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The Geography of Crime by David J. Evans
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.66This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various... -
Folk Music and Modern Sound by William Ferris 9781604731675
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival to regional characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is given to the blues,... -
Up The Junction: A Virago Modern Classic Nell Dunn 9781844089826
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN 'Distinctive, pared-down style' DAVID EVANS, INDEPENDENT... -
Zariski Geometries: Geometry from the Logician's Point of View by Boris Zilber
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €73.01This book presents methods and results from the theory of Zariski structures and discusses their applications in geometry as well as various other mathematical fields. Its logical approach helps us... -
Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by Mark R. Peattie 9781591146643
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €27.56`A must-have for any serious scholar of the Pacific War' -Air & Space `An illuminating roadmap following the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its inception in 1909 to its devastating... -
Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities by David T. Evans
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This enthralling and provocative book provides a new grounding for the understanding of sexual rights. It argues that all varieties of sexuality under capitalism are materially constructed out of the... -
Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts by William R. Ferris 9781604733914
Booksplease Price: €34.36This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across... -
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s by Marina Bokelman
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do... -
The Truman and Eisenhower Blues by Guido Van Rijn 9780826456588
Booksplease Price: €108.75In the sequel to "Roosevelt's Blues", Guido van Rijn presents an account of the gospel and blues music of the immediate post-war period, concentrating on songs that comment on contemporary political... -
Indivisible: A Novelization by Travis Thrasher 9780785224051
Booksplease Price: €14.39Inspired by true events, Indivisible is a story of love, service, and finding each other all over again. Darren and Heather Turner share a passion for serving God, family, and country. When Darren is... -
Routledge Handbook on Consumption Margit Keller (University of Tartu, Estonia) 9780367335854
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.69Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest... -
Governance, Commissioning and Public Health Linda Marks (School of Health, Durham University) 9781447304937
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.18Drawing on in-depth case studies across England, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Using original research, it shows how these links can be illustrated... -
Car Thieves by Akos Nemeth 9781840024708
Booksplease Price: €16.95"A group of young people involved in sex, drugs and petty crime meet big-time Mafiosi against the backdrop of semi-underworld Budapest today. None of the characters seems to know what he or she is... -
The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets by Nicholas Murray
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €4.03The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of... -
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art by Teddy Sandoval 9781941753590
RRP: €58.31Booksplease Price: €40.75The first monograph on the exuberant, polymorphous art of Teddy Sandoval, whose work explored community, queerness and Chicano identity Published with Vincent Price Art Museum and Williams College... -
Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West by Timothy P. Bowman 9781623495688
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.55Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ... -
Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan Anthony Boden 9781138248595
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €63.77Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers. Living through one of the most revolutionary periods in British... -
Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community Patrick Joseph O'Connor 9781496853011
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now,... -
Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community Patrick Joseph O'Connor 9781496853004
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now,... -
Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s by Marina Bokelman 9781496841971
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.82At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do... -
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen 9781803510491
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the... -
Glaciation: A Very Short Introduction by David J. A. Evans
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Vast, majestic, and often stunningly beautiful, glaciers lock up some 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth system, carving landscapes and... -
BIOS Instant Notes in Plant Biology by Andrew Lack
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.76The second edition of Instant Notes in Plant Biology, has been both updated and reorganized and gives an insight into the whole of plant science, integrating structure, function and physiology. A... -
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and... -
The Tipping Point by Juan Gomez-Jurado
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €3.30'I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman and no murderer...I am a father. That's my story.'Dr David Evans, a top neurosurgeon at a hospital in Washington, faces the ultimate dilemma: if his... -
Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 by Peter C. Muir 9780252034879
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €96.18Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had... -
Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 by Peter C. Muir 9780252076763
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €29.23Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had... -
Till: A Glacial Process Sedimentology by David J. A. Evans 9781118652596
RRP: €105.85Booksplease Price: €94.49Provides the first comprehensive review of the current state of the science on tills It is critical that glacial scientists continue to refine their interpretations of ancient archives of subglacial... -
Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster Luigi Monge 9781496841698
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural... -
Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century by Phyllis Weliver
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €109.09A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words. Words and Notes encourages a... -
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdic
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.26After nine months of self-imposed isolation following his wife's departure, the hero of Seven Terrors finally decides to face his loneliness and join the world once more. However, when the daughter... -
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History by Robert Springer 9781934110294
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The... -
Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster by Luigi Monge 9781496841766
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.39Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural... -
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 9780198722953
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.22'Don't you see that we are buried alive?' When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, deep in the African... -
Who’s In? Who’s Out?: What to Do about Inclusive Education by Marnie Best 9789004390997
Booksplease Price: €132.97Who's in? Who's out? Who decides? What are we going to do about inclusive education? What kind of world do we want our children to live in? How might education help us to achieve that vision for our... -
Who’s In? Who’s Out?: What to Do about Inclusive Education by Marnie Best 9789004389854
Booksplease Price: €63.28Who's in? Who's out? Who decides? What are we going to do about inclusive education? What kind of world do we want our children to live in? How might education help us to achieve that vision for our... -
The Devil and Mr Casement: One Man's Struggle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness by Jordan Goodman
Booksplease Price: €28.14In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along... -
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou 9781846685842
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory... -
Hush Little Baby: the electrifying new domestic crime thriller by Jane Isaac 9781035905270
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64'Gripping subjects, brilliantly drawn characters and a twisty turny journey from beginning to end. A tense, thrilling read and definitely 5 humongous stars from me' Angela Marsons. Someone stole a... -
The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities by Isidore Okpewho
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that...