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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark 9780691162546
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures... -
Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture by 9780367501822
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values... -
Reforming or Re-inventing Schools?: Key Issues in School and System Reform by John MacBeath
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99What has changed and what will change in the next decade? Reforming or Re-inventing Schools? revisits some of the key issues in school and system reform, with a reflection on developments in the... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691135656
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £119.30Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. Between these two dates,... -
Principles of Mucosal Immunology Phillip Smith (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) 9780815345558
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £70.29This respected graduate-level textbook provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the basic and clinical aspects of the mucosal immune system, addressing the major components of the mucosal... -
Inspiring Views from "a' the airts" on Scottish Literatures, Art and Cinema: The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014 by Klaus-Peter Muller 9783631672853
RRP: £76.30Booksplease Price: £68.01Where do Scottish literatures, art, and cinema stand today? What and how do Scottish Studies investigate? Creative writers and scholars give answers to these questions and address vital concerns in... -
Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age by Theodore M. Porter
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in... -
Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers by Lori Marso
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key... -
Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins by Nancy L. Segal 9780128039946
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.65Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins sheds new light on over 70 commonly held ideas and beliefs about the origins and development of identical and fraternal twins. Using... -
Molecular Biology of B Cells by Tasuku Honjo 9780123979339
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £118.85Molecular Biology of B Cells, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference to how B cells are generated, selected, activated and engaged in antibody production. All of these developmental and... -
The Quest for the Fine: A Philosophical Inquiry into Judgment, Worth, and Existence by Michael Gelven 9780847681242
Booksplease Price: £43.76In this original and compelling exploration of the meaning of the term 'fine' and the phenomenon of refinement, noted scholar Michael Gelven reflects on the relationship between refinement and... -
Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies by Donald E. Hall 9780252069611
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Sometimes playful, always provocative, Professions is a collection of searching and candid conversations--ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes--on the issues that face literary and... -
Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity by Angela Esterhammer
Booksplease Price: £32.12During the 1820s, British society saw transformations in technology, mobility, and consumerism that accelerated the spread of information. This timely study reveals how bestselling literature,... -
Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century Sarah Sharp 9781474483421
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared... -
Porgy’s Ghost: The Life and Works of Dorothy Heyward and Her Contribution to an American Classic Harlan Greene 9780820375106
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £22.47On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no...