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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99£12.28'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... -
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.37'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of... -
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
RRP: £10.99£7.25_______________ 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... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£4.45Of 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... -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
RRP: £12.99£9.34THE 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'... -
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph by Islam Issa 9781529377583
RRP: £30.00£21.35A SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Monumental and vividly imagined . . . a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for so many centuries'Daily Telegraph'Wonderfully entertaining . . . written with vim and... -
The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession by Nigel Richardson 9781788403726
RRP: £10.99£7.30'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... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
RRP: £25.00£17.62A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Cat Jarman 9780008447328
RRP: £25.00£16.43A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: £10.99£7.50SUNDAY 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 ... -
Lessons of History by Will Durant
RRP: £9.99£6.66In 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... -
Being Human: How our biology shaped world history by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: £22.00£15.62'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, bestselling author of The Future of Geography'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, bestselling author of OtherlandsOur biology will change how you see the world. Lewis Dartnell explores how human biology has shaped relationships,... -
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99£9.34**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... -
The Maths That Made Us: how numbers created civilisation by Michael Brooks
RRP: £10.99£8.02Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi - you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks is here to... -
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley 9780008356729
RRP: £10.99£7.37A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
RRP: £14.99£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 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
RRP: £12.99£9.74Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view both of the past and the present' Carlo Rovelli, The Observer*What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: £20.00£13.74SUNDAY 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 ... -
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Michael R.J. Bonner
RRP: £17.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823060Author Michael RJ BonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
India: A History by John Keay
RRP: £14.99£9.95The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India... -
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley
RRP: £20.00£13.50A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random... -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: £30.00£21.13This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the... -
A History of Wales by John Davies
RRP: £18.99£13.61Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial... -
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
RRP: £16.99£11.47The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and... -
Lost Realms: A History of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
RRP: £25.00£16.83'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99£8.57'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... -
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: £10.99£8.02Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations.'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces. Ancient Greece... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020Winner of the American... -
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
RRP: £22.00£14.31There is not just one story of silk.In silk is science, history and mythology.In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that... -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: £12.99£9.34The 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... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World by Andrew Jotischky
RRP: £16.99£12.28This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the Middle Ages from the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century to the first voyages to the New World in the sixteenth... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: £12.99£9.74Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first... -
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£5.56'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... -
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation - the Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £12.99£5.56TV 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... -
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: £10.99£8.80This 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... -
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: £16.99£12.28Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome. In an epic series of battles, the mighty... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00£16.53A 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,... -
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf 9781848310308
RRP: £9.99£4.36'Everything about [this] book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'For people interested in... -
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£9.97A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, from King David to today. The story of Jerusalem is the story of the world.Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital...