Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus by John Ortberg 9780310340492
RRP: $27.28$24.73The day after Jesus' death, whatever small mark he made on the world seemed destined to disappear. Instead, his impact on human history has been unparalleled, leading believers and nonbelievers alike to ask, Who Is This Man? In Who Is This Man,... -
Fodder & Drincan: Anglo-Saxon Culinary History by Emma Kay
RRP: $39.00$32.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248755Author Emma KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: $17.53$12.58Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in... -
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz 9780393652666
RRP: $42.88$35.39In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall... -
Mesoamerica Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilisation by Dr Robert Bircher 9781804176146
RRP: $21.43$14.43Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Mesoamerican culture is rooted in the region of modern Mexico where some 3500 years ago ancient peoples called the Olmecs farmed and created beautiful art and pottery at roughly the same time as the Middle Kingdom Ancient... -
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
RRP: $29.23$19.11The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780393354324
$20.18Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary... -
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $21.43$14.43'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack,... -
A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren
RRP: $25.33$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345373168Author Charles Van DorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael Gomez
RRP: $54.60$43.29A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book tells a different... -
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent V. Flannery 9780674416772
RRP: $44.75$36.62Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent... -
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World by Jennifer Potter
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in... -
Owning the Earth by Andro Linklater
RRP: $33.13$23.95Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a... -
Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: $21.43$14.14'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ... -
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
RRP: $39.00$28.65Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In... -
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $51.66$44.44As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200... -
Listening For Ancient Gods: Archaeoacoustics: A study of the world's oldest buildings and the archaeology of sound, with new implications for how we came to be who we are. by Linda C Eneix
RRP: $42.80$33.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533538116Author Linda C EneixFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Lalibela Churches: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Cave Churches in Ethiopia by Charles River Editors 9781070521930
RRP: $21.72$18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781070521930Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Sheep: The Remarkable Story of the Humble Animal That Built the Modern World by Alan Butler
RRP: $19.48$16.75What was the most important step in civilization? Alan Butler's answer is that it was when we began capturing wild sheep, domesticating and breeding them. Sheep were the mainstay of ancient cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: $43.86$31.08The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World by Krishan Kumar 9780691192802
RRP: $42.90$34.63What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own... -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
RRP: $75.95$61.80The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks.Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You... -
Person of Interest Study Guide: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace
RRP: $21.43$14.78Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside Person of Interest and the Person of Interest Video... -
The Goths: Lost Civilizations by David M. Gwynn 9781780238456
RRP: $35.10$25.27The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and... -
The Great Pyramid: A Factory for Mono-Atomic Gold by Spencer L Cross
RRP: $23.38$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615919768Author Spencer L CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Spencer L. CrossPublisher Spencer L. CrossWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy by John Perlin
RRP: $48.65$34.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687916Author John PerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens by Linda A. Chisolm 9781604695298
$76.67"Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time." -The American GardenerThe History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of... -
The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives by Dr. Frank Faranda
RRP: $27.28$21.35Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences"A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience." Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in... -
Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives by Teresa Bernheimer 9780906094532
$115.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094532Author Teresa BernheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $45.81$32.39Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316110
RRP: $50.68$21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316110Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures by Cider Mill Press
RRP: $31.18$21.16From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago?... -
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World by Thomas F. Madden 9780143129691
RRP: $33.13$25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129691Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
RRP: $46.80$31.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Quill Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143117001Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott
$80.13This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and... -
The Twilight of the American Culture by M Berman 9780393321692
RRP: $39.00$27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393321692Author M BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 19mm -
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community by James D. Tracy 9780742537897
RRP: $78.00$68.68In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman 9780691154039
RRP: $78.00$63.43An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and... -
Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilization by Captivating History 9781718662209
RRP: $26.75$22.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718662209Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Variae: The Complete Translation by Cassiodorus
RRP: $58.50$46.20Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that...