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Kairos: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781783786138
RRP: £9.99£6.70'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he... -
Military Aircraft Markings 2024 by Stuart Schofield 9781800353039
RRP: £12.95£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800353039Author Stuart SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: £25.00£16.78A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous... -
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas 9781529153064
RRP: £22.00£15.62'A visionary book' Philip Pullman'Essential and magnificent' George Monbiot'Deft and wonderfully poetic' Grace BlakeleyThe right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?With the UK more divided than ever, England has re-emerged as a potent force... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: £22.00£16.0225 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A thrilling and inspiring page-turner.' Richard Zimler, author... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: £16.99£11.58"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime"A playful and engaging book ... bound to... -
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi 9780753560136
RRP: £16.99£13.57*AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Radio 4 Book of the Week*Selected as a book to look out for in 2024 by the Guardian and The Rest is PoliticsEveryone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.For too long, Africa's history... -
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman 9780300228410
RRP: £16.99£16.12A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply... -
Escher by Mark Veldhuysen 9788857251431
£38.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857251431Author Mark VeldhuysenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1760g -
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls 9780374601652
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601652Author Tessa HullsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 300g -
Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present by Axel Michaels 9780197650936
RRP: £22.99£19.56Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts the highest mountains and the greatest biodiversity on earth. It is best known as the home of Mt. Everest... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman 9780062859020
RRP: £16.99£11.47The 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... -
Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania’s First and Last King by Robert Austin 9789633867105
RRP: £20.95£18.95Beginning its narrative in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile, this book tells the colourful story of this Balkan country's first and only monarch. The road to becoming Europe's youngest president in 1925 and... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: £22.99£19.56A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
The Batmaker of Copenhagen: The Story of Cricket's Second World War Hero by Tim Brooks 9781801506977
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Batmaker of Copenhagen is the inspiring story of a cricketing hero who defied the German occupation to keep cricket alive throughout the Nazi occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.With Copenhagen under the iron grip of the Gestapo, and... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America by George S. Takach 9781639365630
RRP: £22.00£14.45A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation-especially AI-is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new Cold War.So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two... -
Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal, and Unexplained by R.C. Bramhall 9781493075768
RRP: £17.99£13.33Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all... -
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet 9781324074519
RRP: £14.99£12.37Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture whilst preparing for civil war. Lonely men gather to rage against women. There, too, in the undertow, the... -
Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention by Roger D. Petersen 9780197760741
RRP: £25.99£21.99The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the... -
Yale and Slavery: A History by David W. Blight 9780300273847
RRP: £25.00£20.92A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with... -
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There by Jack Cornish 9781405951289
RRP: £20.00£14.29Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again . . .'A nostalgic amble through the history of travel in England and Wales, and an examination of the routes that make... -
Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich by Vincent dePaul Lupiano 9781493073740
RRP: £25.00£19.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493073740Author Vincent dePaul LupianoFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)... -
In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel 9780226831855
RRP: £22.00£21.22A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. ... -
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork by Noah Charney 9781538181362
RRP: £25.00£18.15If you read one book on the Mona Lisa, let this be it. From the artwork to its theft and role in popular culture, The Thefts of the Mona Lisa provides the complete story, as written by a best-selling, Pulitzer finalist.Leonardo da Vinci's portrait,... -
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich 9781454948025
RRP: £22.99£15.17"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age... -
The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search for a New International Order by Simon Curtis 9780300266900
RRP: £25.00£20.92An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a... -
The Gerald Horne Reader: Racism, Internationalism and Resistance by Gerald Horne 9781682193631
RRP: £15.99£11.04I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne-a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international history. Horne approaches his study of history as a... -
The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia by Karen Auman 9780820366104
RRP: £98.00£79.67Georgia, the last of Britain’s American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation... -
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher 9781847928047
RRP: £16.99£13.70Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and authoritative history from the ground up' JUDITH HERRIN'Epic and witty ..... -
Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A History by Thomas Dresser 9781467157070
RRP: £24.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157070Author Thomas DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386g -
Oregon's Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century by Kimberly Jensen 9780295752587
£28.64In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregon’s Others,... -
Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past by Páraic Kerrigan 9781848409224
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409224Author Páraic KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350g -
Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating the Myth of Hitler’s Third Reich by Norman Ridley 9781036100216
RRP: £22.00£15.62When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into a totalitarian state, but it was not a matter of simply enforcing compliance. The people had to be coaxed into believing in the new regime... -
Soviet Military Aviation in Central Asia 1917-41 by Vladimir Kotelnikov 9781804516089
RRP: £19.95£19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516089Author Vladimir KotelnikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas by Lihi Ben Shitrit 9783111447353
RRP: £64.00£48.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111447353Author Lihi Ben ShitritFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter -
The Art of Ukraine by Alisa Lozhkina 9780500297780
RRP: £18.99£12.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reflections on Stalinism J. Arch Getty 9781501775543
£118.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Glacial: The Untold History of Climate Politics Chelsea Henderson 9781684429585
RRP: £14.99£11.66It took nearly sixty years for a meaningful climate change bill to run the political gauntlet from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office. Why?From mavericks to party standard-bearers, U.S. Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and presidential... -
On Dragons' Wings: A History of No. 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Martin Wade 9781800995994
RRP: £14.99£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995994Author Martin WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa