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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Dr. Germaine Greer 9780746308882
Booksplease Price: €25.31Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his... -
The Protestant Ethic Debate: Weber’s Replies to His Critics, 1907-1910 by David Chalcraft 9780853239864
Booksplease Price: €33.97Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism continues to be one of the most influential texts in the sociology of modern Western societies. Although Weber never produced the further... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Simon Avery 9780746312063
RRP: €22.24Booksplease Price: €16.95Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this study, Simon Avery considers a... -
Indigenismo hacia el fin del milenio: Homenaje a Antonio Cornejo-Polar by Mabel Moraña 9781837644070
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.50El trabajo de Antonio Cornejo-Polar, a quien este volumen rinde homenaje, alimento durante varias decadas la reflexion mas seria y articulada que se haya producido en Peru sobre la critica cultural... -
Geology and the Pioneers of Earth Science Mike Leeder 9781780461069
Booksplease Price: €74.14Momentous changes in geology came about in the 1960s. These were partly the result of the application of discoveries in the basic sciences (physics, chemistry) over the previous six decades, but also... -
The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus Kenneth Baxter Wolf 9781835538432
Booksplease Price: €40.20Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad in public. The... -
Norman MacCaig by Alasdair Macrae 9780746310762
RRP: €22.24Booksplease Price: €16.95Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996, was a prolific poet whose later poetry is accessible and popular. This study locates him in his literary and social contexts and presents his work according to its... -
Fleur Adcock by Janet Wilson 9780746310403
RRP: €22.24Booksplease Price: €16.95This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: €22.24Booksplease Price: €16.95This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of... -
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion': The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922 Erin Kate Scheopner 9781836243977
Booksplease Price: €42.29This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the 'Irish question' from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in... -
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 19 Ilia Rodov 9781835532379
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €63.13Ars Judaica is an annual publication of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present... -
Debating Civil-Military Relations in Latin America by David R. Mares 9781845195915
Booksplease Price: €135.87The study of civil-military relations in Latin America produced a rich debate and research agenda prior to 2000. But this agenda was largely abandoned during the past decade as the spectre of... -
Catalonia Since the Spanish Civil War: Reconstructing the Nation by Andrew Dowling 9781845196646
Booksplease Price: €39.71This book examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist... -
Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 by James Owen 9781802078220
Booksplease Price: €42.29Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a sustained and concerted campaign for working-class... -
Wahhabism and the Rise of the House of Saud by Dr. Tarik K Firro 9781845199906
Booksplease Price: €42.30This book examines the role of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) and his successors in reconsolidating the religious principles of Wahhabism. It explains the role of the Saudi princes in... -
'Goodbye, Spain?': The Question of Independence for Catalonia by Kathryn Crameri 9781845196592
Booksplease Price: €135.87Support for independence in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia has risen significantly since 2005. Opinion polls confirm that the idea of holding a legally-binding referendum on independence is... -
Rebuilding Islam in Contemporary Spain: The Politics of Mosque Establishment, 19762013 by Avi Astor 9781845199661
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €52.72Following Spain's democratic transition during the late 1970s, political and business elites strategically exploited Spain's rich Islamic heritage in order to further projects of national... -
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon by Kaiama L. Glover 9781846314995
Booksplease Price: €56.28An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been... -
Sex, Lies & Politics: Gay Politicians in the Press by Donna Smith 9781845196042
Booksplease Price: €37.06This book provides a much-needed analysis of the changing representation of gay politicians in UK newspapers. Focusing on the 1950s onwards, a time when the press became more personal and gay... -
Very Good Sort of Man: Life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (17831877), Physician to Lady Hester Stanhope by Mark Guscin 9781845198725
Booksplease Price: €136.23The first ever biography of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (17831877), born in Rye (Sussex), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope and companion on her travels on various different occasions (to Malta, Greece,... -
