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In the Streets of Tehran: Woman. Life. Freedom. by Nila 9781804184523
RRP: £12.99£8.73INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good.Following the death of Mahsa-Jina... -
Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century by Bethan Watts 9781399089272
£25.49Power. Politics. Prosperity. Plague. Tudor England; a country replete with sprawling landscapes, dense forests and twisting urban labyrinths. This is a place of stagnation and of progress; of glorious cultural revolution, where the wheel of fortune is... -
Ritual in Early Modern Europe by Edward Muir 9780521602402
RRP: £30.99£27.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick 9780521357456
RRP: £30.99£25.22The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-1823 by Robert F Brown 9780198776642
£38.64This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: £35.00£28.14Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count by Giles Morgan 9780857304438
RRP: £9.99£6.80Few fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece thrilled and disturbed Victorian society with its dark and compelling themes of violence, lust,... -
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage
RRP: £22.99£18.63The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting
RRP: £29.95£19.87Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
Polly: The True Story Behind 'Whisky Galore' by Roger Hutchinson 9781780278506
RRP: £8.99£6.08Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260,000 bottles of whisky destined for the American market - a... -
Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield 9780063079816
RRP: £29.99£20.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063079816Author Adia Harvey WingfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Lancashire: A Social History, 1558-1939 by John K. Walton
RRP: £25.00£18.32If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most... -
The First Showman: The Extraordinary Mr Astley, The Englishman Who Invented the Modern Circus by Karl Shaw 9781398119529
RRP: £10.99£7.25The First Showman is a hugely entertaining history of the man who created the modern circus: Philip Astley. There have been many books about aspects of the circus but little written about its inventor. Here, New York Times bestselling author Karl Shaw... -
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s by R. W. Hoyle 9780198208747
£57.69This is the first full account of the Pilgrimage of Grace since 1915. In the autumn and winter of 1536, Henry VIII faced risings first in Lincolnshire, then throughout northern England. These rebellions posed the greatest threat of any encountered by a... -
The History and Social Influence of the Potato by Redcliffe N. Salaman 9780521316231
RRP: £46.99£42.07First published in 1949, this remarkable book is the culmination of a life-long study of every aspect of the potato. Dr Salaman is concerned first with the history of the potato as a member of the botanical genus Solanum, its adaptation by man as a... -
The Crisis Of The European Mind by Paul Hazard
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176191Author Paul HazardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook
RRP: £20.00£14.93Where exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? From Manchester's bars and nightclubs, to Brighton's seafront, the attractions of Leeds to the... -
The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway by Rosa Matheson 9780752444192
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering... -
The Alps: A Cultural History by Andrew Beattie 9781904955245
RRP: £15.00£13.65The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range; their broad arc stretches right across the centre of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. In former times the mountains were feared as the realm of wild and dangerous beasts,... -
Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: £16.99£11.81A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles often attracted tens of thousands of onlookers at... -
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830 T. S. Ashton 9780192892898
RRP: £35.99£33.44The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and... -
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox
RRP: £9.99£6.64When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ... -
1980's LONDON: Making the Best of It by Alec Forshaw
RRP: £15.00£14.69Alec Forshaw's latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, deregulation and privatisation, a period when London underwent changes that would shape its development through... -
Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden
RRP: £25.00£17.22Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, performed for hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, and have even been inducted into the Rock and Roll... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
RRP: £32.99£29.63The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language... -
Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 by Ciara Breathnach 9780198865780
RRP: £97.00£87.83Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical... -
East Kent at War by David Collyer 9780750907743 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26During the Second World War, East Kent was at the forefront of the defence of the United Kingdom. In 1940 the ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Folkestone and Margate took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, while airfields such as Manston, Hawkinge and Lympne were... -
East Kent at War by David Collyer
RRP: £14.99£11.55During the Second World War, East Kent was at the forefront of the defence of the United Kingdom. In 1940 the ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Folkestone and Margate took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, while airfields such as Manston, Hawkinge and Lympne were... -
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time by Joseph Mazur
RRP: £22.50£21.91Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuries-from the sandglass to the telomere-that reveals the physical, biological, and social nature of time"[A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully... -
Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes: Masters and Servants in the Golden Age by Michael Paterson 9781780336893
£12.73The Victorian and Edwardian eras in the run-up to 1914 marked the golden age of the English country house, when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again. The ease of these perfect settings for flirtation and relaxation... -
A Brief History of Nakedness by Philip Carr-Gomm
RRP: £25.00£24.18Confrontations with naked human bodies can provoke powerful, and often contradictory, impressions and feelings. Just as they might either thrill or revolt, they can signal innocence or sexiness, frankness or madness, a oneness with nature or a separation... -
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion by Tamara Sturtz-Filby 9781802794038
RRP: £25.00£17.38Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the 70s scene, including Grace Coddington, Zandra Rhodes, Willy van Rooy,... -
Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson 9780199645886
RRP: £19.99£15.02The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media... -
Britain's Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects by John Broom
RRP: £25.00£17.62The period of Britain's Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation's history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain's rapidly expanding... -
After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960 by Mark Mazower
RRP: £45.00£35.32This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with... -
Worcestershire Folk Tales by Phelps David
RRP: £12.99£9.62Worcestershire is a county of contrasts, with one face turned to the modern buzz of Birmingham and the other turned towards the quiet rural landscape of the West Country. Its folk tales reflect this dichotomy, with some stories based in the fears and... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the... -
Priestley'S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture by John Baxendale 9780719072871
RRP: £19.99£14.52Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century... -
Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines: Astride Auden's Watershed by Judith Milton 9781399952767
RRP: £16.99£12.28An informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines. Uniquely, the theme and structure are both guided by the "Pennine Poems" of the late W.H.Auden. Chapters on geology, technology, the environmental legacy of mining, social... -
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture by Caroline Dodds Pennock 9780230285644
RRP: £44.99£39.48The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a...