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Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history. Yet much of the film's backstory was set in Britain, where the original trilogy was made and where early...

Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR - Spin - USA Today - CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post - VEVO -...

With nearly sixty percent of Americans initially against a pre-emptive war without sanction from the United Nations, and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations of the world, the 2003 war against Iraq quickly became an enormous public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735320151Author HimselfFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 27gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446540827Author Belle De JourFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970. Their new style of music was loud, brutal, scary, innovative, and it has greatly influenced heavy metal bands since then. Their five decades of...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is...

Stuart Walker's design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and...

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 9781946182258Author Sara SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Sara SchmidtPublisher Sara SchmidtWeight(grams) 1256gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 30mm

A clever illustrated ode to the breakout star of Scooby-Doo, exploring the life lessons this iconic nerd girl teaches us and why we should all aim to be the Velma of our friend groupFrom the moment Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered in 1969 and through...

The book that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech. 'We are currently living in a moment of extreme pessimism about data. This book will change your mind.' Almost everything we do generates...

This welcome second edition of a classic text brings together six essays from the original edition with two co-authored pieces and a lively new introduction and concluding chapter that considers the changes over the last twenty years impacting on young...

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western nation's obsession with the past. Today, in the age of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486467627Author R.Turner WilcoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

Throughout theatrical history, almost every element in stage production has been recycled. Indeed any regular theatergoer is familiar with the experience of a performance that conjures the ghosts of previous productions. The Haunted Stage explores this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788894205619Author Roberto GemoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint TattootribesPublisher TattootribesWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993191152Author Damon MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint FUEL PublishingPublisher FUEL PublishingWeight(grams) 550g

In recent years, millions of TV viewers have devoured images of the law. Amy Fisher, O.J. Simpson, Rodney King and JonBenet Ramsey have become household names. To meet popular demand we have a cable channel devoted to trials and police dramas 24 hours a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZEONE OF WIRED's NON-FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWe spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human...

Elvis Presley's stature as the "King of Rock and Roll" will never be challenged. Between his first RCA hit single in 1956-the number-one smash "Heartbreak Hotel"-and his death in 1977, Elvis amassed more than 100 hits on the music charts. Presley's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921012Author William HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Sacred Stories PublishingPublisher Sacred Stories PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012532Author Nick PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

"Much more than a page-turner. It's the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade." -Charles Kaiser, The Guardian The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486263236Author C. W. CunningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684873053Author LEE STAN & MAIR GEORGEPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s -...

When most people think of anime, they think of large-eyed adolescents fighting fearsome monsters (kaiju). On the surface, Neon Genesis Evangelion is just the same, filled with destructive explosions and gigantic EVA missiles that can only be piloted by...

Jeff Howe coined the word 'Crowdsourcing' in a 2006 article for Wired magazine to describe the way in which the Internet has broken down traditional employer/employee relationships to create vibrant new enterprises that are 'staffed' by informal, often...

The intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting expose on the lives of the women of Ambridge. In this new book, the Archers Academics are joined by former The...

Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a...

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene's story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life. This is the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241424Author Catherine PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

1. This volume brings together original scholarship on comics that are potentially not receiving the scholarly attention they deserve due to their lack of English translation or that have been studied in scholarship unavailable to an Anglophone audience...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040265Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and...