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Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781838863623
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.20No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that has shaped not just Chinese spirituality but also art, science and politics. And it was in the Tao... -
Halos & Horns: The Omnibus Edition by Keith B Darrell 9781935971184
RRP: £124.95Booksplease Price: £112.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935971184Author Keith B DarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 916Imprint -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan: The Code of the Samurai Inazo Nitobe 9781838866884
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than cherry blossom" are the opening words to Inazo Nitobe's Bushido: The Soul of Japan. It was 1900 and Inazo, a Japanese academic... -
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt by Helen M. Strudwick
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.00For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was home to the greatest civilization on earth. Illustrated with more than 1,500 photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Ancient... -
Dinosaurs: 300 Prehistoric Creatures by Gerrie McCall
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40For 150 million years, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the Earth. Today, these great lizards still fire our imaginations. Dinosaurs profiles the creatures who lived during the great Age of... -
The Bismarck by Robert Jackson
Booksplease Price: £15.92The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous battleship of World War II. Much of the Allied fleet was diverted to hunting her down during her breakout into the Atlantic in 1941. The Bismarck is an... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores... -
Tracking a Serial Killer by Chris McNab
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86"One side of me says, I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?" Edmund Kemper (1948-), 'the Co-ed Killer' This gripping, fully... -
Abandoned Sacred Places by Lawrence Joffe
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25We may think of churches, mosques, synagogues and temples as ordered places for organized religion. But what happens when the congregation moves away? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean... -
Bears by Tom Jackson 9781838863586
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.20Bears is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these fascinating animals in their natural habitats in a handy pocket format. There are eight species of bear that roam the world today: from... -
Haiku: Classic Japanese Short Poems Hart Larrabee 9781838864828
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Haiku - seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity - have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become... -
The Art of War: A New Translation by Sun Tzu 9781838866327
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and General Douglas MacArthur all claimed to... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology Confucius 9781838866877
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology -... -
Volcano Robert J. Ford 9781838866518
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.00Did you know that there are more than 60 active volcanoes in Europe today? Or that the longest-existing lava lake is in Ethiopia? Or that Mount Stromboli off the coast of Italy has been in almost... -
The Book of Tea: Japanese Tea Ceremonies and Culture Okakura Kakuzo 9781838866914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.07'Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage,' are the opening words of Okakura Kakuzo's The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience. The book is a long essay celebrating... -
Ghost Sightings: Eyewitness Accounts of Paranormal Activity by Brian Innes
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Many people believe they have seen ghosts, many others are doubtful, but despite the rationalism of the present day, there has been no decrease in the number of sightings: old ghosts have survived... -
Chinese Wisdom by James Trapp 9781838865207
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Ancient Chinese culture has a been a rich source of wisdom for many millennia. Chinese Wisdom provides a concise insight into the ideas of great Chinese thinkers, arranged thematically. Living in the... -
A-Z of Dinosaurs by Kieron Connolly
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54The names of dinosaurs are some of the first impressively long words that children learn. From Apatosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex to Zephyrosaurus, The A-Z of Dinosaurs presents 26 fun dinosaurs to... -
Aries: A Guide to Understanding Yourself, Your Friendships and Finding Your True Love by Marisa St Clair 9781838860226
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.79The idea that a person's destiny is shaped by impulses from astronomical bodies millions of miles away has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Astrological signs are the celestial guides that... -
The Navy by Andrew Wiest 9781838860592
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.07The Navy is a colorful guide to an elite maritime force with a glorious history that plays a key role in US overseas operations and US foreign policy today. The US Navy is the largest in the world... -
SAS and Special Forces Self Defence by John 'Lofty' Wiseman 9781838864552
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Written by a former SAS Survival Instructor, SAS and Special Forces Self-Defence provides easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions on coping with all kinds of threatening situations, from muggings to... -
Gemini: A Guide to Understanding Yourself, Your Friendships and Finding Your True Love by Marisa St Clair 9781838860264
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.80The idea that a person's destiny is shaped by impulses from astronomical bodies millions of miles away has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Astrological signs are the celestial guides that... -
Sharks and Underwater Predators by Tom Jackson 9781838863449
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25With fossil records dating back 400 million years, sharks have outlived the dinosaurs and many other forms of life currently on earth - they are even older than trees. There are more than 1,000... -
Volcano: Live, Dormant and Extinct Volcanoes around the World by Robert J. Ford 9781838863111
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Did you know that there are more than 60 active volcanoes in Europe today? Or that the longest-existing lava lake is in Ethiopia? Or that Mount Stromboli off the coast of Italy has been in almost... -
Sharks & Underwater Predators Tom Jackson 9781838864439
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40With fossil records dating back 400 million years, sharks have outlived the dinosaurs and many other forms of life currently on earth - they are even older than trees. There are more than 1,000... -
The Army by Jeremy P Maxwell
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.90The modern US Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. Forged in the crucible of the fight for independence, the US Army has always... -
Five Rings: The Classic Text on Mastery in Swordsmanship, Leadership and Conflict: A New Translation Miyamoto Musashi 9781838864835
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Strategy is the craft of a warrior - Miyamoto Musashi Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi's Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and conflict. Musashi was a... -
Alchemy Illustrated Michael Kerrigan 9781838865917
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Long shrouded in secrecy, alchemy is now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry.Before the advent of modern science, alchemy was the ancient art of transformation, a way of combining matter... -
Ancient Warfare Illustrated Atlas: Strategies, Tactics & Combat Skills Simon Anglim 9781838866495
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18War elephants, chariots, cavalry; ringmail, belly-bows and spears; Kadesh, Alesia, Masada - Ancient Warfare Illustrated Atlas describes the equipment, weapons and tactics of soldiers in Europe and... -
Tarot: Cards For Divination, Wisdom And Self Discovery by Nikkie Jay
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.33Gaining insight into our deeper selves through the use of divination tools to help decide future actions has preoccupied mankind since ancient times. In Europe, cards which became known as Tarot have... -
Hagakure Illustrated Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9781838864651
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.46Written in the early 18th century by Samurai retainer Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure is the classic exposition of Bushido, the warrior code of the Samurai, divided into a collection of commentaries... -
I Ching Neil Powell 9781838866037
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 2,500 year old Yi-jing or I Ching, translated as the 'Book of Changes', is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy. Dating from the 4th century BCE, it is traditionally consulted by... -
SAS and Special Forces Self Defence Handbook: A Complete Guide to Unarmed Combat Techniques by John 'Lofty' Wiseman 9781782748977
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Written by a former Survival Instructor of the SAS, The SAS and Special Forces Self-Defence Handbook provides easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions on coping with all kinds of threatening... -
Japanese Aircraft of World War II: 1937-1945 by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Illustrated with detailed artworks of Japanese aircraft and their markings, Japanese Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Japanese military from the Second... -
German Fighter Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Arranged by type, German Fighter Aircraft of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the most important fighters used by the Luftwaffe during the conflict. It features such classics as the... -
Dogs: A Celebration of our Canine Friends by Tom Jackson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The first species to be domesticated, dogs have been selectively bred over thousands of years. Today they're man's best friend - but while many are pets, many, too, are working animals: for the... -
Iceland by Chris McNab 9781838864347
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.05A hotspot in the North Atlantic, Iceland is one of the world's most unusual countries. It is Europe's second largest island but its most sparsely populated country. Sitting astride the Mid-Atlantic... -
Russian Tanks of World War II: 1939-1945 by Stephen Hart
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. The book offers a... -
Naval Warfare 1914–1918: From Coronel to the Atlantic and Zeebrugge by Tim Benbow 9781838861186
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £20.55The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German... -
Haiku Hart Larrabee 9781838864408
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.20Haiku - seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity - have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become...