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The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich
RRP: $29.38$19.09*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall... -
Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet by Peter Thonemann 9780198868248
RRP: $220.50$219.74Lucian's Alexander Or The False Prophet is a satiric biography of the religious entrepreneur and career fraudster Alexander of Abonouteichos. It recounts how, during the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), Alexander succeeded in setting up a fraudulent... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: $27.28$19.09The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 by Edith Hall
RRP: $69.28$61.24A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from... -
Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World Andrew Hill 9781843681755
RRP: $41.98$28.88The Ruskin Society Book of The Year. Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how? Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere. John Ruskin was the Victorian age's best-known and most controversial intellectual. He was an art critic,... -
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton 9781681778044
RRP: $35.60$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681778044Author Elizabeth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm... -
The Politics of James Connolly Kieran Allen 9780745304731
RRP: $39.88$26.78Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
Villages of Glasgow: North of the Clyde by Aileen Smart 9781839830402
RRP: $27.28$18.77This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart's best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain's most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now subsumed within... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
RRP: $63.00$48.36When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526133267
RRP: $52.50$37.00This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain's Caribbean Empire by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
RRP: $31.48$20.58'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from... -
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 9781517901738
RRP: $41.98$29.69Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda... -
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti
RRP: $55.63$40.09Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries,... -
Political Thought and History: Essays on Theory and Method by J. G. A. Pocock 9780521886574
RRP: $157.50$130.14John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked the way in which the history of political thought is... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: $35.68$25.79'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes
RRP: $94.50$75.01A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve... -
A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust by Mary Fulbrook
RRP: $39.88$34.27The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator... -
Illustrated Tales of Wiltshire Eddy Greenfield 9781398111264
RRP: $33.58$22.79Wiltshire's very landscape is steeped in folklore and mythology, with almost every hill, standing stone and barrow having its own stories and legends. With so much of this history still visible on the land it is no wonder that the county has more than... -
Refusing the Veil by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 9781849547505
RRP: $21.00$15.27This topic divides people - and it will divide readers of this book too. Many Muslims worldwide either support or adopt religious veiling, and those who argue against it are often criticised, or worse. But, according to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the veil... -
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper 9780300119831
RRP: $46.20$44.56A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth... -
Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North Robert Ferguson 9781781858950
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia... -
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791031
RRP: $20.98$13.94With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury... -
A Brief History of the Martial Arts: East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu Jonathan Clements 9781472136466
RRP: $31.48$20.58'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements' RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial History Team blogFrom Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a... -
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen
RRP: $31.48$24.68Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a... -
Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact by Lucinda Hawksley 9781526712301
RRP: $31.48$23.00Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young age, she knew her vocation was to be an artist. Lucinda Hawksley charts the life of a celebrated portrait... -
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace by Julia Cooke
RRP: $35.68$24.32** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am... -
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala
RRP: $20.98$13.94Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the... -
The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender by Charles King
RRP: $23.08$16.32*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist... -
The Life of Richard Cadbury: Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier by Diane Wordsworth 9781526768254
RRP: $41.98$29.99In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company... -
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S Reynolds
RRP: $48.30$45.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110767Author David S. ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 958gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Aquinas: Political Writings by Thomas Aquinas 9780521375955
RRP: $77.68$47.99Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) is a massive figure in the history of western thought and of the Catholic church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson (whose modern rendition of Augustine's City of God has already been widely... -
The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution by Michael Braddick
RRP: $66.13$46.91The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to... -
The Original Rules of Tennis Tim Henman 9781851243181
RRP: $12.58$11.49While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years and was associated with the French and English medieval and renaissance courts, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874, when the rules were defined by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield... -
Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats Irena Fliter 9781802078671
$180.58Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats is the first overarching study of Ottomans in Prussia. It examines the embassies of Ahmed Resmi Efendi (1763/4), Ahmed Azmi Efendi (1791/2), and Ali Aziz Efendi (1797/98), including their... -
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture by Bram Dijkstra 9780195056525
RRP: $74.53$62.48A provocative and absorbing analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the century in the works of the key artists of the age. Illustrated throughout.Book InformationISBN 9780195056525Author Bram DijkstraFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
RRP: $41.98$29.99Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the... -
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens 9781526796479
RRP: $31.48$23.00Glimpse what went on behind the walls of EnglandA*s first Criminal Lunatic Asylum! Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the... -
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England by Paul Slack 9780199645916
RRP: $132.30$83.77Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of... -
An Enormous Reckless Blunder: The Story of the Lewis Chemical Works: 2017 by Ali Whiteford 9781907443749
$24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907443749Author Ali WhitefordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The Islands Book TrustPublisher The Islands Book TrustDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *... -
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslanyan 9781788162647
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white...