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Windrush: A Ship Through Time by Paul Arnott 9780750989862
RRP: $42.00$35.34Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: The Monte Rosa is sent to the fjords to assist the dreaded Tirpitz as she bombards British ships.Auschwitz,... -
Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret by Benjamin Levy
RRP: $52.50$39.77Today, 16-18 Beak Street is a burger bar, but don't let the muddy grey of the whitewashed oak walls deceive you. This building was once filled with dancing showgirls in glitzy costumes, performing to over 100 people a night. For this corner of Soho once... -
Law 3.0: Rules, Regulation and Technology by Roger Brownsword 9780367488635
RRP: $41.98$37.15Putting technology front and centre in our thinking about law, this book introduces Law 3.0: the future of the legal landscape.Technology not only disrupts the traditional idea of what it is 'to think like a lawyer,' as per Law 1.0; it presents major... -
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
RRP: $33.58$25.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386717Author David OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691192703
RRP: $46.20$36.46How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its... -
Women Who Won: 70 extraordinary women who reshaped politics by Ros Ball 9781800182523
RRP: $39.88$27.34Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in... -
Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for Identity in Saudi Arabia by Mai Yamani 9781845118242
$61.05Is Saudi Arabia really a homogeneous Wahhabi dominated state? In 1932 the Al Saud family incorporated the kingdom of Hijaz, once the cultural hub of the Arabian world, in to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The urban, cosmopolitan Hijazis were absorbed in to... -
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear by Klaus-Michael Bogdal 9780241519028
RRP: $84.00$59.62'A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. ... nothing short of astounding' Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their... -
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret Catherine Hewitt 9781785780448
RRP: $18.88$12.77Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip... -
A 1950s Mother: Bringing up Baby in the 1950s by Sheila Hardy
RRP: $23.08$17.33Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the childrearing methods of the... -
Life in the 1970s by Carol Harris
RRP: $12.60$9.32The 1970s are noted as the decade of strikes, the winter of discontent and the three-day week. But is this the full story; what was it really like for ordinary British people? In this book, Carol Harris looks at the stories and people who made the... -
The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 by J. M. Beattie 9780199675388
$102.42This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways... -
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 by Graeme Morton
RRP: $65.10$60.25The nineteenth century was a period of profound change in Scottish history. Industrialisation, improved communications, agricultural transformation, country to town migration, upheavals in the church, increased trade, and imperialism -- all these... -
When Dreams Collide: Travels in Yugoslavia with Rebecca West by Nicholas Allan 9781910533635
RRP: $52.50$37.21When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, he explores the splintered co-evolution of these lands over the last ten centuries, guided by the inimitable... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780802063489
RRP: $25.18$22.97Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human... -
Voices of North and South Ockendon by Cecilia Pyke 9780752499185
RRP: $27.28$20.20This warm and nostalgic collection of memories reveals the fascinating history of North and South Ockendon before, during and after the Second World War. The 1930s saw great change in South Ockendon as London Land Company, London County Council and Essex... -
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
RRP: $27.28$18.06'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and... -
Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin 9781608463909
RRP: $35.68$26.71Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist who tirelessly advocated for women's rights. In her writings, Clara Zetkin describes the political process that ultimately allowed for socialised reproduction' - namely the establishment by the... -
A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren
RRP: $27.28$25.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345373168Author Charles Van DorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber
RRP: $52.48$45.74Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic... -
Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era by James Hobson 9781781558225
RRP: $50.40$36.46'Passengers' is a social history of Britain between 1790 and 1840. This is the period of the Napoleonic War and of rapid technological change and social tension. It was a contradictory age, simultaneously the elegant era of Jane Austen and the... -
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age by Michael Meylac
RRP: $41.98$37.82The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781787330542
RRP: $39.88$26.21'Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesTen years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was... -
The Beat Makers: The Unsung Heroes of The Mersey Sound Anthony Hogan 9781445672083
RRP: $39.88$28.58In the late 1950s, a flourishing musical culture began to emerge in major UK cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London. This was particularly true in the Merseyside area, where an estimated 350 different groups were active, often... -
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London by Rosalind Crone 9780719086854
RRP: $41.98$37.42By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly,... -
Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks Tom Chesshyre 9781800070097
RRP: $35.68$24.23If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks As horizons shrank, we took stock. At first, a sense of panic set in: nowhere to go, nothing to do... Then we all went to the park, and we realized something: we need greenery -... -
Peak District: A Cultural History by Dr. John Bull
RRP: $31.50$28.67The Peak District was Britain's first National Park and the 'breathing space' for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had garrisons here, but for many... -
Women's International Thought: A New History by Patricia Owens
RRP: $52.48$44.48Women's International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today, this book recovers and... -
Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El-Haj
RRP: $42.00$34.50Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745651309
RRP: $41.98$37.15This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of... -
Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, & Social Change by Hugh Trevor-Roper 9780865972780
RRP: $23.00$19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972780Author Hugh Trevor-RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 757g -
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz Eric Hobsbawm 9780349112282
RRP: $27.28$18.06This collection of 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late 18th century and the present day, and brings back into print a selection of this celebrated historian's pioneering studies into labour history, together with... -
How to Drink Like a Writer: Recipes for the Cocktails and Libations That Inspired 100 Literary Greats by Apollo Publishers
RRP: $33.58$23.18Pairing 100 famous authors, poets, and playwrights from the Victorian age to today with recipes for their iconic drinks of choice, How to Drink Like a Writer is the perfect guide to getting lit(erary) for madcap mixologists, book club bartenders, and... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: $35.68$25.79China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber 9780199664634
RRP: $31.48$23.00The fateful story of Adolf Hitler's transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue. The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Extraordinary Exploits of the British and European Aristocracy by Karl Shaw
RRP: $20.98$14.28The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to... -
This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond by Mike Jay
RRP: $52.40$36.44Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of... -
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them Adrienne Raphel 9781472144645
RRP: $39.88$28.58'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar'A witty, wise, and wonderfully weird journey that will change the way you think . . . This book is a... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: $35.68$29.36In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe
RRP: $48.30$46.47Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Cary...