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World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war,... -
Islamic Historiography by Chase F. Robinson
RRP: £23.99£20.94How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in... -
Exploration: A Very Short Introduction by Stewart A. Weaver 9780199946952
RRP: £8.99£6.82For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing... -
Rosa: The Story of the Rose by Peter E. Kukielski
RRP: £25.00£20.92A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more"From noted rosarian Peter Kukielski comes this unique and handsome book that traces the many ways that roses have captured human... -
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers 9780960229475
RRP: £7.95£5.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960229475Author J. A. RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Helga M. RogersPublisher Helga M. Rogers -
Water: A Biography by Giulio Boccaletti
RRP: £25.00£18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748234Author Giulio BoccalettiFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 641gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present by Benjamin Lieberman
RRP: £22.99£19.58Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how... -
The Theft of History by Jack Goody
RRP: £15.99£13.33In 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... -
War: A History in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99£9.34The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they... -
Passchendaele Peter Barton 9781845294229
RRP: £60.00£41.25The complete panoramas of Passchendaele from the author of The Battlefields of the First World War.Today, concertina'd into a single sombre entity known as Passchendaele, the British 1917 offensives in Belgian Flanders have entered the English language... -
Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Dane Kennedy
RRP: £8.99£8.24Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states... -
Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine Pinch
RRP: £8.99£6.65The complex world of Egyptian myth is clearly illuminated in this fascinating new approach to ancient Egypt. Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and... -
Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay 9780313322709
£63.71From the time of its birth in Mecca in the 7th century C.E., Islam and the Islamic world rapidly expanded outward, extending to Spain and West Africa in the west, and to Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent in the east. An examination of the daily... -
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano 9780141975986
RRP: £12.99£9.34From 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... -
The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set by Dr Jay Winter 9781316600665
£107.54The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the... -
A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren
RRP: £12.99£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345373168Author Charles Van DorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel 9780375703997
RRP: £22.00£16.54Apologies 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 *... -
The Industrial Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin, Electricity, and Other Inventions by Captivating History 9781647488505
RRP: £15.97£11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488505Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers 9780195168969
RRP: £17.99£12.39Boasting 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,... -
Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover
RRP: £9.99£8.40Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an "age of riots" as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken... -
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture by Caroline Dodds Pennock 9780230285644
RRP: £44.99£39.48The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson 9780300254785
RRP: £11.99£10.41An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles
RRP: £5.99£4.27Rosalind 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... -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: £12.99£8.87Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern... -
A Year in the Life of Ancient Greece: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There by Dr Philip Matyszak
RRP: £12.99£9.36Experience a remarkable year among the real people of ancient Greece, as they prepare for the most important event in their calendar.It is 248 BC, the year of the 133rd Olympic Games. At this time the Hellenistic world is at its peak, with Greek... -
Mastering Modern World History by Norman Lowe
RRP: £28.99£26.60The sixth edition of this bestselling book takes students on a journey through the 20th century and provides a clear overview of the key events which have shaped modern world history. Unrivalled in its broad coverage, it: - Surveys international... -
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
RRP: £15.99£9.38Apologies 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)... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062316110
RRP: £25.99£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062316110Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness by Brendan Kelly 9780717193783
RRP: £18.99£13.82A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness - Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it... -
Tank Men by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£8.83'I thought Tank Men was a triumph ... it is a really fine piece of work' -Richard Holmes'Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare... -
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography by Robin Winks 9780199246809
RRP: £72.00£58.06The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth... -
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition by John King Fairbank 9780674018280
RRP: £27.95£22.90John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings... -
Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht 9780060097950
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Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht 9780060097950 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.83Apologies 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 -
Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
RRP: £25.00£20.30Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas... -
Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley
£12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966570Author Carroll QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 730g -
Royal Greenwich: From the Plantagenets to the Windsors by Pieter van der Merwe 9781906367756
RRP: £20.00£14.28Discover the rich royal history of the area where Henry VIII built his first tournament ground, Elizabeth I took daily walks in the Park and Charles II raced early royal yachts against his brother. In 2012, to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond... -
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard H. Grove 9780521565134
RRP: £29.99£27.80This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the... -
The Life of Reason: Or, the Phases of Human Progress - All Five Volumes, Complete and Unabridged by George Santayana 9780359033560
RRP: £23.44£20.89All five volumes of George Santayana's philosophical masterwork exploring the manifestations of reason in life are united in this superb edition. The Life of Reason begins boldly, with Santayana explaining his concept of reason in great detail. How a... -
The Life of Reason: Or, the Phases of Human Progress - All Five Volumes, Complete and Unabridged (Hardcover) by George Santayana 9780359033553
RRP: £40.52£36.66All five volumes of George Santayana's philosophical masterwork exploring the manifestations of reason in life are united in this superb edition. The Life of Reason begins boldly, with Santayana explaining his concept of reason in great detail. How a...