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Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival by Joy Giguere 9781621908180
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.09Prior to the nineteenth century, few Americans knew anything more of Egyptian culture than what could be gained from studying the biblical Exodus. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt at the end of the... -
The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages by Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt 9780367684389
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100-1300; it presents a range of interdisciplinary approaches and original insights into the construction of papal... -
The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays Dalibor Vesely 9781032223261
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015). Vesely was a leading authority on philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology in... -
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer... -
Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York Barry Reay 9781526181466
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and... -
An Archaeology of Ancash: Stones, Ruins and Communities in Andean Peru by George F. Lau 9780367872830
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51An Archaeology of Ancash is a well-illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland... -
Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the Sublime by Hugh J. Silverman
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Jean-Franois Lyotard, the highly influential twentieth-century philosopher of the postmodern, has had an enormous impact on the course and commitment of contemporary philosophy. Lyotard: Philosophy,... -
Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations David Jeffreys 9781598742022
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an... -
A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction by Jonathan Hill 9781138852297
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to... -
Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts by Jeffrey Collins 9780521809436
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.59Pius VI was the last great papal patron of the arts in the Renaissance and Baroque tradition. This book presents the first synthetic study of his artistic patronage and policies in an effort to... -
renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II by Nicholas Temple
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.96Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503-13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each... -
The Hidden Things by Jamie Mason 9781501177323
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A brilliantly original thriller and "a startling, smart, vivid book" (Tana French, New York Times bestselling author) from the acclaimed author of Three Graves Full-inspired by the real-life unsolved... -
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2016 by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Winner of the Hugo Award for Best NovelBook 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy***One of Time Magazine's top 100 fantasy books of all time******Shortlisted for the World... -
Paris Then and Now (R) by Peter Caine
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Paris Then and Now captures the changes that have taken place in the French capital from the heady days of the Belle Epoque through to the 1940s. Matching classic archive images with the... -
The Killing Moon: Dreamblood: Book 1 by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'UTTERLY ENTHRALLING' Trudi Canavan'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation . . . Jemisin seems able to do just about everything' NEW YORK TIMES'Jemisin is now a... -
The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth, Book 3, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018 by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY An Amazon Best Book of the YearThe incredible conclusion to the record-breaking triple Hugo... -
The Rosewater Redemption: Book 3 of the Wormwood Trilogy by Tade Thompson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him... -
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie 9780356507026
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARDA usurper has claimed the throne. Invaders amass at the borders. And they have made their alliances with enemy gods... For centuries the kingdom of Iraden... -
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses: The Art and Science to Grow with Confidence: Volume 8 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW 9780711261907
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.87This inspirational book from Kew Gardens' rose expert is the perfect guide to choosing and growing these majestic and versatile flowers. Instantly recognisable, fragrant and evocative, roses are the... -
The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 by Robert Slifkin 9780691192529
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began... -
Hegira by Greg Bear 9781497637818
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.41"A minor classic. A small book but with big characters . . . and great ideas" from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Dinosaur Summer (SF Reviews). The planet Hegira is the universe's... -
Provenance: A new novel set in the world of the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning ANCILLARY JUSTICE by Ann Leckie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA (BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION) AWARD 2018 'Excellent' Book Smugglers 'A fitting... -
Luristani Pictorial Tombstones: Studies in Nomadic Cemeteries from Northern Luristan, Iran by I. Demant Mortensen 9789042921412
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £106.19From the late 18th to the early 20th century northern Luristan was dominated by feuding tribal leaders, more or less independent of the Qadjar State. The religious concepts of the illiterate... -
Century of Remembrance: One Hundred Outstanding British War Memorials Derek Boorman 9781844153169
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53A Century of Remembrance is a study of one hundred outstanding United Kingdom war memorials which commemorate 20th century conflicts from the Boer War to the Falklands and Gulf wars. The first... -
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915 by Elizabeth R. Macaulay 9781009407106
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery” of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes,... -
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915 by Elizabeth R. Macaulay 9781009407137
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.43Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery” of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes,... -
Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York by Barry Reay
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.48From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and... -
Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Amanda Holmes 9783319855912
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk... -
Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Amanda Holmes 9783319551906
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book considers how architectural landmarks, imagined buildings and urban landscapes take part in the production of meaning in contemporary Argentine cinema. From the iconic Buenos Aires Obelisk... -
The Years Jamie McKendrick 9781910345238
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.28With a number of highly-acclaimed poetry collections to his name, this well-known poet has produced a chapbook of enigmatic and beautifully-crafted poems, each of which is accompanied by an... -
Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide by Timothy Sedore 9780253045553
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57In soaring obelisks, graceful arches, and soldiers standing tall atop pedestals, the memory of the Civil War is ever present in Mississippi, a former Confederate state that boasts more Civil War... -
Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus by Irina Rebrova 9783110688863
RRP: £106.00Booksplease Price: £68.85The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little... -
An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade: A Visual Chronicle of the MilošEvić Era by Mileta Prodanović 9789633866306
RRP: £111.00Booksplease Price: £96.65This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the... -
Philadelphia Area Cemeteries by Allan M. Heller
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.90Tour the cemeteries of Pennsylvania's three original counties (Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester--"The Birthplace of America"). This fascinating guide includes twenty maps providing locations for... -
Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller’s Long Journey to Satori by Jennifer Cowe 9781683930419
Booksplease Price: £80.73Incorporating the novels, pamphlets and letters of Henry Miller, Killing the Buddha argues for Miller's written work to be considered as a whole in relation to the theme of Zen Buddhism, specifically... -
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers Terry Deary 9781780226385
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet... -
The Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia 9780702307089
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.61From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an action-packed Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic... -
Garden Ornaments: Pots, Pergolas, Pedestals, and More E. Ashley Rooney 9780764319563
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.03Statues, fountains, sundials, and obelisks--don't most of us want to live with beauty in a garden? Garden ornaments can breathe life into a garden, no matter its size. When art is placed in a garden,... -
Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture Jean-Marcel Humbert 9781598742015
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09This book presents and analyses the results of the use and adaptation of ancient Egyptian architecture in modern times. It traces the use of ancient Egyptian motifs and constructions across the... -
Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers by Terry Deary 9780297870623
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.29Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet...