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Access to History: South Africa, 1948-94: from apartheid state to 'rainbow nation' for Edexcel by Peter Clements
RRP: $46.20$43.51Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
The Essential Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780674417045
RRP: $54.50$45.44The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: $20.98$13.94THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: $63.00$44.00**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: $23.08$15.23'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
Korea: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Seth
RRP: $18.88$13.55Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home... -
Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon by D. Tudor
RRP: $31.48$20.58Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today. Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea. In just fifty years, South Korea... -
The Story of India by Michael Wood
RRP: $31.48$23.00In The Story of India, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent. Home today to more than a fifth of the world's population, India gave birth to the oldest and most influential civilization on Earth,... -
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
RRP: $20.98$14.28This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: $27.28$19.09A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the... -
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman
RRP: $23.08$15.77As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize'Sherman's is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she... -
India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha 9781035014729
RRP: $52.50$37.46'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical... -
Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors by Emma Jolly 9781848845732
RRP: $31.48$25.79Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors gives a fascinating insight into the history of the subcontinent under British rule and into the lives the British led there. It also introduces the reader to the range of historical records that can be consulted in... -
Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily TelegraphFor all of India's myths, its sea of... -
Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell by Xuelei Huang 9781009207041
RRP: $63.00$51.60In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically... -
The Book Of Ninja by Antony Cummins
RRP: $63.00$42.84The first complete translation of the ultimate Ninja manual, The Book of Ninja provides a fully comprehensive guide to the ancient arts of the ninja, including espionage, warfare, trap building, infiltrating castles, assassination, hiding magic, lock... -
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: $27.28$19.09Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented, discovered, cooked and ate them. Curry is vivid, entertaining and delicious.'Fascinating and meticulously researched...layers historical fact with mouth-watering... -
A Concise History of Japan by Brett L. Walker 9780521178723
RRP: $48.28$39.35To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes... -
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
RRP: $42.00$28.85An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the... -
The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus: `My India', `Jungle Lore', `Tree Tops' by Jim Corbett
RRP: $23.08$16.32Jim Corbett is world famous for his classic man-eater stories. However, the three volumes collected here show a very different side to this remarkable man. In My India, he describes the villages of the Kumaon Hills, and the customs and lifestyles of... -
Street without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall 9781844153183
RRP: $35.68$26.63A poignant, angry, articulate book Newsweek 'Mr Fall's book is a dramatic treatment of a historic event graphic impact New York Times Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $23.08$15.23J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life. ... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: $23.08$16.32Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
Hagakure (Shambhala Pocket Classic) by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
RRP: $44.10$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309858Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Access to History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 for Edexcel by Vivienne Sanders
$52.94Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 by Jennifer Jordan 9780060587161
RRP: $18.88$12.64Here is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping. Journalist Jennifer Jordan chronicled the individual stories of the five courageous women who have climbed K2, the most fearsome mountain in the world. Climbers call K2 "The Savage Mountain." It is not... -
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
RRP: $25.18$17.70In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $23.08$14.95A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Indian Art by Partha Mitter
RRP: $49.33$35.72This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored through the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Colonial, and contemporary periods, incorporating discussion of... -
Collins Easy Learning Mandarin Chinese Characters : Trusted support for learning by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $23.08$15.23The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. Learn how to write 250 of the commonest Chinese characters, with stroke by stroke guidance on every page. With thousands of characters to learn, beginning to... -
Access to History: The Cold War in Asia 1945-93 for OCR Second Edition by Vivienne Sanders
$53.78Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster 9780520271029
RRP: $52.50$41.14Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to... -
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
RRP: $27.28$19.09Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese... -
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman 9781529000450
RRP: $31.48$23.00As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize'Sherman's is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she... -
The Little Book of Sushi: A Pocket Guide to the Wonderful World of Sushi, Featuring Trivia, Recipes and More by Rufus Cavendish
RRP: $14.68$10.50From seaweed-wrapped maki rolls to tuna-topped nigiri, dive into this celebration of one of the world's favourite delicacies There are few foods more recognizble than sushi. Originating in Japan, the iconic fluffy white rice that's topped, wrapped or... -
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him 9780393322101
RRP: $27.28$24.07In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no... -
After the Party by Georgina Lees 9780008497194
RRP: $18.88$12.64'Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. This superb thriller will stay in my mind for a very long time' B P Walter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Dinner Guest on The Girl Upstairs He... -
Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery by Patricia Bjaaland Welch
RRP: $62.98$40.55With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art.Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and... -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: $31.48$20.58Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for...