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Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage: 2019 by John Schott 9781911193593
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.35Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual' journey to explore difference and change on their way to an... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $18.38This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the... -
Body Space Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743772
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.51When it was first published in 1990, 'Body Space Image' was acclaimed as the first book of its kind - a remarkable guide to improvisation, using a narrative of discovery that "set the mind loose from... -
The Silversnake Project by Phil Smith 9781913743833
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.51As our relationship with the world around us becomes more fragile and unpredictable, more paraded and more desperate, the role of ecogothic literature is to give voice to some of the growing fears... -
Transformative Innovation in Education: a Playbook for Pragmatic Visionaries by Graham Leicester 9781909470101
Booksplease Price: $17.35In 2009, the first edition of Transformative Innovation set out a blueprint for educational reform in Scotland. This second edition incorporates the results and practical experience of introducing... -
Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century by Maureen O'Hara 9781911193678
Booksplease Price: $17.35In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the... -
the garden of equal delights: the practice and principles of forest gardening by Anni Kelsey 9781911193746
Booksplease Price: $20.45Forest gardens are much in the news as an exemplary form of resilient, sustainable, small-scale agriculture and plenty has been written about them already. But little has been written about the role... -
The Future of the Mind: The New Mind's Eye by Jack Huber 9781909470071
Booksplease Price: $27.98Our lives are increasingly spent online. Work, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtual. Google Glass is next. How are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our... -
Windows Kiss the Shadows of the Passing Thirty Million by Robert Golden 9781909470897
Booksplease Price: $10.62This dramatic poem evokes the collective struggle of the dispossessed and victimised to find a home and place of safety, and to bring about a fairer, better and more enlightened world. While the... -
Ecolonomy: Doing Business and Manufacturing Differently by Emmanuel Druon 9781909470866
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.55"It makes better economic sense to do business ecologically!" So says Emmanuel Druon, the successful businessman and 'green' visionary. For the last 20 years, Druon has been practising what he... -
Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth: From Embryology to Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice by Linda Hartley 9781913743994
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $25.81In 'Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth', Linda Hartley brings together the wisdom and learning from nearly five decades of study, practice and teaching at the forefront of somatic movement, embodied... -
Spaces for Growth: learning our way out of a crisis Graham Leicester 9781913743468
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913743468Author Graham LeicesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Being with Others: Curses, spells and scintillations by Nelisha Wickremasinghe
Booksplease Price: $20.45Many of our significant relationships are based not on trust, respect and growth but on an unconscious compulsion to deny our own problems, flaws and fears. We see the consequences at home and at... -
TNT The New Theatre: lessons, techniques and ideas for making new theatre for a changing world from the most widely travelled theatre that ever packed a bag: 2020 by Paul Stebbings
Booksplease Price: $37.42From a first-hand account of working with Jerzy Grotowski to an analysis of the art of writing for the stage; from the hazards of touring in the Emirates to the dramas of touring behind the Iron... -
Memories by Russell L. Ackoff 9780956537973
Booksplease Price: $22.51For the late Russell Ackoff, the important principles and qualities on which his work was based - clear-sightedness, looking at the bigger picture, working backwards to dissolve problems, radicalism... -
The Pilgrimage of Piltdown Man by Mike O'Leary 9781911193579
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $12.10This is the pilgrimage of a knitted-together Piltdown Man from the South Downs to Cornwall and Brittany. Mike O’Leary is a professional storyteller and his post-fairy tale knits together the... -
On Walking: - And Stalking Sebald by Phil Smith 9781909470309
Booksplease Price: $22.51"A sensitive walk up any High Street is a Pilgrim's Progress" Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist and author (Mythogeography and Counter-Tourism) - recently retraced W.G. Sebald's famous... -
Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in This World by Sarah Whatley 9781909470637
Booksplease Price: $38.69This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July,... -
How to be feral: Movement practices to re-wild your body Claire Loussouarn 9781913743918
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $20.45In 'How to be feral', Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our... -
Context, Context, Context: How Our Blindness to Context Cripples Even the Smartest Organizations by Barry Oshry
Booksplease Price: $20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911193289Author Barry OshryFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.80This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put... -
When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination by Miranda Tufnell 9781913743758
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.80Celebrated dance artist and body therapist Miranda Tufnell takes us on a moving and inspiring exploration of the field of dance and health. For 14 years she worked in a GP surgery in Cumbria and the... -
Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal 9781913743819
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.54Now back in print... This groundbreaking handbook (first published in 2015 by Oberon and now needed more than ever in the face of multiple unfolding crises) is a resource for artists, community... -
The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective by William Tate 9780955768170
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $35.91Most organizations - public, private and third sector - know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. Experience tells us that even... -
Ways to Wander the Gallery: 2018 by Clare Qualmann 9781911193517
Booksplease Price: $18.8925 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. The book asks you to reconsider your walked... -
walk write (repeat) by Sonia Overall 9781913743185
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.25This is a manual for creative writers, but the approaches and exercises can readily be adapted by practitioners working in other media. All of the exercises included here have been foot-tested. Use... -
Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice by Manny Emslie 9781913743291
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.49Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), created by Joan Skinner, is a somatic movement, dance and creative practice with a core underlying principle of releasing blocked energy, held tension and habitual... -
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka 9781913743260
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $28.44Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability',... -
Terminalian Drift by Jerry Gordon 9781913743406
Booksplease Price: $26.56"Water only knows how to flow. It never ceases. Even glaciers thousands of years old are not a stilling of water. A chilling, but not a stilling. The city is likewise, imposing its own flows of seep... -
The Wisdom of Not-Knowing by Bob Chisholm 9781909470910
Booksplease Price: $21.88"We often find that the state of not-knowing can be a precursor to moments of rich discovery which possess a dynamic, transformative power that exceeds any prior expectation." From the Introduction... -
A Sardine Street Box of Tricks by Crab Man 9781908009579
Booksplease Price: $19.25A Sardine Street Box of Tricks is a handbook for anyone who wants to make their own 'mis-guided' tour or walk. Written by 'Crab Man' and 'Signpost' (Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti - both members of... -
Suomenlinna Gropius: Two Contemplations on Body, Movement and Materiality by 9781913743246
Booksplease Price: $30.96How can we dance here - so the aliveness of everything past and present can surface and shimmer? Paula Kramer's beautiful, evocative and touching 'contemplations' take us on a double journey... -
Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual Emergency by Graham Leicester 9780955768163
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.40If the idea of a conceptual emergency was wacky and original when it was taken up in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $13.45This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the... -
Strategic Foresight by Patricia Lustig
Booksplease Price: $22.51This is a book is for leaders, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change - it's a very practical (field) guide to foresight and foresight tools. It's aimed at leaders in... -
A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination by Miranda Tufnell; Chris Crickmay
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.38This is a handbook for working in the creative arts, with an emphasis on imagination and receptivity: to our bodies, surroundings, materials, and to what we create. It puts particular emphasis upon... -
Walking's New Movement by Phil Smith
Booksplease Price: $24.81Among other things, Phil Smith proposes: * An unravelling of psychogeography from its early roots, assessing its contribution to the state of the walking arts, and looking forwards/around to what... -
People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies by Margrit Kennedy 9781908009760
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.77Three authors with decades of experience have teamed up to provide an up-to-date, state-of-the art field guide to the emerging movement of regional currencies. People Money describes a global... -
Clay in Common: A project book for schools, museums, galleries, libraries and artists and clay activists everywhere: 2018 by Julia Rowntree 9781911193425
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.77"Hooray for clay! Projects that put clay and ceramics centre stage are invaluable - be it in architecture, public sculpture, cups and saucers on your breakfast table, passing on an understanding of... -
A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson 9781913743796
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.38Gregory Bateson died in 1980, but his work grows more and more relevant each year. In his wide-ranging, penetrating thought he illuminated many dimensions of human interaction and of our connection...