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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062464316
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £15.41Apologies 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)... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 Peter Parker 9780241683705
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.23'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in 1967In the 1940s, it... -
The Gulag Archipelago: v. 1: Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780061253713
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061253713Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"Essential reading" History Today"A moving evocation . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker 9780241370605
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.23Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The ObserverWith it's wide-ranging selection, generous biographical... -
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72'Intriguing' - Sunday Times'A rousing read' - Irish Times'A bright light of Francophone feminism' - New York TimesRenowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.41In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.85***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events... -
What Is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb 9781474622479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.85George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over timeOrwell's... -
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.26After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to... -
Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield 9780062207661
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062207661Author Rob SheffieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Saint Bede
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, in which... -
The Histories by Herodotus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08'The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' Tom HollandOne of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of... -
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns.Caesar's narrative offers insights into his military strategy & paints a fascinating... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph... -
Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight 9781787476196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.29The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do YouDo you waste time overthinking things you can't do... -
Calm the F**k Down Sarah Knight 9781787476196
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.18The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do YouDo you waste time overthinking things you can't do... -
Dismantling America: and other controversial essays by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.60These wide-ranging essays- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is... -
Shooting an Elephant;With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write' by George Orwell 9781528719049
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719049Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 2mm -
The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed 9780241690840
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.34When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday's words suffice?'We were so happy and didn't know it...'A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His parents have bought an apartment... -
Between the Wars: 1919-1939 Philip Ziegler 9780857055231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international... -
Republic (Collins Classics) by Plato 9780008480080
Booksplease Price: £3.10HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.About the... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2022 by Margaret Atwood 9781529114980
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live... -
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee 9780241597125
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96'An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured-this book deserves your time and attention' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment A poetic and intimate essay collection on the... -
Medieval Essays by Christopher Dawson 9780813210179
Booksplease Price: £21.02A comprehensive collection of essays from the Middle Ages, this text ranges from the fateful days of the late Roman Empire to the final destruction of Byzantium, from the rise of Islam to the flowering of western vernacular literature, from missions to... -
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius by Julius Caesar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.35The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns... -
Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns Of August, The Proud Tower (loa #222) by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £31.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531459Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.34In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we... -
Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities by Peter Charles Hoffer 9781479832835
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.79History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and... -
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays,... -
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analysis... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII by Laurence Rees
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.72How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian... -
The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation Peter W. Edbury 9781840146769
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.98This is a complete collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the Third Crusade, which was Christendom's response to the catastrophe. The largest and most important text in the book is a... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
Works: v. 9: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XII-XIII by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.43Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393310955
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common...