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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900 by Stephen R Bown 9780312616113
RRP: $38.69$26.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312616113Author Stephen R BownFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins 9781399603485
RRP: $32.25$17.91'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating... -
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
RRP: $14.18$8.46'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610322
RRP: $32.25$18.03From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $16.76$9.97'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham 9780241543702
RRP: $24.50$19.71From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - this is riveting... -
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge 9781472298515
RRP: $21.92$16.50'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical... -
My Struggle: Mein Kampf English Version by Adolf Hitler 9781682044124
$19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682044124Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Fcb BooksPublisher Fcb BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm -
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
RRP: $21.92$16.36From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some surprising roles in between.From Ada Lovelace in the... -
Mein Kampf: My Struggle - The Original, accurate, and complete English translation by Adolf Hitler
RRP: $24.36$24.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682042847Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $14.18$10.02* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 9780099590088 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$8.67'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $19.34$12.64The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology,... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins 9780099540250
RRP: $21.92$16.36A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**A searing, landmark study of the... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes 9781474610339
RRP: $21.92$16.77From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... -
Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $24.50$16.45This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to... -
A Stranger in My Own Country: East Pakistan, 1969-1971 by Major General (Retd.) Khadim Hussain Raja 9780190704230
RRP: $14.18$12.80The 1971 East Pakistan tragedy was not just a failure of the military but also a collapse of civil society in the West Wing. The few voices raised against the military action were too feeble to make the army change its course, a course that lead to... -
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price 9780465096985
RRP: $30.95$29.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465096985Author Neil PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)... -
Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life: The Dangers of Mouth Breathing and Why Nose or Nasal Breathing is Preferred, Based on the Native American Experience (Annotated) by George Catlin
RRP: $8.97$7.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611047141Author George CatlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Cedar Lake ClassicsPublisher Cedar Lake ClassicsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation - the Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: $16.76$6.85TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock... -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: $28.38$18.78A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY'Forty-thousand years of our relationship with time condensed into 288 pages: a hugely entertaining achievement.' ESQUIRE'5/5 A true joy... -
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for English Non-Fiction 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780735236851Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
RRP: $11.60$11.07In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini,... -
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
RRP: $21.92$16.38'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating... -
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West by Matthew P. Mayo 9780762754311
RRP: $19.34$16.15The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week... -
Tastes of Paradise # by W Schivelbusch
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744382Author Wolfgang SchivelbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: $16.76$12.24Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. ... -
Timeline of World History by Matt Baker
RRP: $33.53$23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645174172Author Matt BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $27.09$18.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536165Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' - STEPHEN FRY by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: $21.92$16.33A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY'Forty-thousand years of our relationship with time condensed into 288 pages: a hugely entertaining achievement.' ESQUIRE'5/5 A true joy... -
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: $11.60$8.32Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $32.25$21.32A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $19.34$12.64The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781804991893
RRP: $14.18$10.02A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Conquistador by Buddy Levy
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384710Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Napoleon'S Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
RRP: $18.05$16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423316Author Penny Le CouteurFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage by Arthur Koestler 9781939438997
RRP: $19.34$12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438997Author Arthur KoestlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint One 70 PressPublisher One 70 PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
KS3 History Complete Study and Practice by CGP Books
RRP: $15.47$11.66Don't miss CGP's superb all-in-one Complete Revision & Practice book for KS3 History. It's bursting with study notes and sources covering fascinating topics from 1066 to 21st Century. There are plenty of practice questions and worked questions to help... -
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $21.92$12.38WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedy's... -
A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney 9780752450117
RRP: $12.89$8.26Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem...