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Lunch with the Financial Times has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The column is now as well-established institution which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005767Author Andy CrouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain,...

In 2005 a Vatican-run university opened its doors to priests from around the world, running a course for would-be exorcists. Looking for a story, Rome-based investigative journalist Matt Baglio attended the class, and there met Father Gary Thomas -- a...

'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593422618Author Alden WickerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425188559Author Big Jon FreethyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

* Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet * Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170151Author Richard FairfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process MediaWeight(grams) 471g

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids. 'Goth' did not gain lexical currency until the late 1980s. But no matter what term was used, 'postpunk'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893230Author Charles FregerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612439037Author Hilda BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838271954Author Andy MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Pointy BooksPublisher Pointy BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308100Author Theodore DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830782Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

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This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put...

Originating from the Latin for deity or goddess, our concept of what a 'diva' might be - or should be - has evolved in richness and complexity. Delving into the personas of performers from Sarah Bernhardt to Rihanna, this book looks at what it has meant...

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer's day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity,...

A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool. From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces,...

From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television-but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762474202Author SanrioFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Running Press AdultPublisher Running Press AdultWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 161mm...

Cuba is a land of contradictions that is easy to enjoy but difficult for first-time visitors to decipher. The largest island in the Caribbean, it is a tropical paradise that Christopher Columbus called "the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever...

"I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer. And you are?"A prestige show that was ahead of its time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer brought vampires back into the mainstream and made stars of its cast, and its impact has lasted long after the show's end. With its unique...

The crop circles which appear in British fields on short summer nights have quickly become the most famous works of modern art on Earth. Perfectly conceived, priceless and expertly crafted by artists unknown, the formations are an environmental triumph -...

Brace yourself, Frankie's back, and he's more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever. There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and...

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned...

Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today. In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we've all become so disrespectful...

From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations. George MacDonald Fraser has been a newspaperman, soldier, novelist...

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735668994Author Mike RickseckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Haunted Road Media, LLCPublisher Haunted Road Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

Cleopatra. Nefertiti. Hatshepsut. All of them are ancient Egyptian female rulers who rose above their predominantly patriarchal societies to become controllers of a great empire. Missing from this list, however, is Sobekneferu, ancient Egypt's first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680831Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint RadixPublisher Radix

'One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times' The QuietusLong-listed for the Polari First Book PrizeIn 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an...

Dress [with] Sense is the perfect guide for fashion lovers of all ages keen to embrace a more ethical and environment-friendly approach to their wardrobes that is also economical, stylish and practical. This timely book is organized into four chapters -...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022______________________________________________________________________________________'an explicitly inclusive, thoughtful, joyful read' - REFINERY 29'This "love letter of sorts" to inclusive queer women's...

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545297Author Martin ErwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat...