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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... 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Quick view sku: MED2340 Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. 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This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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Quick view sku: BIG225 Donal O'Donovan - Dreamers of Dreams : Portraits of the Irish in America - HB - 1984 Published 1984, with biographies of a number of prominent Irish Americans and businesspeople ( 24 men and only one woman - (who is a nun) . Includes business leaders, trade union organisers, academics, and architects - in the form of Kevin Roche. As US... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. 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But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? 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Quick view sku: 82581H Thomas McCarthy / The Turning Tide All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93484H Jasper Rees / Blizzard (Hardback) In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75746H Charlotte Greig / Conspiracy 22 November, 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist symapthizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42243H Dee Brown / The American West As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58020H Alison Weir / Elizabeth the Queen In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel, Children of England, Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61208H Frederick Taylor / Dresden : Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50419H John Lewis Gaddis / The Cold War A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... 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Quick view sku: rR58020H Alison Weir / Elizabeth the Queen In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel, Children of England, Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61208H Frederick Taylor / Dresden : Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50419H John Lewis Gaddis / The Cold War A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR61208H Frederick Taylor / Dresden : Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50419H John Lewis Gaddis / The Cold War A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... 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Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... 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Quick view sku: rR50419H John Lewis Gaddis / The Cold War A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR41167H Amy Liptrot / The Outrun THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZEAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34150H Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback) One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW3343H Geert Mak / In Europe : Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... 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This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: X71201H Ferdie Addis / I Have a Dream : The Speeches That Changed History (Hardback) To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X94076H Brockhampton Reference: World History (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view British Monarchy | sku: rR40123H A. N. Wilson / Victoria : A Life 'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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Quick view Swan River Press Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Fatal Move - HB - BRAND NEW ( Originally 1921) “I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.”Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of... MSRP: Now: €35.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR57939H Matt Parker / Humble Pi **The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... 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Quick view sku: MED4329 Nora Chadwick - The Celts - Vintage Pelican PB 1982 The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Europe traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. A proud and independent nation developed from a number of smaller states; brilliant art and... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG7, Joan Givner - The Life of Katherine Anne Porter - HB - Biography - Literature Hardcover, published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1983, in dustjacket, internally unmarked. Katherine Anne Porter, ( 1890 -1980) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW26679H Jennifer Worth / Call The Midwife (Hardback) Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG113 Dermot Morrah - To Be a King - HB - Prince of Wales - Prince Charles - 1969 Hardcover first edition, published by Hutchinson UK, 1969. Previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper. Subtitled 'A privileged account of the early life and education of HRH The Prince of Wales written with the approval of HM... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... 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Quick view sku: rR45456H Joan Bomford / Up With The Lark 'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31742H Antonia Fraser / Love and Louis XIV Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR20782H Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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Quick view sku: MED933 David Milton & Franz Schurmann ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972. A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? 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Quick view sku: wW28700H Sean Gill / Women and the Church of England : From Eighteenth Century to Present (Large Paperback) A critical look at the ways in which religion has both empowered and hindered women in their attempts to serve God in the Church since 1700. The author examines the significant, but hitherto neglected, contributions women have made to the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... 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Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... 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Quick view Conall Cearnach ( Feardorcha Ó Conaill ) - The Age of Whitewash - HB - Gill - 1921 Feardorcha Ó Conaill or Frederick William O'Connell (1876 – 1929) was a clergyman, academic, lecturer writer, and was best known translator to and from Irish often under the pen name Conall... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49280H Antonia Fraser / The Weaker Vessel : Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce?... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3357 Bamber Gascoigne - A Brief History of Christianity - PB - 2003 ( Originally 1977) Condition - very good, almost as new copy. Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW26467H,wW27965H Thomas Friedman / The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR61397H Primo Levi / If This Is A Man: The Truce With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71611H Ingrid Betancourt / Even Silence Has An End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW33763H Jung Chang / Mao : The Unknown Story (Large Paperback) Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x18878E Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Little America : The War within the War for Afghanistan (Large Paperback) The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28702H J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback) In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27059H Margaret Forster / Hidden Lives Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 55085H Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW3501H Tom Brokaw / The Greatest Generation (Large Paperback) In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW33026H,wW35813H Niall Ferguson / The Ascent of Money (Hardback) Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW5948H Robert Cowley / More What If? : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Hardback) More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, More What If? is an... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR57643H Richard Dowden / Africa : Altered States Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden is perhaps our leading journalist of African affairs. Since first arriving in Idi Amin's Uganda in 1971 he has never stopped learning about and reporting on real Africans and the realities of life in Africa's many and varied lands... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8026,MED8027 Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium : Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle ages - Vintage Paladin PB - 1970 The extraordinary medieval European millenarian movements are painstakingly analysed by Norman Cohn, who concludes that they arose not just where there was poverty, but in societies where traditional social structures like the family, guilds and feudal... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wordsworth Classics | sku: 10906M J. P. Kenyon / The Wordsworth Dictionary of British History The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous. All of our books are... 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Published by Robinson Uk, originally published by Bamber gascoigne( in a slightly different form) as 'The Christians' in 1977. This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38863H Heinrich Fraenkel Roger Manvell / Hitler: The Man and the Myth All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW16255H Larry Witham / The Measure of God (Hardback) The Measure of God, now in paperback, is a lively historical narrativeoffering the reader a sense for what has taken place in the God and science debate over the past century.Modern science came of age at the cusp of the twentieth century. It was a... 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