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A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
$12.35In 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 Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: $25.71$22.35A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on... -
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: $30.86$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830837823Author E. Randolph RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 308g -
The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated: How Movements and Law Can Work Together To Win by Mark Gevisser
RRP: $30.86$21.10Written 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... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $22.28$14.55From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards
RRP: $18.85$12.56There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of... -
The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood by Eldra Jarman 9780708323984
RRP: $32.57$24.91The Gypsy family of Abram Wood first arrived in Wales in the eighteenth century, a tawny-skinned people speaking a language close to Hindi and Sanskrit. Welsh society found their customs strange and sometimes unacceptable. The family included such... -
Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind by Anne Fletcher 9781398117310
RRP: $18.85$12.44As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: 'For God's sake look after our people.' Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows:... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
RRP: $29.14$19.86A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, Jacky Colliss Harvey explores red hair in the ancient... -
The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community by Tom Steel
RRP: $22.28$14.55The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom,... -
Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $42.88$31.94Behind the Throne is, above all, a history of family life.They ate, entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the drink bills.The great... -
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King 9780571371952
RRP: $22.28$14.68The 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. Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find... -
The Joy of Sheds: Because a man's place isn't in the home by Frank Hopkinson
RRP: $22.28$14.55The 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... -
Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton
$13.16The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century... -
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century by Robert Cook 9780582215320
RRP: $82.32$78.87A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of... -
1930s Scrapbook by Robert Opie
RRP: $25.64$18.49Filled to the brim with images, this scrapbook of the 1930s overflows with nostalgia, for those who remember that extraordinary era. For those who do not, this wealth of imagery provides a vivid insight into a time when sliced bread had just reached the... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $22.28$15.59One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain... -
The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist by Chris Pickard 9781789465976
$11.75The 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... -
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain, in a facemask by Tim Moore
RRP: $34.31$24.51*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an... -
Mafia, The: A Cultural History by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: $20.57$14.46What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $25.71$18.78Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: $18.85$13.33From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr.The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from... -
Keeping My Sisters' Secrets: A True Story of Sisterhood, Hardship, and Survival by Beezy Marsh
RRP: $17.14$12.20The Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 international bestseller'A moving and bittersweet story' Sun Keeping My Sister's Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters and their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty and... -
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England by Janina Ramirez
$20.26From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of... -
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: $22.28$15.59'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking by Andrew Ward
RRP: $32.57$21.87How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved... -
Glasgow by Irene Maver
$38.17Glasgow is enshrined in the popular consciousness as a city of multiple and often contradictory identities. The 'Second City of Empire', the 'Venice of the North', 'Red Clydeside' and the 'Merchant City' are a few of the phrases that have been used to... -
Voices of North and South Ockendon by Cecilia Pyke 9780752499185
$16.50This warm and nostalgic collection of memories reveals the fascinating history of North and South Ockendon before, during and after the Second World War. The 1930s saw great change in South Ockendon as London Land Company, London County Council and Essex... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $42.88$28.35A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Medieval Masons by Malcolm Hislop 9780747804611
$11.94This book explains in detail the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. Monastic chronicles, building contracts and other contemporary documents have already revealed a good deal of information on the subject,... -
A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres 9780500516348
RRP: $60.04$39.16Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a... -
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin by Sonia Ryang 9780415379397
RRP: $68.59$60.14Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The... -
Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity by Frederic Barbier 9780745672588
RRP: $32.57$28.94Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of... -
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures by Lionel Robbins
$61.27Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published. Lord Robbins... -
SCOOTER MANIA!: Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally by Steve Jackson
RRP: $27.43$19.59At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Following a fact-finding mission to Dusseldorf, accompanied by Peter Agg from Lambretta, the second... -
Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers: A Treasury of 1,000 Scottish Words by Robin A. Crawford
$11.75A celebration of the irreplaceable magic of language. Here is the evocative vocabulary, wit and wisdom of the Scots language - in 1,000 gems.Book InformationISBN 9781783964789Author Robin A. CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Elliott &... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $22.28$14.68First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a... -
Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism by Rosemary Hill
RRP: $22.28$15.59From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment,... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: $22.28$14.68Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including... -
The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn off your Mind by Gary Lachman 9781912868445
$21.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868445Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd