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The University of Exeter: A History by B.W. Clapp 9780859891332
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College... -
The City on the Hill: A Life of the University of Exeter by 9780993371301
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.39In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. Its development over the the subsequent six decades is the subject of this... -
Capital Formation in South-West England by Walter Minchinton 9780859890380
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.06The formation of capital has long been a key element underpinning British economic history. This brief but perspicacious volume contains four papers: an economist’s view on capital formation (Jeffrey... -
West Country Maritime and Social History: Some Essays by Stephen Fisher 9780859891219
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.06In the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the maritime and social histories of the South-West of England were inextricably linked. The chapters in this volume cover important... -
Population and Marketing: Two Studies in the History of the South-West by Walter Minchinton 9780859890359
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.06This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing. Individual... -
Cornish Mines: Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom, 1845-1913 by Roger Burt 9780859892872
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £84.11This is the seventh volume in a continuing series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining... -
Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement by Mick Gidley 9780859893510
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £16.53The Shakers were a celibate, mystical and communitarian sect led by Mother Ann Lee of Manchester, which flourished in the United States from the 1770s to the end of the nineteenth century. Their... -
First Portuguese Colonial Empire by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.10The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century... -
Poetics Of The Pretext: Reading Lautréamont by Roland-François Lack
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and promoted to the vanguard of theoretical debate by the... -
Phalante by Jean Galaut
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study,... -
Satyres Nouvelles by Jean Benech de Cantenac
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.65Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac (Bordeauz 1630?-1714) was notorious in his own time but has only recently... -
King Arthur's Death by Larry D. Benson 9780859892674
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthur with those of the aspirations of militant... -
The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9780859898638
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £31.04This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literary primary sources for the study of the Battle of... -
Judith Mark Griffith (University of Oxford, New College (United Kingdom)) 9780859895682
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.75Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem JUDITH the most stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the past thirty years it has attracted a wide range of... -
Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players by Amanda Wrigley 9780859898447
Booksplease Price: £119.01Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford. Amanda Wrigley traces enduring connections between antiquity and dramatic... -
The Seafarer by Ida Gordon 9780859895071
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79Edition, with contextual introduction, notes, glossary and bibliography, of the poem from the Exeter Book.Book InformationISBN 9780859895071Author Ida GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint... -
Exploiting the Sea: Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870 by Professor David J. Starkey 9780859895330
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.93Exploiting the Sea offers new perspectives on Britain's vital but changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth century. It assesses the significance to the British economy of... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1: 1917-1940 by Edward Acton 9780859895811
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.59This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and... -
La Soeur by B. Kite 9780859893985
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.86La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph... -
Faction And Faith: Politics and Religion of the Cornish Gentry before the Civil War by Anne Duffin 9780859894357
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.65The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. In Faction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national... -
Last Years of Austria-Hungary: A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe by Mark Cornwall 9780859895637
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.93The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that... -
The Poems of William Dunbar by J. Kinsley 9780859893299
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.12A selection of some fifty of Dunbar's poems, with introduction, notes, glossary, and six pages of "appreciations" ranging from John Pinkerton's (1786) to C.S. Lewis (1954). The notes to this edition... -
Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations by Clive Scott 9780859897709
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £106.81Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of... -
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Lasse R. Gammelgaard 9781905816378
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.35Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, and, conversely, psychologists and psychiatrists like Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have been interested... -
Better Words: Evaluating EFL Dictionaries by Gabriele Stein 9780859897198
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.97Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues and problems. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL... -
Maps And History In South-West England by Katherine Barker 9780859893732
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which... -
Negotiating Justice: A New Constitution for South Africa by Mervyn Bennun 9780859894593
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Between February 1990 when the South African president, F.W. De Klerk, released Nelson Mandela from prison and legalised the ANC, and April 1994 when the first democratic elections were held, South... -
Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Reader by Helen P. Fry 9780859895019
Booksplease Price: £31.04Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian writers, providing an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. The book includes key... -
Cornwall: A History: Revised and updated edition by Philip Payton 9780859890274
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing upon a... -
Cornish Studies Volume 1 by Philip Payton 9780859894135
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54The first volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.Book InformationISBN 9780859894135Author... -
Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage by Sara Soncini 9780859899932
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet... -
Julian Of Norwich's A Revelation Of Love (revised) by Marion Glasscoe 9780859894203
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79Edition with glossary: Informed by a combination of luminous spiritual insight and the integrity of common sense, this account of Julian's visionary experience is one of the most remarkable texts of... -
English Poetry Before Chaucer by Michael Swanton 9780859896337
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.21A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to... -
Piers Plowman: An Introduction: Second, revised edition by James Simpson 9780859898034
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54This book provides an accessible, concise and intellectually stimulating introduction and guide to one of the richest, most challenging poems of pre-Reformation English. New to the... -
Roman Political Life, 90BC-AD69 by T. P. Wiseman 9780859892254
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.16Essays designed to illuminate the nature of politics at the end of the late Republic and during the first dynasty of the Principate.About the AuthorPeter Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman... -
The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's 'Great Emigration' by Philip Payton 9781905816101
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.35In this fully revised and up-dated edition of The Cornish Overseas, Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first... -
Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest by Anne Etienne 9781804130513
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in... -
Selections from Layamon's Brut by G. L. Brook 9780859891394
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79Edition with notes, glossary and an introductory essay by C. S. Lewis.Book InformationISBN 9780859891394Author G. L. BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher... -
Communication Across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Professor Basil Hatim 9781905816316
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and... -
World War Two Simulated: Digital Games and Reconfigurations of the Past by Curtis D. Carbonell 9781804130605
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89This book examines how World War Two is simulated through serious computer games, such as first-person shooters, flight and tank simulators, and grand strategy games. It argues that a particular...