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My Struggle: Mein Kampf English Version by Adolf Hitler 9781682044124
$32.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682044124Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Fcb BooksPublisher Fcb BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm -
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham 9780241543702
RRP: $39.88$32.38From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - this is riveting... -
Mein Kampf: My Struggle - The Original, accurate, and complete English translation by Adolf Hitler
$39.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682042847Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
RRP: $35.68$26.63From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some surprising roles in between.From Ada Lovelace in the... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins 9780099540250
RRP: $35.68$26.63A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**A searing, landmark study of the... -
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
RRP: $23.08$16.53'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our... -
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: $27.28$20.31Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. ... -
A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo 9780226400693
RRP: $37.80$30.77When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother 50 francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. This book is a story of these children caught in the whirlwind of World... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
RRP: $35.68$26.90'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $23.08$16.53* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $27.28$17.68'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610339
RRP: $35.68$27.53From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage by Arthur Koestler 9781939438997
RRP: $31.48$20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438997Author Arthur KoestlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint One 70 PressPublisher One 70 PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
RRP: $18.88$18.33In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini,... -
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West by Subhadra Das 9781399704359
RRP: $42.00$28.04Knowledge is power. Time in money. Justice is blind.Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely question. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781804991893
RRP: $23.08$16.78A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610322
RRP: $52.50$35.24From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman
RRP: $27.28$19.30Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the... -
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Murphy
RRP: $23.08$16.53The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik... -
Prose and Cons: The English Language in Just a Minute Gyles Brandreth 9781785946820
RRP: $35.68$25.79As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: $31.48$27.36A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: $16.78$7.58An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
Conquistador by Buddy Levy
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384710Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: $18.88$13.76Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact... -
History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) by Allan Todd 9781107558892
$70.29Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World History Topic 10: Authoritarian States (20th century) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first... -
Napoleon'S Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
RRP: $29.38$27.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423316Author Penny Le CouteurFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation - the Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: $27.28$11.36TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock... -
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $31.48$21.11The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties... -
KS3 History Complete Study and Practice by CGP Books
RRP: $25.18$18.98Don't miss CGP's superb all-in-one Complete Revision & Practice book for KS3 History. It's bursting with study notes and sources covering fascinating topics from 1066 to 21st Century. There are plenty of practice questions and worked questions to help... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: $25.18$17.01Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the... -
Atlas of Empires: The World's Civilizations from Ancient Times to Today by Peter Davidson
RRP: $31.48$23.84Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps, Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Atlas of... -
Lessons of History by Will Durant
$21.78In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their five decades of work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization... -
A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney 9780752450117
RRP: $20.98$13.48Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $52.50$28.77A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $39.88$23.90Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.About the AuthorWinston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific writer, whose works include The Second World War and A... -
The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh 9781913083496
RRP: $31.48$18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083496Author Andrew LeighFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Second World War Antony Beevor 9781780225647
RRP: $35.68$20.39A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion... -
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J Buchanan 9780307405166
RRP: $35.68$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307405166Author Patrick J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $31.48$25.79The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology,... -
Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe by Mick O'Hare 9781915798947
RRP: $23.08$15.83A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps?Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-busters and jaw-dropping...