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![When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/62579/8668342/9780140276046__16709.1743278497.jpg?c=1 "When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques")
When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China... -
Colours of London: A History Peter Ackroyd 9780711269422
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come... -
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece by James Fraser
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.84An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 ... -
An Air That Kills: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 1 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth... -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.66The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.95AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams 9780008299897
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.37London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history,... -
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its... -
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by S. Frederick Starr 9780691165851
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.29In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of... -
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange 9780008225148
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for... -
When the Wheels Come Off: More Confessions of a 1970s & '80s Car Mechanic by Brian Cunningham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Brian Cunningham's popular first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and '80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had... -
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it... -
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day.Anita... -
Coconut: A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity Florence Olajide 9781909770652
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I... -
The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home 'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph**********************Eleanor... -
Qatar: Small State, Big Politics by Mehran Kamrava 9780801456770
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.09The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted... -
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and... -
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.74The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern... -
A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black 9780712354714
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.13In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged... -
The Portuguese: A Modern History by Barry Hatton
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568449Author Barry HattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.00What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David... -
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and,... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.211920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all... -
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution Duncan Campbell-Smith 9781788544702
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.78The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts... -
My Revision Notes: AQA GCSE (9–1) History: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day by Derek Moir
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $9.29Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Target success in AQA GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision... -
Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts by Spike Milligan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Milligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and hilarious reflections on life.With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled... -
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav... -
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot 9780871406880
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.24Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of... -
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times_____The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and... -
![Israel and Palestine: The Complete History [2019 Edition] by Ian Carroll 9781911121671](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8167216/9202941/9781911121671__65248.1749352926.jpg?c=1 "Israel and Palestine: The Complete History [2019 Edition] by Ian Carroll 9781911121671")
Israel and Palestine: The Complete History [2019 Edition] by Ian Carroll 9781911121671
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911121671Author Ian CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint -
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the... -
Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA by Aaron Edwards 9781785373411
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373411Author Aaron EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525621638Author Francesca Cartier BrickellFormat PaperbackPage Count 656 -
Person of Interest Study Guide: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.01Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside... -
The Penguin History of the Church: The Early Church by Henry Chadwick
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman worldAbout the AuthorReverend Henry Chadwick is a former... -
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.41This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh... -
German Aircraft of World War I: 1914-1918 by Edward Ward
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.10Organised chronologically by type, German Aircraft of World War I offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Air Force during World War I. The book offers a...