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Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed, from around $800 an ounce in August of that year to a peak of around $1,700 an ounce. Fortunes have been made, and this has kicked off an unprecedented gold-mining and prospective boom...

Gameboys, grunge, Friends and The Fresh Prince - growing up in the 1990s was rad. So why not take yourself back to a time when the Spice Girls were topping the charts and Push Pops were being eaten by the thousands, to discover if you really are a true...

You can still do a perfect Elvis sneer, believing that it thrills the ladies. You are one of the few people that can distinguish the balls in snooker on a black and white TV screen. Do you remember when Elvis first `entered the building', dancing to...

Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath...

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' - the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command - held Goeering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby...

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution. Blood, Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been...

From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the...

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the...

In April 1982, Argentina surprised the world by invading the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The tiny islands had long been the subject of a fierce territorial dispute between Argentina and the UK, and the occupation quickly escalated into a...

The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signalled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. In Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, A.G.D. Maran charts the complete history of the world's most infamous criminal organisation, from...

This is the tie-in book to a two part "BBC 1" documentary series to be screened at 9.00pm in October and which will end on the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October. Chris Terrill is famous for his fly on the wall documentaries...

At the darkest time of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days are short, comes the most joyful of festivals, the celebration of the birth of Christ. This touching Pitkin Guide looks at Christmas, that truly magical season that brings...

The abandoned Mary Celeste is mysteriously found drifting in the mid-Atlantic; Mozart is buried in an unmarked communal grave; and Prohibition in America is brought to an end. Although separated by centuries, these events all share the same anniversary:...

The highly successful Retronaut blog looks at the past as it has never been looked at before. Here, in the second of a new series of Retronaut books, the site's founder, Wolfgang Wild, brings you a thought-provoking collection of photographs from our...

Millions are addicted to the Retronaut blog, one of the Web's leading visual sites, that shows you the past you never knew existed. Here, in the first of a new series of books, the site's founder, Wolfgang Wild, brings together an astonishing and...

Not many of us can claim to have dipped our handkerchiefs in Charles I's blood after his execution, or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that's about to change... Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt's Time Travel Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to...

In a career spanning forty years, Angus Roxburgh lived and worked in Russia as a literary translator, as Moscow correspondent of the Sunday Times and the BBC, and as a media consultant to the Kremlin. He witnessed Russian history unfolding at first hand...

'There were two theories about the Black Death. One was that it was bionic plague.' So says one of Paul Sharpe's history pupils. Or how about this one: 'Elgar taught himself to play the violin, cello and baboon - ' This is a rib-tickling little...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845895440Author Julia SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

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A history of Merthyr Tydfil.Book InformationISBN 9781845883935Author Merthyr Tydfil LibrariesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842432310Author Tom BowlingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books LtdWeight(grams) 275g

Follow-up to the hit BBC series Victorian Farm Victorian Farm sold over 40,000 copies (Nielsen Bookscan figures) Includes projects and recipes to try at home Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm, this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC...

"There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention Black Hawk Down ." - A senior Obama administration official, as quoted in The New York Times, 02/05/2011 From Mark Bowden, internationally bestselling and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Tessa Dunlop made pains to select women from broad walks of life and succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry of experiences.'The Independent 'A warm-hearted and engaging read, The Century Girls is replete with wonderful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955091421Author Jonathan WildFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Bettys & Taylors GroupPublisher Bettys & Taylors Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951812846Author Dane LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948975615Author Brenda J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Millstream BooksPublisher Millstream BooksWeight(grams) 468g

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In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559724838Author Stephen J. SpignesiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Carol Publishing Group,U.S.

Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the...

Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to succeed in AQA GCSE Modern World History. How this revision guide helps you:- It condenses each topic into easy-to-revise chunks- There is a...

The compelling true story that inspired the hugely successful major ITV drama series HOME FIRES - now in its second season. The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and...

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore...