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A House in Maine by Nina Campbell
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.61The interiors of this glorious retreat's many buildings are given the Nina Campbell treatment with vibrant palettes, sumptuous fabrics, fine antiques, and a contemporary clarity. Constructed at the... -
Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England by Nichola Khan
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01A monumental account of one migrant community's everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations Forty years of continuous war and conflict have made Afghans the largest refugee group in the world. In... -
Tau Lewis: Vox Populi, Vox Dei Tiana Reid 9781644231142
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60Tau Lewis's mythical sculptures create elaborate portals into fantastic worlds "At 52 Walker, artist Tau Lewis transmutes the lifeblood of scrap objects into something sanctified. . . . I'm reminded... -
Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past by Johann Chapoutot 9780520275720
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.63Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and the Nazi takeover of Germany, but when we tell the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not also speak of... -
Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power by Neal M. Rosendorf 9781137299284
Booksplease Price: £100.03A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations programs - including the most popular national... -
Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25"Modern Women Poets" is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, "Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets". While its selections illuminate and illustrate... -
U.S. International Exhibitions during the Cold War: Winning Hearts and Minds through Cultural Diplomacy by Andrew James Wulf 9781442246423
Booksplease Price: £113.11Although cultural diplomacy has become an increasingly fashionable term embraced by academics, foreign-service personnel, and private sector commercial and cultural interests, the very practice of... -
China’s Heritage through History: Reconfigured Pasts by Yujie Zhu 9781032395661
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59China's Heritage through History employs a longue duree approach to examine China's heritage through history. From Imperial to contemporary China, it explores the role of practices and material forms... -
The Vanishing Stepwells of India by Victoria Lautman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74Some of the finest architectural structures in India are to be found below ground: these are its ancient stepwells. Stepwells are unique to India; the earliest rudimentary wells date from about the... -
Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade by Paulo Herkenhoff
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.50In Maldicidade, the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk, in New York, Havana, Salvador da Bahia, or Tokyo, it is an environment fraught with yearning, aching with solitude, and fretful with fortunes... -
Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India by Gita V. Pai 9781009150156
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44In this innovative study, Gita V. Pai traces the history of the Pudu Mandapam (Tamil, 'new hall') - a Hindu temple structure in Madurai - through the rise and fall of empires in south India from the... -
Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969-1989) by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa 9789811406522
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.32In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression "Suddenly Turning Visible" to describe the rapid transformation of Manila's urban landscape. The visibility that Albano... -
The Emperor's Shadow: Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes of St Helena by Anne Whitehead
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the... -
Rugby: An Anthology: The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant Brian Levison 9781472142573
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.44Inspiring and irreverent by turns, Brian Levison's new anthology has drawn on rugby's wealth of excellent writing. Frank Keating, P. G. Wodehouse, Alec Waugh, A. A. Thomson, John Reason and Mick... -
Sustainable Architecture: Contemporary Architecture in Detail by 9788417656430
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.83In the architecture world, sustainability has evolved from an optional feature into an urgent necessity. Now in paperback, this publication presents 25 building projects from around the world that... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.44This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in... -
Kanaval by Leah Gordon 9781999349479
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.47'Before Carnival, you never sleep, always dreaming of bringing pleasure, innovation and creation. ' - Fanel Saint-Helere & Frantz Denoujou (Flanbo Mardi Gras troupe) Leagues away from the... -
Karin Kneffel: Haymatlos by Karin Kneffel 9786055815530
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Published on the occasion of Karin Kneffel's exhibition Haymatlos at Dirimart (13 November 2020-17 January 2021), this trilingual catalogue explores themes of memory, displacement, and belonging. The... -
Learning About Mental Health Practice by Theo Stickley 9780470512272
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £43.01This textbook outlines the key areas of mental health practice for those in the early stages of their training, who may not necessarily come from psychology backgrounds. Accompanies the lecturer's... -
Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future by Derek Wall 9780745335070
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.95'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. However, there is an alternative to our crisis-ridden,... -
Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones 9781852243920
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00In this pioneering critical study, Deryn Rees-Jones discusses the work of some of the major women poets of the last hundred years, showing how they have explored what it has meant to be a woman poet... -
Hallelujah for 50ft Women: poems about women's relationship to their bodies Raving Beauties 9781780371559
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Raving Beauties women's theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and... -
Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic Anthony Barnett 9781914420269
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From Anthony Barnett, the creator and former editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, comes this blazing response to the confrontation between Trumpism and Biden in America, that sets out how the future of... -
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene 9780231144414
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.11"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors,... -
Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment David Gissen (California College of the Arts, San Francisco) 9780470721650
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £28.07Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a... -
Frank Walter: Music of the Spheres by Barbara Paca
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48This publication has been produced to accompany an exhibition staged by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, for the 2021 Edinburgh Art Festival. The exhibition is the first devoted to Frank Walter's 'spools'... -
The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China by Thomas Kelly 9780231209632
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books... -
McAlpine: Romantic Modernism by Bobby Mcalpine
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.11The work of renowned firm McALPINE has always communicated the power of romanticism, speaking directly to the heart through the beauty and poetry of the home. Tapping diverse influences, the... -
The Ghost of a Model T: And Other Stories by Clifford D. Simak 9781504039468
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.22Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It's been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it... -
As Long As We Both Shall Eat: A History of Wedding Food and Feasts by Claire Stewart 9781442257139
Booksplease Price: £39.81As Long as we Both Shall Eat is a culinary history of wedding feasts. Examining the various food customs associated with weddings in America and around the world, Claire Stewart not only provides a... -
Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier by Simon Holloway 9780393732405
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.78Within a few years engineers were putting up warehouses and elegant railway stations of corrugated iron. By the late 1840s entrepreneurial manufacturers were sending out build-it-yourself... -
Gilly: The Turbulent Life of Roy Gilchrist Mark Peel 9781801503952
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Gilly: The Turbulent Life of Roy Gilchrist is the tragic account of a cricket meteor who crashed to earth all too quickly because of his flawed temperament. Born into grinding poverty in rural... -
Japan Pop-Up Book: The Comic Adventures of Neko the Cat by Sam Ita
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Take an exciting manga pop-up journey across Japan with Chico and Neko the Cat!Pick up where Tokyo Pop-Up Book left off, as Chico and his mischievous cat Neko visit Japan's most famous landmarks. The... -
The Built Environment Emily Hasler 9781786941046
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Emily Hasler's debut collection moves between the local and the distant, the urban and the rural, and past and present. This is a poetry of emotional density underpinned with a lightness of touch... -
Informality through Sustainability: Urban Informality Now by Antonino Di Raimo 9780367354770
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability.Penetrating its... -
Jeff Wall by Thierry Duve 9780714855974
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £35.14Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge... -
Production Urbanism: The Meta Industrial City by Dongwoo Yim
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £28.74The Industrial Revolution caused a paradigm shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, giving birth to the industrial city. 'City' became synonymous with a concentration of factories... -
Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon by 9781649030849
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.99A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in CairoWith the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Cairo lost its position as the capital of the Islamic... -
April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo by Irena Makaryk 9781487503727
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.54Attracting over fifteen million visitors, the 1925 Paris Expo had an ambitious goal to create a new modernist style which would reflect the great scientific, industrial, and technological advances... -
The Three of Us: a heartbreaking romance by Sareeta Domingo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'A beautiful novel about messy relationships, finding yourself and over-coming past trauma. I completely lost myself in this story' SARA JAFARI, author of The Mismatch'I enjoyed this book very much'...