Reclaiming al-Andalus: Orientalist Scholarship and Spanish Nationalism, 1875-1919 by Pablo Bornstein 9781789760606
Booksplease Price: €135.87Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical... -
Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century by Edgar Morin 9781845192747
Booksplease Price: €37.06Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history' Vidal's... -
The Road to Anarchy: The CNT under the Spanish Second Republic (19311936) by Angel Herrerin 9781789761474
RRP: €53.49Booksplease Price: €52.67The Road to Anarchy is the result of an exhaustive investigation into the anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the democratic years of the Second Republic. By analysing... -
Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the dUrbervilles and Jude the Obscure by Richard Franklin 9781789761405
Booksplease Price: €42.30The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious... -
Independence, Language and Identity in Modern Catalonia: A Study in Socio-Cultural and Socio-Political Allegiance by Steven Byrne 9781789760712
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €52.72The processes associated with globalisation have seen Catalonia become an increasingly ethnolinguistically diverse region. A vibrant civic and political movement for an independence has brought a... -
Analyzing Drama: A Student Casebook by James R Russo 9781789761115
Booksplease Price: €135.87This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and... -
Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350–1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption by Emma Cayley 9781781382691
Booksplease Price: €42.29This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350-1550. It showcases innovative research on the... -
The Nixon Administration and the Middle East Peace Process, 1969-1973: From the Rogers Plan to the Outbreak of the Yom Kippur War by Boaz Vanetik 9781845197209
Booksplease Price: €42.30The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in Israeli society and a national trauma whose wounds have yet to heal some four decades later. In the years following the war many studies addressed the... -
Negotiating Neutrality: Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Age of Appeasement, 19311940 by Scott Ramsay 9781789761160
Booksplease Price: €135.87The British government's policy of non-intervention in response to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War sought primarily to prevent the conflict escalating into a wider European war but also to... -
Societies of Social Innovation: Voices and Arguments by Ander Gurrutxaga Abad 9781845195137
Booksplease Price: €40.17The object of this study is to clarify the meanings and uses of social innovation in contemporary societies. The author makes use of the forms of analysis provided by theories of social change and... -
Understanding Roots of Voluntary Action: Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy by Colin Rochester 9781845194246
Booksplease Price: €42.30The current debate on the growing role of the voluntary and community or third sector in delivering public and social policy is impoverished by its lack of understanding of the historical events... -
Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama & Culture by Ryan Curtis Friesen 9781845199593
Booksplease Price: €42.30Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection... -
Revolutionary Ideology & Political Destiny in Mexico, 19281934: Lazaro Cardenas & Adalberto Tejeda by Eitan Ginzberg 9781845197773
Booksplease Price: €44.91Lazaro Cardenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacan and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of... -
Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry & Symbolist Poetics by Lisa Goldfarb 9781845199470
Booksplease Price: €45.02The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical fashion. Pairing poets who are not usually studied... -
Ex Machina by Joshua Grimm 9781800348301
Booksplease Price: €112.87Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial... -
Stalker by Jon Hoel 9781800348332
Booksplease Price: €112.87Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
S/He: Sex & Gender in Hispanic Cultures by Debra D. Andrist 9781845198909
Booksplease Price: €136.23Hierarchies and disparities based on sex and gender have characterized nearly all hominid societies over almost the entire world of cultures since time immemorial. Nearly without exception, those... -
Transforming Orality: Articulating Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Britain Anne-Julia Zwierlein 9781805966791
Booksplease Price: €131.00In bringing together a group of international experts on Victorian oral culture, this collection examines formats of public orality in the long nineteenth century from a cultural-historical... -
Wolfe Tone: Second edition by Marianne Elliott 9781786942067
Booksplease Price: €81.88Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was the founder of Irish Republican nationalism. As such his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and early death have become powerful political weapons... -
thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art by Fan Di'An 9781781381458
Booksplease Price: €119.32Richly illustrated and boasting an array of distinguished artists, scholars and curators, thingworld is the catalogue of the International Triennial of New Media Art held at the National Art Museum...