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Mao Jonathan Spence 9780753810712
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'One of the greatest historians of China' Chris Patten'Balanced, reliable and drawing on the most up-to-date research ... Spence eschews any overall judgement. He lets the facts speak for themselves... -
Hazzard's Convoy: A gripping Napoleonic naval adventure by Jonathan Spencer 9781804361450
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18A deadly French ship stalks the waves. Hazzard must sink her at all costsThe eagerly anticipated fourth novel in the William John Hazzard series.Late 1799. Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in a coup... -
Napoleon's Run: An epic naval adventure of espionage and action by Jonathan, Spencer
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'Better than Sharpe... Napoleon's Run deserves to be a runaway success'Ben Kane, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lionheart One man against an armadaLondon, 1798. Late one night, a junior naval... -
Anthropology, Politics, and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia by Jonathan Spencer 9780521771771
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Lords of the Nile: An epic Napoleonic adventure of invasion and espionage by Jonathan, Spencer 9781800322905 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.62The battle for Empire rages across EgyptThe thrilling second novel in the William John Hazzard series, following Napoleon's Run.Malta, June 1798. Captured by the French after hurling himself into... -
To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 9780140055283
RRP: $26.42Booksplease Price: $25.35From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted "to change China"... -
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Donald Critchlow
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors-capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These... -
Crusader: The second thrilling instalment in the Lionheart series by Ben Kane
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55KING. POLITICIAN. WARRIOR. CONQUEROR.1189. Richard the Lionheart's long-awaited goal comes true as he is crowned King of England. Setting his own kingdom in order, he prepares to embark on a... -
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Crusader: The second thrilling instalment in the Lionheart series by Ben Kane 9781409197812 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.11'Yet another of history's most chapters given the five-star Ben Kane treatment' PAUL FINCH'A truly vibrant and gripping read' HELENA GUMLEY-MASON'Historical fiction has never been more visceral'... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780143106852
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.China's first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from state to state as an itinerant philosopher. The... -
Imperial Masquerade - The Legend of Princess Der Ling by Grant Hayter-menzies 9789622098817
Booksplease Price: $47.99The extraordinary life of the Manchu author, feminist and figure of controversy, who yearned to expose the true humanity of the elderly empress dowager feared and hated by the rest of the world, but... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.65Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth... -
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch 9780393329018
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.66Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by... -
A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China by Sarah Schneewind 9780872208247
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.27A commoner's presentation to the emperor of a lucky omen from his garden, the repercussions for his family, and several retellings of the incident provide the background for an engaging introduction... -
The Age of Openness – China before Mao by Frank Dikotter 9789622099203
RRP: $21.67Booksplease Price: $17.88The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth... -
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad 9780099569596
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's... -
The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems by Bei Dao
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.00in the mirror there is always this moment this moment leads to the door of rebirth the door opens to the sea the rose of time -Bei Dao The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a... -
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four: The Climax by David Tod Roy 9780691150437
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $64.07This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is... -
Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $30.06The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist...