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Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... 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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: BIG191 Tony Bunyan- The History and Practice of The Political Police in Britain - HB -1977 MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG125 Alexander Cockburn - Corruptions of Empire : Life Studies and the Reagan Era - PB -1988 MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED678 Leo Huberman- Man's Worldly Goods : The Story of the Wealth of Nations - Vintage PB ( Gollancz Left Book Club Edition 1937) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG125 Alexander Cockburn - Corruptions of Empire : Life Studies and the Reagan Era - PB -1988 MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: BIG125 Alexander Cockburn - Corruptions of Empire : Life Studies and the Reagan Era - PB -1988 MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... 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The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... 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Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG434 Michael Barone - Our First Revolution : 1688 The Glorious Revolution - HB -2007 The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Edel, Leon - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Moore, Harry T - The Intelligent Heart : The Story of D.H Lawrence - Vintage Penguin PB - 1960 One of the standard biographies on the extraordinary life and work of DH Lawrence, originally published 1955, this edition was revised for the Penguin edition. Light edgewear to covers, binding tight, tanning to pages, but otherwise unmarked. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X84919H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake (Hardback) SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X92365H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15808E Stephanie Nolen / 28 : Stories Of Aids In Africa We have all seen the grim pictures of dying Africans on the news, or been momentarily shocked by the statistics; we may think we've heard all we need to know - or can bear to know - about the story of Aids in Africa. But look beyond the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X80569H Anita Amirrezvani / The Blood of Flowers (Large Paperback) Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95997H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94681H Tim Bradford / The Groundwater Diaries : Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Large Paperback) A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. 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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: BIG143 E.A Wallis Budge- The Mummy : A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology This fascinating, erudite, generously illustrated study offers comprehensive and meticulously detailed coverage of mummification processes, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves, coffins, the Book of the Dead, and much more. Originally... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view Williams, Caroline - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80490H John Lahr / Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR51 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X90948H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : An American Journey (Hardback) This biography relates Bill Clinton's upbringing in Arkansas, how he was inspired by Martin Luther King, and how as a student, he became a long-haired hippy musician, involved in radical politics and also discovering free love. Hamilton tells... 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Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. 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Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED149 Gaines M. Foster - Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat , the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South - PB - 1987 After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Wilson, Vincent ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view
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