Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Dialogues of Plato by Plato
RRP: £5.99£4.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213713Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
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,... -
In These Hills by Ralph Beer
RRP: £12.99£11.38After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac... -
The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History by Romila Thapar
RRP: £20.00£16.98Nations 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... -
Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat by Ewald Frie 9783161566899
RRP: £70.40£37.01Why do things change at certain times and not at others? The contributions collected in this volume approach this question from the perspective of threat. Defined as the self-alerting which goes on within societies and social groups, threats open up... -
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History by Peter Furtado 9780500296134
RRP: £14.99£9.80A collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19... -
Unusual Aberdonians: 36 (ish) Lives Less Ordinary in the North East of Scotland by Lia Sanders 9781696591805
RRP: £10.00£8.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781696591805Author Lia SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)... -
The Holker Album: Textile Samples and Industrial Espionage in the 18th Century by Ariane Fennetaux
RRP: £60.00£39.99In 1751, John Holker (1719-1786), an English textile manufacturer exiled in France, undertook an industrial espionage mission to England to collect samples of English textiles on behalf of the French king, Louis XV. On his return, the samples were... -
Howard Zinn On History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies 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 -
Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing by Jie-Hyun Lim
RRP: £30.00£23.29South 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... -
What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley 9780425198186
RRP: £24.00£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425198186Author Robert CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780226981536
RRP: £24.00£23.03"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old cliches about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that... -
The Deadline: Essays by Jill Lepore 9781631496127
RRP: £35.00£30.26Few, 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... -
The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling by Gertrude Himmelfarb 9781442218291
RRP: £40.00£35.22In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they... -
Lord Acton: Historical and Moral Essays by Daniel J Hugger 9781942503521
RRP: £14.95£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942503521Author Daniel J HuggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Acton InstitutePublisher Acton InstituteWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
A Zone of Engagement by Perry Anderson
£25.10The 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 Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm 9781580051095
£21.06The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the infamous Grace O'Malley, a ruthless pirate and scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain, sea captain, and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, a... -
The Blaze in the Balkans: Selected Writings 1903-1941 by M.Edith Durham
£54.87Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate and well-informed commentator on the twists and turns of Balkan politics and the machinations of the Great Powers. The pieces in... -
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s by Brian Aldiss 9780007482085
RRP: £24.99£19.20In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time. ... -
The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Victorian England, Volume 1 by Liese Sherwood-Fabre 9780998411200
RRP: £9.99£6.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998411200Author Liese Sherwood-FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Little ELM PressPublisher Little ELM PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
A Tramp's Philosophy: The Rediscovered Classic of Sagacious Twaddle, and Occasional Insight by One with Erudition and Experience in Peregrination by Bart Kennedy 9781627310949
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310949Author Bart KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History by Dorothee Brantz 9780813946429
RRP: £29.95£29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946429Author Dorothee BrantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 150 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VI by Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA 9780197264232
£94.21Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William Frend; John Gallagher; Philip Grierson; Stuart Hampsire; William McKane; Sir Malcolm Pasley; Ben Pimlott; Robert Pring-Mill; John Stevens,... -
Christmas and the Irish: A Miscellany: 2023 by Salvador Ryan 9781913934934
RRP: £22.50£21.99Apologies 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: £17.99£11.24In 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,... -
Conversations with John F. Kennedy by Eustace Clarence Mullins 9781912452224
RRP: £18.00£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912452224Author Eustace Clarence MullinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Essays of Francis Bacon: The Fifty-Nine Essays, Complete (Hardcover) by Francis Bacon 9781387780099
RRP: £24.82£21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387780099Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: £35.00£27.74The 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... -
Curiosities Of Literature, By I. D'israeli by Anonymous 9781022384996
£13.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Geographic Influences in American History by Albert Perry Brigham 9781021898456
£17.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Collected Historical Works Of Sir Francis Palgrave; Volume II by R H Palgrave 9781019865590
RRP: £33.95£31.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Legacy of Historical Gleaning by Catherin V R Bonney 9781021492203
RRP: £23.95£21.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Recreations In History by James William Lord Bishop of Williams 9781021038357
RRP: £22.95£20.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent 9781019069462
RRP: £33.95£30.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019069462Author William Peterfield TrentFormat HardbackPage Count 614Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Coming of the Friars, and Other Historic Essays by Augustus Jessopp 9781018894447
RRP: £26.95£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781018894447Author Augustus JessoppFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 667g -
Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent 9781019074824
RRP: £25.95£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019074824Author William Peterfield TrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 848g -
History of the Burgh of Canongate by John MacKay 9781018225166
RRP: £13.95£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781018225166Author John MacKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 156g -
History of the Burgh of Canongate by John MacKay 9781018220208
RRP: £24.95£21.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781018220208Author John MacKayFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 435g -
The Beginning of the Middle Ages by Richard William Church 9781017885996
RRP: £15.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781017885996Author Richard William ChurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 345g -
A History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White 9781015670815
RRP: £22.95£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015670815Author Andrew Dickson WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 680g