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A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that... -
Aeschylus, 2: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, Prometheus Bound by David R. Slavitt
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
Bicycle: The History by David V. Herlihy 9780300120479
Booksplease Price: £28.88The first comprehensive history of the bicycle-lavishly illustrated with images spanning two centuries During the nineteenth century, the bicycle evoked an exciting new world in which even a poor... -
Eternal by Craig Russell 9780099484233 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.34This dark, atmospheric and spine-tingling crime thriller from the mind of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell will get right under the skin. If you like Stuart MacBride, James Oswald... -
A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd 9780691205335
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that... -
Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival by Ian Garner
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £48.80In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler's army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent... -
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure... -
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper 9780691205304
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure... -
The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited by David Lowenthal 9780521851428
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.59The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge,... -
Berry Phases in Electronic Structure Theory: Electric Polarization, Orbital Magnetization and Topological Insulators by David Vanderbilt
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £71.00Over the past twenty-five years, mathematical concepts associated with geometric phases have come to occupy a central place in our modern understanding of the physics of electrons in solids. These... -
Hellbent: A Dark Conspiracy. An Innocent Victim by Gregg Hurwitz 9780718185466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.82* PREORDER OUT OF THE DARK NOW - THE STUNNING NEW ORPHAN X THRILLER FROM NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. *'Do you need my help?'They called him Orphan X. Evan Smoak used to be a government... -
The English and their Legacy, 900-1200 - Essays in Honour of Ann Williams by David Roffe
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38The dynamics of medieval societies in England and beyond form the focus of these essays on the Anglo-Norman world. Over the last fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of... -
1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.10David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via... -
The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.03The second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a "remarkable... -
The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited by David Lowenthal 9780521616850
Booksplease Price: £29.58The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge,... -
O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry by David Ben-Merre 9798855804089
RRP: £87.50Booksplease Price: £71.38Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of "O" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing.In poetry circles, "O" is commonly associated with apostrophe-a dramatized... -
Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust by David Slucki 9780814344781
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have... -
A Body In The Bath House: (Falco 13) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this gripping page-turner of a historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Full... -
William the Conqueror by David Bates
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.85A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror-a pivotal figure in British and European history"[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England with his invasion... -
Brother Grimm by Craig Russell 9780099484226 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41From the pen of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell, comes this exquisitely plotted, intelligent and blindingly original crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. If... -
Brother Grimm by Craig Russell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the pen of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell, comes this exquisitely plotted, intelligent and blindingly original crime thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. If... -
Greed by Chris Ryan 9780099432227
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Greed is an explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money, love and jealously combust - an explosively violent tale from the established master of the military thriller, multi-million copy... -
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead by David Browne 9780306824470
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.51More than five decades after they first came together and changed the sound of rock'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands,a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans... -
A University Education by David Willetts
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.92Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England, entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools--a... -
Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie by David Albright 9781476745763
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26From one of the world's leading experts on nuclear proliferation, a harrowing and revelatory examination of the thriving illicit marketplace for nuclear weapons components and how far the programs... -
A University Education by David Willetts 9780198767268
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.93Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools - a... -
Sea of Greed: NUMA Files #16 by Clive Cussler 9781405937122 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'Sea of Greed will have readers turning pages. With a wonderful cast of characters and relentless action, this is classic Cussler' Mail Online KURT AUSTIN AND THE NUMA CREW ARE BACK IN AN... -
The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by David Aubin
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a... -
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world,... -
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s by Marion Fourcade
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform... -
Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust by David Slucki 9780814347386
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have... -
Shakespeare's White Others by David Sterling Brown 9781009384162
Booksplease Price: £43.83Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this bold and compelling work... -
Greed by Chris Ryan 9780099432227 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.00Greed is an explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money, love and jealously combust - an explosively violent tale from the established master of the military thriller, multi-million copy... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
Booksplease Price: £21.75Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of... -
A-Z of Italian Motorcycle Manufacturers by Greg Pullen
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.23Italian motorcycles have a place in history - and many enthusiast's hearts - out of all proportion to the numbers that been built. If the number of motorcycles built by Italian manufacturers is... -
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.46Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book-a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's... -
Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion Abiola Bello 9781398520486
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Discover your wild side! Join twins Misha and Ziggy as they put their extraordinary animal powers to the test in this new illustrated wildlife adventure series for readers 6+. For fans of Leonora... -
Worst Case: (Michael Bennett 3) by James Patterson 9781846054709 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.67______________________One wrong answer means death...The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding... -
Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz 9780684847689
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Tens of millions of Americans, from Generation X-ers to baby boomers and beyond, are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right. In 1995 a... -
Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know by David Stainforth 9780198812937
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.11This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others. Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in...