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Cannabis: A History by Martin Booth 9780553814187
RRP: $16.76$11.73To some it's antisocial anathema, to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provides relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug that leads to 'reefer madness' and addiction; to others still it is a legal anomaly and should be... -
All About Passion: Number 7 in series by Stephanie Laurens
RRP: $12.89$8.77"If one is not marrying for love, one may as well marry for something else. My future countess has to be sufficiently docile and endowed with at least passable grace of form, deportment and address. "Gyles Rawlings, fifth Earl of Chillingworth and... -
Hertford in 50 Buildings by Paul Rabbitts 9781398103788
RRP: $20.63$14.00The River Lea and its crossing at Hertford lie at the heart of the town's history. Before the Norman Conquest the river formed a natural boundary between the Danelaw to the north and Saxon Wessex to the south. Saxon villages already existed at Bengeo and... -
St George, Redfield and Whitehall: Images of England by David Cheesley 9780752422206
RRP: $16.76$12.41In this intriguing selection of archive images the areas of St George, Redfield and Whitehall have been evocatively recreated using over 200 photographs, postcards and engravings which illustrate the diverse history of this east Bristol district. From... -
Highgate: Britain in Old Photographs by Paul Feeney
RRP: $20.63$15.80Illustrated with 200 archive photographs, postcards and other printed ephemera, many previously unpublished, Highgate guides the reader on a circular journey around the area, taking in street scenes, buildings, monuments and public spaces, including... -
The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War by Kyle J. Anderson
RRP: $58.05$50.54During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work handling military logistics in Europe and the Middle East. British authorities... -
It Happened in Shropshire by Bob Burrows
RRP: $16.76$12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122195Author Bob BurrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 375g -
Rochdale Canal by John Evans
RRP: $20.63$14.00Twenty years have passed since the Rochdale Canal reopened following a restoration scheme that faced almost impossible hurdles. One of three commercial waterways across the Pennines, the canal links the industrial North West and North East, flowing... -
Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award by Christopher McGrath
RRP: $16.76$11.09Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardIn 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra. Thomas Darley hoped this horse might be the ticket to a new life back in... -
Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $15.47$10.32BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks,... -
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
RRP: $20.63$14.13When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it... -
Growing Up in Wartime Uxbridge by Stephen Skinner 9780752445434
RRP: $16.76$12.41From a child's viewpoint, the pre-war years of the 1930s were full of carefree, halcyon days when the sun always used to shine; but for many people the 1930s were, regrettably, quite the opposite. In this book all aspects from pre-war to post-war... -
Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff
RRP: $12.89$9.17In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit. With vivid intensity... -
Making Cars at Cowley: From Morris to Mini by Gillian Bardsley 9780752491462
RRP: $20.63$15.80In 1913 an ambitious young businessman named William Morris converted a derelict military college on the outskirts of Oxford into an assembly hall for motor vehicles. He thus opened the first chapter in one of the most extraordinary success stories of... -
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
RRP: $32.25$24.02A sumptuous treasury of original fairytales from the brothers Grimm, introduced by award-winning author Cornelia Funke and with full colour illustrations by artists Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Helen Oxenbury and Emma... -
Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg by Paul Vallely
RRP: $38.70$28.32'This is the definitive book on philanthropy - its history, contradictions and future' - John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics 'Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book is... -
Space 2069: After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond by David Whitehouse 9781785786464
RRP: $21.92$15.84Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years of... -
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509507443
RRP: $21.92$19.63Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: $25.80$17.42'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth 9780198848097
RRP: $12.89$9.40William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the... -
Untitled by Rick Gekoski
RRP: $24.50$16.45The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn''Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian RankinRick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: $16.76$11.09- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits? - Is The Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? - Is it... -
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Wonderfully evocative ... Not for a heartbeat is there a false or faltering note as various life stories unfurl and conflate, invariably amid hardship and leading to heartbreak' The Times The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley in Yorkshire were... -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
RRP: $28.32$22.73Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In... -
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $38.70$30.04Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to... -
Voices of Oldham by Derek J. Southall 9780752435442
RRP: $16.76$12.41An oral history of Oldham.Book InformationISBN 9780752435442Author Derek J SouthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Bethlehem: Biography of a Town by Nicholas Blincoe
RRP: $16.76$5.30The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli... -
Time and Narrative: v. 3 by D. Pellauer
RRP: $30.96$25.95In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in... -
The Sixties Railway by Greg Morse
RRP: $11.60$7.77This is a portrait of a railway network that became beloved of the last generations lucky enough to experience mainline steam. The 1960s saw great change in British society, which was moving ever further from the deference that had been ebbing since the... -
Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary: William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator by Robert Stedall 9781526787798
RRP: $32.25$22.73Maitland was the most able politician and diplomat during the lifetime of Mary Queen of Scots. It was he who master-minded the Scottish Reformation by breaking the 'Auld Alliance' with France, which presaged Scotland's lasting union with England. ... -
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain by Christian Wolmar 9781843546306 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$2.95The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who... -
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $19.34$12.64The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who... -
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Simon Jarrett
RRP: $32.25$23.25Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in today's society. Using evidence from civil and criminal... -
Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station by Peter Watts 9780993570209
RRP: $25.80$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993570209Author Peter WattsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Paradise RoadPublisher Paradise Road -
The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
RRP: $38.70$26.70The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the social history of opera houses and impresarios,... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: $38.70$29.23In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's a book that had been long in the making. Master William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies was the first collected... -
Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: $25.79$18.90Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions,... -
Enchanting Pleasures by Eloisa James
RRP: $12.89$8.77Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes the portrait of her betrothed, the perfect Peter Dewland...until she meets his commanding older brother Quill. But it is Peter to whom she has been promised. And how can she possibly transform her voluptuous, outspoken... -
The Bombing of London 1940-41: The Blitz and its impact on the capital by John Conen
RRP: $18.05$12.58This is the story of the London Blitz of 1940-41 and is a combination of social and military history of this time. The title emphasises bombing over blitz as the word 'Blitz' has now taken on a much more general meaning associated with Britain's wartime... -
The Vietnam Wars by Marilyn Young 9780060921071
$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921071Author Marilyn YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm)...