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Hailed as 'masterly' (Wall Street Journal) and a 'monumental achievement' (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible...

London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through...

How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590870Author Rachel L. SwarnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British warships were lost to shipwreck than in battle. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137511Author No authorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g

This brilliant book introduces the dinosaurs that once roamed our planet. Using bitesize text and beautifully bright illustrations, this is the perfect book for dinosaur lovers everywhere. The world was once full of magnificent beasts, big and small, who...

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so...

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and...

‘Policy of Deceit is the work of a lifetime, a forensic, fair-minded examination of the Hussein–McMahon correspondence that exposes how the British government broke its promises to the people of Palestine.’ The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184677Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 234g

‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le CarréMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374609948Author Sune Engel RasmussenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Fight, Flight, Mimic is the first systematic study of deceptive mimicry in the context of wars. Deceptive mimicry -- the manipulation of individual or group identity -- includes passing off as a different individual, as a member of a group to which one...

Do you know everything there is to know about the Presidents of the United States? OH NO YOU DON'T! The people who have served as President of the United States of America are some of the most famous people on the planet. But how much do we really know...

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. Based in the great city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the...

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:· Douglas Barrie and Timothy Wright underscore the need for Washington to...

‘A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. … nothing short of astounding’ Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their...

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There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. ...

A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth of Plato, is the oldest surviving statement of...

A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, this thoughtful book shows how the varied modes of representation record political, cultural and social developments as well as military events. Covers all forms of discussion and...

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values,...

British–Turkish relations were transformed in the first half of the 20th century, from a state of belligerence during the First World War, through a period of heated confrontation over the fate of Mosul and trade and business access to the new Republic...

This is a political biography of William III (1650–1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the revolution of 1688–9. William III...

'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday TimesTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous...

A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed to be produced in large numbers to a standardised pattern at an affordable price. This books examines the transition from traditional hand-craft methods to the beginnings of mechanised...

Apologies 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

An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push...

This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created...

Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase "rule of law" to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is that good? Even in Aristotle's time, there was no agreement on either its nature, and on whether it...

'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593705278Author Kate MessnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc

In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images of Russia found in travel accounts, pamphlets, maps and...

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field of Byzantine studies, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared...

This book examines the possibilities – and realities – of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229927Author Brenda WineappleFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385550413Author H. W. BrandsFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316427715Author Dan SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company