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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.49THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read'... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.49'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717096
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.10The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C Winegard
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lane Anderson Award 2021 and RBC Taylor Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781524743420Author Timothy C. WinegardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint... -
Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781399628570
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the Holy Land, from King David to the wars and chaos of today. The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world:... -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062464316
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062464316Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm)... -
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.90This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley 9780141991160
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of... -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 9780374157357
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374157357Author David GraeberFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession by Nigel Richardson 9781788403726
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' - The Spectator Each new field is hope, each old one reality.There are things below the surface that pull people together... -
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781541600348
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600348Author Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm... -
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Michael Spitzer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165... -
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.54THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.'A beautiful book,... -
History of Cities in Maps Philip Parker 9780008671815
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.33A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers. The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilisations... -
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons Cat Jarman 9780008447311
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making... -
The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Tamim Ansary
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.55Forty thousand years ago, the human species existed as thousands of small, virtually autonomous bands, roaming a world almost entirely untouched their presence, each band in contact with a few neighbors but unaware of the thousands of others spread... -
Ancient Greece by Charles Kovacs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A retelling of Greek mythology and ancient history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 5-6 (age 10-12).This welcome new addition to Charles Kovacs' work contains legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of... -
The Templars by Dan Jones 9781781858929
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history' TLS 'Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render... -
Lessons of History by Will Durant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.63In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their five decades of work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization... -
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.22_______________ WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________ Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in... -
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Expanded by Eric H. Cline 9780691208015
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691208015Author Eric H. ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 133g -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse... -
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.69A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture-"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status" (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK) "Persuasively... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.64SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.70Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and... -
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we... -
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation - the Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.76TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.82Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.02'A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire' Sunday Times'Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of ancient Rome into his narrative - its founding myths, the fall of... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.43A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780140445343
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts,... -
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph by Rodney Stark 9781610171397
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £10.72In this page-turning, myth-busting history, acclaimed author Rodney Stark shows exactly why Western civilization triumphed over other cultures-and why we all should be thankful it did.Modernity developed only in the West-in Europe and North America... -
The Ecology Of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859260Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 491Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 621g -
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Cat Jarman 9780008447328
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.56A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling... -
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407962Author Lars BrownworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter... -
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway 9780593534342
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593534342Author Ed ConwayFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint...