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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen 9781847923073
RRP: $42.88$28.35**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the... -
In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth: A Memoir and Anthology by Erin Darcy
RRP: $27.43$19.91In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes - Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months... -
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) History Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain c.500 to the present day by Rob Quinn
$41.37Exam board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed by EduqasHelp every student to achieve their best, with bespoke support for Eduqas GCSE History from the leading History publisher for secondary... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: $42.88$28.10'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth, death, and legacy of the... -
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel
RRP: $42.87$28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594631412Author Mandy AftelFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam... -
Britain’s Steam Locomotives: 100 of the best, from Penydarren to Tornado by Julian Holland 9780008622794
RRP: $51.46$33.50It is more than 200 years since the world's first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and passengers on a short, slow journey. From that time onwards, the evolution of the steam locomotive continued unabated through the 19th... -
The Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes
RRP: $24.00$21.70This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest... -
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schloegel
$50.33An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR?... -
A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe by Malcolm Vale 9781780763859
$28.77The concept of a Northern European 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic... -
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar 9780857890696
RRP: $20.57$13.60Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train than by reading [this... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: $22.28$15.69A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: $22.28$15.59When 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,... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $42.87$38.37Foucault 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... -
Transcribing Oral History by Teresa Bergen
RRP: $65.16$57.26Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct... -
The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park: A unique history of one of Ireland’s most famous places by James Flanagan 9781399722810
RRP: $39.43$26.71The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland's first president and Pope John Paul's... -
Cornish Mines: Gwennap to the Tamar by Barry Gamble 9780906720820
$10.51Apologies 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 -
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir 9780300273311
RRP: $22.28$19.66A 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... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $34.31$25.20*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... -
Danube a Cultural History by Andrew Beattie 9781904955665
$23.41The 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... -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming
RRP: $34.31$28.87Late one evening in March 1924, a tipsy young nun was seen trying to slip into Balliol, an all-male Oxford college, just as the gates were about to close for the night. The nun - subsequently unmasked as the son of the college bursar - was returning... -
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page
RRP: $34.29$29.11Commemorating 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... -
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism by Gregory Claeys
$49.30How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound... -
The Offbeat Sari: Indian Fashion Unravelled by Priya Khanchandani
RRP: $42.80$28.05The Offbeat Sari will explore how the sari has become a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, a form of resistance, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. The urban... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: $18.85$12.42'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,... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: $18.85$12.01What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.28$13.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: $22.28$14.80Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: $72.90$70.82Sound, 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... -
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Higher Social Rank Shapes Identity, Fosters Creativity, and Changes the World by W. David Marx
RRP: $46.30$31.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296707Author W. David MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $22.28$15.59Following 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... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: $25.71$18.78Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
RRP: $32.57$24.03This 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... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: $25.71$18.78The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox
$31.80'An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.' - BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherCovering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific... -
Dinky Toys by David Busfield
RRP: $17.14$11.39Dinky Toys are a part of many people's childhood. They were one of the many famous brands produced as part of the Meccano empire set up by Frank Hornby at his Binns Road factory in Liverpool. Although they began before the Second World War, it was the... -
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices by Rod L. Evans 9780399533518
RRP: $32.33$24.73Apologies 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 -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: $20.57$14.46A 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... -
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene 9780231123419
$35.32When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly... -
Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925 by Alun Howkins
RRP: $65.16$57.26First Published in 1991. Reshaping Rural England covers the crucial period of English rural history from the high point of Britain's agricultural power in the 1850s and 1860s through to the grim years of the inter-war period. Uncovering many of the myths... -
The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death by Catherine Bailey
RRP: $18.85$12.88A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a...