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A History of International Relations Theory by Torbjorn L. Knutsen 9780719049309
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace,... -
Writing for Radio by Vincent McInerney 9780719058431
Booksplease Price: £23.54Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres - short stories, plays, documentaries/drama... -
The Law of International Organisations Nigel White 9780719059544
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This new edition considers the unifying legal attributes that span vastly differing inter-governmental organisations, from the UN to the EU. A law of international organisations has become... -
The Debate on the Rise of the British Empire by Anthony Webster 9780719067921
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This fascinating and highly useful book examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is... -
British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives by Brian Lewis 9780719088940
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for... -
Film Light: Meaning and Emotion by Lara Thompson 9780719086335
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £65.35In one of the first monographs of its kind to focus on the aesthetic and emotional impact of lighting in cinema, Lara Thompson looks at the way light informs the cinematic experience, from... -
The Hidden Alternative: Co-Operative Values, Past, Present and Future by Anthony Webster 9780719086557
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.61The proclamation by the United Nations that 2012 would be the International Year of Co-operatives represents a milestone in the history of the international co-operative movement. It reflects the... -
The European Union and Industrial Relations: New Procedures, New Context by Stijn Smismans 9780719086724
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.85This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations. It frames the EU as the provider of both a new... -
The Humorous Magistrate (Arbury) by Margaret Jane Kidnie 9780719086991
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £37.07The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays... -
Diversity Management in Spain: New Dimensions, New Challenges by Ricard Zapata-Barrero 9780719088544
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61In the current European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. This book argues that... -
Markets, Rules and Institutions of Exchange by Mark Harvey 9780719076701
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.85This book is about how to understand the huge variety of markets and market organisation in contemporary economies through a dialogue between a group of UK and French scholars. It presents a critique... -
Immigration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland by Professor Bryan Fanning 9780719084782
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.61In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants has become a topical issue. Drawing extensively on... -
Prayer, Providence and Empire: Special Worship in the British World, 1783-1919 by Joseph Hardwick 9781526135391
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £75.20European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building 'better Britains' overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions,... -
Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell by Stuart Hodkinson 9781526141866
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.61As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many... -
The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, with a New Introduction by Hilary Charlesworth 9781526163578
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £79.50Representing the first book-length treatment of the application of feminist theories of international law, The boundaries of international law argues that the absence of women in the development of... -
Transmodern: An Art History of Contact, 1920–60 by Christian Kravagna 9781526176585
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern... -
Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court 1590–1619 by Clare McManus 9780719062506
Booksplease Price: £23.54This work reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England. It investigates the staging conditions, practices and gendering of Anna of Denmark's performances, bringing current... -
Towards a Just Europe: A Theory of Distributive Justice for the European Union by João Labareda 9781526174505
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This highly original book constitutes one of the first attempts to examine the problem of distributive justice in the European Union in a systematic manner. João Labareda argues that the set of... -
The Reimagined Party: Democracy, Change and the Public by Katharine Dommett 9781526147516
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Offering a comprehensive overview of public perceptions of political parties, this book asks what do we want from politics?and finds evidence that people want to see the ethos of party politics... -
Mad Money: With an Introduction by Benjamin J. Cohen by Susan Strange 9781784992668
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.65Mad money is a classic of international relations and international political economy literature. It also has profound modern relevance. First published by Manchester University Press in 1998, the... -
Philaster: or Love Lies A-Bleeding: By Beaumont and Fletcher by Andrew Gurr 9780719064852
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Now back in print after a lengthy absence, one of the most enduring plays of its time. Edited by the renowned scholar, and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. No real competition for... -
Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader by Patrick Campbell 9780719042508
Booksplease Price: £23.54Each chapter in this important critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music... -
Fontamara: Enrico Iv, Sei Perso by Silone Rawson 9780719006623
Booksplease Price: £19.23Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in... -
Toni Morrison by Jill Matus 9780719044489
Booksplease Price: £19.23An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison... -
Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History by John Goodby 9780719029974
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Irish Poetry since 1950 is a survey of poetry, from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain, and the US. The five chapters of the book cover the 1950s, the 1960s, the early troubled period to 1976,... -
From Beveridge to Blair: The First Fifty Years of Britain's Welfare State 1948-98 by Margaret Jones 9780719041037
Booksplease Price: £23.54The creation of Britain's welfare state in 1948 was an event of major international importance. Designed to provide a concise introduction to the evolution of both the structure of the welfare state... -
Ideology and Politics in Britain Today by Ian Adams 9780719050565
Booksplease Price: £19.23Politicians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear,... -
The Debate on the American Revolution by Gwenda Morgan 9780719052422
Booksplease Price: £19.22This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic,... -
Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries by Caridad Svich 9780719063251
Booksplease Price: £23.54Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work.|Gathers the voices of unique artists from the... -
French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May by Alison Smith 9780719063411
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in... -
Interior Design and Identity by Susie McKellar 9780719067297
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.33This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the... -
Russian Politics Under Putin by Cameron Ross 9780719068010
Booksplease Price: £23.54In March 2000 Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation. Within a few years Putin's radical reforms in domestic and foreign policy have made a major impact on Russian politics... -
Alan Bennett by Kara McKechnie 9780719068065
Booksplease Price: £23.54Alan Bennett is one of the UK's most well-known and successful writers. His oeuvre is one where populist art forms and intellectually complex arguments co-exist seamlessly, allowing the work to... -
Remembering Refugees: Then and Now by Tony Kushner 9780719068836
Booksplease Price: £23.54Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are... -
Democratising Conservative Leadership Selection: From Grey Suits to Grass Roots by Andrew Denham 9780719078187
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Democratising Conservative leadership selection traces the effects of democracy on the British Conservative Party, specifically looking at how changes in the ways the Conservatives elect their... -
The Irish War on Drugs: The Seductive Folly of Prohibition by Paul O'Mahony 9780719079023
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book provides the first comprehensive, critical analysis of the drugs problem in Ireland over the last thirty years with a particular focus on the role of drugs in crime and the role of... -
Beyond the Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd by Lukas Erne 9780719079498
Booksplease Price: £23.54Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding... -
A King and No King: Beaumont and Fletcher by Lee Bliss 9780719080425
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, 'A King and No King' helped establish tragicomedy as the seventeenth century's favoured dramatic... -
Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period by Maggie B. Gale 9780719082047
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.34This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women... -
The Activation of Citizenship in Europe by Thomas Pfister 9780719083310
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.98This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on 'modern' social policy - based the guiding principles of 'activation' and an 'activating welfare state' - intervenes in the concepts...