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Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson
RRP: $17.53$11.74'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... -
Heroes of Postman's Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London by Dr. John Price
RRP: $33.13$25.23The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing fifty-four ceramic plaques commemorating sixty-two individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque... -
Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway 9780099583189
RRP: $25.33$17.73'The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.' - Ernest HemingwayA unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781857152340
RRP: $39.00$28.65Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $25.33$17.73Roberto 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... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146
RRP: $21.43$14.27'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: $48.75$40.13Through 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... -
White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences by Themrise Khan 9781990263187
RRP: $40.93$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263187Author Themrise KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 940g -
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $21.43$14.27The 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: $39.00$26.25This 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... -
Five Hundred Years Of Printing by S. Steinberg 9780486814452
RRP: $24.36$17.08Apologies 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)... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: $19.48$13.86Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: $37.03$24.86"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
Taming Fruit: How Orchards Past and Present Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity by Bernd Brunner
RRP: $48.73$33.38A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration... -
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History by Jeff Nussbaum 9781250245670
RRP: $38.98$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250245670Author Jeff NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 142mm *... -
The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities by Fintan O'Toole 9781859841327
$29.70The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in... -
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
$54.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807056431Author Karl PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm -
A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472
RRP: $38.98$34.20This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to... -
Broken: in the Best Possible Way by Jenny Lawson 9781529066814
RRP: $19.48$14.18The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Now with a new bonus chapter.'Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic... -
Nigeria in Evolution by Moses Akinola Makinde 9781535286596
RRP: $23.38$18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535286596Author Tekena N TamunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: $42.90$30.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: $33.13$24.73Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous... -
The Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: $25.33$18.92The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $39.00$31.77A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
France in the World: A New Global History by Patrick Boucheron
RRP: $38.98$28.39A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group... -
The Rights of Man: or, What Are We Fighting For? by H.G. Wells 9781913724702
RRP: $11.68$10.10In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made international waves. Wells, a socialist and prominent political thinker as well as a first-rate novelist, set down in The Rights of Man a stirring manifesto,... -
In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
$26.79For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: $31.18$21.53In 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 Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
$41.09Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that... -
Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors by Debra Brown 9780996264815
$41.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996264815Author Debra BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Madison Street PublishingPublisher Madison Street PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Book of the Islamic Market Inspector by Ronald Paul Buckley 9780199224340
$81.26The book is a fully annotated translation of al-Shayzari's Nihayat al-Rutba fi Talab al-Hisba (The Utmost Degree in the Pursuit of Hisba), a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. It is the... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
RRP: $21.43$14.43The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393310955
RRP: $25.33$19.17Social 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 First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials by Edward Peters
RRP: $54.58$47.07The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders-"those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
RRP: $48.65$45.61Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
The Bhagavad-Gita by Georg Feuerstein, PhD 9781611800388
RRP: $62.40$40.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800388Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: $58.50$33.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae by Livy
RRP: $27.28$19.79'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and... -
Christian Beginnings: A Study in Ancient Mediterranean Religion by Stanley K Stowers 9781399510066
RRP: $185.25$169.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510066Author Stanley StowersFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
$56.75In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,...