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Picturing the Pacific by James Taylor
RRP: £25.00£20.18For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of... -
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow Karl Schloegel (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt) 9781509554928
RRP: £12.99£8.83Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schloegel unravels the... -
The Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
RRP: £27.99£20.76The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads... -
Luxury: A Rich History by Giorgio Riello
RRP: £28.99£20.68We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines... -
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray 9781398527720
RRP: £25.00£16.09A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century-by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano... -
A Modern History of the Islamic World by Reinhard Schulze 9780814798195
£29.60The Islamic world--defined as those regions in which Islam is the dominant or single most important religion--covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia, and Bosnia and includes an extraordinary range of societies and cultures. In... -
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright 9780674248229
RRP: £16.95£14.06"A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us...Intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining."-Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History"A fascinating history of corporate America's efforts to... -
Red Sails & Pilchards by Matt Johnson 9781912066933
RRP: £16.50£16.29Apologies 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 -
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire by Joanna Trollope 9781845950187
RRP: £12.99£9.34In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of... -
Lost Tramways of Wales: South Wales and Valleys by Peter Waller 9781912213146
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213146Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
RRP: £10.99£7.54Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to... -
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations by Jacob Soll 9780465031528
£35.32Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form... -
Curriculum for Wales: History for 11-14 years Rob Quinn 9781398347908
£32.85Tell the story of Wales over the last 1000 years, as you discover how Welsh history, cynefin, culture and language are connected, from the past to the present.Underpinned by the four purposes of the new Curriculum for Wales, this book empowers pupils... -
Wordy by Simon Schama 9781471180095
RRP: £20.00£13.26'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard... -
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian 9780520271449
£26.55An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, "Maps of Time" is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the... -
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl
RRP: £28.99£21.28In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He... -
British Military History for Dummies by Bryan Perrett 9780470032138
RRP: £15.99£11.33A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: £17.99£11.29Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780198819660
£41.25By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that... -
Conscience before Conformity: Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance in Nazi Germany by Paul Shrimpton 9780852448434
£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448434Author Paul ShrimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 481g -
The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers 9780552156189
RRP: £18.99£14.01Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11, 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been killed, questions remain. What exactly happened? Could 9/11... -
The Revolutions of 1848: Pt. 1 by Karl Marx 9781844676033
RRP: £22.99£21.05Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and... -
Person of Interest Study Guide: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace
RRP: £10.99£7.80Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside Person of Interest and the Person of Interest Video... -
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 9781642590029
RRP: £19.99£13.56Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the... -
The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy by Eric Helleiner 9781009337526
RRP: £22.99£19.56The rapid growth of the field of international political economy since the 1970s has revived an older tradition of thought from the pre-1945 era. The Contested World Economy provides the first book-length analysis of these deep intellectual roots of the... -
Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages by Patrick E. McGovern 9780520267985
RRP: £20.00£15.89In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, "Uncorking the Past" tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and... -
The Case Against French Colonization (Translation): by Ho Chi Minh by Ho Chi Minh 9780986114335
RRP: £6.99£6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986114335Author Ho Chi MinhFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Pentland Press (NC)Publisher Pentland Press (NC)Weight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian 9780316493307
RRP: £9.99£6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316493307Author David ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm)... -
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314196
RRP: £22.99£20.01With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and... -
The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan Van Pelt
RRP: £50.00£44.41From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier... -
The Oxford History of Mexico by William H. Beezley
RRP: £27.49£20.99The tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. Available for the first time in paperback, this magnificent volume covers... -
Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World by David L. Bosco
RRP: £21.49£16.48From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always... -
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis 9780521655484
RRP: £30.99£25.10Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of... -
How to Start Your Own Secret Society by Nick Harding 9781904048848
RRP: £12.99£8.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Understanding Heritage and Memory by Tim Benton
RRP: £24.99£18.31Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural'... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894-1921 Alec Jessop 9781398345447
£21.16Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Panic Ye Not: A survival guide to the middle ages by Woodmansterne Studio
RRP: £7.99£5.99Fresh from the award-winning Woodmansterne studio, Hysterical Heritage juxtaposes imagery inspired by the Bayeaux Tapestry with modern day expressions and dilemmas, resulting in a hilarious and unique, new humour range. In this, their first book,... -
The Story Of My Life by Clarence S. Darrow 9780306807381
£23.84In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labour, and criminal lawyer, including the most celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a union to strike in the... -
The Story Of My Life by Clarence S. Darrow 9780306807381 [USED COPY]
£28.01In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labour, and criminal lawyer, including the most celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a union to strike in the... -
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse by Ethan Pollock
RRP: £23.49£23.23When 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...