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Liberty by Lynn Curlee 9781665968959
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.01Award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee's "exquisitely detailed...reverent, absorbing homage" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the Statue of Liberty-now with a new look!"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe... -
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser 9780593657225
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593657225Author Caroline FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
But There Was Love: Shaping the Memory of the Shoah by Michal Govrin 9783111589466
Booksplease Price: £96.03But There Was Love-Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today's cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute... -
Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann 9780300286267
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.81The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it... -
Unparalleled Catastrophe: Life and Death in the Third Nuclear Age Rhys Crilley 9781526191298
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.08After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have... -
Administrative Reform in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire: A System of Economy Dr Sebastian Meurer 9781837650989
Booksplease Price: £95.64Indispensable for understanding the historical forces that shaped modern governance. How did Enlightenment philosophy shape the modern bureaucratic state? While thinkers like Adam Smith and David Hume are celebrated for their contributions to... -
Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 Elisabeth Piller 9781526191304
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.08This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregrounding... -
The Subject of Britain, 1603–25 Christopher Ivic 9781526191137
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.08The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood... -
Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis by Patricia Cleary 9780826223364
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826223364Author Patricia ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)... -
Mytholudics: Games and Myth by Dom Ford 9783111341279
Booksplease Price: £86.90Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and... -
The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives by Andrew N. Buchanan 9781501780653
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £43.82The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These... -
Underwater World 3-5: A Land of Far Away Government Assistance (Part 4) by Philip A Bonneau 9798892925914
RRP: £145.43Booksplease Price: £105.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892925914Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm -
Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy: Gender, Uncertainty, and Agency Marco Faini 9789463721684
Booksplease Price: £111.37This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural "weakness," the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as... -
Money in Imperial Rome: Legal Diversity and Systemic Complexity Merav Haklai 9780198912002
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £109.44Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the... -
Jakarta: Biography of a City Herald van der Linde 9781915310446
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta - home to over 10 million people with more than 30 million in its greater metropolitan area - stands as a testament to resilience, reinvention and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants.Inspired by the vibrant mix of... -
Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age Barbara H. Rosenwein 9781836390916
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Examines how the elderly have thought, felt and expressed themselves over 2,000 years. -
The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West Alessandra La Rocca Link 9780197674390
Booksplease Price: £66.28The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and... -
Communism, Cold War, and Revolution: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java, 1949-1966 Matthew Woolgar 9780198954446
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £89.58During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million... -
Letters to Miss Baker: How One Teacher Kept in Touch with Former Scholars of Kingsbury County School Serving Their Country Jeremy Waxman 9781836282853
Booksplease Price: £14.23When the Second World War broke out, Miss Daisy Baker of Kingsbury County School reached out to every former scholar serving their country. Two hundred Old Kingsburians replied, sending five hundred letters between them. Those letters survive - and they... -
The Secret War: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781398842120
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398842120Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Epitaphs of Bomber Command Steve Darlow 9781838068776
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60During the Second World War Royal Air Force Bomber Command suffered unprecedented casualty rates. Those who served, were killed, and were found, now rest in Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and... -
Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition 1938-1964 Abdulrahman Gazzaz 9783966800303
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £45.78Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition, 1938-1964, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil-highlighting the city's rapid... -
Dual Cities: Social Housing in London & New York Paul Karakusevic 9781915722423
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.85The Big Smoke. The Big Apple. Bright lights and skylines set the scene for a housing tale of two cities: London and New York. Growing up in tandem and maturing as urban democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries, London and New York have both... -
The Small Isles: Canna, Eigg, Muck and Rum John Hunter 9781849173681
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and... -
Anomie Collections 2 Matt Price 9781910221686
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.66Anomie Collections is a London-based initiative that supports the work of contemporary British painters by acquiring works on behalf of a group of private collectors. Since its inception in 2022, Anomie Collections has acquired eighty-six paintings and... -
The Dummy Drome: Stories from a WW2 Decoy Aerodrome in the North of Scotland Rob More 9781849956000
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96The intriguing story of the WW2 airfield that wasn't there!Read stories from the people who held thise closely-guarded secret for yearsPart of the remarkable story of the war of deception to confound HitlerThe Dummy Drome is a well-researched story... -
The Anatomy of Colorism in America: A Comparative Study of Colorism Across the Long Nineteenth Century Robb Nelson 9783111620275
Booksplease Price: £91.64The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another... -
Reconceptualizing War Ben Zweibelson 9781804517291
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517291Author Ben ZweibelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community Thomas Langford 9780774869294
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £30.56The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are... -
Samuel Bentham, Inspector General of Naval Works, 1796–1807, Letters and Papers Ben Jones 9781916931206
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £116.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916931206Author Ben JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Navy Records SocietyPublisher Navy Records Society -
GSG 9: From Munich to Mogadishu: The Birth of Germany's Counterterrorism Force Martin Herzog 9781636245720
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.95An "adrenaline junky," Ted Mataxis was the perennial volunteer who saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. After just three and a half years in the Army, he was a battalion commander in brutal combat with the 2nd Battalion, 276th Infantry... -
The Red Cross’s Public Health Turn: The Cannes Medical Conference of 1919 and the Origins of the League of Red Cross Societies Romain Fathi 9781839994340
Booksplease Price: £21.15This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross... -
The World Within Guy Stagg 9781398533509
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.81All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I'm not the only one. But, in the vacant days of the pandemic, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the... -
Renaissance Automata of the Villa Pratolino: Magic, Mechanics, and Medici Ambition Lily V. Filson 9783031869921
Booksplease Price: £111.24This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these 'living sculptures' went beyond traditional Renaissance static... -
Churchill's Enemies, 1927– 1940 John Harte 9781036103194
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60"Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny... -
On Afghanistan's Plains: The Light Dragoons in Helmand 2006–2012 Allan Mallinson 9781036116873
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60On Afghanistan's Plains tells the story of four gruelling tours of duty during Operation Herrick, the codename under which British operations in Afghanistan were conducted from 2002 until 2014 when the mission changed from direct combat with the Taliban... -
The RAF's Armourers: Safely Making Aircraft Dangerous Since the First World War Tony Lamsdale 9781399010375
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Royal Favourites of Medieval England: 1066 – 1485 April Taylor 9781399079358
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60All monarchs have need of those to whom they give their trust. Never was this more essential than for the kings of Medieval England. From the Norman victory of 1066 to the bloody demise of Richard III in 1485, the stings and arrows of royal life bred... -
Vichy's Last Castle: Pétain's Puppet Regime in Exile at Sigmaringen Paul StJohn Mackintosh 9781036131548
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.60Comic-operetta stage set, or ghost town haunted by the walking dead - Sigmaringen still fascinates long after its collapse at the end of the Second World War. This enclave of French Vichy officials and fascists on German soil - refugees and hostages... -
Conduct Literature and the Politics of the Stage Controversy: 1689–1728 Chih-Hsin Huang 9781837651191
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £84.03Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy. In 1698 the Jacobite clergyman...