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Futebol: Urban Euphoria in Brazil Leonardo Finotti 9783037784310
RRP: $42.84Booksplease Price: $32.99In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans;... -
Multilingualism and Pluricentricity: A Tale of Many Cities by John Hajek 9781501527418
RRP: $54.74Booksplease Price: $39.10This volume explores linguistic diversity and complexity in different urban contexts, many of which have never been subject to significant sociolinguistic inquiry. A novel mixture of cities of... -
Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 by S. J. Connolly 9780199563715
Booksplease Price: $128.69Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords- Irish and... -
The Dark Film by Paul Farley 9780330461238 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.74The Dark Film, Paul Farley's first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames, expands the poet's research into 'the art of seeing', and all that humans project of themselves into the... -
The Now! That's What I Call Music Book by Pete Selby 9781471153341 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $9.90Everyone remembers their first NOW! Each edition of the NOW That's What I Call Musicseries captures the essence of the pop charts at that precise moment in music history, striking a chord with music... -
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines Marie Brenner 9781250837158
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $29.63In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent... -
The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration and the Survival of an Indian People by Colin G. Calloway 9780806125688
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $34.01Before European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River... -
Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis by Robin Waterfield 9780330492515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $6.05With wit and verve Robin Waterfield brings the bizarre story of hypnotism to life. A lively mixture of popular history, science and psychology, Hidden Depths is the definitive work on hypnosis. From... -
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil by Kelly E. Hayes
RRP: $88.06Booksplease Price: $72.71"Holy Harlots" examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit... -
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia Elyn R. Saks 9781844081677
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $27.35Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on... -
The Cliff by Manon Debaye 9781770466944
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.80A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their... -
Tibetan Lives: Three Himalayan Autobiographies by Peter Richardus 9780415759922
RRP: $116.60Booksplease Price: $108.60In the early years of the 20th century, control over Tibet was contested by three major empires: those of China, Russia and Britain. The imperial powers and those who came in their wake -... -
Transatlantic Gender Crossings by Anne Emmanuelle Berger 9780822363972
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97A special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies As much as French feminism influenced the establishment of women's studies in U.S. universities, so has U.S. gender and queer... -
The Global South: Histories, Politics, Maps by Pamila Gupta 9781478000983
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97This special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South. Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South, the... -
One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter 9780091940560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.71What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride... -
One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.66What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride... -
Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos by Ted Kaizer 9781107560239
Booksplease Price: $76.45This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several... -
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz 9781564784919
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so... -
Her Mother's Daughter: Agnes' Story by Evie Grace
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32THE SECOND SAGA IN EVIE GRACE'S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. 'One of the most gifted saga writers writing today' Bookish Jottings ***Will she break free and change her future? Canterbury, 1853 Agnes... -
Her Mother's Daughter: Agnes' Story by Evie Grace 9781784756239 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $3.67THE SECOND SAGA IN EVIE GRACE'S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. 'One of the most gifted saga writers writing today' Bookish Jottings ***Will she break free and change her future? Canterbury, 1853 Agnes... -
On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan by Hoyt Long 9780804776868
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $116.14The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was... -
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman 9781538701195
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $32.44In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick... -
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 by Christer Jorgensen 9781473884564
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German... -
Every Little Piece of My Heart by Non Pratt
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.66"Pratt's characters are rib-achingly funny, outrageous and entirely true to life." Metro"A writer to watch." The Guardian"A leading name in UK YA literature." The BooksellerUK YA Book... -
Every Little Piece of My Heart by Non Pratt 9781406366945 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $6.93"Pratt's characters are rib-achingly funny, outrageous and entirely true to life." Metro"A writer to watch." The Guardian"A leading name in UK YA literature." The BooksellerUK YA Book... -
Europe Entrapped Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9780745687513
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $38.53Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European... -
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended . . . " -Choice" . . . the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.14'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $37.27By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas 9781839767845
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $30.51The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The Pandemic Crisis has... -
Picking Up Signals Jane Pearn 9781836281818
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04These are poems for our time, which stir as well as make us reflect. Flowing between childhood and adulthood and ranging from the deeply personal to the universal, themes of motherhood, adoption,... -
This Song Is About Us Sara Barnard 9781529525366
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Told over three summer festivals, this stunning novel from a bestselling author charts the emotional turmoil of young love and early fame.The Kerbs are a four-piece pop rock band on the verge of... -
Glasgow in Photographs David Collie 9781398122031
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $34.39Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, has long been an important cultural and trading centre. Its historic university and the wealth generated by the Atlantic trade, followed by massive industrial... -
Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan by Eluned Gramich 9781917140027
RRP: $19.04Booksplease Price: $15.16Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative... -
Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied Keith Jarrett 9781913268886
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.92Poetry Book Society RecommendationKeith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful... -
The Politics of Ethnicity and Federalism in Pakistan: Local, National, and Comparative Perspectives by Ryan Brasher 9780190700454
Booksplease Price: $38.53This volume seeks to address two distinct yet interconnected issues: centre-periphery relations and ethnic identity in Pakistan. First, there has been a recurring debate about the formal structure of... -
Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World by Isa Blumi
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $51.65Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting... -
Salford Through Time by Paul Hindle
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80Salford is often seen as the smaller twin of Manchester, its neighbour across the River Irwell. In fact, Salford was a borough long before Manchester achieved that status, but even in the 1530s John... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing by Robert Clarke 9781316607299
RRP: $57.12Booksplease Price: $54.55The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of... -
The Human Elements of Psychotherapy: A Nonmedical Model of Emotional Healing by David N. Elkins 9781433820663
RRP: $123.76Booksplease Price: $107.08This book presents a nonmedical model of psychotherapy-one that places common factors, particularly human factors, at the center and moves modalities and techniques to the periphery. In a concise...