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Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
RRP: £14.99£10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198144Author Christina SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
RRP: £10.99£8.02'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... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £22.99£17.28THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.34After 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... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: £19.99£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... -
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson
RRP: £8.99£6.27'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling... -
Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe by Edward Jay Epstein
RRP: £26.99£18.38Curiosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel in South Africa. Seeking more information, he often... -
Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight
RRP: £16.99£10.70The latest no-f**ks-given guide from 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 You Do you waste time overthinking things you can't do anything about?... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: £25.00£20.30Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £20.00£14.69In 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... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: £15.99£11.04In 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... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: £12.99£9.34'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
RRP: £12.99£8.43"[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... -
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£9.57NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived... -
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History by Jeff Nussbaum
RRP: £29.99£19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250240705Author Jeff NussbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm *... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
RRP: £12.99£8.43***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
Five Hundred Years Of Printing by S. Steinberg 9780486814452
RRP: £12.49£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486814452Author S. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99£9.34Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later... -
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99£7.57The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the... -
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
RRP: £20.00£13.46This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally... -
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville
RRP: £9.99£6.73"Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew." Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassConspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered 11 people in... -
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393310955
RRP: £15.95£10.13Social 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... -
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 9781982130855
RRP: £28.00£18.34NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Executive producer and host Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal... -
The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War by Henry Buckley
£20.70In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of... -
Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
£19.37Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected... -
Dagga: A short story by Hazel Crampton
£8.22This book is intended as a conversation piece. It does not purport to be a comprehensive take on dagga, aka cannabis, marijuana, bhanga, ganga, pot, zol, weed, etc., but is intended simply as an overview. Its hope is to provide a background to dagga in... -
Howard Zinn On History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £11.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609801328Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 255g -
A Zone of Engagement by Perry Anderson
£24.38The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the... -
The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History by Romila Thapar
RRP: £20.00£17.77Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the... -
Theology, History, and the Modern German University by Kevin M. Vander Schel
RRP: £79.90£79.70Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of... -
Selbstsein als Sich-Wissen?: Zur Bedeutung der Wissensgeschichte für die Historisierbarkeit des Subjekts by Sandra Janßen
RRP: £93.00£91.39Die Frage, ob es eine Geschichte der Weisen gibt, in denen Menschen sich selbst erleben, also eine Geschichte des Subjekts, wird vielfach als eine der sozialen Gebilde dargestellt, die den Einzelnen formen oder 'subjektivieren'. Sie kann sich aber auch... -
The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean: A History of Cross-Cultural Encounters by Ozlem Caykent
RRP: £95.00£94.80The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece,... -
Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing by Jie-Hyun Lim
£22.82South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist... -
The Deadline: Essays by Jill Lepore 9781631496127
RRP: £45.00£31.18Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary... -
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman 9780345303639
RRP: £21.00£15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272g -
Christmas and the Irish: A Miscellany: 2023 by Salvador Ryan 9781913934934
RRP: £35.00£22.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934934Author Salvador RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe
RRP: £16.99£11.21In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It,... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
£27.21The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh... -
Essays from the Edge: Parerga and Paralipomena by Martin Jay 9780813931333
£43.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pit of Doom: Escape from a Galapagos Death Camp (Bilingual, English/Spanish) by Jeanette Warner 9780998026633
£13.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.