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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: $23.08$14.76'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth by John Geraint 9781800994874 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994874Author John GeraintFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 19mm -
Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth by John Geraint 9781800994874
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994874Author John GeraintFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 19mm -
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume 1: Texts by David Fate Norton 9780199596331
RRP: $79.78$69.24David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740)... -
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
RRP: $63.00$38.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299456Author Colin DickeyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 28mm -
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
RRP: $52.50$39.56'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life . . . genuinely revelatory' The Times'A colossal book about a colossal life, a spectacular journey across the entire twentieth century' Daily MailWritten with complete access to the... -
The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s by Peter Doggett
RRP: $23.08$16.32No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his... -
Danube a Cultural History by Andrew Beattie 9781904955665
RRP: $31.50$28.67The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast... -
Why Preservation Matters Max Page 9780300218589
RRP: $41.98$35.64Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement-and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware... -
The Mountains Are High: a year of escape and discovery in rural China by Alec Ash 9781914484377
RRP: $35.68$24.32What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey... -
The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society by Caroline Dakers 9780300081640
RRP: $99.75$97.71A major study of the Holland Park Circle, this is both a narrative of the lives, works and influence of the artists, architects and their patrons and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values... -
How to Read Church History Volume One: From the beginnings to the fifteenth century by Jean Comby 9780334020509
RRP: $37.78$35.97This book does not separate church history from the wider history of the world in which it is set, uses all available traces of the past to tell it's story, provides direct quotations from the written sources in translation. Vol 2 also available.Book... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $52.48$45.74Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: $20.98$14.07In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first... -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $18.88$14.62A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its... -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
RRP: $36.75$25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589829Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: $90.20$83.14Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the... -
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
RRP: $39.88$29.42This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate... -
Cornish Mines: Gwennap to the Tamar by Barry Gamble 9780906720820
$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906720820Author Barry GambleFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alison HodgePublisher Alison HodgeDimensions(mm) 150mm * 153mm * 11mm -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $42.00$30.85*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices by Rod L. Evans 9780399533518
$30.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399533518Author Rod L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 184g -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
RRP: $16.78$15.12In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living. Part journal, part commonplace book, among... -
The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated: How Movements and Law Can Work Together To Win by Mark Gevisser
RRP: $37.78$28.98Written from the maxim "it takes a lawyer, an activist, and a storyteller to change the world", The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated shows how the law and social movements can reinforce each other in the struggle for justice and freedom. In these... -
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black by Harry Edward 9780300270976
RRP: $39.88$33.98"Harry Edward was a hugely talented athlete and an extraordinary man who fought all his life for justice and fairness in the face of repeated prejudice. His story is as powerful today as it was when he lived it and I urge everyone to read this book... -
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova
RRP: $65.08$56.22A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical... -
The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History by David Jones
RRP: $42.00$35.05The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief systems, and the amazing beauty of Inca art and... -
The Stonewall Reader by Jason Baumann
RRP: $31.48$22.85For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded itJune 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most... -
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
RRP: $42.00$28.27The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years and features stories of his time working with everyone from the Beatles to the Ronettes and Elton John to the Rolling... -
Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club by Kit Holden 9780715654859
RRP: $20.98$14.18SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 (FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR) ------------ A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin. No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East... -
The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Margaret Rhodes 9781780270852
RRP: $20.98$14.07This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of the late Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of... -
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir 9780300273311
RRP: $27.28$24.07A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: $27.28$19.09When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes,... -
Poacher's Pilgrimage: A Journey into Land and Soul by Alastair McIntosh
RRP: $31.48$20.58The islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides boast some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They also feature an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic and... -
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $27.28$19.09Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important' The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan... -
The Joy of Sheds: Because a man's place isn't in the home Frank Hopkinson 9781907554513
RRP: $27.28$17.81The Joy of Sheds is a shed miscellany that chronicles man's need for a small space on his own. It's a humorous look at every aspect of the shed experience, mixed with shed facts and some practical information too. Many famous people have... -
The Cotswold House by Tim Jordan
RRP: $39.88$27.53From humble cottages and quintessential village houses to elegant manor houses, The Cotswold House is the first book to give a complete overview of the history, social and architectural, of the Cotswold home. Characteristic features tie all these... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: $25.18$17.70A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist by Chris Pickard 9781789465976
RRP: $20.98$14.39The day is 8 August 1963. It is the early hours of the morning, and a group of men are waiting at a railway bridge in Buckinghamshire. They are about to rob a mail train, on its way to London from Glasgow, and they have no idea that on board they will... -
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor
RRP: $52.50$36.94'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The... -
The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet
RRP: $41.98$35.64The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present "An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hunting lodges of the Middle Ages to the modern villas...