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Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York's Rebel Mecca by Ed Hamilton 9781568583792
RRP: $37.78$32.40There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives... -
Animal Rights: Political and Social Pb by Hilda Kean 9781861890610
$45.23In the early twenty-first century animals are news. Parliamentary debates, protests against fox hunting and television programmes like Animal Hospital all focus on the way in which we treat animals and on what that says about our own humanity. As... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence by Philip Dwyer 9781350140592
RRP: $48.28$42.23In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But... -
Fish and Chips: A History by Panikos Panayi
RRP: $25.18$14.93Along with red London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar, fish and chips were the country's original fast food. This innovative and well-researched book unwraps the... -
Robert Adam: an Illustrated Life of Robert Adam, 1728-92 by Richard Tames 9780747806035
RRP: $14.68$12.33The name of Robert Adam is today equated, as it was by his contemporaries, with taste, style and elegance. Since his death, the term 'Adamesque' has been used to describe not only ceilings, doorways and fireplaces but objects as various as the City Hall... -
Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go Emily Cockayne 9781781258521
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Brilliantly original ... shimmering book. ... What binds this book together and gives it a numinous quality is the tenderness that the author displays for other people's ingenious leftovers, from brotherly teeth to Puritan kites.' Guardian 'Rich,... -
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis 9780691223797
RRP: $42.00$33.37A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war... -
Chief Joseph And The Flight Of The Nez Perce: The Untold Story Of An American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn 9780061136085
RRP: $25.18$23.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Our Lowest Ebb?: A new history of Sheffield Wednesday's darkest times: 1973-1976: 2020 by John Dyson 9781908847171
RRP: $27.28$19.09Relegation from Division Two. Near relegation to Division Four. Over a season without an away win. Home attendances regularly below 10,000. A period of 17 league games with only two goals for Owls fans to cheer. Our Lowest Ebb is the story of the darkest... -
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert 9780521547819
RRP: $65.08$57.54In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural... -
Fighting to Find Peace: A Belfast Boxer's Journey by Eamon McAuley 9781786051240
RRP: $33.60$28.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051240Author Eamon McAuleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Orpen PressPublisher Orpen Press -
Ballymurphy and the Irish War Ciaran de Baroid 9780745315096
RRP: $62.98$40.74'One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Northern conflict. I can't recall any other book which gives the reader the same accessibility to the streets of Belfast.' Irish Post 'A thrilling people's history of Belfast's most famous housing... -
Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650 by John Maddicott 9780192896100
RRP: $215.25$195.55Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism by S. A. Smith 9780198779414
$73.50The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the... -
Enlightenment Edinburgh: A Guide Sheila Szatkowski 9781780273730
RRP: $27.28$17.98During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others such as James Hutton, Joseph Black, Lord... -
A Dark History of Chocolate by Emma Kay
RRP: $41.98$29.99_A Dark History of Chocolate_ looks at our long relationship with this ancient 'food of the Gods'. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as its influence on health, cultural and... -
Norwich Lives: Selected Graves from Earlham Cemetery by Francoise Donavan 9780992677305
$38.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992677305Author Francoise DonavanPage Count 96Imprint Elyse PublicationsPublisher Elyse Publications -
Ice Cream: A History by Ivan P. Day 9780747808138
RRP: $18.88$15.54Ice cream has been served in Britain since the seventeenth century: it has graced the bowls of kings and the cones of the working man, and has been served plain, flavoured, moulded, sliced, squirted and scooped. It has made the fortunes of industrialists... -
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Clements 9781529332421
RRP: $52.50$35.24'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A... -
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad
RRP: $23.08$17.41Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry's Fine Balance or... -
Dickens and Christmas by Lucinda Hawksley
$28.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Very Ordinary Seaman: The unforgettable account of British naval experience in World War II by J.P.W. Mallalieu 9781907206443
RRP: $31.50$26.38First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates-with humanity, humour and the authority of experience-lower-deck life in the British navy, from basic training to service on a destroyer protecting a convoy to... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: $46.20$32.80The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland by Joe Gorman 9780702260421
RRP: $44.00$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702260421Author Joe GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 372g -
The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Centu ry by Michael G. Kraft
RRP: $63.00$41.75The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers' struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of... -
The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear 9780822362289
RRP: $50.38$45.86Containing over one hundred selections-most of them published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic... -
Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs by Rosina Harrison 9780751564006
$26.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe by Suzanne L. Marchand 9780691182339
RRP: $63.00$51.01"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."-Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was... -
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine 9780691176949
RRP: $73.50$61.61On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the... -
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz 9781908906427
RRP: $42.00$28.88The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: $27.28$17.18'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander
RRP: $37.78$27.64In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive... -
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction by June Purvis
RRP: $77.68$68.31Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the... -
Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951—1970 by Brian Harrison 9780199605132
$97.90In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then... -
Early Modern European Society, Third Edition by Henry Kamen
RRP: $33.58$29.86A new edition of a seminal work-one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious... -
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
RRP: $35.68$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g -
Blitz Families: The Children Who Stayed Behind by Penny Starns 9780752460314
RRP: $27.28$20.20The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children were not evacuated during the War, and it is these young people who offer an unrivalled view of what life... -
The Pilgrims' Way: Fact and Fiction of an Ancient Trackway by Derek Bright 9780752460857
RRP: $47.25$35.26Winding its way from Winchester to Canterbury, through the counties of Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, can still be found one of England's most ancient trackways. Well trodden and beloved of walkers throughout southern England, the Pilgrims' Way serves as a... -
A Social History of England, 900-1200 by Julia Crick 9780521713238
RRP: $73.48$62.48The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were...