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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy 9780195144031
RRP: $44.08$33.47Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. ... -
The Philosophy of Chocolate by Sam Bilton 9780712354349
RRP: $21.00$13.52What makes chocolate so alluring? Why is it the inspiration for endless culinary creativity? Sam Bilton explores our complex relationship with this versatile confection, which is made from the humble beans of the tropical cacao tree. Divided... -
To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War Annabel Venning 9781473679306
RRP: $42.00$21.67**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and... -
A History of Southend by Ian Yearsley 9781860776458
RRP: $37.78$28.64SOUTHEND has a complex and surprisingly interesting history. From 18th-century origins as the `South End' of Prittlewell Parish, it has grown over 300 years to swallow up six separate parishes: Prittlewell, Southchurch, Leigh, Eastwood,North Shoebury and... -
Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies Amber Murrey 9780745347141
RRP: $48.28$37.67This is a book about teaching 'disobedient pedagogies' from the heart of empire. The authors show how educators, activists and students are cultivating anti-racist decolonial practices, leading with a radical call to eradicate development studies, and... -
The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration by Robert James Scally 9780195055825
RRP: $299.25$237.97Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the... -
British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives by Brian Lewis
RRP: $41.98$30.49This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In... -
Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece And Turkey by Bruce Clark 9781862079243
RRP: $23.08$15.37It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were of the... -
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England by Helena Hamerow
$102.42In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has... -
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition by Isabella Beeton
RRP: $18.88$13.55'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Over a thousand pages... -
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
RRP: $20.98$14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198502Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: $27.28$17.16The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two by Alan Allport 9780300168860
RRP: $23.08$19.68The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were "demobbed"-demobilized-after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded... -
The Islamic World: A History in Objects by Ladan Akbarnia
RRP: $63.00$42.84This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides... -
Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice Michalle Gal 9781032106182
RRP: $75.58$66.55Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course book and a source for research, this textbook methodically covers the central concepts of design theory,... -
Girls Like You...: The Long Road Back from Bessborough by Jacinta O'Connell 9781786051370
RRP: $27.30$23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051370Author Jacinta O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Red Stripe PressPublisher Orpen Press -
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon 9780755317127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery... -
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: $23.08$13.59This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery... -
Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland by Raymond Gillespie
RRP: $41.98$36.98This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the... -
Lancastrians: Mills, Mines and Minarets: A New History by Paul Salveson
RRP: $52.50$46.26A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond. This popular history explores the cultural heritage and identity of Lancashire, stretching from the Mersey to the Lake District. Paul... -
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar
RRP: $46.18$40.30In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of... -
Voices of Leigh-on-Sea by Judith Williams 9780752459387
RRP: $27.28$20.20This book comprises the memories of more than fifty people who lived and worked in Leigh between 1914 and 1960. They have personally witnessed its transformation from a small fishing village into a bustling commuter town. However, here is the evidence... -
Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey K McDonough
RRP: $52.48$47.29Does God exist? What is the nature of evil, and where does it come from? Are humans free? Responsible? Immortal? Does it matter? Saints, Heretics and Atheists offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion... -
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience by Michael D Gordin
RRP: $37.78$28.04Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella-- astrology,... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: $46.20$36.46A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
Children of the 1940s: A Social History by Mike Hutton 9781399049504
RRP: $46.20$32.80What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured... -
The Magic Bean: A Short History of Coffee by Gordon Kerr
RRP: $27.28$18.06Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its history? In his riveting new book, A Short History of... -
Fire Stations by Billy Reading
RRP: $18.88$12.64Buildings in Britain were first set aside for storing firefighting equipment in the seventeenth century, in the wake of the Great Fire of London. These were often storage sheds or farm buildings, but as technology became more advanced specialist... -
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy 9780806124735
$40.15The phrase "seeing the elephant" symbolised for '49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequalled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths generally... -
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick 9780060531188
RRP: $31.48$20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060531188Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 286g -
What a Way to Go by Geoffrey Abbott
$28.96In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the macabre origins of phrases such as gone west or drawn a blank. From the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body, "What a... -
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
RRP: $20.98$12.52How an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoIn 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous... -
St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women by Lorraine Mulholland 9781782183945
RRP: $37.78$31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183945Author Lorraine MulhollandFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Columba BooksPublisher Columba Books -
Illustrated Tales of Yorkshire by David Paul
RRP: $33.58$22.79Author and historian David Paul brings us a selection of strange and mythical tales from across Yorkshire, from the Wolds, Dales and Moors to its lesser-known rural landscape, from the coast to its towns, villages and cities, including a whole range of... -
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth Richard Stoneman 9780712354479
RRP: $63.00$40.74Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20,... -
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood 9780861543748
RRP: $23.08$14.70A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire by Jerome Carcopino
RRP: $27.28$19.09In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects of the community are drawn. He enlarges on the details of everyday life, following the typical routine of a... -
Tri-ang Collectables by Dave Angell
RRP: $33.58$22.79Many children spend hours enjoying their first train set - but imagine that the hobby never runs out of steam and the train set develops into a lifelong hobby. That first set conceivably could have been made by Tri-ang ( (c) Hornby Hobbies Ltd), a member... -
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose
RRP: $29.38$20.48In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of... -
The Written World: How Literature Shaped History by Martin Puchner 9781783783144
RRP: $20.98$14.07From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human...