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When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House by Jeffrey A. Engel 9780190650759
RRP: $88.18$67.60What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal loss, and scandal, and how have such personal crises affected a president's ability to lead, shaped... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: $20.98$13.94A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
RRP: $84.00$59.62What 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... -
Means And Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States by Zoe Baker 9781849354981
RRP: $44.10$30.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354981Author Zoe BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951 by Martin Daunton 9780198732099
RRP: $126.00$106.91Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in... -
Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $39.88$38.81In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle... -
Secret Shepperton: England's Hollywood by Jill Armitage
RRP: $33.58$23.60Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. It's the place where Caesar crossed the river in AD 54. Subsequent river finds reveal that this area regularly... -
Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago by Pamela Horn
RRP: $23.08$15.23In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson 9780300254785
RRP: $25.18$21.32An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets by Louise Willder 9780861546169
RRP: $20.98$14.93A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever... -
Restoration: 1666: A Year in Britain by Alexander Larman
RRP: $42.00$32.17In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell's Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a... -
Railway Carriages by Tim Bryan
RRP: $18.88$14.62Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the nineteenth century the railway passenger travelled in comfortable rolling stock of a design familiar to many... -
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia by Dee Peyok
RRP: $35.68$24.32In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers cycled along the... -
Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy
RRP: $27.28$19.09Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. And in modern... -
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas
RRP: $29.38$25.73A SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR"In this gloriously rich book, Keith Thomas, one of our greatest living historians, explores how the idea of civility, from lavatory habits to table manners, evolved in early... -
A Thousand Years of a London Street: Cheapside by Mike Read 9781803780238 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$17.47This book is the second of a series documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories. Some of the streets have their roots and foundations in places of worship, locations for trading or because of their geographical... -
A Thousand Years of a London Street: Cheapside by Mike Read 9781803780238
RRP: $27.28$19.09This book is the second of a series documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories. Some of the streets have their roots and foundations in places of worship, locations for trading or because of their geographical... -
The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948 by Lynn Hollen Lees 9780521030663
RRP: $94.48$80.93The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare... -
Street Warrior: The True Story of the Nypd's Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him, as Seen on Discovery Channel's "street Justice: The Bronx" by Ralph Friedman
RRP: $46.18$27.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250190437Author Ralph FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World Thomas Crump 9781845298975
RRP: $23.08$15.54From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their... -
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance by R. N. Swanson 9780719042560
RRP: $41.98$37.42This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period. ... -
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentleman's club by Julie Welch
RRP: $39.88$35.24The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the ranks in Fleet Street for the first time. When Julie Welch called in her first ever football... -
Villages of Kent by Paul Harris 9781859372944
RRP: $31.50$20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859372944Author Paul HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 Jacques Le Goff (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9780631175667
RRP: $77.60$69.11This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by... -
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empire by Pankaj Mishra 9781788737333
RRP: $35.68$29.61Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and... -
Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $46.18$41.33A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality... -
Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History by Wolfgang Behringer
RRP: $52.48$45.80In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating that... -
False Black Power? by Jason L Riley
RRP: $27.28$24.72Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why... -
When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace by Ed Vulliamy 9781783783373
RRP: $23.08$15.37Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire? From Jimi... -
The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $23.08$16.32A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the... -
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J. M. Roberts
RRP: $35.68$26.63This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold... -
Voices from the 'Jungle': Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp Calais Writers 9780745399683
RRP: $41.98$28.04Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of... -
The Disobedient Society by Mat Little 9788293064558
RRP: $31.40$26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064558Author Mat LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Viking Clothing by Thor Ewing 9780752435879
RRP: $46.20$34.52Describing the different garments worn by women and men, this book looks at the aspects of cloth production - raw materials, production tools and techniques for woven and non-woven textiles, decorative textiles and embroidery. It also shows how much can... -
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era by Andrew Scull
RRP: $65.10$59.56The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection... -
Carols From King's Alexandra Coghlan 9781785944666
RRP: $20.98$14.93The exquisite sound of a lone chorister singing Once in Royal David's City amid the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge, marks the start of the Christmas festivities for millions of people round the globe. Broadcast at 3pm on Christmas Eve, A... -
Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi 9780198834793
RRP: $18.88$13.55There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In... -
Life in the Victorian and Edwardian Workhouse by Michelle Higgs 9780752442143
RRP: $35.68$27.17Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. Charles Dickens famously portrayed workhouse inmates as being dirty, neglected, overworked and at the mercy of exploitative masters. While... -
Last Best Hope by George Packer
RRP: $31.48$20.01What happened to America? Is there still hope?We have arrived at a critical moment in American history. The United States is divided, its democracy is shaken. But all is not lost.The remarkable fruit of two decades of research, Last Best Hope is a...