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Singapore Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: £14.99£10.70Singapore Then and Now brings together rare archival images of this global city-state and matches them with specially commissioned photos of the same sites as they appear today. Vaughan Grylls (author/photographer of Oxford Then and Now, Cambridge Then... -
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum 9781398510388
RRP: £9.99£6.41'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Freezing Order comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur... -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission by Mike Coburn
RRP: £9.99£7.11SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two... -
Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India by Andrew Ollett 9780520296220
RRP: £34.00£26.45At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit... -
Estonian Textbook: Grammar, Exercises, Conversation by J. Tuldava
RRP: £20.99£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070547Author J TuldavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner Asian... -
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel'An enthralling work of grand historical narrative,... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 9781009151443
RRP: £34.99£31.94The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation - from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, through the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties, to the... -
The Knights Hospitaller by Helen Jane Nicholson
RRP: £24.99£21.89Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY This short... -
Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts by John M. MacKenzie 9780719045783
RRP: £19.99£17.84The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy in recent years. John MacKenzie offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature of Orientalism and brings to the subject... -
OCR A Level History: The Cold War in Asia 1945-1993 and the Cold War in Europe 1941-95 by Nicholas Fellows
£33.95Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the... -
A History of the Crusades III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades... -
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott
RRP: £14.99£13.63An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and... -
The Islamic World: A History in Objects by Ladan Akbarnia
RRP: £29.95£19.58This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides... -
Yangtze River Gunboats 1900-49 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £12.99£11.01From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of... -
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £12.99£8.18No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen
RRP: £10.99£7.05The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by... -
Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia: Muslim Intellectuals and the Making of Islamic Reformism by Khairudin Aljunied 9780197514412
RRP: £63.00£56.79Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world today. The region has also produced a cohort of reformers who have critiqued the limits of Islamic thought and propounded new lines of thinking with an eye toward constructing a... -
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos
RRP: £12.99£8.35Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This book... -
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman 9780393345414
RRP: £13.99£11.59When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: £29.95£23.77"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank 9781324002109
RRP: £31.99£29.39In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik
RRP: £14.99£8.94Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £25.99£19.28By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 by Charles Townshend
RRP: £14.99£9.80Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within... -
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri 9780299162146
RRP: £29.95£28.64Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
£28.38This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 by Pierre Brocheux 9780520269743
RRP: £30.00£23.22Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social,... -
Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi by Victor Shih
RRP: £26.99£22.80For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how... -
Dersu the Trapper by V. K. Arseniev 9780929701493
RRP: £15.00£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701493Author V. K. ArsenievFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
RRP: £22.50£20.84A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009"The defiant spirit of [Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years."-Richard Spencer, The Times (London) "A majestic work that goes a long way in unraveling . . ... -
The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction by Morris Rossabi 9780199840892
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south in the thirteenth century. Along with their leader Chinggis Khan they conjure up images of plunder... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £30.00£22.49Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
RRP: £10.99£4.71Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: £16.99£12.68Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power,... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love for the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: £20.00£13.10A vital new perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima Manji"This is such an important, brave book that sheds a calm, bright light on the complexity of history at a time when simplistic assumptions have become the norm. It is... -
The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948 by Paul R. Katz
RRP: £20.00£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304965Author Paul R. KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Ataturk by Andrew Mango
RRP: £14.99£9.72This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the... -
The Gempei War 1180-85: The Great Samurai Civil War by Stephen Turnbull
RRP: £16.99£12.28Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai. Never before had there been a... -
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: £42.00£33.43A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students... -
Works: v. 3: The Jewish War, Bks.III-IV by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in...