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Gout: The Partrician Malady by Roy Porter 9780300082746
£26.44Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici,... -
Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology by J. Rasmus Brandt 9781785703591
£81.18Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC - AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape... -
Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders by Elizabeth Eva Leach 9781501771873
RRP: £37.00£32.57Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music... -
Bede the Scholar by Peter Darby
RRP: £60.00£42.79Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world. Demonstrating the centrality of the Bible to his... -
Why Study the Middle Ages? by Kisha G. Tracy
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891974Author Kisha G. TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin 9781602391178
£6.51Benjamin Franklin's classic book is full of timeless, thought-provoking insights that are as valuable today as they were over two centuries ago. With more than 700 pithy proverbs, Franklin lays out the rules everyone should live by and offers advice on... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
£41.63The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
Hellenistic Epigrams: A Selection by Alexander Sens
RRP: £26.99£23.44Greek 'literary' epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand
RRP: £29.99£26.69"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers' assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the... -
Everything Worked Like Clockwork: The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942 by Roger Salmon
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070968Author Roger SalmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Old Banchory by David Jamieson 9781840330878
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330878Author David JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation by Elias Chacour
RRP: £19.99£17.54We Belong to the Land, the gripping autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elias Chacour, capture his life's work toward peace and reconciliation for Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize,... -
City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
RRP: £12.99£9.34A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book' Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly... -
A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures by Nick Bernards
RRP: £19.99£16.00'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the... -
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body by Colin Jones 9780415183413
RRP: £37.99£33.38Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £54.99£48.12WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume III by Geoffrey Killen 9781785704895
RRP: £60.00£55.06In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and... -
The Green Shirts and the Others by Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera 9781592110940
RRP: £31.50£29.38This book is a newly revised edition of Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera's classic work The Green Shirts and the Others published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970. This book is the standard work in English on the history of fascism in Romania and Hungary... -
The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains Michaela Hruba 9788024641447
RRP: £28.00£27.18A history of the lost art of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The development of mining towns in the Ore Mountain region of Bohemia during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was driven by the Saxon nobility who brought with them the culture of their... -
The Origins of Open Field Agriculture by Trevor Rowley
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1981, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture looks at the problems connected with open field agriculture - the origins of strip cultivation, the three-field system, the adaptation of 'Celtic' fields, and the development of... -
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin
RRP: £21.99£19.49Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban... -
Edwardian Devon 1900-1914: Before the Lights Went Out by David Parker
RRP: £14.99£11.72A century ago, Britain was locked in a devastating worldwide conflict that would change every aspect of society. This book explores life in Devon between 1900 and 1914, offering a revealing glimpse of a world now long-vanished before war broke out. Devon... -
The Glorious Art of Peace: Paths to Peace in a New Age of War by John Gittings
RRP: £14.99£11.22Human progress and prosperity depend on a peaceful environment, and most people have always sought to live in peace, yet our perception of the past is dominated too often not by stories of peace but by tales of war. In this path-breaking study, former... -
Herodotus and the Question Why by Christopher Pelling
RRP: £49.00£39.27In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive... -
The Welsh in their History Gwyn A. Williams 9781032274591
RRP: £28.99£25.49This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a... -
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics by A. Dirk Moses
RRP: £22.99£21.06This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also... -
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 by Hannah Barker
RRP: £23.99£20.84The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not... -
The First March of Gentlemen by Rafal Milach
RRP: £30.00£28.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910401170Author Rafal MilachFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint GOST BooksPublisher GOST BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 127mm * 15mm -
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
RRP: £18.99£17.34Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We... -
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings Linda Rodriguez McRobbie 9781683690252
RRP: £16.99£12.08You think you know her story. You ve read the Brothers Grimm, you ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn t always get happy endings. Sure, plenty were graceful and... -
Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America by John Loughery
RRP: £25.99£22.49Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of... -
The Interesting Bits Justin Pollard 9781848541009
RRP: £10.99£7.50Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano... -
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between Ute Lotz-Heumann (University of Arizona, USA) 9780815373537
RRP: £39.99£35.33A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.By covering different areas of... -
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein 9780231139045
£62.67In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and... -
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714 by Kevin Sharpe
RRP: £47.50£41.24In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political,... -
The Life of Cicero: Lessons for Today from the Greatest Orator of the Roman Republic by Philip Kay-Bujak 9781399097413
£26.63Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as... -
Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources Niall Christie (Langara College, Canada) 9781138543119
RRP: £27.99£27.59Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity's wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382. Revised, expanded and... -
Mitsubishi Babs Vol. 2 by Giuseppe Picarella 9788367227162
RRP: £40.00£37.32Mitsubishi Babs Vol. II - The world's first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft completes the history of Japan's revolutionary high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft design. This second volume describes the Imperial Japanese Navy's flawed... -
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 by Martha Carlin
RRP: £31.00£27.97Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters...