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The Witch at the Forest's Edge: Thirteen Keys to Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Christine Grace
RRP: $33.58$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637584Author Christine GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Coffee: A Drink for the Devil by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $20.98$13.94In the Western world, coffee consumption is around one-third that of tap water. After petroleum, coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the world. Over 7 million metric tons are produced annually. By the end of 2015, Great Britain had more than... -
Privacy: A Short History David Vincent (The Open University) 9780745671130
RRP: $35.68$31.96Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept... -
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
RRP: $54.60$34.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001196Author Robert GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 165mm... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: $33.58$27.11How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
Games from Childhood Past: Cats Cradle, Hide and Seek and the Royal Game of Ur by Caroline Goodfellow 9781803995342
RRP: $27.28$20.20Games make up a huge part of childhood, and memories of specific games stay with us throughout our lives. They form an integral part of growing up and stimulate imagination and creativity. From hide and seek to complex card and board games, street games... -
A Brief History of Money: 4000 Years of Markets, Currencies, Debt and Crisis by David Orrell
RRP: $42.00$28.88What do cacao beans, cowrie shells, paper cards, cigarettes and digital databases all have in common? At some time, they have been used as a form of money. Money is an essential aspect of everyday life and something that we usually take for granted until... -
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316478526
RRP: $63.00$38.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316478526Author Malcolm GladwellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Independence Memories: A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation Valerie Cox 9781529339857
RRP: $20.98$14.28A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War.It was a time of violence, of... -
Voices of Geordie Childhood: Growing Up in Tyne and Wear by Jo Bath
RRP: $27.28$20.20Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and... -
Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami
RRP: $31.48$4.85Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric spinster, was the embodiment of Austerity Britain's prudence and thrift... -
Stirner: The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner 9780521456470
RRP: $75.58$64.53Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell of left Hegelianism, with its attack on Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno and Edgar... -
The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin 9780750978569
RRP: $16.78$12.92Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard... -
A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England by John Tosh 9780300123623
RRP: $35.68$34.99Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many... -
Navigational Instruments by Dr. Richard Dunn
RRP: $18.88$13.55With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of... -
Herbert Simms: An Architect for the People by Lindie Naughton 9781848409101
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409101Author Lindie NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
A Woman's Place, 1910-1975 by Ruth Adam 9781903155097
RRP: $33.60$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155097Author Ruth AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 138mm * 28mm -
Jewish Pride: Reclaiming Our Story by Ben M. Freeman 9781915036322
RRP: $27.28$23.12Introducing the contemporary conversation on internalised Jew-hate, Reclaiming Our Story is the second instalment of world-renowned educator Ben M. Freeman's seminal manifesto of the modern Jewish Pride movement that has revolutionised the Jewish world. ... -
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle 9780691173276
RRP: $58.80$49.14This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow... -
The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton 9780199677504
RRP: $31.48$24.21In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor, and from stagecoaches on... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: $29.38$25.05'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
British Saws: A History and Collector's Guide by Simon Barley
RRP: $33.58$22.79Along with knives, hammers and axes, the saw is a tool that has been used by humans for thousands of years. A toothed piece of metal fitted with a handle has been applied to cutting almost every material ever invented, from the softest wood to the... -
Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Evan Bonds
RRP: $18.88$13.55Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven... -
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook by Jonathon Shears
RRP: $41.98$37.42The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary... -
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh 9780007195770
RRP: $37.78$28.98A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what... -
Life in Medieval Ireland: Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome by Finbar Dwyer
RRP: $27.28$19.09The history of the Middle Ages [in Ireland] is so neglected that the only figure of renown is Strongbow, the man who led the Norman Invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century ... There is little written about the lives of majority of men, who held no... -
The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley
RRP: $27.28$18.06The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical... -
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by Joanna Scutts 9780715655085
RRP: $27.28$18.12New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of women's suffrage, labour... -
The British Motor Industry by Jonathan Wood 9780747807681
RRP: $18.88$15.54Austin, Hillman, Morris, Standard and Wolseley were a handful of the myriad marques that once constituted Britain's indigenous motor industry. Born in 1896 into the high summer of Victorian prosperity, the native British industry survived until the... -
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne by Pierre Riche
RRP: $58.78$50.69In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riche reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were... -
Tigers at White City: Glasgow Speedway 1928 to 1968 Jim Henry 9781909885318
RRP: $35.60$33.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909885318Author Jim HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint London League Publications LtdPublisher London League Publications Ltd -
Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45 by Raynes Minns 9781844088737
$32.07'Women of Britain, your country needs you!'Bombers and Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, cosmetics and... -
Diderot: Political Writings by Denis Diderot 9780521369114
RRP: $56.68$49.22Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie (1751), of which he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's... -
Gin by Moses Jenkins
RRP: $18.88$14.43Gin is a drink deeply rooted in British culture. From 'Dutch Courage' to 'Gin Soaked', our language is full of expressions which reflect our gin drinking heritage. In the early eighteenth century, Britain was gripped by the Gin Craze, when the drink was... -
On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age by Bruce Holsinger
RRP: $63.00$54.29A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."-Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern... -
Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries C.1420-1530 by Andrew Brown 9780719056208
RRP: $41.98$37.42This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with... -
A Secret History of Brands: The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love by Matt MacNabb 9781473894174
RRP: $27.28$19.09We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they're all around us. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: $77.60$69.11For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
Made in Scotland: Household Names That Began in Scotland by Carol Foreman
RRP: $31.48$21.80Of the wide range and diversity of British products that are now household names, both at home and abroad, the Scots can take pride in the fact that many of them began in Scotland. When people first spread Robertson's Golden Shred Marmalade on their... -
O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins 9780671662417
$34.25An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.Book InformationISBN 9780671662417Author Larry CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count...