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English Grounds: A Pastoral Journal by Andrew Rumsey 9780334061144
$26.16In this journal of short, lyrical reflections, Andrew Rumsey takes the reader on an exploration of faith, place and identity. Focusing on the author's home in Wiltshire, as he arrives to take up an ancient role in a testing time, English Grounds is both... -
Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language by Judith Tschann
RRP: $24.50$16.45'A splendid book . . . anyone who eats food and/or likes words will gain hours of innocent pleasure from this veritable feast of fun.' - Daily MailPerfect for readers of Susie Dent and Mark Forsyth, and fans of QI. All food has a story, reaching as far... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: $32.19$30.17Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: $28.38$22.39Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: $32.19$30.17Greco-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... -
Royal Books and Holy Bones by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $32.25$23.25In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the... -
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe 9781982130855
RRP: $36.12$22.74NEW 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 Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary by Paschalis M Kitromilides
RRP: $43.80$35.87Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire.The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) often goes missing from... -
Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays by Michael Crowder 9780714629438
RRP: $49.01$43.58Originally published in 1978, this volume provides a selection of Michael Crowder's wrtings on the impact of colonial rule in West Africa and African reaction to it from the conquest to independence. Key themes include the impact of European culture on... -
The Private Life of a Diary: From Pepys to Tweets - A History of the Diary as an Art Form by Sally Bayley
RRP: $12.89$8.57In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution - and the potential twenty first century death of - the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself. Diaries hold... -
The Histories: Bks. 1-3 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $32.19$30.17The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Book 1: Text in Greek, Commentary in English by Herodotus
RRP: $20.63$17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 1 by Athenaeus
RRP: $32.19$30.17Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: $23.21$14.29Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
RRP: $28.37$24.76The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five... -
Dagga: A short story by Hazel Crampton
RRP: $12.84$10.58This 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... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk.1-2 by Thucydides
RRP: $32.19$30.17Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he... -
Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville
RRP: $12.89$8.77"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... -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib
RRP: $28.38$25.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks by Dave Kyu 9781680511444
RRP: $21.87$18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions... -
The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War by Henry Buckley
$28.91In 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... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $21.92$15.84A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of... -
The Contemporary American Essay by Phillip Lopate
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Past and Present by Kurt Almqvist
RRP: $25.80$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069343Author Erica BennerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 1120g -
Past and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists by Gertrude Himmelfarb 9781594039256
RRP: $23.21$15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039256Author Gertrude HimmelfarbFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
Liberating Sapmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North by Gabriel Kuhn
RRP: $21.92$14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637129Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: $36.12$27.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408116Author Caroline Walker BynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm -
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870918 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25$2.97'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with... -
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name by Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870918
RRP: $32.25$22.73'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with... -
Red Diapers: GROWING UP IN THE COMMUNIST LEFT by Judy Ann Kaplan 9780252067259
RRP: $27.08$23.70Red Diapers is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by the children of American communists. These memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect the joys and perils of growing up in a subculture defined by its... -
Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College by Eric Burin 9780692833445
RRP: $10.32$8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692833445Author Eric BurinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, TPublisher Digital Press at the... -
Humanity in Context by J F Ade Ajayi 9781535335676
RRP: $21.92$18.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535335676Author J F Ade AjayiFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Practicing History: Selected Essays by Barbara W. Tuchman 9780345303639
$19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
RRP: $36.12$21.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Yearbook of Transnational History: (2022) by Thomas Adam 9781683933519
RRP: $104.49$91.67The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume... -
Ideas Under Fire: Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity by Jonathan Lavery 9781683930693
RRP: $64.50$56.45Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,... -
Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman by Mary Jane Treacy 9781469670690
RRP: $38.64$36.51Greenwich Village, 1913 immerses students in the radical possibilities unlocked by the modern age. Exposed to ideas like women's suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism, students experiment with forms of political participation and bohemian... -
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition by Torrey James Luce 9780691631752
$113.39In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for... -
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 151, 2006 Lectures by Professor P.J Marshall, CBE, FBA 9780197264249
$144.65Volume 151 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2006. From consideration of Einstein, to discussions of coercion and consent in Nazi Germany, and judicial independence.Book InformationISBN... -
Theology, History, and the Modern German University by Kevin M. Vander Schel
$103.64Questions 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...