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A Short History of the World in 50 Animals by Jacob F. Field
RRP: £12.99£9.36A Short History of the World in 50 Animals provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet's making, taking readers from the time of the dinosaurs to the time of Dolly, the first cloned mammal. This book will include a great variety of beasts... -
The Indus: Lost Civilizations by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.95£9.31The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BC, when it mysteriously declined and vanished from view. It remained invisible for almost four thousand years, until its ruins were discovered in the 1920s by British and... -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: £10.99£7.86Spanning 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,... -
A History of Ancient Egypt Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University and University of Oxford) 9781119620877
RRP: £40.95£36.57Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to... -
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by Stephen O'Shea 9780393246858
RRP: £20.99£17.75The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these... -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: £27.50£22.89WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."-Nandini Das A new history of English... -
Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen by Jill Armitage 9781445650197
RRP: £20.00£13.95In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen was to recover, but the issue remained: if the queen did not produce an heir, who was next in line to... -
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance by R. N. Swanson 9780719042560
RRP: £19.99£18.10This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period. ... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: £31.95£21.29A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order by Martin 9780671747237
£32.76Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671747237Author MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 790gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 50mm -
Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 9780062890481
RRP: £19.99£16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London) 9780631218906
RRP: £39.95£36.31The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies 9780199608447
RRP: £28.99£21.20This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors... -
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
RRP: £9.99£6.61In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of ten American... -
We are the Romani People by Ian Hancock 9781902806198
£14.86The author, who is himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their... -
Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World by Philip de Souza 9780521012409
RRP: £40.99£33.26This book is an innovative historical study of piracy in the Graeco-Roman world from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. It explores the conditions which allowed piracy to flourish in the ancient Mediterranean, especially the close relationship between... -
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
RRP: £12.99£11.46The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146
RRP: £10.99£7.54'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
Histories of the Unexpected: The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Things by Dr Sam Willis 9781786494146 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£4.30'History as you've never seen it before.' Dan SnowDid you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum 9781984899507
RRP: £17.00£8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899507Author Anne ApplebaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima 9781529023107
RRP: £10.99£7.73'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' - Sunday TimesSantiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man... -
On the Process of Civilisation by Norbert Elias 9781906359041
RRP: £50.00£48.19This is Volume 3 in the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias", translated by Edmund Jephcott. Recognised as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, "On the Process of Civilisation" has been influential and widely discussed across... -
The Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston
RRP: £14.99£11.75The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand... -
Modern Chess: From Steinitz to the 21st Century by Craig Pritchett
RRP: £27.99£18.61The revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) considered himself to be in the vanguard of an emerging, late-19th century 'Modern' school, which embraced a new, essentially scientific vitality in its methods of research, analysis, evaluation,... -
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw 9780306809408
£18.29Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a... -
Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge by Wael Hallaq
RRP: £35.00£28.14Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of... -
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Hein de Haas
RRP: £36.99£33.54Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they... -
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £12.99£8.71An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir... -
The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America by Damian Shiels 9781845883331
RRP: £17.99£13.84On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. The majority had emigrated to the major industrialised cities of the North; New York alone was home to more than 200,000 Irish, one in four of the total... -
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner
RRP: £25.00£17.62'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their... -
Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II by Tadeusz Piotrowski 9780786442454
RRP: £24.99£20.69After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and... -
Titanic: The Real Story of the Construction of the World's Most Famous Ship Anton Gill 9781905026746
RRP: £15.99£10.82When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. Built by the great industrial communities that made Britain the pre-eminent superpowerof the age, the famous ocean... -
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £8.99£6.65Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive... -
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History Brian C. Black, Ph.D. 9780742556546
RRP: £56.00£49.68This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered leaking inconspicuously from the soil. Leading environmental history specialist Brian C. Black connects the... -
Access to History for Cambridge International AS Level: The History of the USA 1820-1941 Alan Farmer 9781510448681
£31.89This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the History of the USA 1820-1941 Option from the Cambridge AS Level History syllabus for first examination from 2021.Develop knowledge and analytical skills with engaging... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Cold War in Europe and Asia by Steve Phillips
£32.42Heinemann Advanced History is a series which supports the AS and A-Levels starting September 2000. The series provides coverage of all the most popular topics, so you can cover the whole of the specification with up-to-date resources. Each book begins... -
Dystopia: A Natural History by Gregory Claeys 9780198820475
RRP: £31.99£23.84Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous... -
From Plato to Postmodernism: The Story of Western Culture Through Philosophy, Literature and Art by Christopher Watkin 9780715638286
£42.04From Plato to Postmodernism presents the cultural history of the West in one concise volume. Nearly four thousand years of Western history are woven together into an unfolding story in which we see how movements and individuals contributed to the... -
Medieval British and World History 410-1509 (Knowing History) by Laura Aitken-Burt
RRP: £11.99£11.66Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils' knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them to progress through to GCSE 9-1 History. Provide a coherent... -
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story by Dimitra Papagianni 9780500292044 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.74For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in recent years their story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and advances in scientific...