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Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World by Shelley Frisch 9780306820083
£19.16Revered today as perhaps the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines, and built the first heart... -
St Andrews' Untold Stories by Leonard Low
RRP: £9.95£7.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246442Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
The Perfect Lover: Number 11 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749937256
RRP: £9.99£7.00Simon Frederick Cynster is determined to find a wife. However, nothing could be more tiresome than having every blushing miss on the marriage mart thrust upon him. So he discreetly begins his search at a house party at Glossup Halland is astonished that... -
By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen 9781847396709 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The art and science of sword fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorded history. From the Roman arena to feudal Japan and from the duellists of Europe to the development of... -
By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen 9781847396709
RRP: £12.99£8.41The art and science of sword fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorded history. From the Roman arena to feudal Japan and from the duellists of Europe to the development of... -
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart
RRP: £24.00£17.22SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE PADDY POWER POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people... -
The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian by Raul Hilberg 9781566634281
RRP: £11.99£9.02This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work... -
Knights Templar in Britain by Evelyn Lord 9781405801638 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99£17.10The Knights Templar In Britain examines exactly who became knights, what rituals sustained them, where the power bases were, and how their tentacles spread through the political and economic worlds of Britain before their defeat at the hands of the... -
Knights Templar in Britain Evelyn Lord 9781405801638
RRP: £36.99£36.02The Knights Templar In Britain examines exactly who became knights, what rituals sustained them, where the power bases were, and how their tentacles spread through the political and economic worlds of Britain before their defeat at the hands of the... -
Entente Imperial: British and French Power in the Age of Empire by Edward J. Gillin
RRP: £20.00£13.74Today's arguments over Britain's relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where, thanks to unrivalled industry and an expansive empire, Britain alone... -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story Janina Bauman 9781844083190
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with... -
Old Blair Atholl, Killiecrankie and Struan by Bernard Byrom 9781840339291
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339291Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Haunted Whitby by Alan Brooke 9780752449258
RRP: £12.99£9.87The ruins of Whitby Abbey provide an ideal setting for ghost stories. Many ghostly experiences in the abbey grounds feature here, including an account of treasure hunters who were in search of rich pickings and were disturbed by an unimpressed spectre... -
Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay Lucy Lethbridge 9781408866429
RRP: £12.99£10.04In the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British home was so labour intensive that it required an army of servants to undertake it. Since then, the ways in which we look after our homes may have changed dramatically but the best and... -
Number plates: A History of Vehicle Registration in Britain Dave Moss 9780747805663
RRP: £6.99£6.06This title contains Ancient history: the prologue; The golden age of motoring; The post-war years: changing times, change, and change again: the arrival of computers; Modern times: a fresh start; Collectors' gold; Islands and Ireland; Curiosities and... -
Postwar Lowestoft: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian G. Robb
RRP: £12.99£9.87After devastating air raids during the Second World War, Lowestoft has undergone major redevelopment. In his long-awaited new book Ian Robb reflects the changes and events that took place in the town between 1945 and 2000. The demolition of picturesque... -
Dhows & Colonial Economy In Zanzibar: 1860-1970 by Erik Gilbert 9780821415580
RRP: £25.99£24.51Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar... -
Historic Norfolk from the Air by Mike Page 9780857043504
RRP: £16.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043504Author Mike PageFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Exmoor PressPublisher Halsgrove -
England, Our England by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £10.99£7.61An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: - From Austen to Wordsworth - Jerusalem to the Scout's Honour - Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory- Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers - Tying a Windsor... -
Argyll & the Islands: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: £6.99£5.02Argyll and the islands that lie off from the west coast of the Kintyre are some of the most historically resonant places in Scotland. But the rocks beneath tell a story of an even more ancient world that stretches back billions of years. In this book... -
Old Derbyshire and New Worlds: The Jefferys of Hungry Bentley by Valerie Hardy
RRP: £25.00£18.90'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... -
The Horsekeeper's Daughter by Jane Gulliford Lowes
RRP: £8.99£6.65NON-FICTION: A TRUE FAMILY SAGA. Durham, England, 1886: Your father is dead, your mother and six younger sisters are destitute. You have the chance to start a new life in Australia - alone. What would you do? "A small girl's fascination with a... -
Oxford in 50 Buildings by Andrew Sargent
RRP: £15.99£11.02From the founding of St Frideswide's nunnery in the sixth century and the emergence of its university in the late twelfth century - the first in the English-speaking world - through its growth and development as one of the country's leading centres of... -
Schooldays: Best Days of Our Lives: Volume 1 by Gervase Phinn 9781855683471 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.87Apologies 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)... -
Schooldays: Best Days of Our Lives: Volume 1 Gervase Phinn 9781855683471
RRP: £7.99£5.98Apologies 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)... -
St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea by Raymond Lamont-Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.18St Andrews is without doubt one of Scotland's most historic and beautiful cities. Once the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, it played a prominent role in the nation's political life until the seventeenth century. In addition, it is also home of the... -
The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field by Vanessa Agnew
RRP: £43.99£38.74The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies. The volume includes a co-authored critical introduction and a comprehensive compilation of key term entries contributed by... -
Bristol by Bristol Marketing
RRP: £5.00£3.95This updated Pitkin Guide will show the visitor and the resident all there is to be seen and experienced, from the waterside to the elegant streets of Clifton, from the old city and the ancient church of St Mary Redcliffe to the new shopping mall, Cabot... -
The Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395353
RRP: £40.00£28.01The merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel. Trading... -
Dartmoor In Old Photographs by Tom Greeves 9780752431468
RRP: £12.99£8.56This fascinating volume of archive pictures recalls life as it once was on Dartmoor: the towns, the villages and the local people who lived and worked on the moor between the 1860s and 1950s. Illustrated with over 200 archive photographs and postcards,... -
Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ezra Vogel
RRP: £16.99£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619597Author Ruth BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
The Burning Roses: The Morland Dynasty, Book 29 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751533460
RRP: £10.99£7.61In 1915 the first euphoria of the war has worn off, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. When Ned is sent to the Front ahead of his battalion, Jessie, already involved in various charity works, feels the need to do more and becomes an... -
The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715 Volume 4: The War of the Spanish Succession, Artillery, Engineers and Militias by Rene Chartrand
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336448Author Rene ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Around the Cornish Coast: Britain in Old Photographs by Peter Q. Treloar 9780752457840
RRP: £12.99£8.56Using a wealth of previously unpublished postcards and photographs, Peter Treloar takes the reader on a fascinating journey around the Cornish coast of yesteryear. Whilst the scenery, which is well covered, has remained the same, the people, forms of... -
The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain by Joseph J. Krulder
RRP: £37.99£33.38According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account... -
100 Things X-men Fans Should Know & do Before They Die by Brian Cronin
RRP: £14.95£13.38Whether you've read the earliest X-Men comics from the silver age or never miss a big screen release, these are the 100 things all X-Men fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Comic Book Resources' Brian Cronin has collected every essential piece of... -
The Illustrated Courtroom by Elizabeth Williams 9781956470420
£43.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Christianizing the Roman Empire: (A. D. 100-400) by Ramsay MacMullen 9780300036428
RRP: £21.00£20.31How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular-rather than an ecclesiastical-viewpoint. MacMullen's provocative... -
Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 2: AD 192-500 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £14.99£12.75The Late Roman Empire was a period of significant change in the designs of standards and in the costumes of standard-bearers. During the middle decades of the chaotic 3rd century, evidence confirms the continued use of the old legionary eagle and the... -
Conan Doyle for the Defence: A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World's Greatest Detective Writer by Margalit Fox 9781781253571 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.43Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was...