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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 9780063278523
RRP: $22.28$14.55National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly"... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: $17.14$11.49In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus 9780691210186
$22.14A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession... -
Dior: A New Look a New Enterprise (1947-57) by Alexandra Palmer
$39.50In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New Look, which dominated postwar fashion and firmly secured the name of his house in the minds of the public and the fashion industry. He drew on historical models of femininity, the unique... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy 9780241491942 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.31$6.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It by Alice Vernon 9781785788680
RRP: $18.85$12.56** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a remarkable debut.' SUNDAY TIMESAlice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her bedroom.Ever since she was a child, her nights have been... -
Fall, The (new edition with Afterword): The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era by Steve Taylor
RRP: $25.71$22.35A new edition of Steve Taylor's bestselling classic, in which the author provides an Afterword, including research developments that have occurred since the book was first published in 2005. "An important and fascinating book about the origin, history... -
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473134Author Robert BeachyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm... -
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen
RRP: $42.88$28.35A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A spirited attempt at uncovering the mystery of how Birmingham has managed for so long to stand at the centre of Britain's history without anyone noticing ... This absorbing book shows us how we did it'... -
Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett
RRP: $42.88$28.35'An excellent book' David Aaronovitch, The TimesWas the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent... -
The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet
RRP: $22.28$19.66The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses,... -
Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling the uncontrollable by Jane Pearson
$29.13The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest... -
1971: 100 Films from Cinema's Greatest Year by Robert Sellers 9780750999991
$25.801971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while... -
Manchester: Making the Modern City by Alan Kidd 9781846318788
$28.80Every town and city has its story, but few have a history that is essential to understanding how the modern world was made. Manchester was the first industrial city and arguably the first modern city. During the industrial revolution it became the centre... -
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club by Michael Wheeler
RRP: $68.61$57.62A compelling history of the famous London club and its members' impact on Britain's scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenaeum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
$26.48For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
Sagas of Salt and Stone: Orkney unwrapped by Robin Noble
RRP: $22.28$14.75The islands of Orkney are distinct, perhaps that bit wild. Remote, surrounded by an endless ocean and dominated by an infinite sky, which brings either brilliant light or days of wind that makes everything taste of salt. This remarkable landscape has the... -
Ignorance: A Global History by Peter Burke
$34.99A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 "Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good,... -
Photography – A Queer History by Flora Dunster 9781781578698
RRP: $68.61$47.60Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the... -
The Volga: A History by Janet M. Hartley
RRP: $22.28$19.66A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history-named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times "A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social, political, and cultural history."-Jennifer Eremeeva,... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: $18.85$12.69A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $29.14$21.06Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
$21.01'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $22.28$14.68Revised and updated edition of Christian Wolmar's classic history of the London Underground, with a new chapter on Crossrail.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train... -
Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries C.1420-1530 by Andrew Brown 9780719056208
$30.57This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with... -
Lost Cars of the 1970s by Giles Chapman
$23.40Sixty diverse cars, sixty fascinating stories, sixty contrasting specifications, just one uniting factor: they're all forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics.In Lost Cars of the 1970s, the casualties and sideshows of motoring history from around... -
The Diamond Queen: The Last Great Monarch? by Andrew Marr
RRP: $18.85$12.88Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively about individual members of the Royal Family.' Daily... -
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
RRP: $51.46$35.11Apologies 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 -
Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America by Rob Goldberg 9781478025115
$37.17In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children's culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice... -
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $22.28$7.05A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: $137.22$131.41Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer 9781643139173
RRP: $68.53$52.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139173Author Simon HefferFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: $42.88$29.90The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold 9781847390004
RRP: $17.14$11.00'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735... -
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies 9780062415660
RRP: $18.85$12.44The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and... -
Compact Wales: Pembrokeshire - Its Present and Its past Explored by J. Geraint Jenkins 9781845242466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.21$3.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Strange Laws Of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: $18.85$12.69Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed... -
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City by Gwendolyn Leick
RRP: $22.28$15.59Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
RRP: $34.22$24.48London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World by Matt Ridley
RRP: $17.14$11.39'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.' From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation...