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Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $10.81The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political... -
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.05In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a... -
Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the... -
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.59Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed... -
The Lives Of The Great Composers: Third Edition by Harold C. Schonberg
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg traces the consecutive line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical... -
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill... -
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900 by Charles Allen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the... -
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond,... -
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish... -
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer. Lienzo, a Portugese Jew, stumbles across a new commodity - coffee... -
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor by Charles Allen
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new... -
Smoke In The Lanes: Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s by Dominic Reeve
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often... -
Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Travels in South Africa Gavin Bell 9780349112619
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Near the southern tip of Africa, there is a mountain that does a conjuring trick with the biggest tablecloth on earth. In a sacred forest near the Limpopo river, there is a bird that flies on wings... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the... -
A Whispered Name by William Brodrick
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35To keep quiet about something so important . . . well, it's almost a lie, wouldn't you say?'When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation... -
Niche: The missing middle and why business needs to specialise to survive by James Harkin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95As high street and main street businesses continue to suffer, there's a new rule in business: forget about the general audience and instead stake out an identifiable niche.Woolworths suffered from a... -
In a Dark Wood by Amanda Craig
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Thirty-nine, divorced, jobless: Benedick Hunter is going nowhere, heading in the exact opposite direction he expected. So when he comes across a children's book that his mother, Laura, wrote, he... -
Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as... -
How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.30In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace... -
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95George Friedman's company, STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting), has received incredible accolades for working ahead of the news media and being right on the pulse of political and military action as it... -
Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire by Tim Bouquet
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95When the world's two largest steel producers went head to head in a bitter struggle for market domination, an epic corporate battle ensued that sent shockwaves through the political corridors of... -
A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the... -
Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what... -
A Mountain In Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia Charles Allen 9780349139388
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands... -
The Search For Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History by Charles Allen
Booksplease Price: $26.90The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave... -
Kafka by Nicholas Murray
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship... -
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in... -
Death On A Galician Shore by Domingo Villar
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby... -
The Lost Camels Of Tartary: A Quest into Forbidden China John Hare (Author) 9780349111469
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian and Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists and the second and third with Chinese scientists in 1995 and 1996. The book... -
Botswana Time by Will Randall
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.35Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on... -
You'll Win Nothing With Kids: Fathers, Sons and Football by Jim White
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.77On Sunday mornings Jim White has the following choice: visit the supermarket, buy trellising at B'n'Q, or stand on the sidelines of a muddy municipal football pitch, his trouser cuffs wetter than a... -
How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country by Will Hutton
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.17Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market... -
The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious by Guy Claxton 9780349116549
Booksplease Price: $27.98The unconscious has had a long and chequered history. For at least the last 4,000 years, societies have concocted comforting fables in the face of the recurrent puzzles of human existence - death,... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who... -
Faster: Our Race Against Time by James Gleick 9780349112923
Booksplease Price: $26.70Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing... -
People Like Us: A Season Among the Upper Classes by Charles Jennings 9780349108520
Booksplease Price: $20.91Royal Ascot, Henley Regatta, polo at Cowdray Park, public schools, pheasant shooting - it's a wonderful life, being a member of the English aristocracy. But what is it like to live this wonderful... -
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick 9780349121130
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than... -
And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History by Charlie Connelly 9780349120881
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or... -
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own...