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History Find it! Explore it!: More than 250 things to find, facts and photos! (National Geographic Kids) by National Geographic Kids
RRP: $9.02$6.19Travel back in time with this fun search and find fact book from National Geographic Kids. Find it! Search the busy illustrated scenes to find more than 250 objects, animals and people. From the Iron Age to Ancient Egypt, The Vikings to... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes
RRP: $14.18$10.02A complete guide to the British Way of Life. If you're British, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll recognise it._______Born in Hungary, George Mikes spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign... -
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Professor Peter Frankopan
RRP: $38.70$26.02THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND FINANCIAL TIMES A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $16.76$11.73WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their... -
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer 9781472134578
RRP: $16.76$9.69Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special... -
Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland by David Barnes
RRP: $16.76$11.04Featuring the thoughts of more than 180 players who have represented Scotland since the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of playing for Scotland in... -
D-Day in Photographs by Andrew Whitmarsh 9780752474793
RRP: $25.80$19.40The Allied landings in France on 6 June 1944 were a turning point in world history. This book is a compilation of 200 images relating to all aspects of D-Day and the Normandy landings, beginning with the years of planning and preparations, all conducted... -
History: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
RRP: $51.60$39.72This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavour from every angle, History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas,... -
Testament by Wilbur Smith 9781838776350
RRP: $28.38$18.98An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith.FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPTYears of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two kingdoms have now been... -
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020 by Iain Dale
RRP: $19.34$12.64**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian**A Times Political Book of the Year'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters and stories of prime ministers past.' - New... -
British Pacific Fleet 1944–45: The Royal Navy in the downfall of Japan by Brian Lane Herder 9781472856777
RRP: $20.63$14.98An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War. The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy's primary contribution to the direct defeat of Japan in... -
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
RRP: $14.18$10.02Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart... -
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: $11.60$8.98A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780199535668
RRP: $14.18$10.54Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the... -
First Magic Painting Garden by Abigail Wheatley 9781474990721
RRP: $9.02$5.46Filled with simple, stylish images of popular garden flowers, bugs and other wildlife. Just brush water over the bold black and white designs to watch them burst into vibrant colour.Simply add water to bring the garden plants and creatures magically to... -
The GAA and the War of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $12.89$9.17Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. In 1914, the Irish... -
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge 9781471196430
RRP: $16.76$11.07'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast... -
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
RRP: $16.76$11.04Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launched terrorist attacks against his country. Driven by... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $10.31$7.47'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia 9780745643847
RRP: $16.76$11.09This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: $19.34$14.13The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $21.92$16.98The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche 9780865476752
RRP: $24.51$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476752Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms by Lynne Boddy 9780241612965
RRP: $32.25$21.25Discover the fascinating stories behind some 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavour in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look: in a forest, under the... -
Return of a King by William Dalrymple
RRP: $16.76$11.33SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily Telegraph A towering history of the first Afghan... -
Nottingham in the 1960s & 70s: Britain in Old Photographs by Douglas Whitworth 9780752448879
RRP: $20.63$15.80In the 1960s the citizens of Nottingham saw the greatest change in the city in the twentieth century. In the previous decade, the city planners envisaged a dual carriageway which would encircle the centre of Nottingham and they began by building a new... -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
RRP: $19.34$12.64BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.'An outstanding journalist and chronicler.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Fused with... -
The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
RRP: $12.89$9.29THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIANAs a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an... -
Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future by Phyllida Scrivens 9781473843646
RRP: $32.25$23.25Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Gunter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened hisfamily, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July... -
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
RRP: $14.18$10.02Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' Caroline Criado-Perez Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: $14.18$9.44"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' - Rob Delaney by Vincent Bevins 9781035412273
RRP: $32.25$18.91This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn is to say that it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world. - ROB DELANEY Bevins's clear-eyed,... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman 9780062859020
RRP: $21.92$14.80The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34: Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians by Athina Mitropoulos
RRP: $19.34$17.47This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group: Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and... -
The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
RRP: $12.89$7.69Raj is oblivious to the Second World War being fought beyond his tiny exotic island. His mother is his sole company while his father works as a prison guard, so the boy thinks only of making friends. One day, from the far-away world, a ship brings to... -
The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9781107602304
RRP: $43.85$39.04Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban... -
Nuclear War In The UK by Taras Young 9781909829169
$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829169Author Taras YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 160mm * 14mm -
Norfolk Folk Tales by Hugh Lupton 9780752479422
RRP: $16.76$12.41Norfolk is steeped in story. Whether we are treading fields, fens, beaches or streets, the landscape is pregnant with secret histories. The collective imagination of countless generations has populated the county with ghosts, saints, witches, pharisees,... -
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
RRP: $14.18$9.69In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.The... -
Progress with Oxford: Shapes and Measuring Age 4-5 by Sarah Snashall 9780192780744
$5.43This Progress with Oxford: Shapes and Measuring Age 4-5 workbook will help your child to progress with shape and measuring while having fun so they will quickly learn the names of 2D shapes and their features, using mathematical language. They will also...