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A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases by Christopher Coredon
RRP: $25.79$21.89The first dictionary of medieval terms intended for the non-specialist with an interest in the medieval world. An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only... -
Branding Terror: The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations by Artur Beifuss
RRP: $32.19$24.74Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it... -
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267572
RRP: $39.99$31.51Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands by David W. Moore 9780786464340
RRP: $28.37$23.18Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important... -
The Decline of the West (Volume 2): Perspectives of World-History by Oswald Spengler 9781628451283
$26.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451283Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
RRP: $32.25$26.99Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures "Aveni skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the imagination of different peoples around the world, past... -
Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni 9781804542804
RRP: $32.25$22.73In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its moneylenders... -
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R Wells
RRP: $32.25$22.73"Few people are as uniquely well equipped as Anthony Wells to write an account of these close and special relationships. His penetrating and informed analysis offers us all hope for the continuance of an alliance which makes the world a safer place." -... -
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present by Martin van Creveld 9780029331538
RRP: $20.63$19.65In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has... -
Brazil by Joel Wolfe 9781509547760
RRP: $16.76$15.40Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading... -
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa by Sebouh David Aslanian 9780520282179
RRP: $43.86$34.79Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based... -
Memories of Middlesbrough by Tosh Warwick 9781913375157
$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913375157Author Tosh WarwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Heritage UnlockedPublisher Print My Book -
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: $14.18$9.55What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In this revealing and highly original study David... -
Exploring Northumberland History: 2021 by Philip Nixon
$24.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916237605Author Philip NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesWeight(grams) 1200gDimensions(mm)... -
Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917 by Peter Hart
RRP: $14.18$9.55The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete... -
The Theft of History by Jack Goody
RRP: $20.63$17.78In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive Eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing and the consequent 'theft' by... -
The Oral History Reader by Robert Perks
RRP: $61.91$55.22The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic' articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most... -
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano 9780141975986
RRP: $16.76$11.73From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days, a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to liveThis book is shaped like a calendar. Each day... -
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: $28.37$23.19Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel 9780375703997
RRP: $28.38$20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703997Author Fernand BraudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War by Robert Opie
RRP: $19.29$13.91Retrospectively, we see the time of the 1910s being invaded with the images of the First World War, and yet in the early years of that decade people were focussed on events at home, whether King George V's coronation or the women involved in the... -
Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers 9780195168969
RRP: $23.21$15.98Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively,... -
The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials by Edward Peters
RRP: $36.11$31.14The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders-"those signed with the Cross." In fact, many developments... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316097
RRP: $48.38$28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316097Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence by Philip Dwyer 9781350140592
RRP: $29.66$25.94In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles
RRP: $7.73$5.30Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels.We begin with the... -
In Our Time: The companion to the Radio 4 series by Melvyn Bragg 9780340977521
RRP: $16.76$11.09Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of... -
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: $19.34$16.81A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and... -
Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time by Nomi Claire Lazar
RRP: $41.93$40.74How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible-and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories... -
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
RRP: $20.63$11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060084608Author Frank B. GilbrethFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization by Brian Fagan
RRP: $19.34$16.81Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an... -
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 9781400063512
RRP: $45.15$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400063512Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat HardbackPage Count... -
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK 9780241605400
RRP: $38.70$30.12Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover... -
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz 9781908906427
RRP: $25.80$17.74The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll... -
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari 9780300270389
RRP: $16.76$14.78WINNER OF THE 2022 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD (NONFICTION) A BLOOMBERG BEST NONFICTION BOOK "Does not pull its punches."-The Independent "Enthralling."-New York Times "A compelling story of racial and ethnic animosity."-Wall Street Journal An illuminating... -
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781786077851
RRP: $16.76$10.55'Immensely learned and ambitious...seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio... This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.' Literary Review To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the... -
Against the Deluge: Polish and Lithuanian Armies During the War Against Sweden 1655-1660 by Michal Paradowski
RRP: $45.15$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510032Author Michal ParadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht 9780060097950
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Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht 9780060097950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$3.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060097950Author Jennifer HechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 150g -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: $29.66$29.48For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and...