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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction: Second Edition Antulio J. Echevarria II 9780197760154
£9.40Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J... -
Video Games as Art: A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art Frank G. Bosman 9783111523187
£15.46Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical,... -
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994) Roni Mikel-Arieli 9783111521404
RRP: £18.50£15.36The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478030485
£29.32In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
Oxford Revise: Edexcel GCSE History: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40 Complete Revision and Practice Aaron Wilkes 9781382053778
RRP: £5.99£5.63Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509-40 is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of British depth study. All key knowledge... -
Oxford Revise: Edexcel GCSE History: Migrants in Britain, c800-present Aaron Wilkes 9781382053792
RRP: £5.99£5.63Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Migrants in Britain, c800-present is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of thematic study. All key knowledge is clearly... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: £10.99£7.77Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here’s how the history of the Roman... -
The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism Lara Day 9781805393344
RRP: £27.95£22.58Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume... -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208536
RRP: £30.00£27.39As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s... -
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty Hunter Price 9780813951324
£101.51How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of... -
Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment Bryan A. Banks 9780228021094
£107.72The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led more than 200,000 Huguenots to flee France after 1685. Many settled close to the country’s frontiers, where their leaders published apologetic texts arguing for their right to return to France and be recognized... -
Confessions of a Weekend Warrior: Thirty-Five Years in the National Guard Brig. Gen. Paul “Greg” Smith 9781476694108
RRP: £21.99£17.97America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat... -
Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History Wendy Ugolini 9780198863274
RRP: £90.00£81.58At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural... -
Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914 Graeme J. Milne 9780228021308
£37.20Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. As sail gave way to steam, sailing-ship mariners... -
The Little Book of Fermanagh Doreen McBride 9781803996684
RRP: £12.99£9.37Did You Know Van Morrison wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on a piano in Derrygonnelly Paddy Monaghan, from Ederney, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-Ali St Molaise brought soil containing blood from early Christian martyrs from the Colosseum... -
Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation Movement Namloyak Dhungser 9781666937794
RRP: £81.00£71.06Since 2009, the image of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in protest against the repressive policies of the Chinese government has drawn attention from around the world. In Aflame for Freedom in Tibet: The Origin and Development of the Self-Immolation... -
The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property Eunsong Kim 9781478026242
£107.95In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of... -
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
£37.83It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement... -
The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in Buenos Aires' Villas Miseria by Agnese Codebo 9780822948094
£47.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948094Author Agnese CodeboFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press -
Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture by Pari Riahi 9781625347992
£32.38Today, the field of architecture faces a reckoning. While there is no longer consensus on what defines an architectural work, theorists, historians, and practitioners are grappling with urgent issues—among them the impact of climate change, the dynamics... -
Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World by Strabo 9780691243139
£67.95A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it with the world of the twenty-first centuryStrabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as... -
The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania by Matthew George Washington 9781985900233
£78.74Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black Freedom Struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of... -
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel 9780295752556
RRP: £25.99£22.61In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of... -
An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer by Robert Polner C/O and Robert Polner 9781501773051
RRP: £36.95£23.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501773051Author Robert Polner C/O and Robert PolnerFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Three HillsPublisher Three HillsWeight(grams) 907g -
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 by Tabitha Barber 9781849768818
RRP: £32.00£22.29From Tudor times to the First World War, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 will chart the journey of women to becoming professional artists. From Levina Teerlinc, a miniaturist at the court of Elizabeth I, to Laura Knight, the first... -
Italy's Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity by Rosario Forlenza 9780198859864
RRP: £90.00£81.58The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy's Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eighteenth century to the near-present. Forlenza and Thomassen... -
The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece by Margaret Foster 9780520401426
RRP: £30.00£25.95Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s... -
US Marine vs Japanese Soldier: Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944 by Gregg Adams 9781472861139
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana... -
Jamestown 1622: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars by Cameron Colby 9781472861924
RRP: £16.99£12.28A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. Since 1607, English settlers of Jamestown maintained a shaky relationship with the Powhatan Confederacy. As the... -
Of Kerns and Gallowglasses: Irish Armies of the 16th Century 1487-1587 by Robert Gresh 9781804513545
£37.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513545Author Robert GreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara 9780231216371
RRP: £84.00£75.11The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas,... -
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts Among the Alawi Bohras of South Asia by Olly Akkerman 9781474479578
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479578Author Olly AkkermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
WW2 Vehicles: Through the Lens Volume 3 by Tom Cockle 9786156602213
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602213Author Tom CockleFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware by Carol E Hoffecker 9781644533536
£37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644533536Author Carol E HoffeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher University of Delaware PressWeight(grams)... -
Lismore: The Great Garden by Robert K. M. Hay 9781839830587
RRP: £10.99£9.59This island of Lismore boasts a remarkably rich heritage, both in terms of historic monuments and of an unbroken tradition of Gaelic culture. From their first sight of Tirefour Broch, dominating approaches from the mainland, visitors to the Isle of... -
The North Caucasus Borderland: Between Muscovy and the Ottoman Empire, 1555-1605 by Murat Yasar 9781474498708
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474498708Author Murat YasarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History by Alistair Moffat 9781780278575
RRP: £25.00£16.59Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. The chronicle begins millions of years ago, with the dramatic geological events that formed the awe-inspiring... -
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes 9781421448145
RRP: £29.95£18.90How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had... -
The History Lessons by Shalina Patel 9781837731619
RRP: £18.99£13.23GO AND BUY THIS BOOK - SHALINA IS AN EXTRAORDINARY TEACHER AND MAKES EVERY SUBJECT FASCINATINGBella Mackie, author of How to Kill Your FamilyTaking the reader on a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval... -
How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal 9780300266245
RRP: £18.99£16.18An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and...