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A Digest of Hindu Law, on Contracts and Successions: With a Commentary by Jagannatha Tercapanchanana by Jagannatha Tercapanchanana 9781108056267
Booksplease Price: £47.58An honorary professor of Sanskrit and Hindu law at Fort William College in Calcutta, and a key figure in the foundation of the Royal Asiatic Society, Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) became... -
The Lives of Father Joseph Anchieta, of the Society of Jesus: the Ven. Alvera von Virmundt, Religious of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Ven. John Berchmans, of the Society of Jesus by Sebastiano Berettari 9781108033763
Booksplease Price: £37.44This book first appeared in 1849, during the renaissance of English Catholicism that followed the 1829 Relief Act. It contains three anonymous translations of early modern biographies. The first,... -
Person and Value: Karol Wojtyla's Personalistic and Normative Theory of Man, Morality, and Love by Grzegorz Ignatik 9781793641052
Booksplease Price: £86.43Person and Value: Karol Wojtyla's Personalistic and Normative Theory of Man, Morality, and Love discusses the central themes of Karol Wojtyla's personalistic teaching in a concise yet comprehensive... -
The "Architect" by David Greig 9780413707703
Booksplease Price: £14.45"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) The Architect charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose... -
The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999 by Lory Hawkes 9780313312243
Booksplease Price: £66.89Virtual texts have emerged within the realm of the Internet as the predominant means of global communication. As both technological and cultural artifacts, they embody and challenge cultural... -
A Poetics of Dissensus: Confronting Violence in Contemporary Prose Writing from the North of Ireland by Fiona McCann 9783034309790
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.46Twenty years after the peace process began in the North of Ireland, many thorny political issues remain unresolved. One of the most significant questions involves the means by which acts of violence... -
Queering Agatha Christie: Revisiting the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by James Bernthal 9783319335322
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction... -
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 by Anna Johnston 9780521826990
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and... -
Critical Notes on Philostratus’ ›Life of Apollonius of Tyana‹ by Gerard Boter 9783111243658
RRP: £123.50Booksplease Price: £79.79The long felt absence of a trustworthy critical edition of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana has been remedied by the publication of the new Teubner edition of this text, published in 2022... -
Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe: The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology Hynek Jeřábek 9781032680064
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.53This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European post-war... -
Introductory Psychology by R. B. Burns 9780852004913
Booksplease Price: £47.08The last few years have seen a growth in the number of psychology courses which are being offered as single subject or combined studies options in universities, polytechnics and colleges of higher... -
Care Ethics in yet a Different Voice: Francophone Contributions by S. Bourgault 9789042940833
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £77.30This edited volume offers translations of important texts published by francophone care ethics scholars since the early 2000s. The anthology hopes to give readers a glimpse of the diversity of... -
Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th Alexander Tzonis 9781138616646
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born,... -
Manual de fonetica e fonologia da lingua portuguesa by Willis C. Fails 9780367179915
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.17The most complete and up-to-date text published on Portuguese phonetics and phonology, including topics which are missing from most Portuguese phonetics texts Includes a meaningful introduction to... -
Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540: Visions of a Nation in Decline by Peter Hess 9783111357492
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.43A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic... -
And the Robot Went by Michelle Robinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.16Starting with a box of parts, the Nosy Fox, the Bear in a Blazer, the Blue Gnu, and other remarkable builders assemble the Robot, step by step. Each stage of the process has its own sound effect, and... -
In Land: Writings around Land Art and its Legacies Ben Tufnell 9781789040500
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An attempt to melt an iceberg with a blowtorch, an indoor lake of tequila, an ascent of Mt Everest, driftwood burnt with sunlight focused through a magnifying glass and a doorbell that emits the... -
Calculus, Global Edition William Briggs 9781292062327
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £66.44For a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course covering single variable and multivariable calculus for mathematics, engineering, and science majors. This much anticipated second edition of... -
Two Anglo-Indian Cookery Books by Sandford Arnot 9781108055635
Booksplease Price: £22.68A product of Britain's long political and commercial involvement in India, Anglo-Indian cuisine has since become firmly embedded in British culinary life: curries, kedgeree and chutneys have taken... -
Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540: Visions of a Nation in Decline by Peter Hess 9783110674620
RRP: £111.50Booksplease Price: £103.01A critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic... -
Kant and Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Contexts, Influences and Controversies by Andree Hahmann 9783110793727
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £80.10The purpose of this anthology is to bring together in one volume some of the texts published in the series "Werkprofile", which focus on Kant's relationship to his philosophical contemporaries and... -
The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds by John Ingamells 9780300087338
Booksplease Price: £30.73Sir Joshua Reynolds could never have anticipated an edition of his letters; he once told Boswell that "If I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a... -
Leadership and Management for HR Professionals Keith Porter 9780750667944
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £59.74This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the... -
History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965 by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745630120
Booksplease Price: £61.35Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors... -
Kant and Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Contexts, Influences and Controversies by Andree Hahmann 9783112214213
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.43The purpose of this anthology is to bring together in one volume some of the texts published in the series "Werkprofile", which focus on Kant's relationship to his philosophical contemporaries and... -
Writing Underground: Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia by Martin Machovec
Booksplease Price: £15.82In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground... -
Lina Bo Bardi: The Theory of Architectural Practice by Cathrine Veikos 9780415689137
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80The architect, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), has long been considered one of the major modern architects of the twentieth century in Brazil. Her iconic Museum of Art of Sao Paulo (1968), and the bold,... -
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya by Ian Graham 9780806134505
Booksplease Price: £33.26In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya... -
Essays in History & Philosophy of Science by Roger Ariew 9780872203082
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.76Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays-including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis"-that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new... -
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes by Begona Simal-Gonzalez 9783030356170
Booksplease Price: £75.80Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century... -
The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Booksplease Price: £24.64This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928-29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930-31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936... -
Advanced Techniques of Population Analysis by Shivalingappa S. Halli 9780306439971
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although I feel honored to write a foreword for this important book, it is a task that I approach with some trepidation. The topics covered in the book summarize the current state of the art in... -
Eccentricity and Sameness: Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s-1930s by Charlotte Ross 9783034318204
RRP: £60.70Booksplease Price: £54.28Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives... -
The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokai University, Japan by Richard Jasnow
RRP: £46.50Booksplease Price: £45.71This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time. The texts represent an interesting range of document types, a range of demotic handwriting, and include a... -
Ethics In Action – A Case–Based Approach by P Connolly 9781405170987
RRP: £91.95Booksplease Price: £85.51Through the analysis of forty ethical dilemmas drawn from real-life situations, Ethics in Action guides the reader through a process of moral deliberation that leads to the resolution of a variety of... -
Easy as ?: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics by Oleg Ivanov 9780387985213
Booksplease Price: £46.74The present book is rare, even unique of its kind, at least among mathematics texts published in Russian. You have before you neither a textbook nor a monograph, although these selected chapters from... -
Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument by Troy Paddock
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to... -
Critical Edition of Robert Barnes's a Supplication Vnto the Most Gracyous Prince Kynge Henry the. VIIJ. 1534 by Douglas Parker 9780802093127
RRP: £131.00Booksplease Price: £107.35Robert Barnes (1495-1540) was perhaps the most important sixteenth-century English Protestant reformer after William Tyndale. The shifting religious and political views of Henry VIII positioned... -
Knowledge Generation and Protection: Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development by Jorge Mario Martinez-Piva 9781441912633
Booksplease Price: £91.36This book is the English version of the text published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in April 2008 and entitled Generacion y proteccion del conocimiento: propiedad... -
The Berlin Phenomenology: Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by M. J. Petry 9789027712080
Booksplease Price: £90.56Since the three volume edition ofHegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit (1978, 19792) has been so well received, I have been encouraged to select that part of it most suitable for teaching purposes,...