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The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome by Richard Hunter 9780521691796
RRP: $60.88$51.28Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander,... -
The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and(Entirely) Entertaining Story of America by Erik Sass 9780061928239
RRP: $27.28$26.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061928239Author Erik SassFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vols. I and II by John Lloyd Stephens 9781605204468
$73.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605204468Author John Lloyd StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1025g -
The Vatersay Raiders by Ben Buxton 9781839830327
$32.70All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where... -
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giuseppe Fiori 9780860915331
RRP: $44.08$37.99Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight Rian Malan 9781611856057
RRP: $37.78$26.46For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly... -
The Question of German Unification: 1806-1996 by Imanuel Geiss
RRP: $92.38$80.72The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification... -
The Wars Of The Roses Bruce Webster 9781857284935
RRP: $79.78$69.55A problem-focused and clearly organized survey of the dynastic strife and crisis of medieval government in 15th century England.About the AuthorMr Bruce Webster, Bruce WebsterBook InformationISBN 9781857284935Author Bruce WebsterFormat PaperbackPage... -
Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the Sea Paul Begg 9781405836210
RRP: $77.68$74.49Mary Celeste is an iconic mystery - a perfectly seaworthy ship found wandering aimlessly at sea, her crew strangely and inexplicably missing.Paul Begg tells the story of the discovery of Mary Celeste and the people who vanished, and investigates over a... -
Autobiography of Peter Cartwright: The Backwoods Preacher, an American Methodist and Christian Revivalist of the Midwest by Peter Cartwright 9780359031696
RRP: $28.77$25.98Peter Cartwright, affectionately termed the 'backwoods preacher', tells his life story; a tale of adventure, hardship and inspiration for all who follow God's path. Born at a time when the USA was a newborn nation, Peter Cartwright experienced a formal... -
Old Egremont by Alan E. Read 9781840332063
RRP: $25.10$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332063Author Alan E. ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland: Voices out of Silence by Mary Gethins 9780719087431
RRP: $41.98$36.98This exciting book, newly available in paperback, aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland... -
Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe by Agusti Nieto-Galan 9780792370222
RRP: $188.98$188.73Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into thematic chapters, it uncovers new data from the vast... -
Chronologia: History by the Minute by Norman Ferguson 9780752470207
RRP: $10.48$7.69At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? Just when was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock when Titanic sunk? When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated? All these questions and... -
Pupils of the Eye by Natasha Hoffman 9780244755980
RRP: $28.60$25.83This book is about the Intuitive Wisdom of the Third Eye, and how over time we have lost our ability to trust it, which in turn has disempowered us. In these pages we learn of the Wisdom Keepers of old, the Astronomer Priests, and the six Archangels who... -
Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945 by Gordon Martel 9780415078122 [USED COPY]
RRP: $88.18$4.81First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their... -
Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945 by Gordon Martel
RRP: $88.18$77.18First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their... -
Lincoln by Richard Carwardine 9780582032798
RRP: $90.28$88.75Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, he has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who... -
A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts Philip Beale 9781859284049
RRP: $241.50$207.84From Roman times until this century the business of government has been largely carried out by the writing of letters, either in the form of instructions or of authorisations to deliver information orally. These documents were addressed to the recipient... -
Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into Germany by Captivating History 9781637161241
RRP: $37.74$25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161241Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)... -
Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925 Anne Bang 9780415758604
RRP: $92.38$80.72Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi... -
From Our House to Penthouse: A Homage to London Loved and Lost by Matthew Bazell 9781398431966
RRP: $58.78$41.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398431966Author Matthew BazellFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England: A Sourcebook Victor Stater (Louisiana State University, US) 9780415207447
RRP: $79.78$70.10A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under... -
The Conduct of War 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions on War and Its Conduct by J. F. C. Fuller
RRP: $88.18$77.78This book, originally published in 1961, examines the wars from the age of absolute rulers, and the destructive impact of revolutionary and democratic government on this state of affairs. It discusses the relation between war and policy, and takes into... -
The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume IV: 1782-1784 by Samuel Johnson 9780198119517
$130.81The Letters of Samuel Johnson, known as the Hyde Edition, is the most complete scholarly edition of Johnsons's letters ever to appear. In editing these five volumes, Bruce Redford has included fifty-two newly discovered letters or parts of letters, and... -
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 by Kevin Grant 9780415949019
RRP: $77.68$68.31In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these... -
Companion Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Roger Cooter
RRP: $178.48$157.19During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to the state, the industrial economy and the welfare of... -
The Shame of the Cities: The Famous Muckraking Expose of Corruption in America's Cities: St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York by Lincoln Steffens 9780359747849
RRP: $20.48$18.21Renowned muckraker and investigative reporter Lincoln Steffens recounts a series of historic corruption scandals in cities of the United States. The various backhanders and embezzlements occurring in the urban councils of the USA in the late 19th century... -
Florence Maybrick and Jack the Ripper by Kieran James 9780244038915
RRP: $11.13$10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244038915Author Kieran JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 86g -
Soldiers of Germania - The European Volunteers of the Waffen Ss. by Gerry Villani 9780359509294
RRP: $66.13$58.70They called themselves the "assault generation" and they had largely been born in the years during and after World War I. Coming from every nation of Europe, they had risen up against communism and banded together under one flag for a common... -
Old Cumnock Joe Lampard 9781840333350
RRP: $16.78$15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333350Author Joe LampardFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology by Ian McNeil
RRP: $262.50$229.87Available for the first time in paperback, this volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without... -
The Tragedies of Ennius: The Fragments by H.D. Jocelyn 9780521068963
RRP: $65.08$60.23The Tragedies of Ennius were theatrical adaptations of Attic originals. None has survived; but fragments of twenty-two of them can be found in the work of other writers. Dr Jocelyn prints all the identifiable fragments, substantial extracts from the... -
All About Liverpool by David Simpson 9781909486041
RRP: $10.40$8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909486041Author David SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint My WorldPublisher New Writing NorthWeight(grams) 101g -
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845-1914 Joseph Melling 9781138008694
RRP: $92.38$81.35The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on... -
The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century by Daniel Corkery 9781620321386
RRP: $73.50$44.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620321386Author Daniel CorkeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Across America By Motor-Cycle by C K Shepherd 9789388396363
RRP: $25.20$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388396363Author C K ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 11mm -
Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth by Hans Koning 9780853458258
RRP: $23.08$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458258Author Hans KoningFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 186g -
The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900-1200 by Daniel M. G. Gerrard
RRP: $83.98$73.63The fighting bishop or abbot is a familiar figure to medievalists and much of what is known of the military organization of England in this period is based on ecclesiastical evidence. Unfortunately the fighting cleric has generally been regarded as... -
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by R. Takaki 9780316831307
RRP: $39.88$28.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831307Author R. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Time Warner Trade PublishingPublisher Time Warner Trade Publishing