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Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first... -
Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand by Brian Curtin
Booksplease Price: £54.52Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin shows how Thai artists negotiated their emergence on the global... -
Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.23Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser... -
Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon by Anna Harris
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this... -
Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20A critical biography of Rene Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Rene Descartes' contributions to... -
Slums: The History of a Global Injustice by Alan Mayne
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.05More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenched disadvantage. These neighbourhoods, known as... -
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition by Alberto A. Martinez
Booksplease Price: £42.50In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually... -
Lizard Boria Sax 9781780238289
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Lizards stimulate the human imagination, despite generally being small, soundless and hidden from sight in burrows, treetops or crevices. They can blend into a vast range of environments, from rocky... -
Jellyfish Peter Williams 9781789142150
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Jellyfish are, like the mythical Medusa, both beautiful and potentially dangerous. Found from pole to tropic, these mesmeric creatures form an important part of the sea's plankton and vary in size... -
The Invention of Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully... -
Astray: A History of Wandering by Eluned Summers-Bremner
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning, as intimately involved in the history of our... -
Birch Anna Lewington 9781789140118
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Elegant and beautiful, rich in history and supremely useful, birches have played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and... -
What Is Time?: An Enquiry by Truls Wyller
Booksplease Price: £13.54We refer to time constantly and we measure its passing - but do we know what it actually is? In What Is Time?, Truls Wyller enquires into time's complex nature, juxtaposing the latest scientific... -
Byron by David Ellis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85In this new book, David Ellis traces Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen to the crumbling splendours of Newstead Abbey and then on to his grand tour of the East. Describing his exile from... -
Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Now available in paperback, this is the first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun's art and life. It both recounts her life and analyses her complex writings and images, making... -
The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.09This book is the first modern history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, it explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks and artists understood and... -
Geranium by Kasia Boddy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Reaktion's new 'Botanical' series is the first of its kind, integrating horticultural and botanical writing with a broader account of the cultural and social impact of plants. In that sense, the... -
Sausage: A Global History by Gary Allen
Booksplease Price: £23.30Our ancestors have enjoyed sausages for thousands of years, even though they've been the butt of jokes for nearly as long. While we often think of sausages as being made only of pork, they've been... -
Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie 9781861893437
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in... -
When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium by Alison Green 9781780239330
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.18An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists... -
Lion by Deirdre Jackson 9781861896551
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.52Majestic, noble, brave lions, with their tawny coats and luminous eyes, have inspired countless stories, traditions and beliefs. Whether we are seduced by their beauty or drawn to danger, we want to... -
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Peter Coates 9781789147704
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.68Squirrel Nation is a history of Britain's two species of squirrel over the past two hundred years. The red squirrel, although rare, is among the most cherished of native species. Grey squirrels, by... -
Carnivorous Plants by Dan Torre 9781789147780
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.45Carnivorous plants are a unique group, possessing modified leaves to trap, kill and consume small creatures. As a result they are often depicted as killers in films and literature, yet some regard... -
Sloth by Alan Rauch 9781789147995
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Sloths are perhaps the most recognized and loved Central and South American animals, but despite their renown and popularity as cartoon characters, toys and memes, they are not well understood. This... -
Cactus Dan Torre 9781780237220
Booksplease Price: £19.47Cacti are full of contradictions. Although they can be found in some of the harshest, driest and most barren environments on earth, some are delicate tropical plants that grow high among the branches... -
Hippopotamus by Edgar Williams 9781780237329
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.94Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to... -
Zebra by Christopher Plumb 9781780239354
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen: zebras mean many things to many people. The extraordinary beauty of their striped coats makes them one of the world's most... -
Carl Jung by Paul Bishop 9781780232676
Booksplease Price: £20.63Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of... -
James Watt: Making the World Anew by Ben Russell 9781780233758
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Among the many treasures in the collections of the Science Museum in London is the complete workshop of the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819), acquired in its entirety from the attic of Watt's... -
In Defense of Processed Food by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo 9781789147674
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Taking in turn a scientific, feminist, economic and public-health perspective, this book gleefully demolishes much of the received wisdom surrounding processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues... -
Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser by Nicholas Attfield 9781789147063
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.73This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential 'grunge' bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in... -
The End: Artists' Late and Last Works by Carel Blotkamp 9781789141313
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54When is a work of art finished? Can it be complete in a mental sense? And who decides? In this highly original and wide-ranging study, Carel Blotkamp explores the concept and manifestations of 'the... -
Dining Out: A Global History of Restaurants Elliott Shore 9781789140576
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.13A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venues for a range of human experiences. From banquets in... -
Goldfish by Anna-Marie Roos 9781789141351
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artefact. A creature of supposedly little memory and short... -
Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin 9781789141993
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life... -
Film Music by Peter Larsen 9781861893413
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.72Film and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film music?... -
Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York City by Michele H. Bogart 9781780239224
Booksplease Price: £28.07Public sculpture is a big draw in today's cities. Nowhere is this more the case than in New York, where urban art has become synonymous with the municipal `brand', highlighting the metropolis as... -
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History by Ian J. Bickerton 9781861895271
Booksplease Price: £28.23Though more than sixty years have passed since the signing of the proclamation of the State of Israel, the impact of that epochal event continues to shape the political policies and public opinion of... -
The Anatomy of Riches: Sir Robert Paston's Treasure by Spike Bucklow 9781780239798
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one family's long rise from rags to riches, and their rapid reversal of fortune. It focuses on the life of Sir Robert Paston, who experienced the family's... -
Judenmord: Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany by Kathrin Hoffman-Curtius 9781780239071
Booksplease Price: £57.40In remembering the murder of the Jews during the period of National Socialism in Germany, the contribution made by artists in the first twenty years after the end of the war has been largely ignored...