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Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry
RRP: $18.88$12.87Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done. You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with... -
'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History by Denise Riley 9780333346136
RRP: $94.48$94.44Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category of "women" in relation to other categories central to concepts of personhood: the soul, the... -
A Flight of Figureheads: From British Warships at The Box, Plymouth by David Pulvertaft
RRP: $33.58$22.79The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces each of the figureheads, giving details of its design, the ship for which it was carved and the actions it... -
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene 9780231123419
RRP: $52.50$43.24When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly... -
The First Celebrities: Five Regency Portraits by Peter James Bowman
RRP: $48.28$31.88What percentage of the printed and online media is dedicated to celebrity culture today? A tricky calculation; but there is no doubt that the percentage was pretty high when mass media first acquired a recognisably modern form in the Regency period... -
Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio 9780099289463
RRP: $33.58$24.38Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became... -
Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt 9781848091511 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$5.57Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations... -
Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History Nick Barratt 9781848091511
RRP: $33.58$22.39Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations... -
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions: Discover the True Stories Behind the English Language's 64 Most Popular Sayings by James McGuire 9781732512603
RRP: $27.28$25.79The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most common sayings!Nobody thinks twice about sayings like bite the bullet and the cat's out of the... -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy
RRP: $50.38$43.76The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western... -
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
RRP: $33.58$29.86Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks"An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . ... -
Kindly Folk and Bonny Boats: Fishing In Scotland and The Northeast From the 1950s to the Present Day by Gloria Wilson
RRP: $31.48$24.26A pictorial appreciation of the boats and fishing communities of Scotland and North-East England from the 1950s to the present. Gloria Wilson's unique collection of photographs has never been published before. With information on boat design and... -
Illustrated Tales of Lancashire by David Paul
RRP: $33.58$22.79Lancashire is one of England's most diverse counties, with a rich heritage and a fascinating and often shocking history. Local author and historian David Paul brings us some of the county's strange and mythical tales, bringing together a whole range of... -
From Somerset to Portman Square: The Portman Family and their Estates by Richard Bowden
RRP: $52.50$37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399932561Author Richard BowdenFormat HardbackImprint The Portman EstatePublisher The Portman Estate -
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon
$29.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194162Author Robert GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 618g -
The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948 by Lynn Hollen Lees 9780521572613
RRP: $153.30$139.38The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare... -
Maistre: Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre 9780521466288
RRP: $54.58$47.48Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and... -
The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 by Peter Borsay 9780198202554
RRP: $136.50$110.27In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This penetrating study examines the economic and social origins which stimulated the most striking features of that revival: the transformation of... -
Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs by Virginia Berridge
RRP: $41.98$31.54Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women. Debates about the classification of cannabis continue, while major public health campaigns seek to reduce and ultimately eliminate smoking through health warnings and legislation. But the... -
Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton 9780300154474
RRP: $68.25$67.16While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped... -
Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City by Diarmuid O. Grada 9781782051473
RRP: $73.50$63.88It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand red-brick squares and elegant drawing rooms. Phenomenal... -
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA by R.C. Lewontin 9780060975197
RRP: $33.58$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975197Author R.C. LewontinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Edge of Reality: Journeys Through the Rabbit Hole of Reality Television by Jacques Peretti 9780241644515
RRP: $42.00$30.01Go behind the scenes of the most shocking, hilarious, controversial genre of entertainment: reality television.Reality TV's influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn't exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces... -
Women of the 1960s by Sheila Hardy 9781473834392 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.98$5.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Short History of War by Jeremy Black
RRP: $23.08$19.68An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the present day. . . . A Short History of War offers an expansive and often evocative... -
York Minster: A Living Legacy by Richard Shephard 9781906507176
RRP: $41.90$33.05From its position at the heart of the ancient city of York, York Minster has for centuries formed the focus of a community, while performing a national role as the seat of Britain's second Archbishop. Today, nearly 1500 years after the earliest traces of... -
Beads: A History and Collector's Guide by Stefany Tomalin
RRP: $33.58$22.79Until recently beads were under-researched. Even today in the UK, antique markets, necklaces and single beads still turn up in bargain boxes at cheap prices, whether glass, plastic, semiprecious stones - in fact almost anything that can have a threadable... -
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars by Lisa Silverman 9780190257811
RRP: $72.43$66.47The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the... -
Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture by Naomi Baker
RRP: $52.50$45.76Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with... -
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines by George Dyson 9780141975436
RRP: $27.28$19.09A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections... -
The Gaol Kelly Grovier 9780719561337
RRP: $27.28$18.06For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe... -
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Christine Hayes
RRP: $58.80$46.62In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical... -
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire by Leslie P. Peirce 9780195086775
RRP: $128.10$99.06The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of... -
One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair by Allan Peterkin 9781551521077
RRP: $44.08$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521077Author Allan PeterkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 380g -
Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine by John V. Pickstone 9780719059940
RRP: $31.48$28.64This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. It identifies four principle ways of knowing within specific periods and balances the... -
A Natural History of St. Kilda by John Love
RRP: $42.00$29.51In 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, travelled to St Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn about the now extinct great auk. Much of the information that he gathered during this expedition was relayed to him by... -
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War Delphine Minoui 9781529012316
RRP: $35.68$31.73'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb... -
Giants of Steam: The Great Men and Machines of Rail's Golden Age Jonathan Glancey 9781843547730
RRP: $52.50$37.00The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advocates of steam's glory days pushed its design and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott
$86.29This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and... -
Irishology: Slagging, Junior C Football, Wet Rain and everything else we love about Ireland by Ronan Moore 9780717168200
RRP: $25.18$19.13Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer to St Anthony? Or truly appreciate the medicinal purposes of flat 7Up? Not to mention the front room, chipper chips and the 'bad pint'. From things you'll only hear and taste in Ireland to...