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Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: $31.48$20.58When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never... -
Lessons From History 2 by Alex Deane 9781785907807
RRP: $27.28$19.45Welcome to another round of history's most absurd stories and the timeless lessons that come with them. In More Lessons from History, Alex Deane has unearthed yet more bizarre tales that you certainly haven't heard before. If you're wondering how large,... -
Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland by Matthew Cheeseman 9781032071824
RRP: $83.98$74.47This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands' constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of... -
Access to History: Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945 for WJEC by Nicholas Fellows
$52.94Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
Imperialism: A Study by J a Hobson 9781596052505
RRP: $52.48$45.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052505Author J A HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: $23.08$16.32David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future'Nails home the point: Life is a miracle ... A... -
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge... -
Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 by Professor Mack P. Holt 9780198731658
RRP: $77.68$59.87This volume makes accessible some of the most recent research of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1648, each chapter focuses on a specific area... -
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: $20.98$14.28The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the... -
Woodbridge - A Personal History by Robert Simper
RRP: $41.98$35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916470507Author Robert SimperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Three Crowns PressPublisher Three Crowns Press -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691160863
$44.88In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: $75.60$61.34The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Descent Into Barbarism: The History of the 20th Century: 1933-1951 by Martin Gilbert 9780006376620 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$5.57From Britain's 'greatest living factual historian' (Paul Johnson, Evening Standard), Volume II of his global history. Martin Gilbert is Britain's leading popular historian. His three-volume History of the Twentieth Century is a complete global... -
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow by Karl Schloegel
RRP: $27.28$18.06Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schloegel unravels the... -
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $37.78$26.33Apologies 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 -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela 9780195378535
RRP: $53.53$36.98During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his... -
Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the past by Jem Duducu
RRP: $23.08$15.23Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines... -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: $52.50$39.23A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $20.98$17.26This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.Book InformationISBN 9781583670255Author Aime... -
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: $27.28$19.09'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: $23.08$16.04Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era,... -
Rhodesian Light Infantryman 1961-80 by Neil Grant
RRP: $31.48$23.00The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI... -
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
RRP: $27.28$19.09_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.The US Army 157th... -
Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever (Revised Edition) by Win Blevins 9781735972909
RRP: $37.70$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735972909Author Win BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Jefferson Central PublishingPublisher Jefferson Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round by James Hannam 9781789147582
RRP: $35.68$25.79The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad... -
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala
RRP: $52.50$34.10'Superbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that time' Financial Times'Gripping and important' Observer __________________________________________________________________________ Nine days that set the course of a nation..... -
Instant History: Key thinkers, theories, discoveries and concepts explained on a single page by Sandra Lawrence
RRP: $31.48$20.58Instant History pulls together all the pivotal moments in modern history into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant... -
Genghis Khan: Epic and Legendary Leaders by J.K. Jackson
RRP: $14.68$11.15A new title in the series created for the modern reader, introducing the heroes, cultures, myths and religions of the world. The tale of the legendary Mongol General Genghis Khan is as phenomenal as the man himself. Probably the greatest conqueror in... -
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives by Terry Jones
RRP: $31.48$23.00Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which... -
A Concise History Of The Modern World by William Woodruff 9780349118376
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Magic: A Very Short Introduction by Owen Davies 9780199588022
RRP: $18.88$13.55Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985
RRP: $16.78$12.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips
RRP: $35.68$31.73'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always... -
Uriel's Machine: Reconstructing the Disaster Behind Human History by Christopher Knight
RRP: $27.28$19.09* What is the standard view of history is completely wrong? * What if science and writing developed from an advanced prehistoric civilisation in the British Isles? * What is written evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls records megalithic history and provides... -
Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present by Murray Pittock 9780300273014
RRP: $27.28$24.07An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at... -
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter
RRP: $55.63$47.02How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
RRP: $50.40$48.36Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage... -
Picturing the Pacific by James Taylor
RRP: $52.50$41.75For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of... -
The Long Night: A True Story by Ernst Israel Bornstein 9781592644407
RRP: $27.28$15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644407Author Ernst Israel BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Toby Press LLC, ThePublisher Toby Press LLC, The