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Whetstone & North Finchley by John Heathfield
RRP: $31.48$24.26This fascinating collection of photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. The book gives a vivid impression of buildings, streets and... -
A Brief History of the Future by John Naughton
RRP: $23.08$15.54The only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st centuryThe Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's... -
Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg 9781786497161
RRP: $42.00$32.40AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live... -
Afghanistan Dispossessed: Women, Culture and the Taliban Razia Sultanova 9781399060226
RRP: $42.00$30.01How does normal social, cultural, religious life survive in constant turmoil? How can the people flourish? These basic questions are examined and answered by Razia Sultanova's academic analysis and deep fieldwork, with extensive eye-witness and personal... -
Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains by Nicolas Wheatley
RRP: $42.00$31.58This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published,... -
Black Markers: Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries by Jan-Andrew Henderson
RRP: $33.58$22.79Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted - they are the perfect reflection of the city's amazing past with astonishing... -
Viral Pandemics: From Smallpox to COVID-19 Rae-Ellen Kavey 9780367439644
RRP: $283.50$247.13Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The book illuminates the critical dual roles of... -
The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550 by Gervase Rosser 9780198735786
$69.78Guilds and fraternities, voluntary associations of men and women, proliferated in medieval Europe. The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages explores the motives and experiences of the many thousands of men and women who joined together in these... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 7: South Crofty Mine, The East Pool & Agar Mine by L. J. Bullen
RRP: $27.28$20.20Continuing the Mining in Cornwall series, L.J. Bullen depicts three mines from the Central Mining District. Most of the scenes date from around 1900 to the early twenty-first century. This was the period that saw the decline of the industry, but renews... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88$28.58'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty,... -
Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars by Chris O'Rourke 9781350242852
RRP: $67.18$35.76A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might... -
Women in Welsh Coal Mining: Tip Girls at Work in a Men's World by Norena Shopland 9781399075220
$51.39We tend to think of coal mining as predominantly a male occupation, with women confined to roles as wives and support workers. Women worked at the coal face for many years before they were banned in 1842. However, mere legislation was not going to stop... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
RRP: $27.28$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm -
An Introduction to the Philosophical Work of Gilles Deleuze by Jean Khalfa 9780826459961
$147.40Gilles Deleuze has been labelled as the post-x thinker: post-structuralist, post-modern, post-Spinozist, post-Nietzschean, and even post-utopian. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze explores such categorizations and places Deleuze and... -
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex by Rachel Feltman
RRP: $46.20$32.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645037163Author Rachel FeltmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 258mm * 144mm... -
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups by William L Bernstein 9781611854435
RRP: $27.28$17.98Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that... -
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World Christian Wolmar 9781848871717
RRP: $52.50$37.00The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the... -
Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World by Johan Swinnen
RRP: $41.98$29.99From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, strategic taxation and the regulation of beer has played a pivotal role throughout history. Beeronomics: How... -
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History by Barbara Caine 9781350237629
RRP: $48.28$45.11Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life... -
Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 by Jonathan Beecher
RRP: $73.48$64.03The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its... -
The Lowdown On Witches: True Stories of Scottish Witch Trials by Leonard Low
RRP: $31.50$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911486732Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Guardbridge BooksPublisher Guardbridge Books -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: $23.08$16.32For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: $58.80$45.78A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence 9780345466273
RRP: $16.78$10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466273Author Jerome LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Heritage by Anthony West 9781451605983
RRP: $31.48$28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451605983Author Anthony WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft Robin Briggs (University of Oxford) 9780631233268
RRP: $75.50$67.35Witches and Neighbours is a highly original and unconventional analysis of a fascinating historical phenomenon. Unlike other studies of the subject which focus on the mechanisms of persecution, this book presents a rich picture of witchcraft as an... -
The Birmingham Gun Trade by David Williams
RRP: $37.78$28.64Birmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day. Between 1855 and 1861 six million arms were testing and proofed here - many of them destined for the USA... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: $23.08$14.95Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that... -
The General Strike 1926: A New History by David Brandon 9781399083973
RRP: $52.50$37.00The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support. With their families and some middle-class... -
French Military Dinky Toys by Alan Spree
RRP: $33.58$22.79French Military Dinky Toys are very collectable and make an excellent standalone collection or addition to a collection of their British counterparts. This book details the Army, Navy and Air Force Dinky Toys made or issued in France with examples... -
More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 by Stephen Kantrowitz 9780143123446
RRP: $49.60$38.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123446Author Stephen KantrowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Plashet - Gone, But Not Forgotten: 1896-1900 by Miriam Pollak 9780987561015
$50.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987561015Author Miriam PollakFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Plashet ServicesPublisher Plashet ServicesWeight(grams) 738gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Bu Tran Binh
RRP: $27.28$24.72Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved... -
Spicing Up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food by Panikos Panayi 9781861896582
$44.39Among the cuisines of Europe, Britain's has traditionally been regarded as the black sheep kippers, jellied eels and blood pudding rarely elicit the same fond feelings as chocolate mousse or pasta primavera. Yet despite these unfortunate stereotypes,... -
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History by Leo Braudy 9780679776307
RRP: $52.50$42.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776307Author Leo BraudyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm... -
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
RRP: $44.08$38.83A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of... -
Work Ethic by Helen Molesworth 9780271023342
RRP: $69.20$63.99During the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making "art" as it has been thought of since the Renaissance. They staged performances that mixed everyday life with theater and in yet other, often ironic,... -
Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by Stephanie Y. Evans 9781438483641
RRP: $42.84$33.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Honour and the Sword: The Culture of Duelling by Joseph Farrell 9781909930940
RRP: $42.00$37.46The popularity of the musical, Hamilton, featuring the death of Alexander Hamilton in a duel with Aaron Burr, then Vice President of the United States, has revived interest in duelling, but also aroused incredulity that such events could ever have... -
Well-Kept Ruins by Helene Cixous
RRP: $33.58$28.94A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabruck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and...