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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky 9781632863829
RRP: £18.99£14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863829Author Mark KurlanskyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 740g -
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle 9780198815594
RRP: £13.99£10.41'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1770-1807 Eleanor Trevena 9781398345393
£21.16Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 9781009151443
RRP: £34.99£31.94The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation - from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, through the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties, to the... -
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Peter Linebaugh 9780520260009
RRP: £25.00£19.59This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are being abridged... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: £12.99£8.80Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: £35.99£33.99The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
Batavia's Graveyard Mike Dash 9780753816844
RRP: £12.99£8.83When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a... -
The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£9.34Did the Trojan War really happen?Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied with the Hittite Empire. Located at the strategic... -
The Lives of Women, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: £30.00£22.89The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina... -
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
RRP: £16.99£12.47'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919-1939 Ella Richardson 9781398345423
£21.16Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People Abdul Mohamud 9781471886249
£21.16Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy by Hugh Bowden
RRP: £33.99£28.38The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which... -
From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey by Thomas L. Friedman
RRP: £16.99£11.47A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. 'If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.' Seymour Hersh In this lucid, incisive and... -
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Statistics by Peter Turchin
RRP: £10.99£7.99The numbers that tell the story of humanity 'Vital ... If you're thinking about setting up a giant land empire in Asia, you cannot do so without this book ... If only the last Song emperor had had this book by his side, he might have avoided his... -
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
RRP: £20.99£13.39Discover the secret method used to build the world...For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the... -
A Heroes History of World War II: Life on the Home Front by Lorraine Childs 9780954210298 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954210298Author Lorraine ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Colour History LtdPublisher Colour Heroes -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £25.00£18.02Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: £18.99£14.01A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539685Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America Ivan Van Sertima 9780812968170
RRP: £18.99£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £10.99£7.99ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and... -
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
RRP: £12.99£11.41In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the... -
The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction by Wendy Northcutt
RRP: £17.00£10.40The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift!The Darwin Awards are more than just a brand. They're a pop culture phenomenon. With six books and a website that draws in more than a million unique visitors every month,... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell 9780349128481
RRP: £30.00£17.26To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It's time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: £20.00£16.13Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace
RRP: £17.99£13.49Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder cases.Detective J. Warner Wallace was skeptical of the Bible's claims about Jesus. But he'd investigated several no-body homicide... -
A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
RRP: £19.99£14.50An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.' Scandinavian Studies The subject of this book is the Viking realms, Denmark, Sweden, and... -
Freemasons For Dummies Christopher Hodapp 9781119843429
RRP: £18.99£13.34Unravel the mysteries of the Masons All the myths and rumors about Masonic organizations probably have you wondering "what do Masons really do?" Questions like this one are a natural by-product of being the oldest and largest "secret society" in the... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: £35.00£25.68The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of... -
Illiberal America: A History by Steven Hahn 9780393635928
RRP: £27.99£23.03A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of 6 January 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking “That’s not us”. But... -
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone 9780197666302
RRP: £8.99£6.65In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from... -
The Napoleonic Wars Richard Holmes 9780233005942
RRP: £7.99£5.78This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who still styled himself Napoleone di... -
Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Far and wide was [Redgauntlet] hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact with Satan - that he was proof against steel -.' Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion. Kidnapped by Edward... -
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy 9780753823897
RRP: £14.99£11.11A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to ChinaToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £12.99£9.34Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
RRP: £18.49£13.34When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over... -
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There by Roderick Bailey
RRP: £14.99£10.956 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne...