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Fips Legendary U-boat Commander by Geoffrey Brooks 9780850526943
RRP: $33.05$24.28Weuner Furbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading... -
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages by Jennifer C. Ward 9780582059658
RRP: $93.58$89.66This vivid and pioneering study illuminates the different roles played in late medieval society by noblewomen - the most substantial group of women to survive as individuals in medieval documents. They emerge (despite limited political opportunities) as... -
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Frederic Wehrey
RRP: $23.38$23.01The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic... -
The Religious History of Wales: Religious Life and Practice in Wales from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day by Richard C. Allen 9781860570797
RRP: $48.73$39.57An essential reference guide, this volume draws together an impressive collection of academics and religious practitioners to map out for the first time the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales. For the first fifteen hundred years or so of its... -
The Romans in 100 Facts by Jem Duducu
RRP: $17.53$12.13The Roman Empire is one of the most famous civilisations in history, and with good cause. Over a period spanning nearly 1,000 years, the Romans came, saw and conquered land after land. This book looks at Roman history from the foundation to collapse of... -
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History by Fellow Orlando Figes
RRP: $46.78$27.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250062628Author Fellow Orlando FigesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm... -
A History of Western Thought by Stephen Trombley
RRP: $29.25$21.70Stephen Trombley's A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes... -
Making a New Land: Enviromental Histories of New Zealand by Eric Pawson 9781877578526
RRP: $38.90$32.76Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of... -
Britain and Europe: A Short History by Jeremy Black
RRP: $38.98$34.75Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic... -
Gout: The Partrician Malady by Roy Porter 9780300082746
$51.56Gout 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
$158.30Life 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: $72.15$63.51Medieval 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: $117.00$83.44Distilling 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: $31.10$30.65Apologies 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
$12.69Benjamin 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
$81.18The 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: $52.63$45.71Greek '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: $58.48$52.05"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: $48.75$40.79Apologies 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: $23.30$21.29Apologies 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: $48.65$46.33Remains 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: $38.98$34.20We 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: $25.33$18.21A 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: $38.98$31.20'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: $74.08$65.09Though 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: $107.23$93.83WALLFLOWERS 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: $117.00$107.37In 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: $61.43$57.29This 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: $54.60$53.00A 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: $62.38$55.24Originally 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: $42.88$38.01Although 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: $29.23$22.85A 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: $29.23$21.88Human 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: $95.55$76.58In 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: $56.53$49.71This 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: $44.83$41.07This 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: $46.78$40.64The 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: $58.50$56.28Apologies 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: $37.03$33.81Leave 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: $33.13$23.56You 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...