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SCOOTER MANIA!: Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally by Steve Jackson
RRP: $33.58$23.98At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Following a fact-finding mission to Dusseldorf, accompanied by Peter Agg from Lambretta, the second... -
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
RRP: $115.50$90.95Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong... -
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: $63.00$51.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780942299915Author Lorraine DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone... -
Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen by Kathryn Warner 9781445696188
RRP: $23.08$15.23Isabella of France married Edward II in January 1308, and afterwards became one of the most notorious women in English history. In 1325, she was sent to her homeland to negotiate a peace settlement between her husband and her brother Charles IV, king of... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair 9780861543731
RRP: $23.08$14.95A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the... -
Blyth History Tour by Gordon Smith
RRP: $18.88$12.64An ancient Northumbrian sea port town located on England's north-east coast, Blyth has been a thriving port since medieval times. Thanks to recent regenerations and redevelopment, the town has overcome the effects of declining industry in the recent past... -
Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages by Nancy Mandeville Caciola
RRP: $31.48$28.16Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self,... -
Scotland's Greatest Mysteries by Richard Wilson 9781842046692 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.48$4.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842046692Author Richard WilsonFormat PaperbackImprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books -
Scotland's Greatest Mysteries by Richard Wilson 9781842046692
RRP: $10.48$9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842046692Author Richard WilsonFormat PaperbackImprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books -
Growing Up in Wartime Somerset: A Portrait in Watercolour by Syd Durston 9780752461724
RRP: $31.48$24.26This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain's cities, the war transformed life in the countryside in all... -
Three Houses, Many Lives by Gillian Tindall 9780099547037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.57'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage.A former girls' boarding school in Surrey.A Jacobean house now buried in inner London.Three Houses, Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the... -
Three Houses, Many Lives by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $35.68$25.79'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage.A former girls' boarding school in Surrey.A Jacobean house now buried in inner London.Three Houses, Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the... -
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais, by Stephen Golding
RRP: $63.00$46.22The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and Edwardian Oxford, established in 1891 and continuing today. The story of this remarkable institution has never... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: $31.48$27.36The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the... -
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Scheeres 9781416596400
$23.23"A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a... -
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780300274219
RRP: $35.68$30.68A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 9781631494758
$31.19At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots,... -
The Blind Light by Stuart Evers 9781529030976
RRP: $39.88$36.08Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021'The Blind Light reads like a British Don DeLillo, telling the social history of Britain through two generations of a family.' - Alex Preston, Observer'A powerful and affecting novel' - Jim Crace, author of... -
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis Jeremy Rifkin (the Foundation on Economic Trends) 9780745641461
RRP: $60.88$54.79In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is likely to determine our fate as a species. Today we... -
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans by Karen Pinchin 9780008467814
RRP: $46.20$30.05This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry... -
The Tastemaker by Edward White 9780374535148
RRP: $27.28$24.49The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created... -
Thorns in the Crown: Britain on the Eve of the Coronation by Barry Turner
RRP: $42.00$31.58'A lively book that captures the essence of a modern monarchy and a new Elizabethan era' - Lyndsy Spence, The Lady'Down-to-earth and insightful' - Daily MailIt is 1952 and Britain is changing. The Second World War is over, but the country is still... -
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Fay Bound Alberti 9780199599035
RRP: $48.28$35.89To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a... -
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century James Kennaway 9781032400327
RRP: $83.98$73.63The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the... -
Columba: Pilgrim, Priest & Patron Saint by Tim Clarkson 9780859767231
RRP: $31.48$22.62St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he... -
21 Speeches That Shaped Our World: The people and ideas that changed the way we think by Chris Abbott
RRP: $31.48$23.00In this fascinating book, Chris Abbott, a leading political analyst, takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world today. He examines the power of the arguments embedded in these speeches to inspire people to achieve great things, or... -
Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Häberlen 9780241479377
RRP: $73.50$51.85'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: $41.98$37.42Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
Cats Who Changed the World: 50 cats who altered history, inspired literature... or ruined everything Dan Jones 9781914317880
RRP: $29.38$19.32The cat-tastic companion to Dogs Who Changed the World.50 awe-inspiring stories of cats who have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined everything. These inspiring, humorous, heart-breaking, or... -
English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture by Stefan Collini 9780198207801
RRP: $111.30$96.75In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary culture. Whether he is asking what it means to inhabit... -
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker
RRP: $67.20$59.12The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes... -
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Professor Martin Conway 9780691203485
RRP: $88.20$70.22A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western... -
Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction by Professor William Doyle
RRP: $18.88$13.55Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us... -
Ingenious Ireland: A county by county exploration of Irish mysteries and marvels by Mary Mulvihill
$40.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828218Author Mary MulvihillFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Daughters of Edward I by Kathryn Warner
RRP: $52.50$37.00In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne married a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos, and their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor... -
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan Israel
$58.57The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book by Peter Elmer 9780719067372
RRP: $41.98$38.26Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical... -
The Minority of James V: Scotland in Europe, 1513-1528 by Ken Emond
RRP: $147.00$101.70The defeat of the Scots in the Battle of Flodden in 1513 left many of the leaders of Scottish society, including King James IV, lying dead on the battlefield. The long and complex minority of King James V which followed is explored in detail in this... -
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450167
RRP: $20.98$15.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450167Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Horses Seen Through Trees: Snapshots of North-East Essex by Martin Newell 9780955731358
$16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955731358Author Martin NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Wiven BooksPublisher Wiven BooksWeight(grams) 153g