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Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth by Richard Stoneman 9780712354479
RRP: £30.00£19.40Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20,... -
Sundials by Christopher St.J.H. Daniel 9780747805588 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.92For over 1000 years sundials have played an important role in regulating the daily life of mankind throughout Europe and the British Isles. Indeed the study of the art of constructing sundials, or the 'Art of Dialling', was a part of every scholar's... -
Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 9780062890481
RRP: £19.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£9.16The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the... -
Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church by Steve Weidenkopf
RRP: £21.95£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681921488Author Steve WeidenkopfFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Our Sunday VisitorPublisher Our Sunday VisitorWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)... -
Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History by E.G. Richards
£47.26Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the... -
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization by Meredith F. Small 9781643135380
RRP: £20.00£12.86An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions-from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency-shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city-with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday-come to... -
Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria & the Pacific by David Hatcher Childress 9780932813046
RRP: £18.50£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813046Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)... -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
RRP: £21.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £9.00£7.4195 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a... -
Progress Vs Parasites: A Brief History of the Conflict that's Shaped our World by Douglas Carswell
RRP: £9.99£7.67The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record - sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances - hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and... -
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Parvaneh Pourshariati 9781784537470
RRP: £22.99£19.28I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a... -
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black
RRP: £10.99£3.51A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home.'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean... -
East and West by Rene Guenon 9780900588341
£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588341Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams) 284g -
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval by Philip Jenkins
RRP: £27.49£19.68One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These... -
Atlantis in the Caribbean: And the Comet That Changed the World by Andrew Collins 9781591432654
RRP: £16.99£11.48The legend of Atlantis is one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. Disproving many well-known Atlantis theories and providing a new hypothesis, the evidence for which continues to build, Andrew Collins shows that what Plato recounts is the... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Brian K. Harvey 9781585107957
RRP: £26.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107957Author Brian K. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and... -
The Road to Geometry: How Euclid's Elements Built the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: £25.00£16.83Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art,... -
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison by David Wootton
RRP: £29.95£23.66A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves... -
Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby 9780198815914
RRP: £20.99£17.94What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
RRP: £20.00£9.95Apologies 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... -
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
RRP: £19.00£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758945Author Robert WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy
RRP: £18.00£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136408Author Cody CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm *... -
Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era by Barbara Scalvini 9781911282754
RRP: £30.00£22.03Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics... -
Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus by Michael A. Flower 9780195188684
RRP: £29.99£18.09Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives-as well as the most important autobiographical work-to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian... -
The Final Stages of the New World Order and Rise of the Black Messiah: Part 2 by Spencer 9780692049488
RRP: £19.99£16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692049488Author SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bryan SpencerPublisher Bryan SpencerWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner 9781324074502
£12.35What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"-the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in... -
Wizards of Ozymandias: Refl ections on the Decline and Fall by Butler Shaffer 9781610162524
RRP: £12.50£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610162524Author Butler ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
A People's History Of Civilization by John Zerzan
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310598Author John ZerzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780606412735
RRP: £37.35£30.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780606412735Author Jared DiamondFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Negro Question Part 3 the Black Pentecost by Lee Cummings 9781503335769
RRP: £12.00£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503335769Author Lee CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
History of the Persian Empire by Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead
RRP: £27.00£22.88Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek... -
Elizabeth Wiskemann: Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent by Geoffrey Field 9780192870629
RRP: £43.49£39.53This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a... -
Silchester: Life on the Dig by Jenny Halstead 9781909747081
RRP: £14.99£10.77The Roman Town at Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, was a working archaeological dig - the University of Reading Field School - which took place every summer for eighteen years. Taking advantage of the last opportunity to record 'life on the dig' in 2014,... -
World History 101: From ancient Mesopotamia and the Viking conquests to NATO and WikiLeaks, an essential primer on world history by Tom Head 9781507204542
RRP: £12.99£11.05Uncover the mysteries of the past with this exciting, comprehensive guide on world history.History books are often filled with long descriptions, complex facts, and stories that can bore even the most enthusiastic history buffs. In World History 101... -
The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: £30.00£27.35The rediscovery of Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do... -
Byzantium Unbound by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891998Author Anthony KaldellisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell 9780367540807
RRP: £16.99£15.22'China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.' Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China In 1920 the philosopher Bertrand Russell spent a year in China as Professor of Philosophy at... -
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down by Jonathan Gottschall
RRP: £22.00£17.36Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore...