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The Price of Eyes: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 4 Janet McGiffin 9781910895825
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The fourth book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. In the final book, Irini returns to the throne. She tricks Constantine into divorcing... -
The Look of the Book: Manuscript Production in Shiraz, 1303-1452 by Elaine Wright 9780295991917
RRP: £73.95Booksplease Price: £71.09The Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of... -
Children's Games in Street and Playground: Volume 2: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending by Iona Opie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against... -
The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640: Volume II: Works in English, with Addenda & Corrigenda to Volume I by A. F. Allison
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This is an annotated bibliography of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England at a time when Catholic printing was prohibited in England and such books, when discovered by the... -
Oxford: The Last Hurrah Dafydd Jones 9781788840712
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38"I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject that had been written about and dramatised but I don't think any photographers had ever tackled before. There was a change going on... -
Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England by Myra Seaman 9781526167187
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61... -
Mythology Land: 12 classic legends reimagined Claire Cock-Starkey 9780711294059
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Explore the magical worlds of myth and fable with Mythology Land, and open the gates to the stories and adventures of cultures from all over the world. Mythology Land is a collection of expertly... -
Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years by Robin Wilson 9780198869030
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £90.60The Savilian Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford University were founded in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, distinguished scholar and Warden of Merton College. The Geometry chair, in... -
Lollard Sermons by Gloria Cigman 9780197222966
Booksplease Price: £54.39These Lollard sermons are edited from British Library MS Additional 41321; Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson c.751; Manchester, John Rylands Library MS 412; with introductory sections: I. The... -
The Principles of History: And Other Writings in Philosophy of History by R. G. Collingwood 9780199243150
Booksplease Price: £71.76Published here for the first time in paperback is much of a final and long-anticipated work on philosophy of history by the renowned Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood... -
Lore of the Land: Folklore & Wisdom from the Wild Earth: Volume 2 Claire Cock-Starkey 9780711269828
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Unearth the secrets of our natural world with The Lore of the Land, a richly illustrated compendium of folklore and wisdom from the land, skies and seas. From thundering rivers to shady groves,... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.04She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of... -
The Faithful Virgins: Volume 104 by E. Polwhele 9781649590978
Booksplease Price: £36.05The first-ever print edition of a play by one of the first women playwrights in England. E. Polwhele (c. 1651-c. 1691) was one of the first women to write for the stage in Restoration London. This... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2: 1939-1991 by Edward Acton 9780859895828
Booksplease Price: £40.21Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the... -
Apocalypse Postponed: The Real Truth About the End of the World by Paul Mcgrane 9781739392642
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Apocalypse Postponed is the third volume in a three-book series called A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible DismantledIn his latest groundbreaking book of biblical deconstruction, Dr Paul McGrane... -
Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians by Robertson 9780081027295
RRP: £61.95Booksplease Price: £56.66Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their... -
Book Art Object 2 by Peter Rutledge Koch 9780911221503
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £40.82The most ambitious and diverse survey of the book arts published to date, Book Art Object 2 serves as a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, "The Fate of the Art," held in... -
Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990 Tal Zalmanovich 9780197774786
Booksplease Price: £66.73From the early days of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, activists collaborated with artists, musicians, and entertainers, strategically using celebrity and popular culture to amplify... -
Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice: Ruzante and the Empire at Center Stage Linda L. Carroll 9780367140489
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian... -
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell 9781471169342
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of... -
Oxford Double Veronica Stallwood 9780747268451
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and Edward Foster who are... -
Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire by Michael Heaney 9781784915285
Booksplease Price: £31.83Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University's... -
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Helena Hamerow 9780198878520
Booksplease Price: £118.38This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected... -
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The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman 9780747596448 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.44_______________ 'A hugely enjoyable novel ... fast moving, complex and deeply satisfying' - Joanne Harris 'Lie back on your ottoman and relax. Katie Hickman will take you to a magical land ..... -
Encoding Across Frontiers: Proceedings of the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC), Pa by Bill Stockting
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Discover the history, development, and use of EAD, EAC, and EAGEncoding Across Frontiers is a careful selection of the finest presentations from the European Conference on Encoded Archival... -
One and Everything Sam Winston 9781529509298
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.02From Sam Winston, the co-creator of the Bologna Ragazzi award-winning A Child of Books, comes a thought-provoking celebration of the power of stories and written languages, and the imperative to... -
The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe by Piet van Boxel 9780192898906
Booksplease Price: £117.42This collection of essays treats a topic that has scarcely been approached in the literature on Hebrew and Hebraism in the early modern period. In the seventeenth century, Christians, especially... -
Lore of the Stars: Folklore and Wisdom from the Skies Above by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780711282018
Booksplease Price: £18.08Look up at the skies in wonder with this mystically illustrated treasury of folklore from above and beyond. Did you know that people used to read the future in the flight of birds? That the... -
The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640: Volume I: Works in Languages other than English by A. F. Allison
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98In 1956 Allison and Rogers published A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad Secretly in England, 1558-1640. Known simply as A & R, it is the standard listing of the clandestine... -
The Art of the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008601423
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.80A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit. ... -
Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition by Henry Daniel 9781487506018
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £56.61Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete edition. Working in the late 1370s, Daniel... -
The Poems of Shelley: Volume Six: 1822 Carlene Adamson 9781032326993
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of... -
Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery by John Schad
Booksplease Price: £114.18Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier,... -
New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe by Erin Connelly 9781784918835
Booksplease Price: £30.55The majority of papers in this volume were originally presented at the eighth annual 'Disease, Disability, and Medicine in Medieval Europe' conference. The conference focused on infections, chronic... -
Ancestral Tales by Paul McGrane 9781739392604
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Christianity is based on the texts that make up the New Testament, but it has its roots in the books of the Jewish Old Testament which are also included in Christian Bibles. The stories of Adam and... -
The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 9780198892793
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c.1822-6)three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the... -
Rebellion by Joseph Roth
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with... -
Putting Library Assessment Data to Work Selena Killick 9781783302208
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.98Effective library assessment is crucial for a successful academic library. But what do we mean by library assessment and how can it be used to improve the library service? This new book provides a... -
Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery by John Schad 9781845190316
Booksplease Price: £28.51Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier,...