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322508 MJ 322508 MJ 9780241486351
RRP: €29.75€21.98Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years -... -
The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany Pamela D. Toler 9780807063064
RRP: €32.13€21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063064Author Pamela D. TolerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments: A Story of Survival Ross Burns 9780755645282
RRP: €26.17€21.54How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the... -
Iran: Dictatorship and Development Fred Halliday 9780861546770
RRP: €20.22€17.86Originally completed mere months before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Fred Halliday’s study of twentieth-century Iran was not only incredibly timely but a deeply researched, thought-provoking work. It masterfully surveys the country’s uneven capitalist... -
Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination Jeremy McInerney 9781009459105
RRP: €35.70€28.76Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich... -
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World Corey Ross 9780691211442
RRP: €41.65€33.01A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of waterIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires... -
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From? Audrey Osler 9780349014616
RRP: €15.46€10.23A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain, we British people deserve a better... -
Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine Marina Sapritsky-Nahum 9780253070111
RRP: €45.22€39.59Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the... -
Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People Steven Watts 9781108495936
RRP: €35.70€24.75Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth... -
Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin by Alfredo Thiermann Riesco 9780262048705
RRP: €48.79€34.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048705Author Alfredo Thiermann RiescoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Tyrants of Corinth: Legends of Cypselus and Periander Daniel Ogden 9781032778440
RRP: €44.02€38.71The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies, animal helpers, arbitrary violence, necrophilia and... -
How Hitler Evolved the Traditional Army Establishment: A Study Through Field Marshals Keitel, Paulus and Manstein by Andrew Sangster 9781036106027
RRP: €29.75€20.97Under the surveillance of General von Seeckt the Germans re-established their military, which Hitler utilised for his aggression of recovering Germany’s military greatness. This book explores some of the leading military figures. The often-ignored Field... -
Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East Susan Dackerman 9780691250441
RRP: €53.55€42.03An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer’s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist... -
Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy Clifford J. Rogers 9781032508511
RRP: €154.70€133.41This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages,... -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Complete Writings 19221969 Vittorio Pizzigoni 9783869223070
RRP: €53.55€43.73Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches, and interviews. Read together, they reveal the breadth... -
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South by Alan Pell Crawford 9780593318508
RRP: €32.13€21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318508Author Alan Pell CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Time and Space in the Internet Age Stephen Kern 9781032739809
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.The signature... -
Hitler's U.S. Allies: Americans Who Supported the Nazis by Norman Ridley 9781036110956
RRP: €23.80€17.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine by Marina Sapritsky-Nahum 9780253070104
RRP: €83.30€71.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece by Irad Malkin 9780197753477
RRP: €115.43€104.52For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek society. Drawing lots expressed an egalitarian mindset that guided selection, procedure, and distribution by... -
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell 9780593728505
RRP: €26.18€16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593728505Author David MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Hill: Inside The Secret World Of The U.s. Capitol by Kate Andersen Brower 9780063229310
RRP: €23.79€16.01#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower shares a special look inside America’s Capitol and highlights what the people who work there mean to the future of democracy. Perfect for readers of Brower’s first middle grade book, Exploring... -
Gold Rush: The Untold Story of the First Nations Woman Who Started the Klondike Gold Rush by Flora Delargy 9780711263895
RRP: €27.36€16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711263895Author Flora DelargyFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint White Lion PublishingPublisher Quarto Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 500g -
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson 9780374604981
RRP: €35.70€20.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374604981Author Aaron RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari 9780593948941
RRP: €59.50€32.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593948941Author Yuval Noah HarariImprint Random House US AudioPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g -
Jimmie Durham, Europe, and the Art of Relations by Andrea Feeser 9780367548810
€24.54This book investigates Jimmie Durham’s community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something … Perhaps a Fugue or an Elegy (2005); two Neapolitan nativities (2016 and ongoing); The Middle Earth (with Maria Thereza... -
Vietnamese Migrants in Australia and the Global Digital Diaspora: Histories of Childhood, Forced Migration, and Belonging by Anh Nguyen Austen 9780367770525
€49.11Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced... -
The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow 9780367637842
€49.11This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from... -
Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba by Richard E. Morris 9780367724160
€49.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India: Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism by Nandagopal R. Menon 9780198903321
€93.08How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni... -
Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604 by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez 9780367693572
€49.11This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean. Drawing on historical accounts, literary texts, legal treatises, and... -
Institutions and Individuals: The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 by Stefan Krmnicek 9780367651848
€49.11This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long... -
Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time by Helen Molesworth 9780593500880
RRP: €35.70€21.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak: An Intellectual Biography by Robert E. Upton 9780198900658
€109.91This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The Thought of... -
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler 9780451498656
RRP: €38.08€23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451498656Author Abbott KahlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527g -
Institutional Roots of India's Security Policy by Milan Vaishnav 9780198894612
€109.91In recent years, India has asserted its desire not simply to be a balancing power but to become a leading power on the world stage. As India's economic development has steadily progressed, so too have its foreign policy and security ambitions. However,... -
The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of Food in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia by Molly Taylor-Poleskey 9780813951614
RRP: €116.62€116.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
World-Forming and Contemporary Art by Jessica Holtaway 9780367628444
€24.54This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it. Drawing from the writings of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, it spotlights the concept of ‘world-forming’ and... -
Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India by Sudha Rajagopalan 9780367686666
€49.11At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India... -
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 311 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever by Chris Wallace 9780593852194
RRP: €41.65€23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593852194Author Chris WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 540g