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The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.85THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 by Brian Jones 9781399044011
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard... -
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game John Ure 9781849016674
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open... -
Lillian Lorraine: The Life and Times of a Ziegfeld Diva Nils Hanson 9781476675275
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59After a meteoric ascent on Broadway that began with Ziegfeld's 1910 Follies, Lillian Lorraine went on to become one of the most famous entertainers in America. Her passionately lived life made her a... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return... -
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other - but taking the long way round. His grand... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe,... -
Mastering Purchasing Management for Inbound Supply Chains by Thomas A. Cook 9781420086195
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £87.59Importing finished products, components, and raw materials has become the status quo in today's increasingly competitive business landscape. The lessons of inbound supply, however, can be very costly... -
Loughborough Through Time by Stephen Butt 9781445615264
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Loughborough is more than a market town, although the market is still held, twice-weekly, in the heart of the town, and is over seven hundred years old. The town's university is a world leader in... -
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through The Lands Of The Most Feared Conquerors In History by Stanley Stewart 9781592281060
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.67Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a... -
Search Marketing Strategies by James Colborn
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Search Marketing Strategies focuses on how to make the most from the search engine industry. Concentrating on the strategic element rather than the procedural approach, the author demonstrates how to... -
Music in Everyday Life by Professor Tia DeNora 9780521627320
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.99The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an... -
Allen Jones Moves Mark Hudson 9781916846258
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.91Allen Jones has created some of the most powerful and provocative images of the past half century. His Pop Art paintings are icons of Swinging London, while his controversial Furniture sculptures... -
Photography: The Definitive Visual History by Tom Ang
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.58This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.Photography celebrates the most iconic... -
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The... -
Childhood and Consumer Culture by David Buckingham 9781137442222
Booksplease Price: £46.74In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates,... -
The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History by Philip Scranton
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Emphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel, The Business of Tourism explores the enterprises and technologies of tourist activity with a particular focus on tourism as a phenomenon... -
A Country In The Moon: Travels In Search Of The Heart Of Poland by Michael Moran
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this uproarious memoir and meticulously researched cultural journey, writer Michael Moran keeps company with a gallery of fantastic characters. In chronicling the resurrection of the nation from... -
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia by Charlotte Hobson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Richly observed, this witty and yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson's year travelling around Russia takes us to the heart of a country that we are continually interested in, yet can struggle... -
Recognising and Dealing with Business Distress: Building Resilient Companies by Stephen Parkinson
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45Businesses fail - some spectacularly and suddenly, others more gradually over time. In some companies business decline can be turned around or at least delayed. In many others there is no option... -
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football by Harry Pearson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of... -
Product Information Management: Theory and Practice by Jorij Abraham 9783319048840
Booksplease Price: £65.96Product Information Management is the latest topic that companies across the world are deliberating upon. As companies sell online, they are confronted with the fact that not all information... -
Childhood and Consumer Culture by David Buckingham 9780230227835
Booksplease Price: £46.28In recent years children have become an increasingly important consumer market, and there is growing concern about the 'commercialisation' of childhood. This book sheds light on these debates,... -
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Perhaps the most readable history ever written' Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic - detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.The... -
The Art of Mastering Sales Management by Thomas A. Cook
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.69If you believe that the answer no is but a request for more information and understand that the best closing questions are rhetorical, you understand the basic art of sales. If you can teach that art... -
Arabia Through the Looking Glass by Jonathan Raban 9780330300582
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'A wonderful, rushing, crowded, enlightening voyage . . . A book which, in its ingenious understanding, its acceptance of a very imperfect world, and its energetic and constant fascination with human... -
Overcoming Redundancy: 52 inspiring ideas to help you bounce back from losing your job by Gordon Adams 9781785074974
Booksplease Price: £9.68Most people say redundancy changes their lives for the better - make sure you are one of them! So you've been made redundant (or perhaps you just think it's coming)? Join the crowd! Redundancy is now... -
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani 9780006550716
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to... -
Inspirators: Leading the way in leadership by Pete Cohen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.64Leadership is the most valuable commodity in the world. There has never been a more important time to bring forth leaders who can stand up and make a difference. Inspirators is the route map to... -
Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780571243563
Booksplease Price: £19.72In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when... -
Celebrating Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Leicester is built upon the work of the innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers of past centuries. Henry Walker looked for a meat substitute during rationing after the Second World War and created the... -
Marketing Tourism Products: Concepts, Issues, Cases by A. V. Seaton 9781861523020
Booksplease Price: £75.12This book explains the role of marketing within tourism management and the related areas of leisure and hospitality management. Written specifically for students and future managers in these... -
Crazy River: A Plunge into Africa by Richard Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his... -
A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray 9780349119267
Booksplease Price: £25.63In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838... -
Alan Davie in Hertford by Mark Hudson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.25This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its... -
Shooting Leave: Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game by John Ure 9781849014694
Booksplease Price: £20.70Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game in the mountains and... -
Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America by Martin Fletcher 9780349109350
Booksplease Price: £18.99After seven years as Washington correspondent of THE TIMES, Martin Fletcher set off to explore the great American 'boondocks' - the raw and untamed land that exists far from the famous cities and... -
The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India by William Dalrymple 9780006547754
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls... -
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Jonathan Raban 9780330480826
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Driving Home is a collection of Jonathan Raban's travel writing and essays, spanning two decades and charting its course through American history and world events. Jonathan Raban has written about...