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The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris by Colin A. Jones 9780198715818
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £22.52You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different... -
The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris by Colin A. Jones
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £14.74You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different... -
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 by Colin A. Jones 9780521021883
Booksplease Price: £35.47This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and the effect of the... -
Routledge Companion to Real Estate Development Graham Squires (Senior Lecturer in Planning; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham) 9781032096582
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Real estate development shapes the way people live and work, playing a crucial role in determining our built environment. Around the world, real estate development reflects both universal human needs... -
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 20 by Ian W. Archer 9781107008687
Booksplease Price: £48.26The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians... -
French Revolutionary Lives David A. Bell 9783031605215
Booksplease Price: £119.16Historians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current... -
Introduction to Soil Mechanics Bela Bodo (BSc BA MICE - retired geotechnical engineer) 9780470659434
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £39.61INTRODUCTION TO SOIL MECHANICS Introduction to Soil Mechanics covers the basic principles of soil mechanics, illustrating why the properties of soil are important, the techniques used to understand... -
The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment by J.B. Shank
Booksplease Price: £70.85Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton's science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like "Newtonianism" are... -
Satire, Prints and Theatricality in the French Revolution by Claire Trevien 9780729411875
Booksplease Price: £97.93The Revolutionary era was a period of radical change in France that dissolved traditional boundaries of privilege, and a time when creative experimentation flourished. As performance and theatrical... -
Crisis, Absolutism, Revolution: Europe and the World, 1648-1789 by Raymond Birn 9781551115610
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.60Birn's exceptionally well-written narrative covers the century and a half that preceded the French Revolution. The first section, "An Age of Crisis and Discovery (1648-1715)," treats the period... -
The Imagined Empire: Ballon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe by Mi Gyung Kim 9780822944652
Booksplease Price: £63.56The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris-a... -
Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light James H. Johnson 9780226836461
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.52A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Masks can conceal, disguise, or protect. They can guard status, inspire delight, or spread fear. They can... -
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment by Dr Mark Curran 9781350250833
Booksplease Price: £34.47This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the... -
Historicizing the French Revolution: The Two Hundred Years’ War by Antonino De Francesco 9781350186903
Booksplease Price: £31.52This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as... -
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment by Mark Curran 9781441178909
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the... -
The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium by Kathleen Kete 9780226835464
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Benedict de Saussure (1740-99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the... -
How to Develop Entrepreneurial Graduates, Ideas and Ventures: Designing an Imaginative Entrepreneurship Program by Kath Penaluna 9781035322077
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.18Charged with developing learning, teaching and assessment practices that go beyond delivering discipline-specific subject knowledge, the demands on entrepreneurial educators have increased in recent... -
How to Develop Entrepreneurial Graduates, Ideas and Ventures: Designing an Imaginative Entrepreneurship Program Kath Penaluna 9781789909012
Booksplease Price: £91.11Charged with developing learning, teaching and assessment practices that go beyond delivering discipline-specific subject knowledge, the demands on entrepreneurial educators have increased in recent... -
Rewriting the French Revolution: The Andrew Browning Lectures 1989 by Colin Lucas 9780198219767
Booksplease Price: £66.22The French Revolution continues to generate historical controversy. During the last thirty years, consensus on its meaning has disappeared. Scholarship and debate constantly reinterpret both the... -
Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution by Allan Potofsky 9781137264343
Booksplease Price: £91.57Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which... -
How to Become an Entrepreneurial Teacher: Being Innovative, Leading Change by James Davis 9781032259284
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Driving a shift in the way we think about entrepreneurial and teacher education, this book invites teachers to think and act as entrepreneurial innovators and lead meaningful change in everyday... -
Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution by Allan Potofsky 9780230574717
Booksplease Price: £91.57Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which... -
The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium Kathleen Kete 9780226835488
Booksplease Price: £26.68A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Benedict de Saussure (1740-99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the... -
Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 by M. Jenner 9780230506435
Booksplease Price: £112.12What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the... -
Overcoming Hoarding: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques Satwant Singh 9781472120052
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Hoarding is a condition where a person has a tendency to collect and save things excessively and has difficulty in getting rid of items. This results in a cluttered living space and often causes... -
Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century Rebecca Anne Barr 9781526127051
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed... -
The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals by Laura Mason
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic's defeat "Very much a book for our times. Mason's retelling of the... -
The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment by Liana Vardi 9781107681408
Booksplease Price: £45.31Physiocrats believed that wealth came exclusively from the land, that nature was fecund and man could harness its reproductive forces. Capital investments in agriculture and hard work would create... -
Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century by Rebecca Anne Barr 9781526147967
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed... -
Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter by Roberta E. Bivins 9780230525498
Booksplease Price: £91.90Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter... -
Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson
Booksplease Price: £35.12A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which... -
Real Estate Investment: Theory and Practice by Colin A. Jones
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £66.58This textbook, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate real estate programmes, provides an overview of real estate investment and pricing in a global context with special attention to the... -
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror Keith Michael Baker 9780226820927
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution-Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93)... -
Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Ashli White
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals "By excavating the power of... -
The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies by Professor Gary Kates 9781350277649
Booksplease Price: £85.65In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to... -
A History of the Wind by A Corbin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Everyone knows the wind's touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne... -
The Sun King at Sea - Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Meredith Martin 9781606067307
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France's King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Yet most studies of French art in this... -
Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette by John Hardman
Booksplease Price: £30.43A major new biography of Antoine Barnave-the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in... -
Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe J. Andrew Mendelsohn 9781032090580
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out... -
The Formation of the Parisian Bourgeoisie, 1690-1830 by David Garrioch 9780674309371
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £59.26Despite their importance during the French Revolution, the Paris middle classes are little known. This book focuses on the family organization and the political role of the Paris commercial middle...