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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege by Marilynne K. Roach
RRP: €23.79€19.06Based on twenty-seven years of original archival research, including the discovery of previously unknown documents, this day-by-day narrative of the hysteria that swept through Salem Village in 1692 and 1693 reveals new connections behind the events, and... -
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road by Earl J. Hess 9780803273665
RRP: €19.03€16.11Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were three of the most important battles fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. They influenced the course of the first half of the war in that region by shaping Union military efforts... -
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson
RRP: €21.42€16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453389Author Scott PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Funkiest Man Alive: Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul by Matthew Ruddick 9781496838407
RRP: €33.26€19.91Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of... -
Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
RRP: €24.99€16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172865Author Emmett GroganFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
RRP: €11.89€7.90THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history ... Eye-opening, engrossing'Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut,... -
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
RRP: €17.84€13.69In this important and compelling young readers adaptation of his National Book Award-winning title, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, writing with award-winning author Jason Reynolds, chronicles the story of anti-black, racist ideas over the course of American history... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 9780099479376
€6.93A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test `What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, `that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to... -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post'He was a... -
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler
RRP: €27.36€22.06The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America's most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where... -
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero by Jay D. Aronson
RRP: €42.78€34.94After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify... -
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Conover Heller 9781400078936
RRP: €22.60€16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078936Author Anne Conover HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 by Neil Owen
€8.65Exam board: EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of... -
Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783 by Quintin Barry
RRP: €29.75€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336530Author Quintin BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Heinemann Advanced History: Civil Rights in the USA 1863-1980 by Susan Willoughby
€39.06A study of civil rights in the USA. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: €11.89€8.46THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of... -
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris 9780143115038
RRP: €20.23€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CODES Notable Books Council Award and New York Times Notable Book and Theatre Library Association Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143115038Author Mark HarrisFormat... -
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder
RRP: €11.89€8.46Alan S. Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan-is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a... -
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks 9780306830242
RRP: €29.75€16.97Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana-and its lasting impact on the communityOn February 13, 2017, two teenage... -
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery
RRP: €11.89€8.46**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose**'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson 9781788548229
RRP: €29.75€25.93Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679785897
RRP: €15.46€11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679785897Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy by Kate Werran 9781526759542
RRP: €29.75€21.44This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the special relationship' itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a ... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson by Jeffrey S. Cramer
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White
RRP: €23.80€15.30The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was... -
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness by Cecil B. Hartley
€15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843915416Author Cecil B. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm)... -
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by James DiEugenio
RRP: €29.75€25.89Based on Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited, read the transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about the John F. Kennedy assassination.JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for... -
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
RRP: €15.46€10.09Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957,... -
RFK: His Words for Our Times by Robert Francis Kennedy 9780062834140
RRP: €14.27€9.35In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK:... -
The Men on the Sixth Floor by Glen W. Sample 9780970718006
RRP: €13.15€11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970718006Author Glen W. SampleFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Sample GraphicsPublisher Sample Graphics -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant 9780674237858
RRP: €23.74€20.37"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a... -
Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession by Laurence Leamer 9780593542972
RRP: €34.51€20.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542972Author Laurence LeamerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition by John G. Neihardt
RRP: €20.22€16.01More than one million copies sold 2017 One Book One Nebraska selection"An American classic."-Western Historical QuarterlyBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous... -
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight by John Logsdon
RRP: €15.46€10.82The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents from the NASA archivesAmong all the technological accomplishments of the last century, none has captured our imagination more deeply than the... -
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
RRP: €19.03€15.01The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of the USA. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest... -
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames
€36.21In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range... -
American Kleptocracy: how the US created the greatest money-laundering scheme in history by Casey Michel
RRP: €22.60€15.74An explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of... -
Cold War Women: The International Activities of American Women's Organisations by Helen Laville 9780719080449
RRP: €23.79€18.12For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. In *Cold War women* Helen Laville recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace... -
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 by George C. Herring
RRP: €19.03€15.72A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies... -
Action Park by Andy Mulvihill
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134510Author Andy MulvihillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc