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The Pan Book of Horror Stories by Various 9781509828890
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Fifty years ago Pan launched a series of books that were to delight and disgust - sometimes even on the same page - readers for thirty years. From classics in the genre to scraping-the-barrel... -
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Survivor: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis 9781849018180 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.25This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in a... -
Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations by Andre Spicer 9780521860864
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.00In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the... -
The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks Linda Clark 9781783270484
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW For four decades, Michael Hicks has been a figure central to... -
Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: Third International Conference, EMO 2005, Guanajuato, Mexico, March 9-11, 2005, Proceedings by Carlos A. Coello Coello 9783540249832
Booksplease Price: £94.84Multicriterion optimization refers to problems with two or more objectives (n- mally in con?ict with each other) which must be simultaneously satis?ed. Multicriterion optimization problems have not... -
Philip de Laszlo: His Life and Art by Duff Hart-Davis
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.92Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937) was born into a humble Hungarian family in Budapest and rose to become the preeminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000... -
Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England by Raluca Radulescu 9780719068256
Booksplease Price: £23.54Essays in this fascinating and important collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late medieval England. They consider the emergence of the gentry as a group distinct from the... -
Reconfigurable Distributed Control by Hector Benitez-Perez 9781852339548
Booksplease Price: £91.81Distributed control systems offer the advantages of local control, while retaining the ease of control at a single centralized location. Typically, this involves a great deal of hard-wiring, which... -
Spotlight on Journalism and Popular Heroism: The Rise from Tabloid Stars to Digital Activists Caryn Coatney 9781032674124
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.53This book offers fresh insights into the central role of journalism in shaping popular memories of community heroism in times of crisis. Further, it challenges familiar assumptions about Hollywood... -
Reconfigurable Distributed Control by Hector Benitez-Perez 9781849969741
Booksplease Price: £91.88Distributed control systems offer the advantages of local control, while retaining the ease of control at a single centralized location. Typically, this involves a great deal of hard-wiring, which... -
The Fifteenth Century III - Authority and Subversion by Linda Clark 9781843830252
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The themes of authority and subversion explored in relation to royal power, orthodox religion, and violence and disorder. The essays in this volume explore themes long seen as central to the... -
Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems by A. M. S. Zalzala
Booksplease Price: £107.27This book comprises ten invited expert contributions on the theory and applications of genetic algorithms in a variety of engineering systems. In addition to addressing the simple formulation of GAs,... -
New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work by G. Gall 9780230300071
Booksplease Price: £92.21This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms... -
The End of Corporate Social Responsibility: Crisis and Critique by Peter J. Fleming 9781849205160
Booksplease Price: £91.99Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective. A strident... -
The Fifteenth Century XVIII: Rulers, Regions and Retinues. Essays presented to A.J. Pollard by Linda Clark
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history. The essays collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard... -
The Cruel Way: A John Murray Journey by Ella K Maillart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26INTRODUCED BY FIONA MOZLEY, Booker-shortlisted author of ElmetWITH EXCERPTS FROM ALL THE ROADS ARE OPEN BY ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH'We were both travellers - she always running away from an emotional... -
Dead Man Working Carl Cederstrom 9781780991566
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where... -
Hierarchy and Organisation: Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems Thomas Diefenbach 9781138195066
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way... -
Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations by Andre Spicer 9780521169530
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the... -
Unexpected Death in Childhood: A Handbook for Practitioners by Peter Sidebotham 9780470060957
RRP: £124.95Booksplease Price: £115.80For families who have experienced the death of a child, their private tragedy is all too often exacerbated by an inappropriate or incompetent professional response. For the professional charged with... -
Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling Ed Simon 9798765123225
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.65All of American literature is a tragedy. What we're living through now isn't a tragedy, however - it's a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world's on fire? Rising authoritarianism. Covid... -
Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling Ed Simon 9798765123218
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.37All of American literature is a tragedy. What we're living through now isn't a tragedy, however - it's a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world's on fire? Rising authoritarianism. Covid... -
Escape: The Hunter Cut by L. A. Davenport 9781916937062
Booksplease Price: £12.67Escape: A Haunting Psychological Thriller by L.A. Davenport Dr. John Hunter seeks refuge at a luxury hotel, hoping to escape the crushing grief of his wife's death. But the serene coastal... -
Escape: The Hunter Cut by L. A. Davenport 9781916937079
Booksplease Price: £20.77Escape: A Haunting Psychological Thriller by L.A. Davenport Dr. John Hunter seeks refuge at a luxury hotel, hoping to escape the crushing grief of his wife's death. But the serene coastal... -
The Earl, the Kings, and the Chronicler: Robert Earl of Gloucester and the Reigns of Henry I and Stephen by Robert B. Patterson 9780198797814
Booksplease Price: £110.06The Earl, The Kings, And The Chronicler is the first full length biography of Robert (c.1088-1147), grandson of William the Conqueror and eldest son of King Henry I of England (1100-35), who could... -
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres Jamie Woodcock 9780745399065
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the... -
The War That Never Was by Duff Hart-Davis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16For the very first time, The War That Never Was tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s. In a covert operation organised over whisky... -
Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World by Cris Shore 9780745336459
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.96All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright... -
Winnicott and Labor’s Eclipse of Life: Work is Where We Start From by Nathan Gerard 9781032505398
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Nathan Gerard draws upon the pathbreaking insights of pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott to offer a new set of ideas in the novel domain of contemporary work life and its discontents... -
Wuhan by John Fletcher
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. 'Fletcher impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his characters... -
Wuhan by John Fletcher 9781800249899
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. 'Fletcher impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his characters... -
Understanding Identity and Organizations by Kate Kenny 9781848606807
Booksplease Price: £54.15An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. While conventional management textbooks nod to in-groups, cohesion and discrimination, this text offers... -
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle Jamie Woodcock 9781642590142
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.74Praise for Working the Phones: "A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-center workers." -The Financial Times "Jamie Woodcock shows us what call-centers can tell us about bleakness... -
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government by Thomas N. Bisson
Booksplease Price: £31.63Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility... -
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less Alex Soojung-Kim Pang 9780241217290
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95"Take a break and read Rest: you'll make smarter decisions, have better relationships, and be happier and more creative" James Wallman, author of Stuffocation Do you regularly find yourself too tired... -
Against Value in the Arts and Education by Sam Ladkin 9781783484904
Booksplease Price: £56.66Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its... -
Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach Miguel Pina e Cunha 9781138293090
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as...