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Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon Marc Francis 9781478033080
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how... -
Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon Marc Francis 9781478029632
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how... -
Supertato: Books Are Rubbish!: World Book Day 2020 by Sue Hendra 9781471188084 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.49The Evil Pea thinks books are rubbish! Find out whether the veggies can prove him wrong in this brand new mini picture book created especially for World Book Day 2020. It's night-time in the... -
Cultural Populism by Jim McGuigan
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses... -
The Global Governance of Food by Sara R. Curran 9780415590853
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related... -
Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross 9781479813070
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era Free time, one of life's most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities... -
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Placido, and Afro-Latino Religion by Matthew Pettway 9781496824967
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.80Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Placido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both... -
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination by Rosamond S. King 9780813049809
Booksplease Price: £68.91In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyses the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora... -
The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies by Ruth Prigozy 9781496828170
Booksplease Price: £31.89There was a time when no one would have left Dick Haymes (1918-1980) out of the top class of such contemporaries as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. But now the Argentine-born baritone is known only to... -
Box of Bones (a Captain Darac Novel 3) by Peter Morfoot 9781783296682 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.42It is carnival time in Nice, and for three weeks the boulevards are alive with dancers, jugglers and musicians. Amid the colour and pageantry, a man suffers a fatal fall - the first in a series of... -
Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome by Fredric Brandfon
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations... -
A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by Michael Mangan
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £57.60This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As... -
Out of Order?: Policing Black People by E. Cashmore
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First published in 1991, this book evaluates and compares the problematic relationships that have sometimes existed between police and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain and in the United States of... -
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack Paul Gilroy 9780415289801
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race... -
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination by Rosamond S. King 9780813062068
Booksplease Price: £23.03In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. Analyzing the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature,... -
Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain Sarah Lowndes 9781032040660
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community... -
Nourished Kitchen Erica Rodriguez 9781805701460
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Inspirational, nutrient-dense meals for a healthy, balanced lifestyle.In her debut cookbook, Registered Nutritionist Erica Rodriguez invites readers inside her kitchen and shares over 80 nourishing,... -
Events and The Social Sciences by Hazel Andrews
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced... -
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.10A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor BookPerfect for kids interested in animals, science, and the world of their backyard, this photographic story of a day in the life of a wolfsnail offers a dramatic... -
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack by Paul Gilroy 9780415289818
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.39This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race... -
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Placido, and Afro-Latino Religion by Matthew Pettway 9781496825018
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Placido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both... -
Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic by James H. Johnson 9780520294653
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found... -
Sticker Dolly Dressing Costumes Around the World by Emily Bone 9781474991957
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.30Dress the dolls in traditional dresses, ornate jewellery, dancing shoes and headdresses for lots of exciting festivals and carnivals around the world. There are elegant sparkly dresses, masks for a... -
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and... -
Fashion, Design and Events Kim Williams (University of Wollongong) 9781138082045
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £50.40The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for... -
The Cougar Conundrum: Sharing the World with a Succesful Predator Mark Elbroch 9781610919982
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and hunted to the verge of extinction. In recent years,... -
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell 9781635928365
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.95A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor BookPerfect for kids interested in animals, science, and the world of their backyard, this photographic story of a day in the life of a wolfsnail offers a dramatic... -
Three Classic Adventures of Supertato: Featuring: Veggies Assemble; Run, Veggies, Run!; Evil Pea Rules by Paul Linnet 9781471191831
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Meet Supertato! The much-loved supermarket superhero who's there to save the day when the chips are down stars in three classic adventures. Join Supertato and the veggies as they face not just one... -
Venice: A Color-Your-Own Travel Journal Evie Carrick 9781507223130
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Color your way around the world as this travel-journal-meets-coloring-book guides you through the streets of Venice, featuring 30 expertly curated sites to learn about, color, and record whether... -
Three Classic Adventures of Supertato: Featuring: Veggies Assemble; Run, Veggies, Run!; Evil Pea Rules by Paul Linnet 9781471191831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.52Meet Supertato! The much-loved supermarket superhero who's there to save the day when the chips are down stars in three classic adventures. Join Supertato and the veggies as they face not just one... -
Festival Cities: Culture, Planning and Urban Life John R. Gold (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780415486569
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the... -
Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Expanded Edition Donna Hart 9780813344034
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles,... -
Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu by Jorg Durrschmidt
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Rejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in which people's biographies are tied up with the global cultural... -
Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice: From Regulation To Resistance Gill Aitken 9780748405046
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores... -
Radical Doubt: The Joker System, after Boal Mady Schutzman 9781138210035
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System,... -
Political Reputation Management: The Strategy Myth by Christian Schnee 9780367870553
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94It is widely assumed that a competitive political environment of public distrust and critical media forces political parties to manage communications and reputations strategically, but is this really... -
The Case Against Paramilitary Policing Tony Jefferson 9781032449012
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49In the late 1980s, the conventional wisdom informing the policing of public order events was that of paramilitarism: militarily trained and equipped units with a special responsibility to deal... -
Claudia Jones: A Biography by Marika Sherwood 9780853158820
Booksplease Price: £17.19Every year over a million people pack the streets of London's Notting Hill for Carnival, but as the carnival-goers soak up the sights, sounds and smells of the festival, few appreciate that its... -
Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance by Edward Muir
Booksplease Price: £26.42Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals-the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular... -
Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods by Marina Rojavin
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying...