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Made in Scotland: Household Names That Began in Scotland by Carol Foreman
RRP: £14.99£10.38Of 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
£15.46An 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... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£9.16The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the... -
Sex In The Western World Jean-Louis Flandrin 9783718652013
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 1991. In this book the author looks at the history of sexuality, discussing topics of love from the 15th century onwards, sexual morality and marriage, ancient and modern adages conernong procreation as a part of society and the sex... -
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by David Freidel 9780688112042
£20.83The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya... -
British Bandstands by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £14.99£9.70Bandstands have been a feature of the British way of life for well over a century - but, after the Second World War, an increasing number fell into disuse and were neglected. Sadly, many were demolished when public parks and seaside resorts went into a... -
The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History by Wu Hung
RRP: £35.00£24.29This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners... -
Secrets Of The Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079230Author Eli ZaretskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 389g -
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity by Róisín Ryan-Flood 9781032499048
RRP: £36.99£32.53Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach,... -
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel 9780199541522
RRP: £67.00£59.76Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he... -
Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. (At the Comedy Cellar.): society, ethics, and comedy in the social-media era by Andrew Hankinson 9781911617686
RRP: £14.99£10.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941 by Susan Ronald
RRP: £25.00£16.83The acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany. Hitler said, 'I am convinced that propaganda is an... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: £10.99£7.64Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers... -
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought by James T. Kloppenberg
RRP: £30.49£22.82The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Toward Democracy, James T. Kloppenberg explores this story of ideas, focusing on the evolution of democracy in... -
Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror by W. Scott Poole 9781593765439
RRP: £15.99£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765439Author W. Scott PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
At the Crossroads of Time: How a Small Scottish Village Changed History by Andrew C. Scott
RRP: £20.00£13.34Unlike many other small villages in the UK, Lesmahagow has many claims to fame because of its location and geological heritage and due to many of its sometime residents having taken up influential roles in the history of the nation. Andrew C. Scott's... -
A Short History of Power: How societies create and sustain oppression, and how to resist it Dr Dr Jack Davy 9781529413953
RRP: £12.99£8.60'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam SangheraAn eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support those in power, at the expense of those without it. COLONIAL POWERIn the 1950s, over 10,000 Kenyans... -
Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict by Emeritus Professor Ole Kristian Grimnes
RRP: £25.99£22.61Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how the Germans conquered Norway in 1940 and the type of... -
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 by Michael McGerr 9780195183658
RRP: £22.99£18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195183658Author Michael McGerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 27mm -
Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic by Paul Betts 9780199668298
RRP: £39.99£28.87Private life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often seen as having been virtually non-existent, simply another East German commodity forever in short supply. In part this had to do with the common perception that private life and state... -
The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery D.J. Taylor 9781472123930
RRP: £9.99£5.96'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J... -
Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain by John Potvin 9781784991098
RRP: £25.00£18.32The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics... -
The Poppy: A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance, and Redemption by Nicholas J. Saunders 9781780744049 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29The definitive history of the ever-enduring icon In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy - sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalized in John McCrae's moving poem - became a... -
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways Christian Wolmar 9781848871731
RRP: £20.00£14.29Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the... -
Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion by Clare Press
RRP: £14.99£11.63Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street-or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker,... -
Vintage Signs of America by Debra Jane Seltzer
RRP: £15.99£10.85Debra Jane Seltzer's beautiful collection of images features some of the most stunning signs that remain on public display in the United States. The focus is on neon signs from the 1940s and 1950s. There are also examples of increasingly rare opal glass... -
Estonian Life Stories by Rutt Hinrikus
RRP: £98.00£90.23This is an anthology of life stories collected from 20th-century Estonians describing the travails of ordinary people under numerous regimes from an authentic perspective where time is placed in the context of life-spans, and subjects grounded in... -
Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings 9780719089923
RRP: £19.99£17.61Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic, and widely ignored... -
What Color is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig
RRP: £28.00£27.39Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation... -
From a Storm to a Hurricane: Rory Storm & The Hurricanes by Anthony Hogan
RRP: £14.99£9.70Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were one of the top bands in Liverpool between 1959 and 1962, bigger even than The Beatles. They shared the bill with the Fab Four on many occasions in their home city and in Hamburg, and their first drummer was none other... -
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga 9781621389989
£17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389989Author Johan HuizingaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 by Stefan Collini 9780198204220
RRP: £55.00£51.56This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists, and... -
Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 by Carlo M. Cipolla 9780393324433
RRP: £16.50£13.88How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological... -
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon
RRP: £28.99£21.72There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. ... -
Scottish Arctic Whaling by Chesley W. Sanger
RRP: £20.00£14.05Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen... -
What the Greeks Did for Us by Tony Spawforth
RRP: £20.00£19.02An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus... -
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox 9780008285678
RRP: £25.00£7.20When 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. ... -
The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War and the Famine History Forgot by William Rosen
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127147Author William RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 284g -
Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour by Dr. Charles Dick
£25.15This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full... -
Living Back-to-Back by Chris Upton 9781860776557
RRP: £16.99£12.94Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England, home to the majority of working people in Victorian cities, but they have now almost entirely vanished from our urban townscape. The survival of Court 15 in Birmingham is the starting...