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Reassembling the Social Interior: Historical Spaces from Contemporary Viewpoints by Helen McCormack 9781526176912
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $87.65At the intersection of heritage, design history and contemporary art, this book offers new perspectives on the way historical interiors are encountered by, and viewed and presented for, present-day... -
Embodied Protests: Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia by Maria Tapias 9780252039171
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $94.47Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted... -
Free Will, Responsibility, and Crime: An Introduction by Ken M. Levy 9780815369660
RRP: $45.55Booksplease Price: $44.07In his book, philosopher and law professor Ken Levy explains why he agrees with most people, but not with most other philosophers, about free will and responsibility. Most people believe that we have... -
Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century by Brent Cebul 9780226596327
Booksplease Price: $42.04American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No... -
The Question of Linguistic Idealism by Richard Gaskin 9780192872654
RRP: $132.66Booksplease Price: $121.40The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and... -
The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature by Evgeny Dobrenko 9780804728546
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $74.10In Soviet culture, the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the aesthetic doctrine at the heart of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be... -
Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century by Richard Helmstadter 9780804730877
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $78.26The subject of religious liberty in the nineteenth century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager, to name only a few... -
The Mozart Week of the German Reich: Nazi Propaganda and Franco-German Relations in 1941 by Dr Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis 9781648251085
RRP: $113.90Booksplease Price: $109.55A piercing investigation showing how a glittering Mozart music festival in 1941 Vienna became a powerful instrument of Nazi propaganda in both annexed Austria and occupied France. Vienna,... -
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now by Mindy N. Besaw 9781682260807
RRP: $58.96Booksplease Price: $49.85Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opening this October, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by... -
The Hellenistic Peloponnese: Interstate Relations: A Narrative and Analytic History, 371-146 BC by Ioanna Kralli 9781910589601
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $104.37Existing treatments of Peloponnesian history are fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 BC,... -
The Pocket Universal Principles of Interior Design: 100 Ways to Develop Innovative Ideas, Enhance Usability, and Design Effective Solutions by Kelly Harris Smith 9780760388051
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24This pocket-size version of Universal Principles of Interior Design features the concepts and guidelines included in the original version in a handy, take-along size. Master the art of interior... -
The Historical Method of Herodotus by Donald Lateiner 9780802076847
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $32.15Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture... -
Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value - New Edition by Michael Thompson 9780745399799
RRP: $113.90Booksplease Price: $88.51Rubbish is something we ignore. By definition we discard it, from our lives and our minds, and it remains outside the concerns of conventional economics. However, this book explores the dynamics... -
The Maya by Michael D Coe
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the... -
Buddhist Psychology by Caroline Brazier
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Western therapeutic approaches have often put considerable emphasis on building self-esteem and enhancing a positive sense of self. This book challenges the assumption behind this approach. Most of... -
Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.77'Engagingly written and scrupulously researched' ObserverAn UPDATED EDITION of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday__________Bob Dylan was the... -
Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.71From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line, & Sinker comes 'a sparkling romcom that will have readers hooked' (Publishers Weekly).The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having... -
The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour by Clint McElroy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.70The Bureau of Balance has located yet another Grand Relic, and this time it's . . . time? A small mining town called Refuge has been locked away behind an arcane bubble, and somewhere inside it the... -
Spelling & Vocabulary Workbook Age 9-11 Susan Elkin 9781471829642
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $13.24Solid and rigorous practice material in spelling and vocabulary for Year 6 children to work on throughout the year, and in preparation for pre-tests and 11 Plus Common Entrance exams. Give pupils the... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are... -
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.67Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67'An indispensable work of reference' Times Literary SupplementThe Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory is firmly established as a key work of reference in the complex and varied... -
Total I Ching: Myths for Change Stephen Karcher 9780749939809
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The I Ching (pronounced ee-ching) is the oldest and most respected oracle or divinatory system in the world. There are currently two translations available which offer somewhat conflicting... -
This Is Planet Earth: Your Ultimate Guide to the World We Call Home by New Scientist
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.20The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang... -
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde 9781472136770
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since... -
Performance by Colin MacCabe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.66Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the... -
It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and The 21st-Century Soul Revolution Jessica Lipsky 9781911036739
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $13.79Soul is the most powerful expression of American music -- a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together for your dancing pleasure. But if you thought the... -
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Twenty-seven-year-old Josey is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season; she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle; and sweets are best eaten in the privacy... -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover Graham Boynton 9781250274991
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $26.12He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he... -
Tank Girl: Colour Classics Trilogy (1988-1995) Boxed Set by Jamie Hewlett
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $42.08The definitive anthology of Tank Girl, collecting the classic, newly colored stories from original creators Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett! Includes three exclusive art! All three volumes of the... -
Galaxy S5 - The Missing Manual Preston Gralla 9781491904534
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Get the most out of Samsung's Galaxy S5 smartphone right from the start. With clear instructions from technology expert Preston Gralla, this Missing Manual gives you a guided tour of Samsung's new... -
Myths to Live by by Joseph Campbell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Joseph Campbell was the world's greatest authority on myth, his monumental four-volume The Masks of God is a definitive work on the subject, and in Myths to Live By he explores how these enduring... -
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Frederic Wehrey
Booksplease Price: $20.58The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war,... -
The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900 by Dominic Bradbury
Booksplease Price: $47.37The Iconic House features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. International in scope and wide-ranging in style, the houses share a remarkable... -
A Brummie in the Family: Family and Local History in Birmingham by Vanessa Morgan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Family history is one of the most popular hobbies of recent years, with many looking into their roots and finding out about their past. In this book you will learn how to find dates and events in... -
The Badger: Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won each of the Grand Tours on more than one occasion. Hinault is... -
Why the Universe Exists by New Scientist
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in... -
Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances by Susan Wittig
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic...