3 from 1941, it was, in... -
Churchill'S Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War by Rupert Wieloch 9781612007533
£20.86Winner of the Britain at War Book of the Month Award for May 2019.Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners tells the previously suppressed story of fifteen British prisoners captured during the Russian civil war. The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 seriously... -
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: £12.99£8.87In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The... -
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa by Sebouh David Aslanian 9780520282179
RRP: £34.00£26.97Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based... -
The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present by Professor Robert Aldrich
RRP: £24.99£23.26The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new... -
African American History: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway
RRP: £8.99£8.24What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those...