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Beyond the Doll Tests: Affirming and Uplifting Black Students Wellbeing Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy 9798895570661
Booksplease Price: £35.89A transformative guidebook for K–12 school counselors, teachers, and administrators seeking to create affirming, equitable, and healing-centered environments for Black students In Beyond the Doll... -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower 9780471977636
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £49.86"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review. A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic. Focusing on the... -
Policy Makers on Policy: The Mais Lectures by Forrest Capie 9781138384255
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions... -
Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War by Rebecca Searle 9781350075436
Booksplease Price: £112.13The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) were responsible for the production of some of the most iconic images of the Second World War. Despite its rich historical value, this collection has been... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its... -
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson 9781399721653
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in... -
F**k Business: The Business of Brexit Iain Anderson 9781785905322
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05When a senior Cabinet minister dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt `F**k business,' it seemed emblematic of a growing distance between the country's politicians and its wealth... -
Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage by Joseph Connors 9780674427853
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) put the connoisseurship of Renaissance art on a firm footing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His monument is the library and collection of Italian... -
Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain during the Second World War by Dr. Rebecca Searle 9781350199125
Booksplease Price: £33.84The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) were responsible for the production of some of the most iconic images of the Second World War. Despite its rich historical value, this collection has been... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VII by Christopher Bigsby 9781911343523
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University... -
Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook by Henry Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. He retreated to a small... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630345
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630925
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
Bernard Berenson: Connoisseurship and the Art Market Mark Campbell 9781848222601
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was an American connoisseur of Lithuanian Jewish extraction who was a hugely significant figure in the evolution of the commercial art world from the late 1880s to the... -
The Little Train by Graham Greene
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon... -
Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer Simon Pierse 9781138246393
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Subtle and wide-ranging in its account, this study explores the impact of Australian art in Britain in the two decades following the end of World War II and preceding the 'Swinging Sixties'. In a... -
Picasso: A Biography Patrick O’Brian 9780008529949
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The life of the world's greatest modern artist by one of Britain's greatest artists. 'Positive, original, diverting and highly effective.' - Sunday Times 'This biography... -
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art James Hall 9780813343938
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily... -
Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have.' - VogueOne of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an... -
Roger Fry and Italian Art by Caroline Elam 9781912168088
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £98.45Roger Fry (1866-1934) is best known as a champion of Post-Impressionism and a pioneer of Modernist art criticism. But his fi rst love was early Italian painting, on which he became a recognized... -
Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation by John P. Jackson 9780814742662
Booksplease Price: £90.57In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating... -
Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case against Segregation by John P. Jackson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.54In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands... -
Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now: Seven Scenes from the Life of a House by The Duke of Devonshire
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.70A stunningly original portrait of one of England's grandest country housesNo house embodies the spirit of one dynasty better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild... -
Size Zero and Beyond: A Personal Study of Anorexia Nervosa by Jacqueline M. Kemp 9780957138001
Booksplease Price: £15.23This book provides a fascinating, detailed account of the family background and social context in which the writer's eating disorder developed and manifested. However, this book covers much more than... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 10: 1942–1944 T. S. Eliot 9780571396498
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.76'What is accomplished by this sort of cultural warfare is impossible to say: but it [is] a part of total warfare which one must, as an individual, accept one's part in.'At the height of the Second... -
The Naked Nude by Frances Borzello
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a... -
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization by Mary Beard 9781631494406
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.57Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on... -
The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy Howard Davies (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745638850
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41This remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else - the former... -
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading Guide by K. P. Clarke 9781009400817
Booksplease Price: £70.89The first of its kind, this guide enables readers to get as close as possible to the words of Dante's Comedy. Opening up interpretative possibilities that only become available through reading the... -
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee 9781845952013
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. But this definitive biography by Hermione... -
The Chancellors' Tales: Managing the British Economy by Howard Davies
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else - the former... -
Duchess of Cork Street: The Autobiography of an Art Dealer by Lillian Browse 9781900357142
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Duchess of Cork Street is the autobiography of a remarkable woman who, educated in the culturally unsophisticated milieu of South Africa, managed by charm, determination and good judgment to... -
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by Leonie Gombrich
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.54Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read', Art and Illusion is a classic study of image-making. It seeks to answer a simple question: why... -
Dictating to the Mob: The History of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English by Jurg Rainer Schwyter 9780198736738
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.80The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers. The results of its deliberations were... -
Faces of Labour: The Inside Story by Andy McSmith 9781859840931
Booksplease Price: £28.74Updated since the May 1997 election, Faces of Labour gives a unique insight into a range of Labour politicians in a series of entertaining and revealing portraits. With a substantial lead in the... -
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £35.18The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with... -
Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000 James Stourton 9781804541975
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98A Times Best Art Book of the Year, 2024'A riot of a book' - Country Life's Books of the Year, 2024The modern art market was born on a single night. On 15 October 1958 Sotheby's of Bond Street staged... -
Pillars of Social Psychology: Stories and Retrospectives by Saul Kassin 9781009214285
Booksplease Price: £34.78This collection of first-person accounts from legendary social psychologists tells the stories behind the science and offers unique insight into the development of the field from the 1950s to the...