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A Century for the Century by Martin Hutner
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910672283Author Martin HutnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Grolier Club of New... -
100 20th-Century Buildings by Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Society 9781849948692
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80A stylish celebration of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, from the 20th century and beyond, by the country's leading organisation for the protection of 20th century architecture.This... -
The Story of Christianity: Century by Century by Tony Pinnington 9781789634211
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.08The Story of Christianity traces the origins and roller-coaster development of a great global faith that has more followers today than any other. In Christ's reported brief life on earth, he... -
20th Century Russia: A Century of Upheaval by Heather Maisner
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.881917 saw one of the most dramatic revolutions in world history when the workers of Russia united to throw out their tsar and aristocracy, and formed the first communist state. A century later, this... -
A Century of Media, a Century of War by Robin Andersen 9780820478937
RRP: £29.20Booksplease Price: £17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820478937Author Robin AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Peter Lang Publishing... -
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry Dr Catherine L. Futter 9781350595729
Booksplease Price: £30.53The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a... -
The Book of Printed Fabrics. From the 16th century until today by Aziza Gril-Mariotte 9783836562768
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £117.51In the far east of France, close to the German and Swiss borders, lies the historic city of Mulhouse. During the early 19th century, it became one of the leading centres of textile manufacture in the... -
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry by Christina M. Anderson 9781472577870
Booksplease Price: £88.88The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a... -
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration Christina M. Anderson 9781350595699
Booksplease Price: £30.53The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift: the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and... -
Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 by Nicolas Barker
Booksplease Price: £17.89In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from... -
Century of Insight: The Twentieth Century Enlightenment of the Mind by Derry Macdiarmid
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Century of Insight is the story of the discovery of the unconscious mind, based on the author's teaching of psychotherapy throughout his career. Beginning with the ideas of Freud and Jung, it is a... -
100 20th Century Homes and Houses by Twentieth Century Society
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles throughout the twentieth century and beyond. This illuminating book is a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing... -
The Century of Calamity: England in the Long Eleventh Century by T.D. Asch
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The Century of Calamity is the story of a nation's fall, and the men who caused it. It is the story of how AEthelraed the Unready's calamitous and vicious rule took England to the brink of... -
100 21st-Century Buildings Twentieth Century Society 9781837330409
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60A celebration of some of the greatest modern buildings in Britain, all created in the 21st century.The Twentieth Century Society are looking to the future with this latest title in the '100... -
100 20th-Century Shops by Twentieth Century Society 9781849947701
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.57A showcase of Britain's most architecturally significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond.100 20th-Century Shops is a fascinating insight into the heritage of Britain's changing high... -
The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War by Charles Faddis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In early 2002 Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq, prepare the battlefield and facilitate the entry of follow-on conventional military forces numbering in excess of 40,000... -
Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony by Natasha Duquette 9781611462005
Booksplease Price: £51.20The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explore... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612004440
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.98It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612008431
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.99It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two... -
Traveller of the Century by 9781908968388
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeA novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now,... -
The Conquering Ninth: The Ninth U.S. Army in World War II by Nathan N. Prefer 9781612008288
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.11The Ninth Army came into existence in May 1944, under the command of General William Hood Simpson, himself a rather unknown but highly successful ground commander. By late August, the Ninth Army was... -
We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: A 200-Year Family History by T O Madden 9780393350128
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.16In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be a slave and the property of Colonel James... -
Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony by Natasha Duquette 9781611461374
Booksplease Price: £96.35The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explore... -
The Business of Emotions in Modern History Mandy L. Cooper 9781350262522
Booksplease Price: £31.52The Business of Emotions in Modern History shows how businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to family firms and massive corporations, have relied on, leveraged, generated and been shaped by... -
19th CENTURY INFLUENCES ON 21ST CENTURY CHRISTIANITY: Insights into where the 21st century church headed. by John Rataczak 9780983625773
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983625773Author John RataczakFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Eleutheros BooksPublisher... -
The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed. by Taschen 9783836588072
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.13Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design-with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea-has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist... -
100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes Twentieth Century Society 9781849945295
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09A showcase of Britain's most extraordinary gardens and landscapes from the twentieth century to present day. 100 20th-Century Gardens and Landscapes highlights the evolution of gardens and landscapes... -
War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End by Michael A. Hennessy 9780275977092
Booksplease Price: £86.43War proved a seminal influence on the shape of the 20th century. This collection provides various essays addressing the phenomenon of war as viewed through the eyes of the fin de siecle. Leading... -
European Menu Design by 9783836578738
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.35Menu Design in Europe is a mouthwatering feast for the eyes, featuring hundreds of European menus from the early 19th century to the end of the millennium. At once a history of continental cuisine... -
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History by T. Davis 9780230250406
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the... -
Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England by John Cannon 9780521335669
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious... -
Turn of the Century: Eleven Centuries of Children and Change by Ellen Jackson 9780881063707
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881063707Author Ellen JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S... -
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History by T. Davis 9780230572560
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the... -
The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England by Ian Keable
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick,... -
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey T. Richelson 9780195113907
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.33Spy-masters, moles, and double-agents. Ciphers, saboteurs, and atomic secrets. The shady world of real-life espionage is as alarming and mysterious as any John Le Carre novel or James Bond movie. ... -
The Birth of Modern Critical Theology: Origins and problems of biblical criticism in the seventeenth century by Klaus Scholder 9780334049630
Booksplease Price: £21.68An introduction to the development of critical theology in the seventeenth century.Book InformationISBN 9780334049630Author Klaus ScholderFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint SCM PressPublisher SCM... -
The Globetrotter: Victorian Excursions in India, China and Japan by Amy Miller 9780712352581
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.47In the mid-nineteenth century, as new routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to India, China and Japan. Globetrotters - leisure tourists with a keen interest in... -
Books Do Furnish a Painting by Jamie Camplin
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £8.62What should you do at Christmas? In Edvard Munch's Christmas in the Brothel, the artist depicts himself sleeping off the effects of drink, but the Madame reads a book. What links Stalin and the... -
A History of Georgetown University: The Quest for Excellence, 1889-1964, Volume 2 by Robert Emmett Curran 9781589016897
Booksplease Price: £20.16The discovery and imparting of knowledge are the essential undertakings of any university. Such purposes determined John Carroll, SJ's modest and surprisingly ecumenical proposal to establish an... -
London. Portrait of a City Reuel Golden 9783836579001
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79London is immersed in history yet tirelessly innovative, a city of exciting contrast. This book collates photographs retrieved from all manner of archives to present a visual map of the city-both...