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Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War Into the Progressive Era William F. Willingham 9781962645478
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $53.95Following the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock... -
Fire Down Below: Introduced by Kate Mosse by William Golding
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.92Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I think there has... -
Gold: How it Shaped History Alan Ereira 9781036115333
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $45.61Gold is not what we think. It is usually discussed in the context of wealth and art but this book has a broader subject, so fundamental that it has been largely unremarked. Informed by a mass of... -
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Choco, Colombia by Daniel Tubb
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $66.09Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the... -
Gold and Prices George F. Warren 9781138577893
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in... -
Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849 by Margaret Casterline Bowen
Booksplease Price: $70.98When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret... -
Black California Gold Wendy M Thompson 9781684485505
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48For numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold-promising easy riches but... -
Gold Coast Dilemma Nana Malone 9781668061183
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72From USA TODAY bestselling author Nana Malone, a romance about a Ghanaian American heiress faced with the dilemma of choosing between culture and a love connection. During an opulent publishing... -
Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions Through Activation of Alkynes: New Developments and Mechanistic Studies by Antoine Simonneau 9783319067063
Booksplease Price: $190.18Antoine Simonneau's thesis highlights the development of new cycloisomerization reactions through the activation of alkynes with gold complexes. First Simonneau describes 1,6-enynes and their direct... -
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler 9780820357522
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $76.59Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship... -
Basic Cyanide Chemistry: An Essential Guide for Gold and Silver Leaching by Michael M. Botz 9780873355230
RRP: $233.10Booksplease Price: $227.01Delve into the world of cyanide chemistry and its pivotal role in gold and silver leaching with Basic Cyanide Chemistry. This comprehensive handbook offers an introductory exploration of cyanide... -
To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.70A new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.Rites of Passage (Winner of the Booker Prize)'The work of... -
A Global History of Gold Rushes by Benjamin Mountford 9780520294547
Booksplease Price: $174.83Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated... -
Gold Prices and Wages by J. A. Hobson
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.99First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson's seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power... -
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96Julia Golding's award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens. This Modern Classics edition features special bonus... -
Gold, Credit and Employment: Four Essays for Laymen G. D. H. Cole 9780815370543
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.99Originally published in 1930, the essays in this book discuss some of the leading financial controversities of the early 1930s in non-technical language. Rationalisation, the Gold Standard and the... -
Gold Rush Societies and Migrant Networks in the British World by Daniel Davy
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $200.15This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how transnational connections and local social and natural environments... -
The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold-rush Sacremento by J.A. Sutter 9780806134932
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and... -
Path of Gold: Barbara Diethelm - Heinrich Eichmann Barbara Diethelm 9783039420759
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.27Path of Gold traces the significance and use of gold as an art historical phenomenon, from early cultures to the present day. In periods of fundamental shifts in value and spiritual reorientation,... -
Gold Spun by Brandie June 9780744301748
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $20.77If Nor can't spin gold, she can always spin lies.When seventeen-year-old Nor rescues a captured faerie in the woods, he gifts her with a magical golden thread she can use to summon him for a favor... -
Diamonds, Gold, and War by Martin Meredith 9781586486419
Booksplease Price: $45.74Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors... -
The Good Life Gets Better: Panning for Gold by Dorian Amos 9781903070482
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.18Panning for goldWhat happens when a couple leave their normal British life to pan for gold in the Yukon?When Dorian gets 'gold fever', he and his wife up sticks from their idyllic Cornish life and... -
The Pyramid by William Golding
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Penelope Lively.Eighteen... -
The Curious Crime by Julia Golding
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94'In a strange, vast and wonderfully imagined museum, an apprentice sculptor and student scientist must solve a murder. Julia Golding has written a gripping helter-skelter story that will keep you... -
The Gold Leaf by Kirsten Hall 9781592702145
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.39A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals... -
The Spire by William Golding
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Succumb to a churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Benjamin Myers (narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch as an... -
Taking the Back off the Watch: A Personal Memoir by Thomas Gold 9783642275876
Booksplease Price: $190.18Thomas Gold (1920-2004) had a curious mind that liked to solve problems. He was one of the most remarkable astrophysicists in the second half of the twentieth century, and he attracted controversy... -
Akokoaso: A Survey of a Gold Coast Village by W.H. Beckett
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $231.84Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at... -
Victorian Voyages: Where did we come from? by Julia Golding
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63Join Harriet, Darwin's pet tortoise, and Milton, Schrodinger's indecisive cat on a time-travelling quest of discovery, unravelling scientific exploration and religious beliefs and how they fit... -
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.81* SOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES ** A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox ** One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 ** Longlisted for the... -
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California by Kevin Starr 9780520224964
Booksplease Price: $79.36Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again,... -
Modern Flights: Where next? by Julia Golding
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63Here is a wonderful and wittily written introduction to science as the art of asking open questions and not jumping to conclusions. It's also an amusing excursion through evolution and anthropology... -
United States Navy Wings of Gold from 1917 to the Present Ron Willis 9780887407956
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $69.26This new book by Ron Willis and Tom Carmichael chronicles in full color the development of Navy wings, including variations in designation, design and makers from World War I to the present. Also... -
The Plot Against the Kids: A True Covid Story by Simone Gold 9781510785502
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $27.95In 2020, Dr. Simone Gold was a frontline emergency physician treating patients in the hospital, just as she had done for twenty years. She spent her days performing life-saving procedures, counseling... -
Hunter: The Yukon Gold Rush Letters of Robert Hunter Fitzhugh, Jr., 1897-1900 by Ann C Carmichael 9781588383372
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $31.86Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold simply littered the ground, waiting to make a man... -
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards... -
Dreams of Gold by Sarah Peacocke 9781912765447
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912765447Author Sarah PeacockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Blue Falcon... -
Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals) J. A. Hobson 9780415590020
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.20First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson's seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power... -
Akokoaso: A Survey of a Gold Coast Village by W. H. Beckett
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at... -
Multifunctional Gold Nanostars for Cancer Theranostics by Yang Liu 9783319749198
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $208.47This thesis presents the development of theranostic gold nanostars (GNS) for multimodality cancer imaging and therapy. Furthermore, it demonstrates that a novel two-pronged treatment, combining...