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Seneca: Moral and Political Essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780521348188
RRP: £30.99£27.40This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and... -
The Archbishops of Canterbury: A Tale of Church and State by John Butler 9781841657905
RRP: £12.99£8.91The office of Archbishop of Canterbury is the oldest continuous institution in Britain - older than the English crown and much older than Parliament. For over fourteen hundred years, from Augustine in the 6th century to Justin Welby in the 21st,... -
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 9781564784018
RRP: £20.99£18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2005 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781564784018Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
RRP: £12.99£8.73The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining what lies beyond our known world. Books ultimately... -
Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise: A Veritistic Interpretation by Frederick F. Schmitt 9780199683116
£85.70Frederick F. Schmitt offers a systematic interpretation of David Hume's epistemology, as it is presented in the indispensable A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume's text alternately manifests scepticism, empiricism, and naturalism in epistemology... -
London's Necropolis: A Guide to Brookwood Cemetery (New Edition) by John M. Clarke 9781840337334
RRP: £40.00£35.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337334Author John M. ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 280mm * 218mm * 30mm -
Great TED Talks: Innovation: An unofficial guide with words of wisdom from 100 TED speakers by Neil C. Hughes
RRP: £9.99£6.64This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide. With quirky graphics and memorable quotes, Great TED Talks: Innovation will challenge your thinking, open your mind to new perspectives,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism by Steven Katz 9781108714525
RRP: £29.99£26.34A History of Anti-Semitism examines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long... -
Fools are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto 9780226640921
£32.80In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. These quick-witted, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and Mughal India to... -
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062305206
£11.50A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America's First Families are unknowable in... -
Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840: Modes of Reproduction Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge University) 9780631154389
RRP: £21.95£19.72Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable. Explores why people married, at what... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Brian K. Harvey 9781585107957
RRP: £26.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107957Author Brian K. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925 by Alvin Jackson 9780192883742
RRP: £35.00£32.43The United Kingdom has been weakening, and this book helps to explain why. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long 19th century and... -
Town Halls by Karen Averby
RRP: £9.99£6.64Bastions of civic architecture, town halls are a prominent part of the urban landscape of towns and cities throughout Britain. They are part of a long tradition dating back centuries, when the town hall began to embody power and authority within local... -
The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England by Mr David Cannadine 9780230300873
RRP: £49.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem
RRP: £28.00£20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299595Author Georges CanguilhemFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm *... -
Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840 by John E. Archer 9780521576567
RRP: £23.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers by Micheal O'Guiheen 9780192813206
RRP: £11.99£11.12'The tide spreads a mantle of silk Around the Great Blasket Island' So wrote Micheal O'Guiheen of his beloved island home. But by 1953 the authorities had evacuated the Great Blasket and its traditions were vanishing. Micheal O'Guiheen, 'the... -
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter Emma Soames 9781529341522
RRP: £12.99£8.60'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal... -
From the Mill to Monte Carlo: The Working-Class Englishman Who Beat the Monaco Casino and Changed Gambling Forever by Anne Fletcher 9781445671390
RRP: £20.00£13.74This is the story of a man who went from Yorkshire mill worker to Monte Carlo millionaire. Amongst the men 'who broke the bank at Monte Carlo', Joseph Hobson Jagger is unique. He is the only one known to have devised an infallible and completely legal... -
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky 9780345455826
RRP: £19.00£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345455826Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization by Richard J. Goodrich
RRP: £19.99£14.28Halley's Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that... -
Playing with Reality: Gaming in a Pandemic by Alex Humphreys 9781913724931
RRP: £10.00£8.25What was it that got you through the Covid-19 pandemic? For some it was long walks; others turned to home baking. For millions it was video games, a booming industry which exploded in popularity over the pandemic years. Confined to our homes and with the... -
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: £12.99£9.88Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an amusing guide for married couples. Poking fun at wives... -
The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850 by Adam Fox 9780719057472
RRP: £19.99£17.61Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £29.49£27.15Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: £12.99£8.63"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of... -
Essex Boys by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.64Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with many more in this exciting exploration of Essex Boys. Pepys and Dickens captured Essex in words, while the... -
Women of the Celts by Jean Markale 9780892811502
RRP: £16.99£11.08Historian Markale takes us deep into a mythical world where both man and woman become whole by realizing the feminine principle in its entirety. The author explores the rich heritage of Celtic women in history, myth, and ritual, showing how these... -
Tithe Barns by Joseph Rogers
RRP: £15.99£10.85During the Medieval period, farmers across Europe were often obliged to offer one tenth of their yield to the Church, supporting a network of monasteries, abbeys and their varying religious motives. Storage for such offerings, known as tithes, required... -
Food on the Move: Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World by Sharon Hudgins
RRP: £35.00£25.29All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect of railway history for more than a century - from dinners in dining cars to lunches at station buffets to foods purchased... -
Plagues and People by William H. McNeill 9780385121224
RRP: £14.95£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385121224Author William McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson 9780199288359
£42.64English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century... -
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design by Brian J Lang
RRP: £45.00£33.39Designed for function, each chair has a story to tell about the history and evolution of American design, art, and craftmanship. At the heart of the catalogue is the presentation of 57 chairs from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection of American Art covered in... -
Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603 Mr Derek Wilson 9781472102331
RRP: £11.99£8.00The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's... -
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
RRP: £32.99£32.59In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger... -
Liverpool's Children in the 1950s by Pamela Russell
RRP: £16.99£12.94Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games,... -
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution by Travis Elborough
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as... -
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer 9780061626982
RRP: £12.99£8.48Rick Beyer plums the vast archives of the History Channel to deliver a treasure trove of obscure and fascinating stories to delight and entertain. "The Greatest Music Stories Never Told" continues the series tradition with short, fascinating tales... -
The Avengers and New Avengers Collectibles by John Buss
RRP: £15.99£11.61What can be said about what is probably 'the' fantasy adventure series of the sixties? Beginning in 1961, the series ran until 1969. Most items of Avengers merchandise were issued in a two-year period, 1966-67, coinciding with the show's most popular...