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Bilateral Ecopolitics: Continuity and Change in Canadian-American Environmental Relations by Philipee le Prestre 9780754641773
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The context in which environmental policy decision-making occurs has changed, resulting from widening environmental problems, increased demands from groups and citizens, continuing pressure on the... -
John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography by Professor Stewart R. Craggs 9780859679411
RRP: £145.99Booksplease Price: £128.38John Ireland (1879-1962) was one of the leading composers of the English Musical Renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. Born of literary parents in... -
Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony by Nonso Okafo 9780754647843
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Drawing on data from a cross-section of postcolonial nations across the world and on a detailed case-study of Nigeria, this book examines the experience of recreating law and justice in postcolonial... -
Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. II.- Edited Title: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. - Edited Sub Title by 9781409413134
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £73.69Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Documents of c. 1533. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1872.Book InformationISBN... -
The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 1306-1462 Anthony Luttrell 9780860787969
Booksplease Price: £54.59This fourth collection of Dr Luttrell's studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain... -
Religion in the Public Space: Volume III by Professor Silvio Ferrari
Booksplease Price: £91.48Religion in the public sphere is one of the most debated issues in the field of law and religion. This volume brings together articles which address some of the more prominent recent cases relating... -
The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939 by Dr. Karen E. Brown 9780754666448
Booksplease Price: £46.79Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between members of the Yeats family circle contributed to the... -
Open Government in a Theoretical and Practical Context by Michael H. Hunt 9780754646426
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Combining a stimulating blend of academic authority and senior practitioner experience, this book tackles the principle of openness to official documentation and information flow. It covers important... -
The Power of the Stranger: Structures and Dynamics in Social Intervention - A Theoretical Framework by Gert J. F. Leene 9780754670629
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The decline of the welfare state in Western Europe has led to an increasing role both for citizen-led initiatives and for philanthropy in easing, solving or preventing social problems. Care and... -
Francs et Orientaux dans le monde des croisades by Jean Richard
Booksplease Price: £108.42This latest volume by Jean Richard is concerned with the evolution of the crusading movement and with the interaction between crusaders and indigenous peoples of the Near East. The articles look at... -
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800 by John Gascoigne
Booksplease Price: £54.29This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of... -
Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order by Professor James Muldoon
Booksplease Price: £54.29The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that... -
Venetian Music in the Age of Vivaldi by Michael Talbot
Booksplease Price: £54.59This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical... -
Law and Religion by Gad Barzilai 9781840147575
Booksplease Price: £17.03This volume consists of nineteen previously-published articles written by leading international scholars on various aspects of law and religion. The volume looks at law and religion in the context of... -
Universities, Medicine and Science in the Medieval West by Vern L. Bullough 9780860789437
Booksplease Price: £107.61The papers collected here first of all reflect Vern Bullough's concern to examine how knowledge was transmitted from one generation to the next and the impact this had on new developments in medicine... -
Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 4 by Professor Lee Cullen Khanna
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £91.48This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century. They also proved themselves nimble survivors... -
Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century by Pauline Stafford 9780860789949
Booksplease Price: £108.42This collection of studies by Pauline Stafford brings together a series of essays on Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England. Virtually all focus on political life, and with the highest levels of... -
Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World: The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis by Francis A. Dutra
Booksplease Price: £54.59During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services... -
Elizabeth and Mary Tudor: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 5 by Ms. Anne Lake Prescott
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The two translators whose printed works are contained in this volume were the daughters of Henry VIII. Whilst they both suffered from their father's changes of wives and faiths, after his marriage in... -
Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 12 by Elaine V. Beilin
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £91.48As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated... -
Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal by Nehemia Levtzion 9780860789888
Booksplease Price: £108.42This second volume of studies by the late Nehemia Levtzion pursues the themes covered in his previous collection, Islam in West Africa; it also maintains a particular interest in the history of... -
Jane Owen: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 9 by Dr Dorothy L. Latz
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Few facts are known about Catholic recusant Jane Owen. The title page of this, her only work, tells us that in 1634 when this volume was published at St Omer, she was already deceased. However, she... -
Mother's Advice Books: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 8 by Dr. Betty S. Travitsky
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £91.48Early modern works of advice can be typified by a number of texts by Erasmus falling into a variety of categories: advice on family conduct; manners; study plans and piety. A close relation to these... -
Eleanor Davies: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 3 by Teresa Feroli
Booksplease Price: £46.49Little is known of the upbringing of Lady Eleanor Davies, what is known is that her life was mired in both flamboyant personal conflict and in the notoriety of the Castlehaven scandal (resulting in... -
Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin): Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 7 Donald Cheney 9781840142204
Booksplease Price: £46.49This volume contains the work of the only two Renaissance Englishwomen known to have published collections (as opposed to compilations) of their Latin poetry. Elizabeth Jane Weston lived in Prague... -
Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca by Thomas W. Blomquist
Booksplease Price: £108.12This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they... -
The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 1: Ancient Voices by Dr Alexandra Bounia
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to... -
The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 4: Contemporary Voices by Paul Martin
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to... -
Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography by J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz
Booksplease Price: £108.42The essays in this second collection of articles by Professor Liebeschuetz deal with several aspects of the history of Late Antiquity. One theme is the prehistory of Late Antique ethical monotheism,... -
Guilds, Markets and Work Regulations in Italy, 16th-19th Centuries Alberto Guenzi 9781840142839
Booksplease Price: £59.86The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century... -
The Three Estates: A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice by Professor Nigel Mace
Booksplease Price: £59.56This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay's masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political theatre, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in Commendatioun of Vertew and... -
Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics by J. L. Mancha 9780860789963
Booksplease Price: £108.42In this selection of studies, J.L. Mancha explores aspects of the development of medieval optics and astronomy, including some medieval antecedents of the work of early modern astronomers. The... -
The Assertive Social Worker Patricia McBride 9781857424218
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Would you like to feel more in control of yourself and your work? To cope comfortably with any demands the day throws at you? Deal easily with situations without guilt or worry? If so, this is the... -
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action by Donald A. Schon
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.99A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning - to show how professionals really go about... -
Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume III, Nos 7-11: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages by N. F. Blake
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Authors of the Middle Ages is a series designed for research and reference. The aim is to combine, in one compact work, a biography of a medieval author with all the information needed for further... -
British Electoral Facts 1832-2006 Colin Rallings 9780754627128
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The seventh edition of this unique and authoritative guide to more than 170 years of political history reflects the rapid and continuing change in the electoral landscape of the United Kingdom... -
The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800: Studies in Economic, Social and Cultural History by M. N. Pearson
Booksplease Price: £108.42The articles in The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 describe the activities of people living on the coasts of the Indian Ocean, generously defined, during the early modern period. Most are... -
Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root: Translation and Commentary F. C. White 9781859726563
Booksplease Price: £46.49Schopenhauer's Early Fourfold Root constitutes a landmark in Schopenhaurian scholarship. It is a translation with concise commentary of Schopenhauer's doctoral thesis as submitted to the University... -
Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture by Michael St.John
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various... -
Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten Graham Johnson 9780754638728
Booksplease Price: £73.15This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the...