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The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats by Marjorie Howes 9780521650892
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international... -
We Can't Run Away From This: Racing to improve running's footprint in our climate emergency by Damian Hall
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.44What if running in beautiful places was paradoxically contributing to the destruction of those precious environments and causing irreversible global harm to people and animals too?In We Can't Run... -
Bow Belles Anna King 9780751548167
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Young Kate Browning was beginning to find the strain almost to hard to bear. With her mother Florrie missing, and her spineless father no use at all, it fell to Kate to look after the family. But... -
Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast by Jon L. Gibson 9780817350857
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £29.72By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores... -
Reassessing the Employment Relationship by Paul Blyton 9780230221727
Booksplease Price: £71.84Reassessing the Employment Relationship is an edited volume written by leading academics at Cardiff Business School. Reflecting on the employment relationship as one of the central institutions of... -
For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington 9780393324136
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.95Mavis Hetherington, "without doubt the world's preeminent researcher on the family processes that surround divorce,...has distilled the wisdom growing out of her many studies of the short-term and... -
The Voices of Hockey: Broadcasters Reflect on the Fastest Game on Earth by Kirk McKnight 9781538107560
Booksplease Price: £16.21Line changes, limited time outs, and pucks traveling 100 miles per hour-hockey is called "the fastest game on Earth" for a reason. Keeping up with this non-stop action, especially for... -
Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts by Professor Kerstin Hamann 9781138882164
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Social pacts - policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations - began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most common explanations for social pacts... -
The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency by James Naughtie 9781447261582
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Tony Blair's affair with America is one of the most compelling stories of our time. He is the Prime Minister whose bonding with George W. Bush imperilled his political future in Britain, while... -
Union Organizing: Campaigning for trade union recognition by Professor Gregor Gall 9780415267816
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as 'union organizing' are being used to recruit and re-energize unions around the globe... -
Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers by John E. Kelly 9780521115407
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book is a study of the relationship between full-time union officials and shop stewards across the whole of British industry (public and private, manufacturing and services) in 1986-91. It is... -
Union Organizing: Campaigning for trade union recognition by Professor Gregor Gall
Booksplease Price: £36.70After many years of indifferent decline, trade union membership is now being revitalized; strategies known as 'union organizing' are being used to recruit and re-energize unions around the globe... -
Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers by John E. Kelly 9780521383202
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £103.90This book is a study of the relationship between full-time union officials and shop stewards across the whole of British industry (public and private, manufacturing and services) in 1986-91. It is... -
Bigotry, Football and Scotland by John Flint
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.98Academic perspectives and analysis of recent controversies relating to football and bigotry in Scottish society. Football is Scotland's most assiduously reported sport and has a proud national... -
Washington Sculpture: A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in the Nation's Capital by James M. Goode 9780801888106
Booksplease Price: £84.26This sweeping study takes readers on a fascinating tour of Washington, D.C.'s monuments, statues, headstones, and memorials. James M. Goode canvasses more than 500 sculptural pieces, often overlooked... -
Key Ideas in Tort Law Professor Peter Cane 9781509909421
Booksplease Price: £17.13This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in... -
The Meaning of Militancy?: Postal Workers and Industrial Relations Gregor Gall 9781138717466
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.74This title was first published in 2003.This book explores many of the major issues of concern to researchers studying trade unionism. It offers: a definition, elaboration and contextualisation of... -
Miscellany 50: Fifty Years of Sunday Miscellany Cliodhna Ni Anluain 9781848407473
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Beginning in 1968, fifty-five personal essays and poems reveal the power of Ireland's finest writers to delve into the details of Irish life with warmth, sincerity and wit. Here, side by side, are... -
Running Through the Dark: The rise and fall of an ultrarunner Jen Scotney 9781839810145
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02Ultrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK's toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her... -
The Meaning of Militancy?: Postal Workers and Industrial Relations by Gregor Gall 9781138717510
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £77.39This title was first published in 2003.This book explores many of the major issues of concern to researchers studying trade unionism. It offers: a definition, elaboration and contextualisation of... -
Sport and Society in the Global Age by Tim Marjoribanks 9780230584693
Booksplease Price: £41.78Are sports influenced by their social context? Can sport influence the social world? And how is sport changing in our increasingly globalized society? This thought-provoking text explores these... -
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture by Miranda Brady 9780774835091
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada's national narratives from... -
Ceoltóirí Chualann: The Band that Changed the Course of Irish Music —Includes 400 Musical Arrangements by Peadar Ó Riada 9781781178690
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.29A lively and engaging account of the legendary Irish folk music ensemble Ceoltoiri Chualann, and the first time that readers can see the groundbreaking concepts used by Sean O Riada and his band... -
Should I Be Worried?: A No-Panic Guide to Your Child's Health by Dr. Niamh Lynch 9781399746717
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Should I be worried?' is a question every parent of young children often asks themselves. From a newborn who cries endlessly, to a toddler with a high temperature, to a schoolchild with a persistent... -
Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An Introduction Gyozo Molnar 9780415670630
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Why are sport and exercise important? What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society? Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses? It is... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9780140186475
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.02A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English languageJames Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the... -
The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare by Peadar King
Booksplease Price: £30.82"What are we if not our stories?" - Enda Walsh, Playwright Stories. Life stories. Stories of love and loss. Success and failure. Stories about people and place. Stories about the magical spark of... -
Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy Carola Frege 9781138683020
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships... -
Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics by Alan Bairner
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the... -
W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster 9780192880857
Booksplease Price: £37.97In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century... -
New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment: Revitalizing Industrial Relations as an Academic Enterprise by Charles J. Whalen 9781847204523
Booksplease Price: £116.18Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars,... -
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight by William Hazelgrove 9781633884588
Booksplease Price: £18.66This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first... -
Latin America, Second Edition: Regions and People by Robert B. Kent 9781462525508
Booksplease Price: £75.76Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well as its regional complexity. Extensively revised to... -
Race, Rock, and Elvis by Michael T. Bertrand 9780252072703
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.64Did Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll help revise racial attitudes in postwar America? Michael T. Bertrand delves into this question and many others to investigate popular music's revolutionary... -
Public Law by John Stanton 9780198852278
Booksplease Price: £35.89Fresh, modern, and practical, Public Law provides law undergraduates with a unique approach to constitutional and administrative law, aptly demonstrating why this is an exciting time to be studying... -
The Evening Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great Washington Newspaper by Faye Haskins 9780742548725
Booksplease Price: £40.11The Washington Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Newspaper is the story of the 129-year history of one of the preeminent newspapers in journalism history when city newspapers across the... -
Bells for America: The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington by Diederik Oostdijk 9780271083773
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.92The Netherlands Carillon stands out in the American memorial landscape. Situated between Arlington National Cemetery and the Marine Corps War Memorial, the modernist design of this 127-foot steel... -
Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall 9781526173096
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.48In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the... -
Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £12.52A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals,... -
Camping by the Waterside: The Best Campsites by Water in Britain and Ireland: 2nd edition by Stephen Neale
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Planning a fabulous staycation in the UK? This stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland...