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Small Change: A History of Everyday Coinage by Peter Johnson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Since the Greeks of Asia Minor invented coined money in the late seventh century BC, the emphasis throughout history has been to focus on minting higher value pieces, with the production of small... -
The Black Death: A Global History by Thomas Asbridge 9780241399408
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $58.70Thomas Asbridge's remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity's greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at... -
The Face: A Cultural Geography by Marty Roth
Booksplease Price: $177.20The face circulates through most things of this world: anything that has presence, that presents itself, that has a front, a surface, an appearance, an aspect, a reputation, or honor - anything that... -
Faces of Shoreditch by Barbara Asboth
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Shoreditch, the inner-city district of central London, is one of our capital's most well-known areas. Located within the London Borough of Hackney and part of the historic East End, it is steeped in... -
The Changing Face of War: Learning from History by Allan Douglas English 9780773517233 [USED COPY]
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $20.83This volume is a collection of texts on lessons learned from history. One of the biggest problems facing military history leaders is how to deal with situations that they never confronted before... -
The Roma: A Travelling History by Madeline Potter 9781529967241
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60A profoundly personal and moving portrait of a misunderstood people and their on-going journey - shedding new light on Romani history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.'Fascinating'... -
Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam by Joseph Stahl 9781540239440
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $41.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540239440Author Joseph StahlFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint -
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.98In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American... -
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.55The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority... -
Guildford History Tour by Bernard Parke
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89Guildford History Tour provides a unique insight into the country town of Surrey. Complete with a map of the town's most notable places, readers are invited to see the changing face of the town as... -
Scarborough History Tour by Mike Hitches 9781398100626
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89Scarborough History Tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the past of this famous Yorkshire seaside resort. Over the centuries, the original fishing town evolved to become a popular holiday... -
Ilfracombe History Tour by Peter Christie 9781398100664
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.66Ilfracombe History Tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the past of this north Devon harbour town and holiday resort. Authors Peter Christie and Graham Hobbs guide readers around its streets and... -
Tavistock: A History by Gerry Woodcock
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.70Tavistock has cast its spell over generations of visitors. Attractively set between two significant natural barriers, the River Tamar to the west and Dartmoor to the east, residents and visitors... -
The History of Forgery Rachael Rowe 9781399055987
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.41From the flamboyant preacher accused of forgery to the fourteen year old burned at the stake for coining, the eighteenth century was rife with financial crime. This book outlines the stories of men... -
Liverpool City Centre History Tour by Ian Collard
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89Liverpool City Centre History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port city. Local author Ian Collard guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its... -
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine by Owsei Temkin
Booksplease Price: $67.82Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in... -
A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens Mary W Craig 9781036106317
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.50A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens explores the phenomenon of witch persecution in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. Looking at the influence of the likes of John Knox and James VI... -
Faces of Union Soldiers at South Mountain and Harpers Ferry by Matthew Borders
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $28.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147439Author Joseph StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
A History of Lincoln by Richard Gurnham
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $29.54The earliest settlement beside the Brayford Pool was called Lindon, and this Celtic name was adopted by the Roman conquerors in the first century ad. e fortress established on the hill above the... -
Poetry Facing History by Traumear 9780244690724
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $15.03This poetry addresses itself to the changing visage of the past, specifically the 'modern' past two millennia, in terms of contemporary sensibility. The accent is on mystic perception and the meaning... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.37The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom... -
History, Space and Place by Susanne Rau
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau... -
Chatham History Tour by Philip MacDougall 9781445666600
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89Chatham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this historic Kentish town and its former dockyard, now a major tourist attraction. This book guides us through the streets... -
Education and the City: Theory, History and Contemporary Practice by Professor Gerald Grace 9780415860345
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus... -
Studies in Scottish Business History Peter L. Payne 9781138865143
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56This book was first published in 1967. This volume contains a number of essays looking at Scottish business history, its sources and archives. Section two explores domestic and enterprise organsation... -
Pattern and Meaning in History: Wilhelm Dilthey's Thoughts on History and Society by H. P. Rickman
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $60.82'One may state Dilthey's significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science... -
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $42.78Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes... -
A History of Australia Mark Peel (University of Leicester, Leicester) 9781137605481
Booksplease Price: $181.19This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel... -
The Zambezi: A History Malyn Newitt 9781805263173
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $35.82The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used... -
Black History Month UK Primary School Pack by DK 9780241552070
RRP: $72.05Booksplease Price: $54.21An inspiring collection of DK books focused on Black history.Discover the obstacles that many Black people faced on the way to making groundbreaking accomplishments. You'll find out how they created... -
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive by Elisabet Bjorklund
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by... -
Faces of Liberation by Frank Mehring 9789048565849
RRP: $87.65Booksplease Price: $78.99Dutch edition: Gezichten van de Bevrijding - Nederlandse versie: Gezichten van de Bevrijding. The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the final resting place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the... -
Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism by Homa Katouzian
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.29Khalil Maleki (1901-1969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran. His was a unique approach to politics, prioritising the criticism of policies... -
The History Of The Asian Community In Britain Rozina Visram 9781526318367
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Discover the fascinating history of the Asian community in Britain, from the first settlers to the 21st Century.Newly updated, The History of the Asian Community in Britain explores why people came... -
Newcastle-under-Lyme History Tour by Neil Collingwood
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.89The Staffordshire market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme owes its existence and its name to the building of a new castle there in the twelfth century. The town's status grew from the twelfth to the... -
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919-1948: Facing the Temple Mount by Diana Dolev 9780739191613
Booksplease Price: $167.02Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site became one of the holiest places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world. Once the Dome of... -
A History of Virility by Alain Corbin
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $210.27How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male... -
What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.80Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to... -
Democracy: A Short, Analytical History: A Short, Analytical History by Roland N. Stromberg
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records... -
Magic City Rock: Spaces and Faces of Birmingham's Scene by Blake Ells 9781625858962
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $28.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625858962Author Blake EllsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint