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Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world... -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691175034
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies... -
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole 9781481308823
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.63Monsters arrived in 2011 - and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our past - a hideous... -
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought 9780190053833
Booksplease Price: £31.82In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his... -
Lincoln and the Immigrant by Jason H. Silverman 9780809338092
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe,... -
Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century by Deepak Lal 9780691136387
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a... -
The Curse of Cash by Kenneth S. Rogoff 9780691172132
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out most paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to... -
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of... -
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like... -
A Comprehensive Guide to Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities by Michael L. Wehmeyer 9781598576023
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £79.49The trusted core disability textbook gets a comprehensive update in this second edition, now thoroughly revised to include all the critical topics today's professionals need to know about as they... -
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author by Marc Levinson 9780691170817
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.54In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom... -
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
Booksplease Price: £31.25Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of... -
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon 9780691147727
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.62In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel,... -
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy by Dani Rodrik 9780691177847
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance... -
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon 9780691175805
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.55In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel,...