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Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker
RRP: $29.23$20.36Over the years, the companies have deployed an arsenal of schemes in an attempt to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing ideas, poaching employees, planting spies, ripping off characters or launching price wars. Sometimes the feud has been... -
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict of Nursia
RRP: $58.40$47.64One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features of... -
Into the labyrinth: in search of Daidalos by Michael Wilson
RRP: $40.93$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528988148Author Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller 9780553384147
RRP: $38.98$27.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384147Author Aaron David MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
THE HAUNTING OF SHARON RECTORY: Our Truth, Our Horror And Heartbreak by Emma Louise Tully 9781527257733
$19.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527257733Author Emma Louise TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Emma Louise TullyPublisher Emma Louise Tully -
The Little Book of Cork Harbour by Kieran McCarthy 9780750988056
RRP: $29.23$24.86Cork Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is a historical wonder, surrounded by villages, forts, towers and churches, all of which combine to tell the colourful story of Ireland's largest county. A reliable reference book and a... -
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
RRP: $48.75$31.94A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose... -
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Colin G. Calloway 9781421410319
RRP: $48.75$42.96Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the... -
Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: $19.48$13.34Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle that was going on in the... -
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond 9780192806185
RRP: $82.86$82.35Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies... -
Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Rory Naismith
RRP: $50.68$46.08The workings of royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England can only be understood on the basis of direct engagement with original texts and material artefacts. This book, written by leading experts, brings together new research that... -
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Dayton Duncan 9780593537343
RRP: $78.00$53.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593537343Author Dayton DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 165mm... -
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky 9780452287471
RRP: $46.80$32.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287471Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame by Naoki Yamamoto
RRP: $58.50$45.42Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of... -
A-Z of Warwick: Places-People-History by S. C. Skillman 9781398115767
RRP: $31.18$21.16The county town of Warwick is famous for its magnificent castle rising above the River Avon but there is much more to this historic town. Although many medieval houses were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1694, buildings from an earlier age can still be... -
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India by Shailaja Paik
RRP: $48.73$42.26This book offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha-a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra-and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal... -
Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice by Ruth A. Morgan 9781350240124
$47.01Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have... -
Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton 9780520241794
RRP: $58.50$45.42Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it,... -
The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
RRP: $29.23$28.63This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which international diplomacy is deeply involved in solving the contested... -
The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830 by Jonathan I. Israel
$95.26The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level... -
Hitler's Collaborators: Choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe by Philip Morgan
RRP: $51.66$37.07Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored... -
The Bayeux British Cemetery by William Jordan
RRP: $11.70$8.85A poignant description of one of Europe's most well known war cemeteries. Based on interviews and personal experiences, this work includes images, including photographs by Corporal Eric Gunton of Number 32 Graves Registration Unit, who photographed the... -
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden 9780802144737
RRP: $29.23$25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144737Format PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis 9781478025016
RRP: $37.03$32.60In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and... -
Akhenaten: A Historian's View by Ronald T. Ridley 9789774167935
RRP: $97.48$78.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774167935Author Ronald T. RidleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo... -
Ghost Pets & Spirit Animals by Jill Armitage 9780752439976
RRP: $19.48$15.15Ghost enthusiasts and pet lovers can combine their passion in this unique publication which will make a most absorbing read for animal lovers and those interested in the paranormal.About the AuthorJill Armitage trained as a photojournalist and, as well... -
Blue Angels: The US Navy's Flight Demonstration Team, 1946 to the Present by Ken Neubeck 9780764356582
RRP: $44.83$30.52A thorough photographic history of the US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team. Since 1946, the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team has performed in airshows in the United States and around the world. This book details... -
The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Experience, Identity, Representation Sue Brunning 9781783274062
RRP: $136.50$130.86A wide-ranging study of the significance of swords throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon period, offering valuable insights into the meaning of and attitude towards swords. Swords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were... -
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917 1948 by Hillel Cohen 9780520259898
RRP: $58.50$45.42Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a hidden history in this extraordinary and beautifully written book - a history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully... -
The Latvians: A Short History by Andrejs Plakans
RRP: $48.65$45.16This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: Civil Rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945 Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471841316
$64.33A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging... -
France 1940: Defending the Republic by Philip G. Nord
RRP: $38.98$33.09A new perspective on the calamitous fall of France in 1940 and why blame has been misplaced ever since In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been... -
Grown-up Pose by Sonya Lalli
RRP: $25.33$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451490964Author Sonya LalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship by Max Lane 9789814914178
$29.95A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya's books In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in... -
Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine by Brent D. Shaw
RRP: $74.08$69.09One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of... -
In Which They Served: The stories of five men and women of the Great War as told by their medals by Richard Cullen
RRP: $48.75$33.74There are many books about Great War heroes. Relatively few are written about survivors and even fewer detail their whole lives or the wider context of their service. In this approach to the Great War, Richard Cullen takes the reader through history, led... -
Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens by James Robson
RRP: $58.48$54.60This book offers a broad look at the sex lives and sexual beliefs of ancient Athenians 479-323 BCE. Within each of the five chapters James Robson focuses on a key area of the sexual life of the Athenians - Marriage, Same-Sex Relationships, Prostitution,... -
Penarth and Sully by Geoffrey A. North 9780752406138
RRP: $25.33$19.25Penarth was an agricultural community but the Industrial Revolution brought a great change. The town owes its early development to the success of the South Wales coalfields and the necessity for additional port facilities to accommodate the industry that... -
Creed of a Fascist Revolutionary & Why I Left Mosley by A. K. Chesterton 9780993288500
RRP: $13.65$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993288500Author A. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint The A. K. Chesterton TrustPublisher The A. K. Chesterton Trust -
The Reading Quiz Book by Adam Sowan 9781901677768
RRP: $17.53$12.56Local historian Adam Sowan has explored the town of Reading has to offer, and presents here a challenging set of questions to stimulate the reader's curiosity and develop a deeper acquaintance with this much-maligned town.Book InformationISBN...