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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves by Eric Foner 9780198737902
RRP: $45.81Booksplease Price: $35.84When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada. The 'underground... -
Actress: A Novel by Anne Enright 9780393541458
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.41Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine's... -
The First Five Years of Teaching Mathematics (FIRSTMATH): Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research by Maria Teresa Tatto 9783030440466
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book reports on an innovative study into the first five years of mathematics teaching: FIRSTMATH. For the first time, the study has developed a viable methodology to analyze the knowledge,... -
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare 9780393353457
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $39.23David Hare has long been one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the... -
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare 9780393249187
Booksplease Price: $39.37David Hare has long been one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.09In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS... -
Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a... -
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory by Marco Berti
Booksplease Price: $177.66This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational... -
Paradises by Beth Fowler 9781908276247
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.86Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus' Outsider - but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of death and chance encounters to lead her through... -
Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts by Russ McDonald 9781408158784
Booksplease Price: $67.94This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into... -
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz 9780691173382
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of... -
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne 9781324110361
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.82Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential... -
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.71More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again... -
Playground: A Novel Richard Powers 9781324086031
Booksplease Price: $41.26Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie... -
Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 9781324123736
Booksplease Price: $18.90Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie... -
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America by Donald L. Miller 9781416550204
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.28"Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory" (Vanity Fair). In the 1920s midtown Manhattan became the center of New York City, and the cultural and commercial... -
Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s by Matthew Kennedy 9780190262440
RRP: $57.51Booksplease Price: $48.15Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the... -
This Other Eden: A Novel by Paul Harding 9781324074526
Booksplease Price: $18.64In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of... -
Eden's Clock by Norman Lock 9781954276383
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeRendered mute at the Battle of... -
American Follies by Norman Lock 9781942658481
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.96A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum's circus to rescue her infant from the KKKIn the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former... -
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr 9780393351651
Booksplease Price: $64.43John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century,... -
The Caricaturist by Norman Lock 9781954276277
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of... -
The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus 9780674218581
Booksplease Price: $48.50"How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string?" Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in... -
Blue Skies: A Novel by T. C. Boyle 9781324095187
Booksplease Price: $17.00Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiance, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the... -
Disaster Insurance Reimagined: Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk by Paula Jarzabkowski 9780192865168
RRP: $71.16Booksplease Price: $63.43This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open... -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'... -
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
Booksplease Price: $57.62This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published... -
Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach Miguel Pina e Cunha 9781138293090
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $75.64Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as...