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Studies in Medievalism XXVII - Authenticity, Medievalism, Music by Karl Fugelso
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Essays tackling the difficult but essential question of how medievalism studies should look at the issue of what is and what is not "authentic". Given the impossibility of completely recovering... -
Studies in Medievalism VII - Medievalism in England II by Leslie J. Workman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Twelve essays discuss how the middle ages are reflected in English culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom,... -
Symphony No. 4 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193404748
Booksplease Price: £25.76Described by Walton as the 'greatest symphony since Beethoven', Vaughan Williams's fourth symphony was composed in 1935 and is noted for its abrasively dissonant harmonic language, unlike much of the... -
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Philip Brett
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was... -
Symphony No. 4 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193519671
RRP: £99.25Booksplease Price: £94.37Described by Walton as the 'greatest symphony since Beethoven', Vaughan Williams's fourth symphony was composed in 1935 and is noted for its abrasively dissonant harmonic language, unlike much of the... -
Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Myrddin John Lewis
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and... -
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin M. Frazier Wood
Booksplease Price: £96.41"A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the... -
Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.43The Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the LSO and was written for the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet... -
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7) by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193385887
RRP: £29.75Booksplease Price: £29.45for soprano solo, SSA chorus, and full orchestra This new edition of Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 7, the Sinfonia Antartica, has been prepared by David Matthews with support from the Vaughan... -
Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193386754
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.66The Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the LSO and was written for the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet... -
An Introduction to the Theory of Higher-Dimensional Quasiconformal Mappings by Frederick W. Gehring 9780821843604
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £107.23This book offers a modern, up-to-date introduction to quasiconformal mappings from an explicitly geometric perspective, emphasizing both the extensive developments in mapping theory during the past... -
The Gospel according to Matthew: A Commentary by Matthias Konradt
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £47.60Perhaps the most important discovery in the long history of research on the Gospel of Matthew is that the book represents a self-contained literary whole as it participates in a vibrant intertextual... -
Encounters with British Composers Andrew Palmer (Royalty Account) 9781783270705
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54This book features interviews with leading and upcoming British composers who use the same raw materials but produce classical music that takes very different forms. Uniquely, Andrew Palmer... -
Narrative Exchanges by Ian Reid 9781138801028
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93First published in 1992, Narrative Exchanges shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined to deal with the complexities of narrative fiction. Going beyond the two-way structure... -
Narrative Exchanges by Ian Reid
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68First published in 1992, Narrative Exchanges shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined to deal with the complexities of narrative fiction. Going beyond the two-way structure... -
The Hero's Body by William Giraldi 9780857301086
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Hero's Body is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with... -
Medievalism - Key Critical Terms by Elizabeth Emery 9781843844556
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural... -
Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope by Jonathan Del Mar
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.12A must-have for any conductor, conducting student and orchestral librarian. How does a conductor know whether the score they use is what the composer wrote? How do orchestral players know that... -
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life by Todd Dufresne
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... -
English in the Middle Ages by Tim William Machan 9780199282128
RRP: £49.49Booksplease Price: £43.40"Professor Machan explores for the first time fully a new dimension in the understanding of the role of the English language in medieval England. He is rigorous and sceptical in his examination of... -
Electronically Stored Information: The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval, Second Edition by David R. Matthews 9780367658489
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Although we live in an era in which we are surrounded by an ever-deepening fog of data, few of us truly understand how the data are created, where data are stored, or how to retrieve or destroy... -
Julian of Norwich's Legacy: Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception by Sarah Salih 9780230606678
Booksplease Price: £90.56Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of... -
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life by Todd Dufresne 9781107178724
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.11Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... -
Electronically Stored Information: The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval, Second Edition by David R. Matthews
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £73.99Although we live in an era in which we are surrounded by an ever-deepening fog of data, few of us truly understand how the data are created, where data are stored, or how to retrieve or destroy... -
Julian of Norwich's Legacy: Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception by Sara Salih 9781349374038
Booksplease Price: £90.56Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of... -
Charles Munch by D. Kern Holoman 9780199772704
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £39.38A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for his electrifying public performances. He was a pioneer in many arenas of classical music--establishing Berlioz in the canon,... -
Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siecle by Joseph Horowitz 9780520267442
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45Joseph Horowitz writes in "Moral Fire": "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly... -
Leon Kirchner - Composer, Performer, and Teacher by Robert Riggs
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), exploring his work and important personal associations. In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and... -
Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson – A Centenary Celebration by Thomas Hyde 9781838326913
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05This volume marks the centenary of British composer Stephen Dodgson (1924-2013), whose long, distinguished and multi-faceted career produced many highly distinctive works in a voice that could be... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364347
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world - how can we adjust to this new reality and what lessons can we learn from the past? In this urgently relevant... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364323
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £8.44From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly... -
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.63Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time-classics such as "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" that have been adapted many times over for radio... -
Broccoli & Other Love Stories: Notes and recipes from an always curious, often hungry kitchen gardener Paulette Whitney 9781922616876
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37'Australia's answer to Jane Grigson and Elizabeth David.'Matthew Evans'Paulette is a generous and natural storyteller. Here, at last, she shares her encyclopedic food plant knowledge with us all... -
Zodiaque: Making Medieval Modern, 1951-2001 by Janet T. Marquardt 9780271065069
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £65.59Begun in 1951 by monks at the abbey of La Pierre-qui-Vire in Burgundy, the Zodiaque publications consisted of a triennial journal and multiple series of books, including the most famous: La Nuit des...