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The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture by Michelangelo Sabatino 9781580936194
RRP: $70.89$53.39The comprehensive story of an icon of modern architecture: the Edith Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems to float above its site, the Edith Farnsworth... -
Battleship Texas: Naval History Special Edition by Lawrence Burr 9781591149095
RRP: $25.74$16.76USS Texas BB-35, a Dreadnought era battleship launched in May 1912, served the U.S. Navy for thirty-four years, including World War I and World War II.World War I service included North Sea convoy duty for merchant ships from Scotland to Norway, and... -
Louise Moillon by Lesley Stevenson 9781848224919
RRP: $45.15$34.42Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sébastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Louise... -
Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation by Edward Robert McClelland 9781639366378
RRP: $41.28$25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366378Author Edward Robert McClellandFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 599g -
Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One by Andrew Smith 9781474443449
RRP: $25.79$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443449Author Andrew SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 331g -
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro 9780593687796
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593687796Author Juan VilloroFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century by Barbara Emerson 9781805260578
RRP: $45.15$39.54Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon’s defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia—the Great Game—and, towards... -
Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan by Zamira Abman 9781487553180
RRP: $38.69$35.32In 1924, the Bolshevik regime began an unprecedented campaign to forcibly emancipate the Muslim women of Tajikistan. The emancipatory reforms included unveiling women, passing progressive family code laws, and educating women. By the 1950s, the Soviet... -
Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada's Foreign Relations by J.L. Granatstein 9781487549848
RRP: $36.11$32.19Friends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the leading political and military historians in the country. The essays cover a period primarily from the Second World War through to the... -
Herminie and Fanny Pereire: Elite Jewish Women in Nineteenth-Century France by Helen M. Davies 9781526177650
RRP: $109.65$77.62Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015),... -
William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State by John Weber 9781477329221
$52.93An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas. At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s,... -
Samuel Adams and the Vagabond Henry Tufts: Virtue Meets Vice in the Revolutionary Era by Nathaniel Parry 9781476694719
RRP: $46.43$38.18One a revolutionary leader and the other a vagabond who deserted from the Continental Army, Samuel Adams and Henry Tufts appear opposites, yet they were two sides of the same coin. While one devoted his life to overthrowing British colonial rule and the... -
Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law by Saadia Yacoob 9780520393806
RRP: $38.70$33.48A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of... -
Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XXII by Kelly DeVries 9781837650705
RRP: $96.75$79.73"The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare The articles in volume 22 of the Journal of Medieval Military History range widely, not only in chronology but also in geography and approach... -
Diplomatic Dispatches about Circassia from the Consulate of France in Odessa, 1836-1840 by Azamat Kumykov 9783110785180
$98.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110785180Author Azamat KumykovFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 634g -
Cartomania: Photography and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century by Paul Frecker 9781914613623
RRP: $51.60$33.09Cartomania was a photographic phenomenon that seized the public imagination at the beginning of the 1860s. Small portraits, dubbed cartes de visite, were avidly exchanged with friends and family, quickly earning a reputation as 'the paper currency of... -
The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2: A Reader of Primary Sources by Christina Lee 9789048560196
RRP: $150.93$143.58This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in the early modern Spanish Pacific. It may be used in conjunction with Volume 1 or on its own. While its focus continues to be on the encounters... -
EDU:TRANSVERSAL No. 02/2024: Educational Turn / Bildungsoffensive by Ruth Mateus-Berr 9783111365374
RRP: $30.96$27.84New interdisciplinary research in education Given the current demands on schools and the challenges they face in an increasingly complex and volatile world, new and visionary educational paths and new educational concepts are urgently needed... -
San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 by Robert W. Cherny 9780252045837
$146.56Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s... -
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser 9780062869685
RRP: $45.15$27.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062869685Author Rachel KousserFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Masses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality by George L. Mosse 9780299347642
RRP: $37.35$30.13In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse’s intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of... -
The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society by Patrick Spero 9781606189030
$83.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606189030Author Patrick SperoFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press -
Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery by Alice Sparberg Alexiou 9781531507268
RRP: $21.92$18.21Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers... -
The Founding of English America: An Introduction to the Lost Colony and Jamestown by John May 9781476695242
RRP: $28.37$23.18In 1577, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Nei2/5/2024ther Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort... -
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore 9781639730537
RRP: $38.69$23.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730537Author Tabitha StanmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
Military Jet Aircraft: 1945 to the Present Day by Robert Jackson 9781838863647
RRP: $32.24$22.48Military Jet Aircraft provides a detailed look at over fifty of the most important jet-engined aircraft developed between 1945 and the present day. Aircraft profiled include dedicated interceptors, bombers, and reconnaissance platforms, as well as modern... -
Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory by Stephen Fisher 9781787636712
RRP: $32.25$23.25'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, his book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring... -
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece 9780300211498
RRP: $45.15$37.18Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of... -
A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis by Jason Crow 9789462982260
RRP: $138.03$131.49Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings suggests the presence of divinity. Suger... -
Lenny: A Debden Eagle by Cees Steijger 9789090383934
RRP: $61.91$39.14This book tells the fascinating and thrilling story of Leonard R. “Lenny” Werner, who was assigned to the USAAF’s famed 4th Fighter Group in England in June 1944. It operated North American P-51 Mustangs to fight the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Born in... -
V&A: Eric Ravilious Wall Calendar 2025 (Art Calendar) by Flame Tree Studio 9781835620625
RRP: $14.18$9.02Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a whole host of different works, including book illustrations, woodcuts and ceramic designs for the Wedgwood pottery firm. This fascinating wall calendar features 12... -
Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality Complete Revision and Practice by Aaron Wilkes 9781382053655
RRP: $7.73$7.26Oxford Revise AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of period study. All key knowledge is... -
American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius by Timothy Grieve-Carlson 9780197765579
$55.12American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential... -
looking back at... The Beatles by Matt Singleton 9781738459100
RRP: $19.34$17.29A 'Cognitive Book' that everyone can enjoy and is suitable for people living with dementia or other cognitive difficulties. In collaboration with Alzheimer's Society, there's a contribution to the charity with each purchase. Includes a free audio... -
The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford 9781399816847
RRP: $32.25$21.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Round Our Way: Sam Hanna's Visual Legacy by Heather Nicholson 9781838369361
RRP: $32.25$23.63Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the ‘Lowry of filmmaking’ by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna’s remarkable output.Hanna’s... -
Why War? by Richard Overy 9781324021742
RRP: $24.50$22.20Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was “a way of delivering mankind from the... -
The Sixties by Terry H. Anderson 9781032251813
RRP: $70.94$70.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures: 1940-1990 by Kenneth Werrell 9781648431296
RRP: $70.95$42.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648431296Author Kenneth WerrellFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press -
The Late New Kingdom in Egypt (c. 1300-664 BC): A Genealogical and Chronological Investigation by M. L. Bierbrier 9798888570838
RRP: $45.14$37.16The period of Egypt's Rammesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and preeminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fix...