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Turning The Century: Essays In Media And Cultural Studies by Carol Stabile
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The essays in Turning the Century make a significant contribution to our understanding of America's love affairs with novelty and the mass media. The essays also show that neither the current... -
Turning The Century: Essays In Media And Cultural Studies by Carol A. Stabile
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The essays in Turning the Century make a significant contribution to our understanding of America's love affairs with novelty and the mass media. The essays also show that neither the current... -
Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone by Duncan Pritchard
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.44Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.Key topics and... -
The Second World War by Nick Smart
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.49The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide... -
The Routledge History of Disease by Mark Jackson
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94The Routledge History of Disease draws on innovative scholarship in the history of medicine to explore the challenges involved in writing about health and disease throughout the past and across the... -
The Book of Mormon Script Book: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Trey Parker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of "South Park" and the co-creator of "Avenue Q". It features the complete script and song lyrics, with... -
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Set against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and... -
Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study by Kathleen Sullivan 9780786421701
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created original characters for sports stories. How have... -
Shearsman 109 & 100 by Tony Frazer 9781848614918
Booksplease Price: £9.42The second issue of Shearsman magazine for 2016. This issue features work by Agatha Abu Shehab, Isobel Armstrong, Michael Ayres, Ken Bolton, sean burn, Sarah Cave, Stuart Cooke, Tom Cowin, Claire... -
Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America James Andrew Whitaker 9780816555901
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09During the colonial and postcolonial eras, local people in lowland South America experienced exploitation from outsiders. But as new kinds of societies emerged from engagements between outside and... -
Microsimulation Modelling of Taxation and the Labour Market: The Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator by John Creedy 9781843760634
Booksplease Price: £114.14Microsimulation Modelling of Taxation and the Labour Market reports new research on behavioural microsimulation modelling of tax and transfer systems. Its aims are twofold. Firstly, the book... -
Performing the Body/Performing the Text by Amelia Jones
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.10This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to... -
Horizons of Mission by Titus Leonard Presler 9781561011902
Booksplease Price: £9.68In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Titus Presler offers a fresh vision of mission in the multicultural environment of a global community. Arguing that Christian mission expresses... -
The Vote Collectors: The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud by Michael Graff 9781469679648
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was... -
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology Stephen Nugent 9781138894037
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He... -
Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions by Jonathan Harris 9780472089246
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £25.19Bringing together the thoughts of economists, political scientists, anthropologists, philosophers, and agricultural policy professionals, this volume focuses on the issues of sustainability in... -
Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American Culture by William Carlson Bishop 9781621904014
Booksplease Price: £34.36Whether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. Since the early twentieth century, movies, novels, memoirs, pop songs, and... -
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 9780393332148
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.88It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied... -
Endangered Private Practice: Surviving Health Care Reform by Ronald R. Hixson 9780765709356
Booksplease Price: £86.43Endangered Private Practice explains how health care reform, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, affects and will be affecting those providers within the delivery system section of... -
The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana by James Andrew Whitaker 9781009478403
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72In the first book in English to focus specifically on the Makushi in Guyana, James Andrew Whitaker examines how shamanism informs Makushi interactions with outsiders in the context of historical... -
Can You Dance Like John? by Jeff Kurrus 9781496206671
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58"Mary and John Crane's flight back toward their nesting grounds in Alaska was starting differently than most years. It wasn't that they had lost each other again, like they did the year before in... -
Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays by Brian Doyle 9780820355443
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.73Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and... -
Religion after Science: The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity by J. L. Schellenberg 9781108713078
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76In this provocative work, J. L. Schellenberg addresses those who, influenced by science, take a negative view of religion, thinking of it as outmoded if not decadent. He promotes the view that... -
State of Affairs: The Science-Theology Controversy by Richard J. Coleman 9780718893927
Booksplease Price: £28.65The last sixty years have witnessed a virtual explosion of interest in how modern science and traditional Christianity intersect. This new rapprochement with science has irrevocably altered how... -
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI David Hajdu 9780393540833
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.05What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and... -
Magazine by Prof Jeff Jarvis 9781501394959
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and... -
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France by Ruth Harris 9780141014777
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for BiographyRuth Harris writes beautifully and engagingly on a moment in French history that polarized society and... -
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F. Roller 9781503628106
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty,... -
The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience and the Transcendent by John Harwood Hick 9780230507708
Booksplease Price: £92.21This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion. It considers eastern forms of religious experience as well as Christian viewpoints and challenges the idea of a mind... -
The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience, and the Transcendent by J. Hick 9780230507715
Booksplease Price: £91.70This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion. It considers eastern forms of religious experience as well as Christian viewpoints and challenges the idea of a mind... -
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F. Roller
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty,... -
God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology by Roberto Di Ceglie 9781009203555
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In this book, Roberto Di Ceglie offers an historical, theological, and epistemological investigation exploring how commitments to God and/or the good generate the optimum condition to achieve... -
Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil by Heather F. Roller
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native... -
A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by Ephraim Radner 9781481305457
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The miracle of birth and the mystery of death mark human life. Mortality, like a dark specter, looms over all that lies in between. Human character, behavior, aims, and community are all inescapably... -
God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall by Bethany N. Sollereder
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, theologians were faced with the dilemma of God creating through evolution. Suddenly, pain, suffering, untimely death and extinction appeared... -
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 by Hal Langfur 9780804751803
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on... -
In Amazonia: A Natural History by Hugh Raffles 9780691048857
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In... -
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 by Hal Langfur
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on... -
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman 9780062377227
Booksplease Price: £12.52New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature... -
Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature by William M.R. Simpson 9780367646981
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature. It features original contributions by some of...