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Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780300274264
RRP: $16.76$14.78A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators... -
Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: $25.80$16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800152Author Chris GosdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm * 23mm -
We Need Snowflakes: In defense of the sensitive, the angry and the offended by Hannah Jewell
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Entertaining... Sane about much of the madness that grips us today' TLS'An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and who gains from demonising a generation.'... -
The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy Parsons 9780199931156
RRP: $20.63$16.29In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires... -
The Passionate Spies: How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby and Lawrence of Arabia Led the Arab Revolt. And How Saudi Arabia Was Founded by John Harte
RRP: $21.92$15.05This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a... -
The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything by Ian Crofton 9781782434290 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95From the Big Bang to the future of our planet, The Little Book of Big History divides history into manageable but comprehensive time frames, encompassing the cosmos, the stars, life and everything in between. Big History is the attempt to understand and... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $25.80$20.50Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
What Is Life Worth?: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th by Kenneth R. Feinberg
RRP: $14.18$14.15Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a unique, unprecedented fund established by Congress to compensate families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and survivors who were... -
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir by Michael Bundock
RRP: $15.47$13.09The story of the extraordinary relationship between Francis Barber, a former slave, and Samuel Johnson, England's most distinguished man of letters"A remarkable work of detection, a biography of a black Briton from the eighteenth century that brings to... -
World History of Warfare by Christon I. Archer 9780803244238
$76.29World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history from ancient times to the present. Its principal theme is an exploration of change and continuity,... -
Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras by Barry Buzan 9781009372183
RRP: $34.82$29.41Barry Buzan proposes a new approach to making International Relations a truly global discipline that transcends both Eurocentrism and comparative civilisations. He narrates the story of humankind as a whole across three eras, using its material... -
Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Rachel Gibbons 9780719075889
RRP: $25.79$19.25Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and... -
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Couliano 9780226123165
RRP: $36.12$35.33It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an... -
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
$16.98In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men,... -
A World History of Political Thought by J. Babb 9781786435545
RRP: $39.93$36.92A World History of Political Thought is an outstanding and innovative work with profound significance for the study of the history of political thought, providing a wide-ranging, detailed and global overview of political thought from 600 BC to the 21st... -
Isis in the Ancient World by Reginald Eldred Witt 9780801856426
RRP: $35.48$31.11Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson
RRP: $29.03$24.96An 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... -
Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968 by Ronald Hyam
RRP: $39.98$34.61An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on... -
Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? by Richard Wadge
RRP: $24.50$18.47How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary... -
Thermopylae: The Battle For The West by Ernle Bradford 9780306813603
RRP: $23.21$16.71An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)- a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B.C. has... -
World War II Battle by Battle by Nikolai Bogdanovic
RRP: $10.31$8.06This compact gift book takes thirty of World War II's most significant clashes, both the famous and the lesser known, and presents their stories in a concise, easy to digest format, accompanied by beautiful Osprey artwork plates in full colour that... -
The Geographies of War by Jeremy Black
RRP: $32.25$20.15A global history of the geography of war from antiquity to modern and contemporary conflict illustrated and brought to life by histories of inter-state war, geopolitical rivalry, 'hot' and 'cold' war and terrorism. Geography is a basic element in all... -
Plagues and People by William H. McNeill 9780385121224
RRP: $19.29$14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385121224Author William McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape by Victoria Perry
RRP: $32.25$28.42The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson 9780307885159
RRP: $45.15$32.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307885159Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1894gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artefacts - from Forks and Pins to Paperclips and Zippers - Came to be as They are by Henry Petroski 9780679740391
$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740391Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: $43.80$35.36From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
It's All a Bit Heath Robinson: Re-inventing the First World War by Gosling In Association With Mary Evans Picture Library, Lucinda
RRP: $12.89$9.74William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase 'it's all a bit Heath Robinson' to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. Born in... -
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus by David Abulafia 9780300158212
RRP: $25.79$22.41A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything... -
The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan
RRP: $33.53$29.48A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
RRP: $19.34$12.64The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political... -
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse by Ethan Pollock
$29.97When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social strata have treated bathing as a communal activity integrating personal hygiene and public health with... -
Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West by Beatrice Hohenegger 9780312333294
RRP: $29.66$19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312333294Author Beatrice HoheneggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
Red Sails & Pilchards by Matt Johnson 9781912066933
RRP: $21.29$20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912066933Author Matt JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Design For TodayPublisher Design For Today -
A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle
RRP: $14.18$12.09A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture "Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to the pint, and to the researchers probing its depths... -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 by Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: $32.25$24.02'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to... -
A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren
RRP: $16.76$14.41Apologies 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)... -
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle 9780691181264
RRP: $32.25$25.79A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an... -
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $46.44$35.81In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo... -
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern
RRP: $34.82$29.93Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge...