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Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity by Duncan Sayer 9781526135568
RRP: £30.00£27.08This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book... -
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. Reinert
RRP: £14.99£10.20How Rich Countries Got Rich is a narrative history of modern economic development from the Italian Renaissance to the present day. In it Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism,... -
The Art of Fantasy: A visual sourcebook of all that is unreal by S. Elizabeth 9780711279957
RRP: £22.00£14.96This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: £23.99£20.84This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Carl Rogers' Helping System: Journey & Substance by Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard 9780761956778
RRP: £51.00£45.02`This book is a monumental achievement, and person-centred practitioners will be indebted to Goff Barrett-Lennard for many years to come. He has written no only a definitive study of the history of person-centred approach - what he calls a report of the... -
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona
£46.39Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively... -
Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £18.99£13.61John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative... -
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts 9780141986746
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but feel it deeply' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeTalented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker 9781788163101
RRP: £14.99£10.95*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our... -
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past. by Robert Bevan
RRP: £20.00£16.83The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No... -
Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards by Helene Jawhara Piner
RRP: £24.99£23.47In this extraordinary cookbook, chef and scholar Helene Jawhara-Piner combines rich culinary history and Jewish heritage to serve up over fifty culturally significant recipes. Steeped in the history of the Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spain) and their... -
Silchester Revealed: The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva by Michael Fulford
RRP: £16.99£16.12With its apparently complete town plan, revealed by the Society of Antiquaries of London's great excavation project, 1890-1909, Silchester is one of the best known towns in Roman Britain and the Roman world more widely. Since the 1970s excavations by... -
The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining by Christel Lane 9780198758358
£29.58After many decades, if not centuries, of neglect of fine food and high-level restaurants in Britain, we are seeing a massive explosion of interest in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane's book charts the process of this transformation and... -
Are Ye Dancin'?: The Story of Scotland's Dance Halls - And How Yer Dad Met Yer Ma! by Martin Kielty 9781849340458
RRP: £9.99£7.11Are Ye Dancin'? - The first-ever inside story of how Scotland's ballrooms and dance halls remained a central part of Scottish culture throughout the 20th Century. Told by the people who made it happen, the agents, managers and promoters. Eddie Tobin is... -
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster
RRP: £14.95£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672181Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman
RRP: £19.99£17.54In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman... -
Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé 9780367600778
RRP: £39.99£34.22Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as 'fat-phobia'. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and... -
Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Expose of Big Tech Censorship by Zach Vorhies
RRP: £18.99£12.27A Story of Big Tech Censorship and Bias and the Fight to Save Our Country The madness of Google's attempt to mold our reality into a version dictated by their corporate values has never been portrayed better than in this chilling account by Google... -
Birdsong by Madeleine Floyd
RRP: £9.99£6.64Beautiful bird illustrations by Madeleine FloydDetails of the wonderful songs and sounds of our birdsA celebration of our feathered creatures and their songs for all bird lovers A celebration of British birds and their songs, from the sought-after... -
Comanches: The History of a People by T. R. Fehrenbach
RRP: £14.99£10.95Authoritative and immediate, this is a brilliant account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a... -
The Power of Knitting: Stitching Together Our Lives in a Fractured World by Loretta Napoleoni
RRP: £18.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593087190Author Loretta NapoleoniFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
Life After Life: The bestselling classic on near-death experience by Dr. Raymond Moody
RRP: £14.99£10.95'This book will enlighten many and confirm what we have been taught for two thousand years - that there is life after death' Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We cannot fully understand this life until we catch a glimpse of what lies beyond it In this landmark... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679785897
RRP: £12.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679785897Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 9781944751340
RRP: £15.99£11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Gail Carriger LLCPublisher Gail Carriger LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: £14.99£10.17The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound... -
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development by David Harvey
£12.30Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces... -
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
RRP: £16.99£12.18'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: £14.99£10.95This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes 9780393355468
RRP: £14.99£12.47Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students. Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of... -
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews 9781788701341
RRP: £18.99£7.47'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation... -
Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt
RRP: £20.99£18.77In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community. At the heart of Campt's study are two... -
The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350576Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah 9780521376310
RRP: £19.99£16.07Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion... -
Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind by Lord Colin Renfrew
RRP: £9.99£6.80A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the... -
Medieval Costume and How to Recreate it by Dorothy Hartley 9780486429854
RRP: £10.99£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486429854Author Dorothy HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack
RRP: £14.99£10.20Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an... -
Disenfranchised Grief: Examining Social, Cultural, and Relational Impacts by Renee Blocker Turner 9781032268903
RRP: £29.99£27.04Disenfranchised Grief expands the professional helper's understanding of the grief experiences that result from social, cultural, and relational oppression, microaggressions, disempowerment, and overt violence. The authors blend trauma-informed practice... -
The Knife Went In: A Prison-Doctor on Britain's Dark Side by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: £10.99£8.94First paperback edition of the acclaimed Hardback.Reviews`The blackest of black humour... the best of humanity.' `Pellucid prose.' Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail; `A razor-sharp expose of our broken society... Both funny and a badly needed corrective to... -
Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment by Stephanie Seneff 9781603589291
RRP: £19.99£13.75Named a 'Best Book of the Year' by Kirkus Reviews 'Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm.' - The Boston Globe From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world's most commonly used...