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"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in...

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London...

As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so...

A third selection of photographs of the Hampshire town of Fleet from the archives of local author Percy Vickery. Chapters include work, people, street scenes, sport and pastimes and wartime and provide a comprehensive history of the town and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855683471Author Gervase PhinnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855683471Author Gervase PhinnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' L. P. Hartley. (The Go Between) This is the story of 'Jefferyland' : the story of the Jeffery family of Derbyshire who have farmed in the Dove Valley area between Ashbourne, Derby and...

Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361029Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016440Author Philip F GuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays and interviews on topics ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood and making and sustaining relationships of...

In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second...

The Making of England places the history of early England firmly within the European sphere of influence. It draws upon the latest multi-disciplinary research and debates from science, archaeology, literature and documentary evidence, with an eye on...

Although it is only half an hour from Leeds and Bradford, Ilkley has retained its smell-town atmosphere. Referred to in the Domesday Book, it was a small argricultural village for centuries; all this changed when the potential of the local waters was...

He will father your children...'When Catriona Hennessy, honourable Scottish Lady of the Vale, receives this prediction, she is exceedingly vexed. How can she unite with a rake like Richard Cynster - a masterful man with a scandalous reputation? More...

While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak. Irishisms examines...

Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy...

An unprecedented comprehensive study exploring in depths all the aspects of the Hairy Humanoids phenomenon. From ancestral tribal knowledge, ancient lore, historic reports, and modern research, to psychic and paranormal phenomena, first hand encounters...

A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of...

This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to,...

In this unparalleled investigation, Christopher Davidson exposes the true extent of Western interference in the Middle East over the past one hundred years. Drawing on the examination of hundreds of leaked and declassified documents, and interviews with...

Edward VI was the son of Henry VIII and his second wife, Jane Seymour. He ruled for only six years (1547-1553) and died at the age of sixteen. But these were years of fundamental importance in the history of the English state, and in particular of the...

A Guardian `Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017; Birdsong is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture its fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia.; In this captivating and lively account, Richard Smyth explores...

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to...

This is a fascinating collection of many unpublished photographs showing Crewe's development during the twentieth century. Illustrated with well over 200 old photographs and images, it traces changes and development, and highlights the architectural...

'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' TimeOne of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned...

The third book in M.C. Beaton's charming Travelling Matchmaker series. Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861834310Author Hope L. BourneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Exmoor BooksPublisher Halsgrove

A Century of Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton's recent history...

The first edition of this book was published in 1978 and proved a valuable addition to our collection of Army books. Sadly it has been out-of-print for many years. Now WRG is happy to produce this revised second edition and make it available to wargamers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914978Author Malcolm BobbitFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

To most Jewish immigrants New York was America. Not many ventured as far as North Dakota at the turn of the century. Sophie Trupin writes of her father and other Jewish farmers who came to the northern plains: "Each was a Moses in his own right, leading...

In his comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through Late Antiquity, Lee Levine traces the origins and development of this dynamic and revolutionary institution. This revised paperback edition reflects the latest information...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466655Author Brian HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.This accessible text explains how the Cold War originated and...

On 30 January 1607 a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side. The wall of water reached as far in land as Bristol and Cardiff. It swept away everything in its path, devastating communities and killing...

Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history ofthe Cold War's defining episode.Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in adivided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles insideSoviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin...

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the...

Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley's important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on extensive new work in the Chamberlain papers. It starts from Chamberlain's...

With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the...