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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel
RRP: $25.18$20.37Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in... -
World War II For Dummies by Keith D. Dickson 9781119675532
RRP: $39.88$27.62Looking to ally yourself with World War II knowledge? More than 75 years after its end, World War II remains one of the most devastating and impactful events in human history. It was a global war, and the nations that fought it employed every available... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$13.881974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $31.48$20.581974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 by Robert Gildea
$91.18This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and... -
Access to History: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 for OCR Second Edition by Nicholas Fellows
$52.94Exam board: OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
On the Process of Civilisation by Norbert Elias 9781906359041
RRP: $105.00$100.40This is Volume 3 in the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias", translated by Edmund Jephcott. Recognised as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, "On the Process of Civilisation" has been influential and widely discussed across... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Four units in one by Sam Slater
RRP: $24.15$23.92Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is... -
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal 9781541603196
RRP: $63.00$36.25A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in handThe revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over... -
The West: A New History in 14 Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: $46.20$33.64*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the... -
The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State by S. E. Finer 9780198207917
$207.52No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer,... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: $23.08$16.32'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: $23.08$15.23A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney 9780753558935
RRP: $27.28$19.09*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: $52.50$35.36* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest books to have been published for many, many years' Alexander... -
The Hiram Key: Pharoahs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Christ by Christopher Knight
RRP: $23.08$16.32Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips 9781472283405 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$12.83'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips 9781472283405
RRP: $20.98$12.52'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always... -
Being Human: How our biology shaped world history by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: $46.20$32.80'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, bestselling author of The Future of Geography'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, bestselling author of OtherlandsOur biology will change how you see the world. Lewis Dartnell explores how human biology has shaped relationships,... -
Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 by Peter Borsay 9781845411978
RRP: $62.90$56.51Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from... -
The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World by Jonathan Black
RRP: $31.48$17.93From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect usThe Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, from... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
RRP: $42.00$28.35Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
Manmade Wonders of the World by DK
RRP: $73.50$56.05Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures created by humans.From Stonehenge to the Sagrada Familia, from the Great Wall of... -
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Pirie
RRP: $31.48$23.00'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War ... -
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
$26.44Cornelius Ryan tells the story of the hours that preceded and followed H-Hour of D-Day ? June 6, 1944, when as dawn approached, as paratroopers fought in the hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known assembled off the beach --... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd 9781783966219
RRP: $52.50$36.10___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you will by reading a... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $23.08$16.32ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: $23.08$15.54Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles... -
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
RRP: $23.08$15.54Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett 9780241986264 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$17.05'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from... -
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius
RRP: $27.28$19.09Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a... -
Attila The Hun by John Man
RRP: $23.08$16.32The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $35.68$26.63The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked... -
China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: $31.48$20.37Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast... -
Ideas: A History by Peter Watson
RRP: $39.88$28.88A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHIn this hugely... -
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science by Simon Schama 9781471169922
RRP: $27.28$17.18'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy
RRP: $27.28$19.09This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".About the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History; The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (Europe Since 1815)... -
AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People by Abdul Mohamud
$43.76Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of...