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The New Century: In Conversation with Antonio Polito by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349113364 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$2.35Eric Hobsbawm's AGE OF EXTREMES was a remarkable phenomenon, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller. Now, THE NEW CENTURY continues Hobsbawm's analysis of our twentieth century, asking crucial questions... -
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock 9781400049516
RRP: $36.12$26.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400049516Author Graham HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
The Fifties by David Halberstam 9780449909331
RRP: $25.80$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449909331Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm... -
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution by Larry Gonick 9780060760045
RRP: $19.34$14.94"Cartoon History of the Modern World" is a wickedly funny take on modern history. In two volumes of engaging and witty graphics, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities, and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries... -
Lawrence Of Arabia by B. Hart 9780306803543
$27.48T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields,as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier,and... -
Illuminati3: Satanic Possession -- There is Only One Conspiracy by Henry Makow
$22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991821129Author Henry MakowFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Silas GreenPublisher Silas GreenWeight(grams) 500g -
Ruptured Lives: Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective by Jesse Spohnholz
RRP: $29.66$24.72Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be... -
Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler 9780520303638
RRP: $38.70$30.56"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read."-Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have... -
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance by Michael Adas
RRP: $36.11$31.66Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses to non-Western peoples and cultures. In Machines as the Measure of Men, Michael Adas explores the ways in... -
Known Associate: An Intimate View of Lee Harvey Oswald by Paul R. Gregory
RRP: $34.82$23.79The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in... -
Phantom Warriors: Book 2: More Extraordinary True Combat Stories from LRRPS, LRPS, and Rangers in Vietnam by Gary Linderer 9780804119405
RRP: $12.89$9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119405Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750 by David Veevers
RRP: $39.98$36.48This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian... -
The Spanish Ulcer: A History Of Peninsular War by David Gates
$26.77The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal was the most bitterly fought contest of nineteenth-century Europe. From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's... -
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by MR Dan Koeppel 9780452290082
RRP: $23.22$14.99In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world's most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana's history, cultural significance, and... -
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Fischer 9780230362697
$34.09This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our... -
Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
RRP: $34.82$29.41Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S... -
Wolfe at Quebec: The Man Who Won the French and Indian War by Christopher Hibbert 9780815410164
RRP: $15.47$15.07The last year in the life of Bristish general James Wolfe.Book InformationISBN 9780815410164Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Bahawalpur: The Kingdom that Vanished by Anabel Loyd
RRP: $34.82$17.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093779Author Anabel LoydFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 by Thomas E Burman
RRP: $54.18$43.91The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples... -
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web by David Weinberger
$22.10In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming... -
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. by James Reston 9780385483360
RRP: $20.27$15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483360Author James RestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Welsh Wars Of Edward I by John E. Morris 9780938289685
$26.10The author of this classic work took a "campaign" approach to Edward I's methodical reduction of Welsh independence, achieved through many years of building strategic castles, conducting "scorched earth" sweeps, and establishing loyal... -
Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History by Glenda Sluga
RRP: $34.82$27.01This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading... -
Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $29.66$25.81In his Enquiry-which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced"-the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful,' together with a... -
A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization by Kenneth F. Kiple 9780521793537
RRP: $103.20$30.01Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the... -
The Cartoon History of the Universe II: Volumes 8-13 by Larry Gonick
RRP: $29.67$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385420938Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 277mm... -
The Dam Buster Story by Jonathan Falconer 9780750947589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$2.41The raid on the great dams of western Germany by Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron in May 1943 is one of the best known, most widely told stories of the Second World War. Led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, each Lancaster in the nineteen-strong force was... -
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues by Peter Hughes
RRP: $12.89$9.17Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people... -
Chronologia: History by the Minute by Norman Ferguson
RRP: $12.89$9.74At what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? Just when was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock when Titanic sunk? When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated? All these questions and... -
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Robert Arp
RRP: $32.24$28.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178170Author Robert ArpFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1996gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $19.34$17.32This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile... -
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology by Moses I. Finley 9781558761711
RRP: $34.77$31.97The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation... -
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew 9780300248296
RRP: $33.54$31.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300248296Author Andrew. ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press -
Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome by Leonard Cottrell
RRP: $20.63$17.20In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind. As a result of his famous "double pincer" maneuver,... -
War Hospital: A True Story Of Surgery And Survival by Sheri Lee Fink
$24.63From Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionIn April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the... -
Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe by Kume Kunitake 9780521735162
RRP: $45.14$34.62In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the... -
Another 366 Days: More Stories From This Day in History by Scott Allsop 9780995680920
RRP: $16.76$15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995680920Author Scott AllsopFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint L & E BooksPublisher L & E BooksWeight(grams) 626g -
In The Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton
RRP: $20.63$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ambassador Book Award 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780375706905Author Mary Beth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
The Arabs by Maxime Rodinson 9780226723563
RRP: $34.83$34.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226723563Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy by James Macdonald 9780691126326
RRP: $70.95$55.87For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this...