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One False Note by Gordon Korman 9780545060424
Booksplease Price: £9.51Super-selling author Gordon Korman sends Amy and Dan off on a wild chase in Book 2 of the highly-anticipated 39 Clues series. THIS JUST IN! Amy and Dan Cahill were spotted on a train, hot on the... -
Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing: The PA General Loan Office Mortgage Register of 1729, and Subsequent Franklin Mortgage Registers and Bonds Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 89, Part 5) by Keith Arbour 9780871698957
Booksplease Price: £32.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871698957Author Keith ArbourFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139161
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.60The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most... -
The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories by Mark Nesbitt 9781493043927
Booksplease Price: £15.02Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Keystone State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Authors Mark... -
Ben Franklin's Philadelphia: A Guide by Tom Huntington 9781493049844
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.51* Visitor information on Franklin sites * Convenient walking tour * Helpful maps This unique, user-friendly guide follows the Benjamin Franklin's footsteps through Philadelphia. The author... -
The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan 9780545060394
Booksplease Price: £10.28What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world in the form... -
Beyond the Grave by Jude Watson 9780545060448
Booksplease Price: £10.35Amy and Dan are hot on the trail of the fourth Clue, but their ruthless relatives will stop at nothing to eliminate them from the competition. Their hunt leads them to an ancient city that has been a... -
How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade by John Hruschka 9780271050812
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £61.87Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth... -
The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy by Jonathan Singerton 9780813948225
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In 1783, the Peace of Paris treaties famously concluded the American Revolution. However, the Revolution could have come to an end two years earlier had diplomats from the Habsburg realms-the largest... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139154
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.58The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most... -
Bills of Union: Money, Empire and Ambitions in the Mid-Eighteenth Century British Atlantic by Aaron Graham 9783030676766
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £54.72This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals for an imperial paper currency in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic, to show how manage colonial currency and... -
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871 Adam Zamoyski 9781474615211
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was... -
The Declaration of Independence: Fourteen Hundred Words of Freedom by Debra Housel 9780743905398
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Students will act out the roles of the figures in US history who wrote the Declaration of Independence, experiencing the thoughts and feelings they had while creating this revolutionary document... -
American Revolution for Kids by Janis Herbert
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.11Heroes, traitors, and great thinkers come to life in this activity book, and the concepts of freedom and democracy are celebrated in true accounts of the distinguished officers, wise delegates,... -
Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America by Leonard J. Sadosky 9780813955193
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Revolutionary Negotiations examines early American diplomatic negotiations with both the European powers and the various American Indian nations from the 1740s through the 1820s. Sadosky interweaves... -
Naive Readings: Reveilles Political and Philosophic by Ralph Lerner
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.87One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever... -
Surprised by Science: Electricity is Epic! Sabrina Rose Science Girl 9781526326058
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Be surprised by the astonishing science of electricity, with Sabrina Rose, AKA Science Girl - the internet's most inspiring curator of facts and observations of our wonderful world!Surprised by... -
Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment by Simon Werrett
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.99If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science," then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern... -
Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions by Cynthia S. Jordan 9780807865514
Booksplease Price: £46.00Second Stories offers an innovative reexamination of selected texts by major figures in American literature: Benjamin Franklin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Bown from the early... -
America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor 9781512826517
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Reveals how, through auctions, early Americans learned capitalism As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked... -
Ghosts of the American Revolution by Sam Baltrusis 9781493051748
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The American Revolution is stained with blood and its ghosts are still lurking in the shadows seeking postmortem revenge. Come explore the haunts associated with the colonial rebel's fight for... -
The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution by Gregg L. Frazer
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state... -
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written Walter Isaacson 9781982181314
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.92America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans-and explains how it should... -
Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life Eric Weiner 9781501129056
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Part biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for... -
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Our Sacred Honor: "The Stories, Letters, Songs, Poems, Speeches, and by William J. Bennett 9781451613551
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.25Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction... -
Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World by Melissa A Schilling
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one... -
The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution by Robert G. Parkinson 9781469652184
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £27.88When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick... -
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence by Robert G. Parkinson 9781469662572
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies... -
Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World by Melissa A Schilling 9781541724532
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.37What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world--those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely... -
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence by Robert G. Parkinson 9781469662565
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies... -
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War by Kenneth A. Daigler 9781626162587
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £17.93Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that... -
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War by Kenneth A. Daigler 9781626160507
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.69Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that... -
Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776-1787 by Norman A. Graebner 9780313398261
Booksplease Price: £46.75This concise diplomatic history of the Confederation era is the first new work on the topic in a generation. In its pages, three distinguished diplomatic historians offer a realist interpretation of... -
The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson 9781665910675
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.46Walter Isaacson's #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 18: 4 November 1790 to 24 January 1791 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045825
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £116.51Volume 18, covering part of the final session of the First Congress, shows Jefferson as Secretary of State continuing his effective collaboration with James Madison in seeking commercial reciprocity... -
Kid Engineer: Working with Energy Izzi Howell 9781526312921
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Discover the world of engineering with fun, step-by-step projects.Energy powers everything in the world around us. But where does this energy come from? Discover the machines that engineers have... -
Trump's Superpower: A Historical Novel About the Founding Fathers & One Founding Mother Johanna Neuman 9798895655481
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £17.54When America's Founding Fathers return from heaven to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday, President Trump welcomes them to the White House-while protestors flood the streets demanding "We Want Our... -
Theories of Population from Raleigh to Arthur Young by James Bonar 9780714612744
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94First Published in 1966. A book which deals with the thought and theories of leading men 17th and 18th century England, on the subjects of population and vital statistics. Beginning with Raleigh,... -
Maverick Priest: A Story of Life on the Edge by Harry J. Bury 9781944297329
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.84A Story of the Ongoing Struggle for Peace in Our Violent World This is the story of one man's unique journey around the world, in the name of human connection, peace, and active nonviolence. Father... -
Speculative Freemasonry and the Enlightenment: A Study of the Craft in London, Paris, Prague, Vienna and Philadelphia, 2d ed. R. William Weisberger 9781476669137
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Freemasonry began with stonemasons in the Middle Ages experiencing the decline of cathedral building. Some guilds invited honorary memberships to boost their numbers. These usually highly educated...