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Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest Professor Anke Pinkert 9780226835334
£28.39This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the... -
Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night': Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House William Davies King 9781839992490
RRP: £80.00£76.48Eugene O’Neill wrote his most enduring and important plays after he won international acclaim as the first and only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, with his health failing and... -
How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism Yael Segalovitz 9781438498690
£72.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498690Author Yael SegalovitzFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism Cosmin Toma 9781501370168
£29.35Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of... -
The Guide to Reflective Practice in Conflict Resolution Michael Lang 9781538188941
RRP: £73.00£64.18This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners. This second edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating extensive new material emphasizing hands-on tools, worksheets, and guides... -
Time and Education: Time Pedagogy Against Oppression Dr Petra Mikulan 9781350334908
£29.35Despite pervading all aspects of educational practice and theory, little scholarship focuses on time in education. This book addresses that lacuna questioning our assumptions about time and their ramifications on theories of learning, issues of equity... -
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture Mel Stanfill 9781479824960
RRP: £23.99£20.84Highlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the “Unite the Right” rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist... -
How Schools Transform: Practices, Research and Actions that Change Schools Professor Michael Anderson 9781350293335
£84.35How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation. This book moves beyond the why of transformation to consider how it is achieved by a range of schools around the world. Each chapter showcases a school-based example of transformation... -
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Beatriz Lopez 9781350412132
RRP: £85.00£84.96This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international... -
Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing Marvin Krislov 9780691246765
RRP: £18.99£14.90How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities Scott Slovic 9781350304543
£40.09Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the... -
The Making of Teachers in the Age of Migration: Critical Perspectives on the Politics of Education for Refugees, Immigrants and Minorities Michelle Proyer 9781350244191
£29.35This open access book aims to unravel entrenched hegemonically-induced hindrances and barriers to internationally acquired teaching competencies' recognition processes. With curricula of teacher education – like school curricula – remaining highly... -
Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives Matthias Bauer 9781350436367
£80.04This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare’s death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the... -
Literacy in the Disciplines, Second Edition: A Teacher's Guide for Grades 5-12 Thomas DeVere Wolsey 9781462555307
£34.08This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents' development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines. Demonstrating why disciplinary literacies matter, the... -
Eliot Now Megan Quigley 9781350173927
RRP: £85.00£84.96Over a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available... -
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television Richard A. Hall 9798765130971
£30.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130971Author Richard A. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Medieval Manuscripts, Readers and Texts: Essays in Honour of Kathryn Kerby-Fulton Professor Misty Schieberle 9781914049286
£106.49Examines manuscripts of Langland, Chaucer, Gower, Nicholas Love and Arthurian tales, alongside other devotional works and archival evidence. Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's scholarship has transformed the study of medieval manuscripts and readers,... -
Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory Dr Helena Esser 9781350433908
£88.05Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay... -
The Social Semiotics of Populism Dr Sebastián Moreno Barreneche 9781350205437
£29.35The concept of ‘populism’ is currently used by scholars, the media and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. As a result, it defies neat... -
Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture Mel Stanfill 9781479824953
RRP: £74.00£64.45Highlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the “Unite the Right” rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist... -
Thinking through Writing: A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer and Thinker John Kaag 9780691249582
£21.74A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandem For college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are... -
The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism Alexander Sorenson 9781501777103
£27.59The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable,... -
Language, Culture, and Education in an Internationalizing University: Perspectives and Practices of Faculty, Students, and Staff Dr Kumari Beck 9781350211711
RRP: £90.00£89.88This book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the experiences of faculty, students, and staff at a Canadian university that emphasizes international education, providing an ethnographic lens for understanding globalization and internationalization of... -
Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile: 2021 Antonia Wimbush 9781835536933
RRP: £27.99£24.95Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world... -
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy Senior Lecturer Matthew Sangster 9781350350038
£30.89Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates how the historical, the mythological and the folkloric have served as inspiration for the fantastic in modern and popular culture of... -
Reach All Readers: Using the Science of Reading to Transform Your Literacy Instruction Anna Geiger 9781394205653
RRP: £24.99£16.78The essential guide to teaching literacy skills to K-3 students Reach All Readers is filled with practical tools for every kindergarten and early grade educator. This book addresses the science behind how students learn to read and how educators can... -
Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice and Tranquility Javier Aoiz 9781350346581
£29.35The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliché: the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities. However, this... -
The Little Horse Thorvald Steen 9781803094472
RRP: £16.99£13.88This creative, beautifully constructed novel reimagines the final days of this Icelandic hero, providing a wonderful new perspective on the politics and culture of the period. Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living... -
Holocaust Literature and Representation: Their Lives, Our Words Phyllis Lassner 9781501391637
£29.35Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work they do, but their personal story, their journey to becoming a specialist in Holocaust studies. What academic,... -
Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics: A Practical Guide Dr Marcello Giovanelli 9781350355453
RRP: £28.99£27.59Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the... -
The Opening Ritual G.C. Waldrep 9781961209145
RRP: £16.00£13.23The conclusion of G. C. Waldrep’s trilogy exploring chronic illness. In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should “healing” mean when it can’t ever mean... -
Early Modern Liveness: Mediating Presence in Text, Stage and Screen Danielle Rosvally 9781350318519
£29.35What does it mean for early modern theatre to be ‘live’? How have audiences over time experienced a sense of ‘liveness’? This collection extends discussions of liveness to works from the 16th and 17th centuries, both in their initial incarnations and... -
Language, Expressivity and Cognition Mikolaj Deckert 9781350332904
£29.35Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional ‘temperature’ of a variety of... -
Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde: Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities Rachel Fountain Eames 9781350299863
£29.35Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets – William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von... -
The Book of Facts and Trivia: Science Terri Schlichenmeyer 9781578598632
RRP: £42.99£35.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598632Author Terri SchlichenmeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
Light Everywhere: Selected Poems Cees Nooteboom 9781803094465
RRP: £14.99£12.85A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books. Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel writing; however, Nooteboom has always seen himself first and... -
Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States Michelle Ann Abate 9781978840683
£29.04What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine... -
Second Language Teacher Education: A Cognitive and Evidence-Based Perspective Professor Alessandro G. Benati 9781350438163
£75.12How do students acquire a second language? How can teachers most effectively teach a second language? How do students and teachers develop communication in the language classroom? This textbook is written specifically for a language teacher education... -
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood Leah Phillips 9781350194236
£29.35The heroic romance is one of the West’s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the... -
American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors Christopher Bigsby 9781350340527
£29.35In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In...