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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: £20.99£18.37Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America In this bestselling collection of essays... -
International Migration: A Very Short Introduction by Khalid Koser
RRP: £8.99£6.45In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today,... -
Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care by Nicholas Walliman 9781847870704
RRP: £28.99£23.34Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care provides a practical step-by-step guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the process of doing an undergraduate dissertation, equipping the reader with all the skills necessary to... -
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman Lindy West 9781784295547
RRP: £10.99£7.40*CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW*'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want... -
How Population Change Will Transform Our World by Sarah Harper 9780198783992
RRP: £11.99£8.43Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the... -
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach 9781786070890
RRP: £9.99£7.55A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize 'The most entertaining writer in science' - The Times, Books of the Year War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise,... -
InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing by Svend Brinkmann 9781452275727
RRP: £76.00£67.24The Third Edition of Brinkmann and Kvale's InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing, offers readers comprehensive and practical insight into the many factors that contribute to successful interviews. The book invites readers on... -
AQA A-level Geography Exam Question Practice Pack Hodder Education 9781510477117
£115.41Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Improve exam skills, check understanding and familiarise students with the types of questions they will face in AQA A-level Geography Exam Question... -
Super Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 Fresh as F*ck Designs by Julie Jackson
RRP: £12.99£11.17From the OG of the Subversive Cross Stitch movement (and brand of the same name) comes Super Subversive Cross Stitch. Featuring 50 easy-to-make designs-both brand-new patterns and fan favorites-stitched together with trademark wit. Don't freak out. Don't... -
Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba
RRP: £27.99£24.14This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns. For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in... -
Tokyo Geek's Guide: Manga, Anime, Gaming, Cosplay, Toys, Idols & More by Gianni Simone
RRP: £14.99£9.23Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's famous "geek" or otaku culture-a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe.This is the most comprehensive Japan travel guide ever produced which features Tokyo's geeky underworld. It provides a comprehensive run-down... -
The Art of Archer by Neal Holman 9780062484130
RRP: £18.99£14.31With a foreword by Christian Slater A fully illustrated and highly visual guide to everything Archer-from storyboards to character sketches to script excerpts-making it a collector's item for Archer fans everywhere, and featuring a foreword by Christian... -
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: £66.99£57.83An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's... -
Almost Adult by Charlotte Anne-Tilley 9781804470855
RRP: £7.99£6.69Hope's leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. It's going to be mind-blowing. Attractive Hinge dates, mature new friends... A job at a dinosaur-themed bar? Hell. Yes. Several months in things are looking slightly less rosy. Her... -
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy John Prebble 9781474616188
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone... -
The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes by Jalaloddin Rumi
RRP: £60.00£53.30Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's... -
How Did Life End Up With Us? by S S O'Connor
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why does the gene behave like a hedge fund manager? Why are mutations like a gambling scam? Why does nothing ever become top dog in life and win forever? Humans only arrived after 99.99% of the time there's been life on earth. So what was here... -
Ice Cream: A Global History by Laura B. Weiss
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Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green 9781846273315
RRP: £12.99£8.56Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In... -
The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today by Kat Banyard
RRP: £10.99£7.32In The Equality Illusion, 'the most influential young feminist in the country' (Guardian) and UK Feminista founder Kat Banyard argues passionately and articulately that feminism continues to be one of the most urgent and relevant social justice campaigns... -
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781265
RRP: £18.00£12.45Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his... -
Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigation by Dr. Adam Hart
RRP: £38.99£31.87This book is a lucid and practical guide to understanding the core skills and issues involved in the criminal investigation process. Drawing on multiple disciplines and perspectives, the book promotes a critical awareness and practical comprehension... -
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney
RRP: £22.00£17.36The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the... -
The Sexual Contract Carole Pateman (University of California at Los Angeles(UCLA)) 9780745604329
RRP: £18.99£16.87Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only... -
Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Laura Vanderkam is one of the world's leading experts in time management and productivity . . . her insights in Off the Clock can change your life' - Dorie Clark, author of Stand Out'Laura Vanderkam delivers a compelling and evidence-based argument that... -
The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade by A. E. Rooks
RRP: £25.00£16.99**Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022**A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.Initially a slaving... -
Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human by Samantha Frost
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of... -
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 1: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews by Leon Poliakov
RRP: £31.00£27.76Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly... -
Trickster by Sam Michaels
RRP: £7.99£6.25'Sam Michaels is an exciting new author and Trickster is a must-read! Captivating and fast-paced, this first book in the Georgina Garrett series is a real page-turner that I highly recommend' Sunday Times bestselling author, Kitty Neale. Georgina... -
Fermented Foods: The History and Science of a Microbiological Wonder by Christine Baumgarthuber 9781789143751
RRP: £18.00£12.96Fermented Foods serves up the history and science behind some of the world's most enduring food and drink. It begins with wine, beer and other heady brews before going on to explore the often whimsical histories of fermented breads, dairy, vegetables and... -
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy: Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice Roy Moodley 9781583918500
RRP: £39.99£32.77What is multicultural psychotherapy?How do we integrate issues of gender, class and sexual orientation in multicultural psychotherapy?Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and... -
What is Environmental History? by J. Donald Hughes 9780745688435
RRP: £16.99£15.22What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student... -
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England by Barbara A. Hanawalt 9780195045642
RRP: £15.99£12.39Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the... -
The Bounded Field: Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley by Jaro Stacul 9781571814630
RRP: £99.00£80.47Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary Western Europe, yet why the region, instead of the nation-state, is appealed to in certain areas as a compelling formulation of selfhood remains largely unexplored. Drawing on ethnographic... -
Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder by Lindsay Schofield
RRP: £13.99£12.76Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad things, in the house that they all share.Accompanied by... -
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342864
RRP: £16.99£11.54'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' REDI have lived in disaster and... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00£18.96In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire by Coll Thrush
RRP: £30.00£29.65An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries"Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for...