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Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnes Poirier 9781786079916
RRP: $20.98$14.93WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise... -
When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure between the Wars by Katharine Milcoy
$61.05Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England. By combing over the everyday... -
Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales by Jill Francis
RRP: $73.50$65.46The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material as... -
The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy by Albert O. Hirschman
RRP: $58.70$46.52With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two... -
Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, c.1790- c.1965 by Andy Croll 9781786835864
RRP: $41.98$31.98Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex,... -
Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated by Katina Manko
RRP: $68.23$36.31The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture. With their distinctive... -
Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in 19th Century London by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq 9780140173260
$30.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak 9780719088193
RRP: $41.98$30.49This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women's experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the... -
The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It by John Wigger
RRP: $48.28$41.92He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply disappearing. Since November 1971, "D.B. Cooper"-no one... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: $27.28$24.07A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a... -
Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, Ad 284-311 by Byron Waldron
RRP: $199.50$162.27In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the... -
A University Education by David Willetts 9780198767268
RRP: $60.88$44.52Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a striking theme of the book. This important book first... -
California by Kevin Starr
RRP: $39.88$27.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977530Author Kevin StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: $42.00$33.37In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds... -
Bentham: A Fragment on Government by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: $39.88$35.24This volume makes available to a student readership one of the central texts in the utilitarian tradition, in the authoritative 1977 edition prepared by Professors Burns and Hart as part of Bentham's Collected works. A Fragment on Government is, as Ross... -
Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt by Alec Ryrie
RRP: $42.00$37.00Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. ... -
Richmond Park: From Medieval Pasture to Royal Park by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: $23.08$15.23Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London, covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Paul's Cathedral, 12 miles away. The royal connections to this park probably go back further than any of the... -
Norfolk Places Behind the Faces by John Ling
RRP: $33.58$22.79Norfolk has many places of interest connected with its diverse and sometimes bloody past. This book explores locations around the county linked with historical figures and major events. Houses, monuments and statues are associated with the likes of Lord... -
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams 9780691134086
RRP: $73.50$59.09Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough
RRP: $20.98$14.28In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our chequered relationship with national pride - has been... -
Real Railway Tales by Geoff Body
RRP: $27.28$20.20Running a railway is a complex business, constantly throwing up drama, misadventure and the unexpected. Geoff Body and Bill Parker have collated a rich selection of railwaymen's memories and anecdotes to create an enjoyable book of escapades and mishaps,... -
Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton by Rob Iliffe 9780199995356
RRP: $73.48$55.88Newton's unusual -- or even downright heretical -- religious opinions were well known to a number of his contemporaries. For over two centuries the exact nature of his religious beliefs was a matter of intense debate, but by the middle of the nineteenth... -
Great Scandals of the Victorians: Disreputable Stories from the Royal Court to the Stage by Debbie Blake 9781399091602
RRP: $52.50$37.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser by Panagiotis Sotiris
RRP: $94.50$64.18In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser, Panagiotis Sotiris undertakes a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon his deeply political conception of philosophy. Althusser's endeavour is presented as a quest for a new... -
The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure Pieter Waterdrinker 9781912854073
RRP: $39.88$36.08'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in... -
The World is Your Burger: A Cultural History by David Michaels
RRP: $52.40$43.87An encyclopaedic, eye-catching tribute to one of the world's most popular foods - the humble hamburger Celebrate the classic hamburger with this unprecedented collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera - a colourful look at the burger's origins and... -
The Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780199335466
RRP: $130.20$75.68Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present,... -
The Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: $27.28$19.09Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford History of the World... -
The Woman Writer: The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists by Sylvia Kent 9780752451596
RRP: $31.48$24.26Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. From its early days when at least 200 women applied to join, the... -
Fear: A Cultural History by Professor Joanna Bourke
RRP: $27.28$18.06Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often, anxiety overwhelms us from some source within: there is an... -
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making by Stuart Cosgrove 9781846975790
RRP: $27.28$17.98Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali' (Cinema release Spring 2023) Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in the 5th... -
Changing Times: The New Look and the Swinging Sixties - from the Hearth by Deirdre Beddoe 9781906784102
RRP: $25.18$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906784102Author Deirdre BeddoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 456g -
Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton
RRP: $20.98$16.11The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century... -
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin 9780674292383
RRP: $62.90$51.07As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two... -
Last Children Of The Raj, Volume 2 (1939-1950): British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming
RRP: $31.50$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660218Author Mark TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 30mm -
Norwood: A Second Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by John Coulter
RRP: $31.48$24.26The contrasting suburbs of West, Upper, and South Norwood grew up during the nineteenth century, on the range of hills once covered by the Great North Wood. West Norwood was intended to be smart and exclusive, but that ambition was achieved instead by... -
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo
RRP: $31.48$23.00'The truth which we arrive at by means of mathematical proofs is the same truth that is known to divine wisdom.' Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems, the most brilliant and persuasive defence of the Copernican theory that the Earth... -
Dark Side of East London by David Charnick 9781473856448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$6.49Just hearing the phrase 'the East End' summons up images of slums and dark alleyways, with Jack the Ripper appearing from the mist, or housing estates and pubs where you might find the Kray twins. It is a place of poverty and menace, yet these images can... -
A Cultural History of Climate Wolfgang Behringer (Saarland University, Germany) 9780745645292
RRP: $37.78$33.68Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have... -
Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism by Daniel Diehl
RRP: $27.28$20.20Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of...