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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... -
Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting by Mr Martin Kemp 9780198749905
RRP: £28.99£20.68Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts... -
Life in the Mill by Anthony Burton 9781841654119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.00£2.26For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began construction of the first water-powered cotton mill in Derbyshire. The complex woollen industry was transformed... -
Brunel In South Wales Vol 3 by Stephen K. Jones
RRP: £25.00£18.54Isambard Kingdom Brunel had strong associations with South Wales; chief engineer of the GWR at just 27, he was the same for the South Wales Railway Co., taking the railways across South Wales. This illustrated history focuses on Brunel's contribution to... -
The Perilous Catch: A History of Commercial Fishing by Mike Smylie 9780752498003
RRP: £14.99£11.55For centuries Britain's commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home market and for export around the world. Fishing is one of history's most dangerous jobs, and when disasters... -
Thomas Hardy's Dorset Through Time by Steve Wallis
RRP: £15.99£10.85Thomas Hardy celebrated the glorious county of Dorset through his writings. Today our vision of Dorset is very much that fixed by Hardy in novels ranging from Far From the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of Casterbridge to Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude... -
Arts and Crafts Tiles: William de Morgan by Rob Higgins
RRP: £15.99£10.85William De Morgan was the principal ceramic designer and maker in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Heavily influenced by the art of the Middle East, he was active for nearly thirty years from the 1870s onwards and was never content with an existing... -
What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Brian Fagan
RRP: £22.50£18.95Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed "If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse you-in fact, it's so entertaining, it will keep you... -
Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe by William Donaldson
RRP: £12.99£8.56Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques as well as information on some of the great piping... -
Glasgow's Gaelic Place-names by Alasdair C. Whyte 9781839830464
RRP: £12.99£8.94It is time to bin - once and for all - the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow's place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the University of... -
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method by Mike Savage 9780199587667
RRP: £53.00£42.23Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how... -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present by Peter Gatrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: £18.99£15.12In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman 9781631496240
RRP: £14.99£11.88With this "impeccable" (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting... -
Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice by Michael Hunter 9780230574762
£91.52This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their... -
The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History by Andrew Rose
RRP: £9.99£6.80The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Half a century before Dodi and Diana, another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy Egyptian "prince." Prince Edward was the future King of... -
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £18.99£13.61Here is a pioneeering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russain history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930's, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
RRP: £16.99£11.27*A Blackwell's Book of the Year* *A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* *A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022* *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: £10.99£7.321856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has... -
Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde 9780670091225
RRP: £43.95£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091225Author Suraj Milind YengdeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Civil Society: History and Possibilities by Sudipta Kaviraj
RRP: £33.99£28.38Civil society is one of the most used - and abused - concepts in current political thinking. In this important collection of essays, the concept is subjected to rigorous analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the... -
Dr Johnson's London by Liza Picard 9781842127292 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in... -
Dr Johnson's London Liza Picard 9781842127292
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Armed 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... -
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
RRP: £10.99£7.77In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their cultureWho are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: £12.99£8.63Beyond 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... -
The Hats that Made Britain: A History of the Nation Through its Headwear by David Long
RRP: £20.00£15.44Many of the world's most famous hats have their origins in Britain; in the Middle Ages there were civil and religious laws requiring hats to be worn and in Victorian Britain a person would no more leave home without a hat than a pair of trousers. It is... -
Islam in China by James Frankel
RRP: £23.99£20.94In China there are up to 25 million Muslims living in the country, representing over 1200 years of Chinese-Islamic relations. However, little is known about the historical and contemporary geopolitical relations between China and the Muslim world, or the... -
A Woman's Will: The Changing Lives of British Women, Told Through the Things They Have Left Behind by Viki Holton
RRP: £22.99£15.18Heroines and harlots, political hostesses and mistresses, the women who lived in the great houses, and the thousands more who led more ordinary lives - they all have a place in British history. Many lived and died without a lasting record of their... -
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world by J. B. MacKinnon
RRP: £9.99£7.11We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we... -
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life by James Crowden
RRP: £9.99£6.64'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider,... -
The Great Work by Thomas Berry
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804995Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance by Peter Linebaugh 9781604867473
RRP: £23.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604867473Author Peter LinebaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 332g -
The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £9.99£7.11*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday TelegraphA toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her... -
The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain: A History by Simon Taylor 9781906860318
RRP: £22.99£17.44The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom. Britain was a pioneer in civil nuclear power and there were once high hopes in the 1950s that this could be a source of cheap electricity and a valuable export... -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: £14.99£10.95A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better ... Kapla... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£16.29The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the... -
Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall by Peter Schneider 9780241970836 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the... -
Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall by Peter Schneider
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the... -
Early Modern England: A Social History, 1550-1760 by J. A. Sharpe 9780340577523
£39.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.