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Panic Ye Not: A survival guide to the middle ages by Woodmansterne Studio
RRP: £7.99£5.81Fresh 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 Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism by Edward Cavanagh 9780367581480
RRP: £44.99£39.68The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly... -
The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
RRP: £21.99£19.19A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country... -
A Brief History of the First World War: Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18 by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.80Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of... -
Lost Tramways of Wales: Swansea and Mumbles by Peter Waller 9781912213153
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213153Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory by Odd Arne Westad 9780714681207
RRP: £47.99£42.21Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was... -
Historical Sea Charts: Visions and Voyages Through the Ages by Katherine Parker
RRP: £30.00£21.00This book shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the one used in the Twentieth Century, with a special focus on the map makers and the methods of use from 1300 to 1900. The maps included are part of the... -
Global Intellectual History by Samuel Moyn 9780231160490
RRP: £25.00£19.59Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront... -
1944–45: The Freedom Road by Richard Collier 9781800325951
RRP: £12.99£8.18The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the... -
Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Kevin Siena
RRP: £32.50£31.98A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain "This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought,... -
The Velvet Revolution: Czechoslovakia, 1988-1991 by Bernard Wheaton
RRP: £34.99£33.38The vivid portratal of the "Velvet Revolution" describes the dramatic social and political changes that heralded the downfall of the Communist leadership in Czechoslavakia. Bernard Wheaton, one of the few Western observers in the country during the... -
Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914 by Andrew Rosen
RRP: £43.99£38.44The suffragette movement shattered the domestic tranquillity of Edwardian England. This book is an original and searching study of the formidable organization which led this campaign: the Women's Social and Political Union.With the use of previously... -
Lost Civilisations Of The Stone Age by Richard Rudgley 9780099223726 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£7.85Bringing together for the first time disparate evidence from the fields of archaeology, ancient history and anthropology, Richard Rudgley shows the achievements, inventions and discoveries of prehistoric times have all but been edited out of popular... -
The Wolf: A classic adventure story of how one ship took on the navies of the world in the First World War by Richard Guilliatt 9780552171038
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the years 1916-1918, the Wolf, an ordinary freighter fitted-out with a hidden arsenal of weapons, was sent by Germany on one of the most daring clandestine naval missions of modern times. Under the command of Kapitan Karl Nerger, the ship undertook a... -
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard 9781451628265
RRP: £20.00£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628265Author Michael ErardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Echoes of the North East Miners: Some last traces of the collieries and tributes to the pitmen by Ken Smith
£13.72The miners of the North-East, working in the most dangerous of conditions, supplied the coal which fuelled the engines of the Industrial Revolution and provided heating and lighting to millions of homes. Throughout much of County Durham and... -
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages by Mary Carruthers 9780198723257
RRP: £46.49£46.11This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience... -
The Menu: Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a Suffragettes' Victory Dinner to the First Meal on the Moon by Eve Marleau
RRP: £20.00£6.91Fascinating and entertaining, the menu, as a record of the food we eat, tells us much about who we were and how we lived. From the historically significant to the unexpected, discover what was eaten at the first Nobel Prize dinner; what Barack Obama... -
The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost by Cathal J. Nolan 9780195383782
RRP: £24.99£19.52Cathal Nolan's The Allure of Battle shows that while wars have shaped the history of the modern world, their outcomes are decided by many other factors. The book argues that major battles are not decisive to the outcome of wars; rather, wars depend on... -
High Heaton, Cochrane Park, Benton: How we used to Live by Alan Morgan 9781739223311
£12.39Alan Morgan has lived in High Heaton for nearly 90 years and witnessed most of its growth from farmers' fields and the residue of industrialisation to the pleasant and popular residential suburb it is today. Paddy Freeman's Park, with easy access to... -
Answers to Questions You've Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd by Joseph Pisenti 9781633539358
RRP: £12.99£11.53Trivia Book Filled with Fun Facts and Trivia Questions and Answers#1 Bestseller in GeographyAnswers to Questions You've Never Asked will entertain you for hours.Fun facts for kids of all ages. When you take the most absurd parts of history, science,... -
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances Gies
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925819Author Frances GiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm)... -
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan
RRP: £58.00£33.71This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000 years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions' landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their... -
Wiring Prometheus: Globalisation, History & Technology by Peter Lyth 9788772889474
RRP: £22.95£17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889474Author Peter LythFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange by Kojin Karatani 9780822356769
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the... -
Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There by Ronald J. Drez 9780807120811
RRP: £19.95£15.28In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who were involved in one of the most pivotal events of the century. Skillfully... -
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups by William L Bernstein 9781611854435
RRP: £12.99£8.56Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, William Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that... -
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea by Tom Blass
RRP: £12.99£9.09Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways,... -
The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Dan Kurzman
RRP: £18.99£18.51In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich... -
The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease by Kenneth F. Kiple 9780521530262
RRP: £29.99£25.85The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 and reprinted in 2001. Part VIII, the last section of the work, comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday... -
Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America by Kenneth Morgan 9780192892911
RRP: £37.99£31.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
En Garde! by Craig Woodfield
RRP: £12.99£9.80En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the... -
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028339Author Pamela D. TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Covid-19: The Greatest Cover-Up in History--From Wuhan to the White House by Dylan Howard
RRP: £18.99£12.27In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further 10 million, and change the way all of us live, work and play... -
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
RRP: £16.99£11.54You think you know her story. You ve read the Brothers Grimm, you ve watched the Disney cartoons, and you cheered as these virtuous women lived happily ever after. But real princesses didn t always get happy endings. Sure, plenty were graceful and... -
Israel/palestine: How to End the War of 1948, 2nd edition by Tanya Reinhart
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226513Author Tanya ReinhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 299g -
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Osman of Timisoara
RRP: £15.99£12.91Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the... -
The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger 9780674050914
RRP: £25.95£21.04At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile-the Volkswagen Beetle-was one of the most beloved in the world... -
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization: v. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G. S. Hodgson 9780226346847
RRP: £36.00£35.23The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization... -
The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism by Matthew P. Llewellyn 9780252081842
RRP: £15.99£14.24For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements. Matthew P. Llewellyn and John...