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The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £18.99£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982220Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging Since 1500 by Charles S. Maier 9780674059788
RRP: £24.95£20.29Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding... -
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps by Karen Wigen
£39.23Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over... -
Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders by Michael Barone 9781641773515
RRP: £21.99£14.83'Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition-but they were... -
British Historic Towns Atlas Volume VII: Oxford by Alan Crossley
RRP: £70.00£66.58The latest volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas series covers the internationally-renowned city of Oxford. Famed for its university and its many outstanding historic buildings, the volume presents in mapped form the history of its topographical... -
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played... -
Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540 by Christopher Dyer 9780198847212
RRP: £102.50£93.12Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his... -
That Place We Call Home: A journey through the place names of Ireland by John Creedon 9780717189854
RRP: £21.99£18.10John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names,... -
Norwood: A Second Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by John Coulter
RRP: £14.99£11.55The contrasting suburbs of West, Upper, and South Norwood grew up during the nineteenth century, on the range of hills once covered by the Great North Wood. West Norwood was intended to be smart and exclusive, but that ambition was achieved instead by... -
Exploration: A Very Short Introduction by Stewart A. Weaver 9780199946952
RRP: £8.99£6.61For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing... -
Macclesfield (South) 1897: Cheshire Sheet 36.12 by Chris Makepeace
£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847848321Author Chris MakepeaceImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: £15.99£14.22In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... -
Restless Empire by Ian Barnes 9780674504677
RRP: £51.95£42.34From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversity have challenged its rulers and shaped its identity. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian... -
The Story of Earth & Life: A southern African perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey by Terence McCarthy 9781770071483
£20.68Southern Africa is without equal in terms of geology, a treasure trove of valuable minerals with a geological history dating back some 3 600 million years. In addition, the evolution of plants and animals, especially mammals and dinosaurs, is well... -
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our Worldvolume 4 by Tim Marshall
RRP: £18.99£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982178635Author Marshall TFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The East India Company: A Captivating Guide to the English Company That Was Created for the Exploitation of Trade with East and Southeast Asia and India by Captivating History 9781647483326
RRP: £19.97£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483326Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages by John R. Tschirch 9781911282501
RRP: £39.95£29.78In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the "Eden of America" in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted created dramatic gardens by the sea... -
Savannas: A Very Short Introduction by Peter A. Furley 9780198717225
RRP: £7.99£5.93Savannas form one of the largest and most important of the world's ecological zones. Covering one fifth of the Earth's land surface, they are home to some of the world's most iconic animals and form an extremely important global resource for plants and... -
Gas Holders and Lost Kings Cross by Nick Bradfield
RRP: £20.00£18.81These photos o Kings Cross will fascinate anyone interested in London's lost local history, or who knew this area of Victorian buildings - and particularly the gasholders - between St Pancreas Stations, before this city landscape disappeared forever.Book... -
The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity by Martin Bruckner 9780807856727
RRP: £37.95£35.36The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. In a path breaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues... -
New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain by Linda M. Ross 9780197267455
£83.39In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materially transformed in the post-war decades. Reservoirs, power stations, television and radio-transmitter... -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming by Debby Banham
RRP: £41.49£34.39Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal... -
Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor: A Seventh Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by Ron Davies 9780752466095
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is Ron Davies's seventh book about the Black Country townships of Bilston, Bradley & Ladymoor. The area has a rich industrial heritage, which forged a strong sense of community among its residents, many of whom worked in the factories, foundries and... -
Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 by Richard Butler 9781782053699
RRP: £35.00£28.82This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assize courthouses and county gaols, it tells a political history of how they were built, who paid for them, and... -
Peebles 1906: Peeblesshire Sheet 13.06 by Barbara Morris 9780850548563
RRP: £3.50£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850548563Author Barbara MorrisImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell
RRP: £28.00£27.63"[M]arvelous and compelling..." - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides... -
The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China by Michelle H. Wang 9780226827469
RRP: £44.00£37.21A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods. This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute... -
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future by Victor Mallet 9780198786177
RRP: £22.99£16.69India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health... -
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas 9781803284637
RRP: £12.99£9.09The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing... -
An Historical Map of Beverley: Medieval, Georgian and Victorian town by D.H. Evans 9781838071912
RRP: £9.99£7.06A full colour map, based on a digitised OS map of Beverley of about 1908, with its medieval, Georgian and Victorian past overlain and important buildings picked out. Beverley is one of England's most attractive towns with two of the country's... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey 9781837731060
RRP: £16.99£11.58Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean,... -
Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present by Benjamin Lieberman
RRP: £22.99£20.25Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how... -
English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography by Richard Dennis 9780521338394
RRP: £30.99£28.28To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical... -
From My Old Stamp Album: Exotic Tales of Lost Countries by Stuart Laycock 9781803993768
RRP: £12.99£9.62Pickup an old stamp album and flick through it. You'll find a host of exotic and unfamiliar names: Cyrenaica, Fernando Poo, Fiume, North Ingria, Obock, Stellaland, Tuva, - distant lands, vanished territories, lost countries. Do they still exist? If not,... -
Deep Time: An Illustrated Exploration of 4.5 Billion Years of Time Through Artefacts, Places and Phenomena by Riley Black
RRP: £25.00£17.98Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us. Through explanations of the latest research and over 200... -
Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a by Gilbert Bell 9781847844965
£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844965Author Gilbert BellImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes by Simon M. Miles 9781739734701
£20.98In his debut book, author Simon M. Miles offers an entirely new perspective on one of the most compelling mysteries of our time. He documents an investigation over more than twenty years into the "affair of Rennes", a tangle of puzzles that has... -
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by Richard Holmes
RRP: £8.99£6.02NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF... -
The Nile: History's Greatest River by Terje Tvedt
RRP: £40.00£30.78"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman "Has much to offer." The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine "Essential reading." All About History "Valiant, valuable and entertaining... -
The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places by Eric Weiner 9781451691672
RRP: £18.99£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451691672Author Eric WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...