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Excruciating History of Dentistry by James Wynbrandt 9780312263195
RRP: $25.79$16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263195Author James WynbrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Merseyside Tales: Curious and Amazing True Stories from History by Ken Pye
RRP: $12.89$9.74This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside's history. The fifty stories inside - from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women 'smothered by the incurable malady they... -
Putting the Tea in Britain: The Scots Who Made Our National Drink by Les Wilson
RRP: $19.34$12.64'Deserves to sell like hot cakes' - Allan Massie, The Scotsman Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a 'nice cup of tea' has been a stock British response to a crisis. But... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 1 by Owen David 9780752423647 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.47This collection of over 200 images provides an illustrated account of the development of the South Wales Coalfield, once one of the largest and most productive in Britain. It illustrates the area's industrial history during the past two hundred years as... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 1 by Owen David
RRP: $16.76$12.41This collection of over 200 images provides an illustrated account of the development of the South Wales Coalfield, once one of the largest and most productive in Britain. It illustrates the area's industrial history during the past two hundred years as... -
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain by Dr Joseph Jebelli
RRP: $25.80$17.74The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just... -
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
RRP: $14.18$9.44***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' Erik LarsonDevotion tells the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white New Englander, and... -
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
RRP: $16.76$11.73WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD 'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van Emden The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers... -
The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters by J. C. Masterman
RRP: $14.18$10.02J.C. Masterman was chairman of the Double-Cross Committee at the height of World War Two. This is his account of the double agents, deception and counter-espionage which were key to the victory of D-Day. Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945,... -
Disney Mickey and Friends Colouring Book by Walt Disney 9781800785564
RRP: $14.18$10.55Colour in Mickey Mouse and friends in this all-new official Disney colouring book! Colour your way through a stunning collection of images of Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck and more. Discover art from classic and new shorts, favourite books, comics, graphic... -
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 by Reinaldo Funes Monzote 9780807858585
RRP: $55.41$51.23This is the story of Cuba's forests.In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and... -
Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West by Jason Webster
RRP: $16.76$11.09Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture... -
Picturing the Pacific by James Taylor
RRP: $32.25$25.65For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of... -
Lancashire's Sacred Landscape: From Prehistory to the Viking Age by Linda Sever 9780752455877
RRP: $19.34$14.90Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, does not at first tend to conjure up an images of 'a sacred' landscape. But look at bit deeper and one will discover a vast array of sites of ritual and early worship. Archaeological remains of... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: $10.31$7.47Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Southend Then & Now by Ken Crowe 9780750965026
RRP: $19.34$13.13Southend-on-Sea has gone through many transformations since its birth in the Middle Ages when a settlement of farmers and fishermen was established at the southernmost end of the lands of Prittlewell Priory. Having acquired the name 'South End', the area... -
Aberdeen in the Fifties and Sixties by David Smith 9781780911144
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911144Author David SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 260mm * 195mm * 15mm -
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing 9781408713709
RRP: $25.80$15.54'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a... -
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman 9780060888398
RRP: $19.34$14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060888398Author Larry BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm)... -
After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe by Michael Jones
RRP: $16.76$11.09On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Doenitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in... -
Mountain Days & Bothy Nights by Dave Brown
RRP: $9.68$9.52Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.About the... -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: $30.96$29.71For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The... -
Barbot on Guinea: Volume II by P.E.H. Hair
RRP: $51.59$42.27Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $25.80$17.61'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions... Road to Surrender by New... -
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer
RRP: $16.76$10.55The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world. 'Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.' The Sunday Times Francesca... -
Dracula's Whitby by Ian Thompson
RRP: $20.63$14.98DRACULA is such an iconic figure that he has inspired hundreds of films and television programmes for over a century. He has appeared in over 215 films and, since its publication in 1897, Dracula has never been out of print. Most people have a very... -
Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 by Dr Daibhi O Croinin
RRP: $54.17$52.63This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the... -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment by David M. Turner
RRP: $56.75$49.59This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
Witchcraze by Anne Llewellyn Barstow 9780062510365
RRP: $20.63$12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510365Author Anne BarstowFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition by Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: $67.07$58.81The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $21.92$14.89Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere, Athenais... -
Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of legal history by Peter Seddon 9781911622352
RRP: $16.76$10.94A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of... -
Queen Victoria's Children by John van der Kiste 9780752454726
RRP: $12.89$9.74Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by... -
A Century of Burnley: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: $20.63$15.80A Century of Barnsley offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Barnsley's recent history are... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: $19.34$13.89Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
Hungary: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $14.18$10.02The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of... -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
$28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: $16.76$11.13Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: $21.92$16.09Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and cathedrals to a wealth of elegant Georgian townhouses... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $14.18$9.44The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they...