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The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do by Phillip Harris 9780810896147
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.55Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about... -
The Age of Entrepreneurship: Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851 by Robert Bennett
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million... -
Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 by J. Chris Westgate 9781137359681
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the... -
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith 9781526615008
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92THE AWARD-WINNING MASTERPIECE THAT DEFINED ROCK'N'ROLL MEMOIR AND CAPTURED AN ERA Now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted'... -
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military... -
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield by Sir Max Hastings 9780007198856 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military... -
Just Kids by Patti Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert... -
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich 9781451667066
Booksplease Price: £12.48Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl has enjoyed a... -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with... -
The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young by Scott Barretta 9780810883086
Booksplease Price: £102.21Israel G. "Izzy" Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only... -
Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form by Paul Jenkins 9780415586931
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of...