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Early Days by Miss Read
RRP: £9.99£6.80The enchanting childhood memoirs of bestselling author Miss Read.Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewisham and one in Walton-on-the-Naze. EARLY DAYS is full of childhood memories of an extended family of uncles,... -
Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History by David Aaronovitch 9780099478966 [USED COPY]
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Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History by David Aaronovitch
RRP: £12.99£9.09**AS FEATURED ON HOAXED PODCAST**This definitive book delves into why so many people are ready to believe in conspiracy theories, and the damage it can cause.Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister conspiracy theories of the... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: £22.00£15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm -
Selling Trump: Fear and Loathing on the Trump Reelection Campaign by Michael Bender
RRP: £25.00£16.78Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: £10.99£7.77* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of... -
Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers by George Behe
£15.04During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring 1912 three professional gamblers travelled from the USA... -
A Force Like No Other: The Final Shift by Colin Breen
RRP: £9.99£8.17In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. 'A most powerful and unique insight into the world's most dangerous job... -
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women by Allison Vale
RRP: £10.99£3.51'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era... -
Roman Gardens by Anthony Beeson
RRP: £15.99£10.85This book looks at the origins of ancient Roman garden design and its Greek influences. It includes the use and design of private domestic gardens as well as those connected to theatres and temples. Gardens connected to mausolea are also included. It... -
Costume: From 1500 to Present Day by Cally Blackman 9781841651026 [USED COPY]
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Costume: From 1500 to Present Day by Cally Blackman 9781841651026
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The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty 9780190050771
RRP: £25.99£21.99One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the... -
100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay 9781838405120
RRP: £14.99£11.66The reason for the huge commercial success of Sinclair McKay's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park was simple: for the first time it told the stories of the ordinary people (mostly women), who worked there, and what it was like. Sworn to secrecy, they... -
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741
RRP: £14.99£12.79Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise... -
The Pleasures of Exile by Mr George Lamming
RRP: £28.99£22.29'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and... -
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867 by Catherine Hall
£25.85Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the... -
Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.40Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually... -
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack
RRP: £39.99£38.54The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and... -
A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth
RRP: £12.99£9.09BY THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHORThe perfect gift for anyone who has ever wondered about the unpredictable origins and etymologies of our Christmas customs! For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about... -
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9781783488858
£36.07How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a... -
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages by Liza Picard
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: £14.99£10.95What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When... -
Teddy Bears: A History and Collector's Guide by Lorraine Hitchings
RRP: £15.99£10.85Since his birth in 1902 the teddy bear has captured the hearts of young and old alike. He has survived revolutions, flown in jet fighters and taken part in land and water speed records and in times of great conflict he has stayed by his companion's side... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £16.99£14.10In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
RRP: £10.99£7.25The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. The favourite child of Joe Kennedy and favourite sister... -
Liverpool: A Memoir of Words by Tony Crowley 9781837644384
£20.61Included in the TLS Books of the Year 2023 Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social... -
Going to Seed: From Flower Child to Radical Farmer, a Counterculture Memoir by Simon Fairlie
RRP: £14.99£9.80Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron De Hart 9781913348496
RRP: £10.99£7.32The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women. In this comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that... -
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder by Nichi Hodgson
RRP: £12.99£8.60AN EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING'A new approach to romance... The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two' Sunday TimesWhat if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right?'This book was a real education for me... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
RRP: £27.00£26.87In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to... -
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease by Mary Dobson
RRP: £12.99£8.60Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence by Tim Parks
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman
RRP: £25.00£16.84'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
£17.82Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston 9780393882148
RRP: £25.00£21.32Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean and accompanied us to the moon... -
Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew by Kate Teltscher
£7.27'A glorious green adventure story.' Ann Treneman, The Times 'Books of the Year''The most enthralling historical book I've read this year.' Claire Tomalin, New Statesman 'Books of the year' Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew... -
Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain by Wendy Webster 9780198735762
£40.98During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain...