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Privatizing War: A Moral Theory by William Feldman 9781138803954
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war.It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors... -
Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630 by Rosemary Horrox 9780521650601
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02This collection of essays was presented to Barrie Dobson in celebration of his 70th birthday. It will be welcomed by all scholars of pre-modern religion and society. Spanning the artificial divide... -
Reformation Reputations: The Power of the Individual in English Reformation History by David J. Crankshaw 9783030554361
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England's complex sixteenth-century reformations. While many historians study broad themes, such as religious moderation, this volume is... -
The Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangement and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley and Clarke by Karoly Pinter 9780786440368
Booksplease Price: £25.57Since the early rise of the novel, utopian stories have held the public imagination. This critical text argues that though these books may appear to be social statements or ideological propaganda,... -
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Stanley Wells
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.54The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents... -
Renaissance Papers 2023 James M Pearce 9781640141872
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period. The... -
The Tudors: Thy Will be Done: Series Three Companion by Michael Hirst 9781439101391
Booksplease Price: £13.26This new novelization will cover the third season of THE TUDORS, which will follow the king as he weds third queen Jane Seymour (played by Anita Briem) and then Anne of Cleves . The new SHOWTIME... -
Chilling Crime Short Stories Margaret Murphy 9781839647680
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A powerful collection of chilling crime with new, modern stories and classic tales reaching back into ancient, medieval, Elizabethan and Victorian fiction: from Oedipus Rex and Thomas More's story of... -
The Renaissance Conscience by Professor Harald E. Braun 9781444335668
RRP: £20.75Booksplease Price: £20.18This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period. Represents one... -
Renewing the Mind: A Reader in the Philosophy of Catholic Education by Don J. Briel 9780813227313
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66No other living tradition has been thinking about thinking longer than the Catholic Church. With carefully selected readings from classical, patristic, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources,... -
The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory by Daniel J Kapust 9780299330101
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Cicero is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western political thought, and interest in his work has been undergoing a renaissance in recent years. The Ciceronian Tradition in... -
Sustainable Leadership Andy Hargreaves (Boston College; University of Toronto) 9780787968380
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original... -
Writing the Thames Christina Hardyment 9781851244508
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story... -
Intersections of Religion and Astronomy by Aaron Ricker 9780367618339
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which... -
A Country Merchant, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages by Christopher Dyer 9780198715986
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.12Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by Gregory Claeys 9780521714143
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical... -
The New Politics of Western Canada: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures Charles Smith 9780774871983
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The Canadian West: an economic engine with a history of grievance against federal power emanating from the east. The New Politics of Western Canada grapples with the West's complex, multifaceted past... -
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781108820066
Booksplease Price: £36.75Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
Liberty in France and Britain, 1159–1789: Restoring Human Rights Sir Michael Tugendhat 9781837653294
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £110.72Documents the influence Britain and France had on the ideas of liberty and human rights from the twelfth century to the French Revolution. This book innovatively challenges the widely held... -
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781107029293
Booksplease Price: £106.48Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
The Flower of All Cities: The History of London from Earliest Times to the Great Fire by Robert Wynn Jones 9781398112414
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The history of London up to 1666 is a story of Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors and Stuarts. Of a city that grew from ancient origins to become 'the flower of all cities', until... -
The Principles of Art by R. G. Collingwood 9780195002096
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £19.78This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill,... -
Worlds that Could Not Be: Utopia in Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah by Frauke Uhlenbruch 9780567684561
Booksplease Price: £37.81The idea of Utopia was first made current and popular by Sir Thomas More with the publication of his book by the same name in 1516. The 'no-place' that was created has had a fantastic reception... -
The A to Z of Utopianism by James M. Morris 9780810868199
Booksplease Price: £52.00This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present. The text not only covers... -
Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck by Nicolas McAfee 9781666945621
Booksplease Price: £86.43Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck assesses the four last plays of Shakespeare's First Folio-"Cymbeline," "The Tempest," "Henry VIII," and "The Winter's Tale"-providing... -
Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes: Professional Ideals and Classroom Practices by Karen Hammerness 9780807746837
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80What sources of inspiration help sustain teachers' commitments, motivations, and care for their work? How do teachers use their ideals to inform their practice and their learning? The author proposes... -
Reassessing Tudor Humanism by J. Woolfson 9781349429561
Booksplease Price: £91.55This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education,... -
The Utopia Reader, Second Edition by Gregory Claeys 9781479864652
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £71.17The Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias. Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing... -
What Do Catholics Believe? by Leonie Caldecott 9781847080035
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.46The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination and the largest organized body of any world religion. Well over a billion people - or over one-sixth of the world's population -... -
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by Gregory Claeys 9780521886659
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £81.13Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical... -
Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect Peter Viereck 9780765808066
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.82The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of the... -
Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect by Peter Viereck 9781138540002
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £85.50The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of the... -
Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction by Frank Sanello 9780878332687
Booksplease Price: £17.20All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book profiles sixty movies that portray... -
Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain by Andrew Gordon 9780521803779
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56Mapping has become a key term in current critical discourse, describing a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world, of synthesising cultural and geographical information, and of... -
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory by John Cimprich 9780807139189
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.94At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors... -
Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating the Boundaries of the Dramatic Canon by Peter Kirwan 9781107479982
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part to William Shakespeare, yet most are rarely read, performed or discussed. This book,... -
President Trump: Parody by Tom Connor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Against all odds, the Donald doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon. In fact, Trump's chances of continuing to lead the Republican field remain strong with each passing week, and it's scary as... -
Teaching Mysteries: Foundations of Spiritual Pedagogy by Clifford Mayes 9780761829508
Booksplease Price: £40.79By carefully examining a handful of great exemplars of teaching from various spiritual traditions and cultural contexts, this book breaks new ground in helping both prospective and practicing... -
Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed by Peter Eardley 9780826498809
Booksplease Price: £24.92Thomas Aquinas is the most widely read and arguably most influential of the medieval philosophers. He is famous for his impressive and coherent synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology... -
Christian Goddess Spirituality: Enchanting Christianity by Mary Ann Beavis 9780367597795
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's...