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The Spirit of London by Paul Cohen-Portheim
RRP: €11.89€8.33A new edition of a classic Batsford title from the 1930s. London is brought to life through its people, buildings and history in this classic book, first published in 1935. The Spirit of London presents a wonderful snapshot of our capital before World... -
Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
RRP: €29.75€24.23Amongst 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... -
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by David Standish
RRP: €19.03€15.86Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who suggested that there might be life down there as well... -
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins 9780395937587
€16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395937587Author Modris EksteinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Women's Writing on the First World War by Agnès Cardinal 9780198122814
€44.91The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World by Greg Woolf 9780521827751
RRP: €58.31€51.54From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its sack in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that it would be hard to overestimate. At its height the empire which it built up stretched from northern Britain to the deserts of... -
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson 9781250181596
RRP: €24.98€15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181596Author Adam NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
RRP: €26.17€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
India In The Caribbean by David Dabydeen 9781870518000
RRP: €15.46€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518000Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 500g -
The History of Portugal by James M. Anderson 9780313311062
€71.82This informative, concise, and engagingly written work provides the most up-to-date history of Portugal, current through 1999, and gives a full picture of the political, social, cultural, and economic influences that shaped the history of Portugal... -
The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed by Laurence Gardner 9780007207619
€18.93What secrets lie behind the mysterious order of the Freemasons? Published to coincide with Dan Brown's new novel, set in the enigmatic world of Freemasonry, Laurence Gardner's new book draws on his experience as a Freemason to create a compelling... -
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World by Jeremy Friedman 9780674244313
RRP: €36.83€29.54A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: €13.08€9.25For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing... -
The English in Australia by James Jupp 9780521542951
RRP: €40.46€30.38Australia has historically had very strong links with England, and the English have always accounted for a significant portion of the Australian population. In this 2004 book, James Jupp provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had... -
Progress Vs Parasites: A Brief History of the Conflict that's Shaped our World by Douglas Carswell
RRP: €11.89€9.13The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record - sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances - hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 9780767908177
RRP: €41.65€26.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908177Author Bill BrysonFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: €23.80€18.91In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds... -
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations by Richard C. S. Trahair 9780313319556
€104.20Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere-in governments, in industry, in the military,... -
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick O'Donnell
€13.57Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody... -
The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Bu Tran Binh
RRP: €15.46€14.01Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved... -
Wicked Women Of The Raj: European Women Who Broke Society Rules And Married Life by Coralie Younger 9788172234546
RRP: €16.65€13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172234546Author Coralie YoungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894–1921 by Alec Jessop
€24.80Exam 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... -
Life along the Silk Road: Second Edition by Susan Whitfield 9780520280595
RRP: €29.75€23.31In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support... -
The Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution by Natalya Vince
RRP: €33.31€30.29This book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century - the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962. It brings together an engaging account of its... -
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: €35.70€28.91A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming... -
Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen by Jill Armitage 9781445650197
RRP: €23.80€16.35In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen was to recover, but the issue remained: if the queen did not produce an heir, who was next in line to... -
Lenin's Childhood by Isaac Deutscher 9781804292778
RRP: €13.08€10.64When he died suddenly in 1967, Isaac Deutscher had completed only the compelling first chapter of a long-anticipated biography of Lenin, published here. It covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to... -
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield 9780520281783
RRP: €29.75€23.79Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different... -
Connecting History: Higher USA, 1918-1968 by Alec Jessop
€26.10Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
National Coastwatch: The NCI Story by Brian French 9780752449296
RRP: €17.84€13.74The NCI is a voluntary body, with a mission to reopen, develop and maintain a visual watch from the Coastguard Stations abandoned by HM Coastguard since the 1970s reorganisation. Following the tragic and avoidable loss of two fishermen after a shipwreck... -
Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present by Benjamin Lieberman
RRP: €27.36€22.80Climate 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... -
Honours of War by Keith Flint 9781472808097
RRP: €15.46€14.27The Seven Years' War was the pinnacle of 18th-century warfare, with dramatic campaigns and battles, famous leaders, and wide variety of colourful uniforms. Compared with the later Napoleonic Wars, tactics were simpler, armies more professional, and... -
The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Dr. Robert L. Kelly 9780520303485
RRP: €20.22€16.72"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently... -
Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age by Derek Cheung 9781493049929
RRP: €17.84€14.20Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the... -
The Routledge History of Disability by Roy Hanes
RRP: €52.35€46.22The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that... -
Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Brigitte Studer 9781839768019
RRP: €35.70€35.64The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and... -
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra
RRP: €33.31€27.12Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an... -
The Ethiopians: A History by Richard Pankhurst
RRP: €46.35€40.70The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanity".About the AuthorRichard Pankhurst who has lived in Ethiopia for over thirty years, is... -
A Social History of the Media by Peter Burke 9781509533725
RRP: €22.60€20.55The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time... -
Great World Wonders: Discover the World's Most Fascinating Heritage-Listed Places by Michael Turtle
RRP: €27.37€19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741177312Author Michael TurtleFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant ExploreWeight(grams) 1340g