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Football in the Land of the Soviets by Carles Vinas
RRP: $19.34$12.64Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction by Wendy Northcutt
RRP: $21.93$13.04The 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 Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History by Philip D. Curtin 9780521629430
RRP: $49.01$42.02Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen 9780807849323
RRP: $55.41$51.82This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist... -
On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell 9780593724088
RRP: $24.50$16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593724088Author James FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Transition to Global Rivalry: Alliance Diplomacy and the Quadruple Entente, 1895-1907 by John Albert White 9780521474450
RRP: $135.45$113.92During the years before the First World War, the realignment of world powers resulted in agreements concluded in 1904 and 1907 between Britain, France, Russia and Japan. John Albert White terms this a Quadruple Entente, a more accurate and complete... -
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel
RRP: $32.24$21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594631412Author Mandy AftelFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam... -
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff 9781568331140
RRP: $32.25$24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331140Author Stephane GroueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway 9781786899965
RRP: $12.89$8.64Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are... -
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914 by C. A. Bayly 9780631236160
RRP: $37.35$33.63This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.Reveals that the... -
A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy 9781904943402
RRP: $11.60$8.32As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with... -
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century by Michael Howard 9780198204282
$65.58Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel... -
From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey by Thomas L. Friedman
RRP: $21.92$14.80A 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... -
A Little History of the World by Ernst H. Gombrich 9780300108835 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.95The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A Little... -
A Little History of the World by Ernst H. Gombrich 9780300108835
RRP: $21.92$19.36The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time." So begins A Little... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $15.48$11.84From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by... -
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer
RRP: $36.11$29.01In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to... -
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $25.80$16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405012Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780471686132
$17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471686132Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 9780679721109
$15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721109Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Death Dealer: The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoss 9780306806988
RRP: $28.37$19.21SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoess (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: $19.34$12.51Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated... -
The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy 9780008150266
RRP: $103.20$70.58The ultimate work of historical reference 'The Times Complete History of the World' is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has sold over 2.25 million copies and has been translated... -
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
$12.98With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $14.18$9.55Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and... -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: $19.34$14.90Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany,... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: $16.76$9.69'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393059748
RRP: $36.11$30.39This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 by Euan M. Duncan
$28.29Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
A Study of History: Volume I: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: $30.30$21.43Arnold Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this monumental work is a great achievement in its own right. While... -
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
RRP: $35.48$30.82A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this... -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: $16.76$11.73A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations,... -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
RRP: $19.34$13.26The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by... -
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usamah ibn Munqidh
RRP: $16.76$11.73The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.About the AuthorUsama ibn Munqidh was born on 4 July, 1095 in northern Syria. In... -
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by John Geiger
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "debility" aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the... -
The Foreigner Group by Carolus Loefroos 9781956887495
$34.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887495Author Carolus LoefroosFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Russia: A History by Gregory L. Freeze
RRP: $21.92$15.84The history of Russia - from Kievan Rus to Vladimir Putin Russia: A History cuts through the myths and mystery that have surrounded Russia from its earliest days, with startling revelations from classified archives that until comparatively recently... -
Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $24.50$18.07In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British...