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The Unfolding Of Language by Guy Deutscher
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX BELLOS___________________________________'Language is mankind's greatest... -
The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £8.99£6.65Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they... -
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle 9780349112848
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The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £16.99£11.54THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of... -
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: £8.99£6.65By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on... -
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius by Julius Caesar
RRP: £8.99£6.65The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns... -
A Little History of Science by William F. Bynum
RRP: £10.99£9.61A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People... -
When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: £18.99£13.61China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and... -
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 Max Hastings 9780007503902
RRP: £12.99£8.71'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph ... -
The Times Great Events: A modern history through 200 years of The Times newspaper by James Owen 9780008409302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.94An accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the... -
The Times Great Events: A modern history through 200 years of The Times newspaper by James Owen
RRP: £20.00£13.74An accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the... -
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson 9780316703635
RRP: £16.99£11.27Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough... -
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition John Geiger 9780747577270
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "debility" aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the... -
The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity to the Present Day Bernard Lewis 9781842121399
RRP: £14.99£10.05A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subjectIn this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East,... -
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins
RRP: £8.99£6.65The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway 9781786899965
RRP: £9.99£6.90Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are... -
The History of the World Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Meredith MacArdle 9781782439004 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.87Taking the history of the world as its basis might seem a mammoth task but this fascinating book does just that, breaking the whole lot down into ten enthralling chapters that cover the ages and the world, from the Bronze Age up until the end of the... -
The History of the World Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Meredith MacArdle
RRP: £9.99£7.05Taking the history of the world as its basis might seem a mammoth task but this fascinating book does just that, breaking the whole lot down into ten enthralling chapters that cover the ages and the world, from the Bronze Age up until the end of the... -
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell 9780465002054
£24.69In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the unconstrained"... -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
RRP: £18.99£14.01For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern... -
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot
RRP: £22.50£19.35An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd 9781783966219
RRP: £25.00£17.45___________ 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 Oxford History of the Biblical World by Michael David Coogan 9780195087079
£76.93The Oxford History of the Biblical World is a comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of the world from which the Bible emerged. The work is written by leading scholars, all of whom have considerable expertise in archaeology and the study of ancient... -
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History Peter Watson 9781842124444
RRP: £18.99£13.94'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more... -
Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1896-1946 Fifth Edition by Mark Robson
£25.21Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; 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... -
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
RRP: £7.99£5.78If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.99THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.For all we have gained in the modern world,... -
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £10.99£7.99From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early... -
Icelandic Histories & Romances by Ralph O'Connor 9780752428949
RRP: £12.99£9.87The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O'Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: £16.99£15.51Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies
RRP: £12.99£9.74On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... -
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler 9780063352438
RRP: £16.99£11.47The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust... -
The Shortest History of Sex by David Baker 9781913083519
RRP: £14.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083519Author David BakerFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
RRP: £12.99£9.19For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman... -
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips 9781472283405
RRP: £9.99£6.15'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... -
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £8.99£7.62Introduction by Neal AschersonIn our globalised but increasingly polarised age, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times.In this reflection on a lifetime of travel, the renown travel writer takes a fresh look... -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £13.09£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495325Author Simon SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: £14.99£13.03A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: £8.99£7.08Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods... -
Access to History: Mao's China 1936-97 Fourth Edition by Michael Lynch
£25.21Exam board: AQA; Pearson EdexcelLevel: 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...