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Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445678672
$31.57If you think that the English language stays still, carved in tablets of stone, think again. English is constantly on the move, enhancing its scope by gratefully accepting words from other languages. It tolerates changes to meanings, often with hilarious... -
Edward Elgar and His World by Professor Byron Adams 9780691134468
RRP: $62.40$49.84Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and... -
Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province by John Creighton 9780415487146
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome's ceremonial... -
Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir by Larry Gwin 9780804119221
RRP: $13.63$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119221Author Larry GwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 171mm... -
The Private Life of Edward IV by John Ashdown-Hill
$40.97From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was repeatedly called into question. This alarmed Elizabeth Widville and led her into political killings. She was... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham 9781250070050
RRP: $52.65$34.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070050Author Paul HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 28mm -
The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment by Charly Coleman
RRP: $54.58$47.07How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic... -
The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London Anthony Wohl 9780765808707
RRP: $85.78$76.32The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite... -
Not a Guide to: Torbay by Anthony Poulton-Smith 9780752468822
RRP: $11.68$10.30Did you know? Torbay, 'The English Riviera' boasts 22 miles of coastline, with 20 beaches and coves. The famous Torbay palm is in fact a cabbage tree (cordyline australis) from New Zealand. The Torbay Picture House was Europe's oldest cinema. Seat 2, Row... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: $38.98$34.73In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War by Angelina Chin
RRP: $58.50$45.42The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In this telling, migrants thrived under British colonial rule, transforming Hong Kong into a... -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: $42.88$38.01From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson 9781442252165
RRP: $68.25$61.13The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What... -
Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot by Marv Truhe 9781641607841
RRP: $58.48$37.46Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam. The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and... -
Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security by Matthew Dallek
RRP: $48.73$42.55As the bombs fell on Guernica, the Blitz terrorized Britons, and atrocities were reported from Nanking-even before Pearl Harbor--Americans watched and worried about attacks on their homeland. In 1941, US mayors urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to... -
Burton Upon Trent Tales of the Town by Geoffrey Sowerby 9780752410975
RRP: $25.33$19.25Burton Upon Trent Tales of the TownBook InformationISBN 9780752410975Author Geoffrey SowerbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
The Oxford Handbook of World War II by G. Kurt Piehler
$210.80World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the... -
Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World: Being "Much Afflicted with Conscience" by Margaret Manchester
RRP: $77.98$68.89Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the "Great Migration" through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.Through studying the Verin... -
Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia by Jennifer Siegel
$117.31By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the 'Great Game' - with rapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the... -
The Spirit of District Six by Cloete Breytenbach 9781485303060
RRP: $37.03$30.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485303060Author Cloete BreytenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 445g -
Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe by Mustafa Haikal 9780271082165
RRP: $48.65$42.88In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories... -
A Global History of Medicine by Mark Jackson 9780198803188
RRP: $36.06$34.07In recent decades, there has been considerable interest in writing histories of medicine that capture local, regional, and global dimensions of health and health care in the same frame. Exploring changing patterns of disease and different systems of... -
Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920–1995 by Stephen Snelders
RRP: $48.75$34.94Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This book investigates the histories of smugglers and criminal entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who... -
The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film by Cecilia Mello
RRP: $50.68$44.09Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censorship in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country's leading film director internationally. Seen... -
Images of the Past: A Century of Man-Made Disasters by Nigel Blundell 9781526748683
$36.91This book is a catalogue of disaster - literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century. It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialisation changed the planet, an... -
The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways by Leonard H. Lesko
RRP: $66.30$60.20This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation by Tariq Ali 9781608461493
RRP: $33.13$19.64In working together on two challenging new documentaries - South of the Border and the forthcoming Untold History of the United States - Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a hard-hitting conversation on the... -
Single 25: Lockheed F-104G Starfighter by Dariusz Karnas
RRP: $17.55$15.09This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter. Scale plans in 1/72 scale plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also included are photos of the details in B&W... -
Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420213
RRP: $29.15$21.65In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to... -
A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire by Kevin Turton 9780752456782
RRP: $35.08$26.99A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire is a collection of stories from the county's past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre, but all equally absorbing. Revealed here are the dark corners of the county, where witches, body snatchers, highwaymen and... -
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
$25.43Cornelius Ryan tells the story of the hours that preceded and followed H-Hour of D-Day ? June 6, 1944, when as dawn approached, as paratroopers fought in the hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known assembled off the beach --... -
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $35.10$19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578751Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 316g -
The Acropolis (English language edition): Through its Museum by Panos Valavanis
RRP: $35.10$29.80This is not simply a guidebook to the Acropolis Museum: by presenting the works of art exhibited in the museum, it endeavours to resynthesize the history of the Sacred Rock as part of the cultural and the wider historical process of Athens. Following the... -
History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland by Elizabeth Boyle 9780367684297
RRP: $77.98$68.37History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland explores medieval Irish conceptions of salvation history, using Latin and vernacular sources from c. 700-c. 1200 CE which adapt biblical history for audiences both secular and ecclesiastical. This book examines... -
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America by Olivier Burtin
RRP: $87.75$75.80A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world's most generous system of veterans' benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political... -
Ann Lowe: American Couturier by Elizabeth Way 9780847873142
RRP: $82.88$62.42The definitive illustrated volume on the work and life of Ann Lowe, a consummate couturier who designed lavish evening and bridal gowns for members of America s social registry, a Black woman working hard behind the scenes whose important legacy has... -
Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 by Gavin Daly
RRP: $146.25$132.87During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards... -
Front-line Suffolk by Michael Foley
RRP: $29.23$22.85Suffolk's coastline faces east, and through most of its history has therefore been one of the areas of this country that has been at risk from invasion during times of conflict. This title delves into history of military Suffolk, from Saxon shore forts... -
Complete Visual Encyclopedia of Naval Aircraft of World Wars I and Ii Crosby Francis 9780754830566
RRP: $15.58$11.66This title features a directory of over 70 aircraft with 330 identification photographs. It includes Shipborne fighters, bombers, flying boats and naval planes, including the Curtiss Helldiver, Mitsubishi Zero-Sen, Supermarine Seafire, Fairey Swordfish,... -
Dassault Mirage F1s by Salvador Mafe Huertas 9788366148819
RRP: $39.98$34.46The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical...