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Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive it by David Fleming
RRP: €47.60€33.02Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's... -
National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
RRP: €49.97€35.45Follow the fascinating threads of human history in this monumental volume, amply illustrated with maps, archival imagery, and revealing photographs. History comes to life in this comprehensive overview of humankind, from earliest times to the present day... -
Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Goebekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America by Andrew Collins 9781591432630
€23.95Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world * Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human... -
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley
RRP: €26.18€19.27The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan... -
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: the Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings: Volume 1 by Abdullah Ocalan 9788293064428
€17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064428Author Abdullah OcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Compass PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: €11.89€8.46A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,... -
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: €15.46€10.82'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: €13.08€9.09Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era,... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: €17.84€11.66Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineThe year 2022 marks 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This... -
The Negro Question Part 5 Joseph and the 12th dynasty of Egypt by Lee Cummings 9781517359416
RRP: €11.89€9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517359416Author Lee CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton
€33.42When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: €17.84€13.51Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. We discover what happened to art in the great Age of... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
RRP: €41.65€29.38From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: €15.46€10.82Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a... -
Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
RRP: €14.28€10.82A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
RRP: €20.22€14.61Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a... -
Quinces: Growing and Cooking by Jane McMorland-Hunter
RRP: €15.46€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248410Author Jane McMorland-HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day by Paul Cockshott
RRP: €29.75€24.13A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro... -
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
RRP: €26.18€17.03There 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... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: €26.18€20.66A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472145673
RRP: €35.70€23.56Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: €26.18€19.06Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
RRP: €22.60€16.20Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and ... -
Land: The Ownership of Everywhere by Simon Winchester
RRP: €29.75€26.41From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433951
RRP: €26.18€19.78Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: €15.46€10.09From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: €29.75€20.03'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: €29.75€20.74The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin 9781473677791
RRP: €29.75€19.97A Sunday Times Best History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year'A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The Times'Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an... -
PUGNARE: ECONOMIC SUCCESS AND FAILURE by GEORGE MAHER 9781999626211
RRP: €15.46€13.15We imagine the Roman Empire as being a world very distant from ours, in particular its business and banking systems. So distant, that we may think we have nothing to learn from them. That however would be a mistake. The root causes of the economic... -
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths by Anthony T Browder 9780924944031
RRP: €29.75€23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924944031Author Anthony T BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Institute of Karmic GuidancePublisher Institute of Karmic GuidanceWeight(grams)... -
Ring of Stone Circles: Exploring Neolithic Cumbria by Stan L Abbott
RRP: €11.89€8.09To paraphrase L.P. Hartley, "The past is a different country." Stan L Abbott sets out to explore the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles. Cumbria boasts more of these monuments than any other English... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: €29.75€24.89An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Places by Jacob F. Field
RRP: €15.46€10.39Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania,... -
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor 9781487011932
RRP: €17.84€14.61Finalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn't working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin
RRP: €13.08€8.63THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
RRP: €20.22€13.73Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: €27.95€21.27Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
€47.85The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe...