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The 1848 Revolutions by Peter Jones 9780582061064
RRP: $77.68$63.82In 1848 revolutions broke out all over Europe - in France, the Habsburg and German lands and the Italian peninsular. This Seminar Study considers why the revolutions occurred and why they were so widespread. The book offers a broad ranging investigation... -
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning by Peter Stanford
RRP: $23.08$15.98A thought-provoking reflection on pilgrimage past and present, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today. The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern... -
Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by Ronnie Ellenblum 9780521521871
RRP: $83.98$69.85This book is a study of the spatial distribution of Frankish settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, and of the spatial and social interrelation between the Franks and the indigenous population. It is based on an... -
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine 9780691149837
$59.93The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military... -
Solomon's Treasure: the Magic and Mystery of America's Money by Tracy, R. Twyman 9780976170464
$58.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976170464Author Tracy, R. TwymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Dragon Key PressPublisher Dragon Key PressWeight(grams) 370g -
The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of Threat by Benjamin Wittes
RRP: $23.08$15.67From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying, today's governments have harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: $63.00$48.34In 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... -
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie 9781444759693 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.47'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines' Big Issue'Fascinating, very readable . . . provides a complete wartime... -
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie 9781444759693
RRP: $27.28$18.54'History at its most celebratory' Daily Telegraph'Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines' Big Issue'Fascinating, very readable . . . provides a complete wartime... -
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health by Laura Dawes 9781474601979 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88$5.57At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs, blood and medical resources would be in short supply; air... -
Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies by Maria Sophia Quine
RRP: $79.78$70.10Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization. Population Politics in Twentieth Century... -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: $36.37$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386182Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 329g -
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset Philippa Levine 9780815366232
RRP: $83.98$74.19The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living... -
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
RRP: $58.70$47.25With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an... -
Paranormal Buckinghamshire by Eddie Brazil 9781398114654
RRP: $33.58$22.79The paranormal history of Buckinghamshire is brought vividly to life in this, the first dedicated guide to the haunted and uncanny sites of this most beautiful, yet mysterious of home counties. Writer, photographer and psychical researcher Eddie Brazil... -
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
RRP: $23.08$17.12A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the... -
The Soviet Nationality Reader: The Disintegration In Context by Rachel Denber
RRP: $102.88$100.99Setting the context for the crisis that has fragmented the former USSR, this reader presents key essays by notable Western scholars who have shaped the debates within the field of Soviet nationality studies. Focusing first on the historical development... -
The Troubadours Linda M. Paterson 9781789149197
RRP: $35.60$26.15Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for... -
Management Secrets from History: How History Can Change the Way You Manage by Mark P. Donnelly
RRP: $20.98$16.32If you could go back in time and ask any historical figure for advice on how best to manage your business or staff, who would it be? Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Elizabeth I or Helena Rubinstein? Well, they are all here, and more... Featuring... -
Leonardo: Revised Edition by Mr Martin Kemp 9780199583355
RRP: $41.98$30.74This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp... -
Poole Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian Andrews 9780752452869
RRP: $31.48$24.61This absorbing collection of photographs, containing many rare and unpublished images of Poole, illustrates the changes that have been seen in this picturesque seaside town as it has evolved over the years. Featuring scenes from work and home life to the... -
Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach Peter Loewenberg 9781560008460
RRP: $96.58$84.27In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new... -
The Little Book of Norwich by Neil Storey
RRP: $31.48$24.61Norwich is a city that has seen it all. Its citizens have been murdered with poisoned dumplings, royalty and rogues have walked the same cobbled streets, and rioters have mustered outside its city gates. Quirky details and local anecdotes abound as this... -
To War With the Walkers: 'Once read, never forgotten' -The Times by Annabel Venning 9781473679320 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and... -
To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War Annabel Venning 9781473679320
RRP: $23.08$15.98**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and... -
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
RRP: $37.80$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250058294Author Rose GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides by Christian G. Appy 9780091910129 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.20$2.84In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky... -
Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides by Christian G. Appy
RRP: $46.20$33.64In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky... -
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $27.28$18.54I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term... -
The King's Cathedral: The ancient heart of Christ Church, Oxford by Judith Curthoys
RRP: $73.50$52.67The cathedral church of Christ in Oxford - better known as Christ Church Cathedral - was established in 1546. It forms one half of Christ Church, the unique joint foundation of cathedral and university college created by King Henry VIII. Today's... -
The Lost Executioner by Nic Dunlop 9781408804018
RRP: $31.48$24.68Between 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two million people were killed. As head of the Khmer Rouge's secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for... -
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 9780312302399
RRP: $65.08$41.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302399Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 477Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: $23.08$15.98Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous --... -
English Society 1580-1680 by Keith Wrightson
RRP: $79.78$70.10English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and... -
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
RRP: $33.58$23.33When 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... -
The Guide to Suffolk Churches by D. P. Mortlock 9780718830762
RRP: $78.75$62.39Suffolk is a county renowned for the beauty of its many parish churches, but for the average visitor the physical language in which they speak, that of stained glass, engraved fonts, and hammer-beamed roofs, is bewildering. Now available in an updated,... -
Arran: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: $16.78$11.84The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offering a huge variety of rocks that represent a massive slice through geological time. From the ancient bent and... -
The Cardiff Book of Days by Mike Hall 9780752460086
RRP: $20.98$16.32Taking you through the year day by day, The Cardiff Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain as a... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 9781472262295
RRP: $27.28$18.54IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world with new ideas since 1948. Every year, a world-leading... -
The Nazis Knew My Name by Maya Lee 9781398506299
RRP: $18.88$12.62'This thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust' - Ariana Neumann The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through...