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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles 9780609806951
RRP: $42.00$26.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609806951Author Rosalind MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $39.88$28.06This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to... -
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World by L. Fletcher Prouty
$28.25"Offers uncommonly penetrating insight....A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.-New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's expose of the CIA's brutal methods of... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781408839997
RRP: $35.68$23.67For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central... -
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland 9780465093502
RRP: $73.50$49.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465093502Author Tom HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm * 51mm -
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: $29.38$29.25The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a... -
Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe by Mick O'Hare 9781915798947
RRP: $23.08$15.37A 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... -
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer 9780470185490
RRP: $50.38$31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470185490Author Stephen KinzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price 9780465096985
RRP: $50.38$47.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465096985Author Neil PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jared Diamond
RRP: $27.28$19.09**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis? Jared Diamond... -
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era by Alwyn Turner 9781800815308
RRP: $52.50$37.84'There have been plenty of books on the Edwardians before, but never one as richly enjoyable as this ... nobody has done a better job of capturing what ordinary people thought and cared about more than a century ago' Dominic Sandbrook, Book of the Week,... -
A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney 9780752450117
RRP: $20.98$15.86Do 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... -
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel
RRP: $23.08$16.32Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told,... -
Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World by Will Buckingham
RRP: $20.98$16.65What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside our fear of outsiders? When Will Buckingham's partner died, the shock of his grief told him to withdraw. Instead, he sought solace in throwing... -
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Dr Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $39.90$24.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120568Author Jim Al-KhaliliFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 141mm... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) History by Alec Fisher
RRP: $39.88$37.25Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel QualificationsExam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: International GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Target success in Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History with this proven... -
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The ones who run our world. by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson 9780008316372
RRP: $23.08$15.23*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Extraordinary Insects is a joy' The Times A Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019 A journey into the weird,... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: $27.28$11.15Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
Lessons of History by Will Durant
RRP: $20.98$14.93In 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... -
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West by Matthew P. Mayo 9780762754311
RRP: $31.48$26.31The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week... -
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
RRP: $41.98$25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358299288Author Steven StrogatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 137mm *... -
History Year by Year: The ultimate visual guide to the events that shaped the world by DK
RRP: $63.00$45.38Discover history's significant events since 3000 BCE through a detailed and dynamic, book-long, timeline! Perfect for history buffs and trivia enthusiasts alike.See history's most decisive moments, as and when they happened, and where they all took place... -
February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Wittstock
RRP: $52.50$35.24It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought... -
The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities by Zoran Nikolic
RRP: $31.48$21.21A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. This beautifully designed book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands. Numerous conflicts... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
RRP: $52.50$37.00A 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... -
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
RRP: $39.88$20.03From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide.'A brilliant book.' James O'BrienWas... -
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work by Roma Agrawal 9781529340112
RRP: $27.28$18.06*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to... -
The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black
RRP: $33.58$15.86THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies.Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist - or is... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd
RRP: $23.08$15.69___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you will by reading a... -
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie 9781610398671
RRP: $68.25$43.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610398671Author John DickieFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 38mm -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: $27.28$18.44The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter... -
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper
RRP: $46.10$34.86Cundill Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutionaries.”—The Economist“A clearly written, brilliantly... -
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton 9781250078773
RRP: $39.90$23.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078773Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Bad Days in History by Michael Farquhar 9781426218071
$28.12From Caligula's blood-soaked end to hotelier Steve Wynn's unfortunate run-in with a priceless Picasso, Bad Days in History delves into the past to present 365 delightfully told tales of historically bad days.About the AuthorMichael Farquhar, a former... -
Horrible History of the World (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702326530
RRP: $20.98$13.46Discover all the blood-curdling stories with: The Horrible History of the World. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the foul but fascinating story of humans, from brain-nibbling ... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $52.50$34.71A 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 History Hit Miscellany of Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds by History Hit 9781399726009
RRP: $35.68$25.07'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating extraordinary stories... Most importantly, like all the best stories, they are true.' - Dan SnowHave you... -
The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh 9781913083496
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies 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 -
A Little History of the World by Ernst H. Gombrich 9780300143324 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81The 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 9780300143324
RRP: $23.08$19.68The 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...