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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... -
Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire by Robert Elias 9781538158883
RRP: $63.00$59.68This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America's political and social protest movements throughout history-including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and... -
The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings About the Fab Four by Erin Torkelson Weber
RRP: $46.18$37.74Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history... -
Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) by Emmanuel Destenay
RRP: $52.50$49.94Approximately 150, 000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective... -
Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social Engineering and Private Lives by Martina Steber 9780198824695
RRP: $77.68$71.78When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the F^uuml^hrer, Adolf Hitler. The concept of Volksgemeinschaft - 'the people's community' - enshrined the Nazis' vision of society';... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780679444329
RRP: $79.80$48.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011 and NAACP Image Award 2010 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010 and Sidney Hillman Prize... -
Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers' Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup 9780715654965
RRP: $27.28$18.12Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his... -
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History by Anna Aslanyan
RRP: $35.68$31.67Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why... -
Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV by Stephen Bourne 9780750990134
RRP: $27.28$20.20The television set - the humble box in the corner of almost every British household - has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern times. It gives us a window into the lives of people who are different from us: different classes,... -
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron' by Lucasta Miller
RRP: $25.18$16.21A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of... -
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr
RRP: $25.18$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450095Author Edward BehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 by Anthony Seldon 9780198202387
RRP: $117.60$111.64The Conservative Party has been the dominant force in twentieth-century British politics. On its own or as the predominant partner in a coalition it has held power for more than sixty years since 1900. Despite this it has been the most neglected and... -
The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter 9780199299591
$125.39The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for... -
Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China by Isabel Brown Crook 9781442252776
RRP: $94.50$87.02This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate... -
Dundee: A comprehensive guide for locals and visitors by Norman Watson 9781910745199
RRP: $27.28$19.45As Scotland's fourth largest city, Dundee has long been known for its 'Three Js' of jute, jam and journalism. Now a thriving university city, Dundee is a UNESCO City of Design, and a shortlisted UK City of Culture. Year round, Dundee is alive with... -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
RRP: $52.50$35.47While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts... -
First Catch Your Hare: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747) by Hannah Glasse 9781903018880
RRP: $52.50$43.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018880Author Hannah GlasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Voltaire: Political Writings by Voltaire
RRP: $62.98$56.01This edition of Voltaire's political writings presents a varied selection of his most interesting and controversial texts, many of which have not previously been translated into English. They range over the nature and legitimacy of political power, law... -
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450 - 1800 by Lucien Fevre 9781844676330
RRP: $50.38$39.71The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with... -
A Blackmailer at Frogmore: The Adventures of Queen Caroline's Ghost by James Travers
RRP: $42.00$28.01This is the story of Queen Caroline's favourite ghostwriter, the infamous Captain Thomas Ashe, who was also an adventurer and sometime blackmailer. His unpublished novel, The Claustral Palace: or Memoirs of The Family, carried out Caroline's threat to... -
A History of Insanity and the Asylum: Not of Sound Mind by Juliana Cummings 9781399012140
RRP: $52.50$37.00The iconic image of the lunatic asylum is one that often leaves us wondering what went on inside these imposing buildings. In this new book, Juliana Cummings first questions what behaviours and characteristics define insanity and leads us through a... -
Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf 9780521359801
RRP: $50.38$43.97On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law... -
People of Colour and the Royals by Lady Colin Campbell 9781916131705
RRP: $41.98$29.99With her royal insider's knowledge and historical insight, Lady Colin Campbell turns her attention to People of Colour and the Royals. She herself is strongly vested in the subject of colour, being the proud product of one of the most prominent families... -
Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray 9780199553112
RRP: $130.20$129.13`Suicide' and `the Middle Ages' sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? In this first volume of his trilogy, Alexander Murray takes... -
Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How It Changed the World) by John Freely 9781788312455
RRP: $27.28$20.56Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of... -
The Curious History of Irish Dogs by David Blake Knox 9781848407015
RRP: $27.28$24.02There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the remarkable stories of each of the nine breeds, and reveals how they have become... -
Dickens & Women Reobserved by Edward Guiliano
RRP: $252.00$234.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087203Author Edward GuilianoFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co... -
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
RRP: $39.90$24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758945Author Robert WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Why We Quilt: Contemporary Makers Speak Out about the Power of Art, Activism, Community and Creativity by Thomas Knauer
RRP: $48.28$31.61In this tribute to today's vibrant quilting community, prize-winning quilter and teacher Thomas Knauer showcases a stunning collection of quilts from a wide range of contemporary makers, accompanied by their testimonials about what inspires and imbues... -
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham by Susan E. Whyman
RRP: $97.63$78.88The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton... -
Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne 9780752456102
RRP: $31.48$24.26Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and... -
The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London by Hannah Greig
RRP: $60.88$43.43Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than... -
Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror by Dawn Keetley 9780814255803
$71.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255803Author Dawn KeetleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein 9780929587189
RRP: $31.48$24.21"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did-indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily synonymous... -
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon 9780199676064
RRP: $31.48$23.56There 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. ... -
The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook by F.A. Steel
RRP: $23.08$16.32'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly... -
The Toll-houses of Norfolk by Patrick Taylor 9781907154027
RRP: $12.50$10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154027Author Patrick TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar Press -
Hampton Wick: Brick by Brick: East of the High Street: v. 1 by Ray Elmitt 9780957167933
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167933Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Straw Plaiting: Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets by Veronica Main 9781789940756
RRP: $94.50$70.46'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting,... -
Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910 by Tony Barnsley 9781905192649
RRP: $14.68$10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192649Author Tony BarnsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 88g