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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: $35.68$31.52This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third... -
Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts - On Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $23.08$16.32'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work,... -
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $39.88$27.05WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this... -
Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of Mysteries by Michael A Morgan 9780891306153
RRP: $31.50$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891306153Author Michael A MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)... -
The The Commoners: Notable neighbours of the Wimbledon and Putney Commons by Nick Manning
RRP: $52.50$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485846Author Nick ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd -
Folklore of Lincolnshire by Susanna O'Neill 9780752459646
RRP: $31.48$24.26The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds; it is also home to a wealth of folklore, legend and intrigue.With one of the most interesting dialects in the... -
A History of Food Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat (President of the Syndicate of French Writers) 9781405181198
RRP: $60.80$56.01A HISTORY OF FOOD This classic work is an exploration and celebration of man's relationship with food from earliest times to the present day. Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat tells the story of cuisine and the social history of food, taking in fascinating,... -
The Magical History of Britain by Martin Wall
RRP: $23.08$16.32In this profoundly personal journey through British history, Martin Wall traces the influence of Magic and Myth from the earliest times to the present day. Our abiding myths have endured since before the time of the Druids, reaching their apotheosis in... -
The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives by Aileen Alleyne
RRP: $63.00$52.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Gradiva Award 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781913494247Author Aileen AlleyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Confer BooksPublisher Karnac... -
A Case of Hysteria: (Dora) by Sigmund Freud 9780199639861
RRP: $20.98$14.93'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what... -
Hobbes: On the Citizen by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $58.78$50.97De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a... -
Symbols of Power: Ten Coins that Changed the World Thomas Hockenhull 9780714118086
RRP: $16.78$11.76Money has always been a subject of interest, today more so than ever. For centuries it has performed a key role around the globe - most obviously in trade and the economy, but also in the development of national identities, religions and the spread of... -
Acid Test by Tom Shroder
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516374Author Tom ShroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 364g -
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne 9780306922633
RRP: $31.48$24.49'In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle.' --Publishers WeeklyThe first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,... -
Wales in World War 2 by Quentin Deakin 9781800994003
RRP: $31.48$28.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994003Author Quentin DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 25mm -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $23.08$15.37A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
Paris Commune: A Brief History by Carolyn J. Eichner
RRP: $37.78$33.39At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire, the troops refused and instead turned and... -
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $35.68$24.32Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial... -
Slate Quarrying in Wales: A Gazetteer by Des Marshall 9781845245382
$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245382Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 15mm -
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe by Valerie I. J. Flint 9780198205227
RRP: $126.00$109.12This is a study of magic in western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Valerie Flint explores its practice and belief in Christian society, and examines the problems raised by so-called `pagan survivals' and superstition'. She unravels the complex... -
Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America by George S. Takach 9781639365630
RRP: $46.20$38.60A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation-especially AI-is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new Cold War.So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two... -
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: $18.88$14.62An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren
RRP: $39.88$36.31This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . .Why do we dance... -
The Placenames of Scotland by Iain Taylor
RRP: $27.28$17.98Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland's capital city? Are the 'drum' and 'chapel' still to be found in Drumchapel? And which 'king' had a 'seat' in Kingseat in Perthshire? The answers... -
Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $33.58$24.38Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden.Enter Hatton Garden, one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean... -
Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business by Jessica Borge
RRP: $75.60$66.32From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $35.68$25.79The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington... -
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $20.98$14.93As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against... -
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians by Thucydides
RRP: $50.38$44.81Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: $27.28$19.40A 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... -
Unexplained: Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' Richard MacLean Smith 9781473671164
RRP: $23.08$15.54'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . . ******************************* What can a case of... -
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 by Christopher Dyer
RRP: $90.28$79.32Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at... -
Acid House: The True Story by Luke Bainbridge 9781780387345
$32.57The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music and youth culture that changed the... -
From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed: The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo by Kenan Malik
RRP: $27.28$17.98Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offence. In From Fatwa to Jihad, Kenan Malik reveals how... -
American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Ware
RRP: $18.88$13.55What does U.S. history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraq war, this survey chronicles the contributions, recognized and unrecognized, that women have made to the American experience... -
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine 1850-1948 by Roger Hardy 9781912945344
RRP: $31.50$21.42Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the... -
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern
RRP: $56.68$48.72Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge... -
Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War by Pamela Horn 9781445644776 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk were killed or badly injured in the hostilities. When... -
Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War Pamela Horn 9781445644776
RRP: $27.28$17.81The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk were killed or badly injured in the hostilities. When... -
The Got, Not Got Football Gift Book: Every Fan's Catalogue of Desires by Derek Hammond 9781999900830
RRP: $33.60$28.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999900830Author Derek HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Conker Editions LtdPublisher Conker Editions Ltd