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The Children of Charles the Second: The Merry Monarch's Fourteen Bastards John Van der Kiste 9781781559468
Booksplease Price: £22.97King Charles II was the father of fourteen illegitimate children (if not more) by seven mistresses. Ironically, his marriage to Queen Catherine, a Portuguese princess, proved childless. The eldest... -
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture Thom Holmes 9781138365469
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £51.49Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Sixth Edition, presents an extensive history of electronic music-from its historical beginnings in the late nineteenth century to... -
California Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries by Ray Jones 9781493040292
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26California Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in California's history. From the head of Zorro to the shadow god of California, this book makes history fun... -
Paul Poiret: Inventing Modern Luxury Mary E Davis 9781836391173
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Before Chanel, Dior or Saint Laurent, there was Paul Poiret. Born in Paris in 1879, he was the most audacious couturier of the pre-war era. While his outre styles were worn by some of the most... -
Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: Reflections on Teaching Practice Diane Pecorari (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 9781138055162
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Student Plagiarism in Higher Education is a crucial read for any university teacher concerned about plagiarism. It provides the tools and information needed to assess this often complex international... -
Clay's Tectonic Shift - John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968 . Macnoughton 9781606061053
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67This is an absorbing look at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. "Clay's Tectonic Shift" focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth... -
Meetings of the Mind by David Damrosch 9780691149387
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly, academic debate needs to... -
A Modest Proposal: For the agreement of the people by Angus Reid 9781910021057
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28'The history of parliament in the UK has a consistent theme: the refusal to accept any binding contract with the people. This unacceptable status quo goes for Holyrood as much as for Westminster. The... -
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue Rosine Jozef Perelberg (Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society; Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London; Corresponding Member, Paris Psychoanalytical Society) 9781138579033
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Edited Book Prize for 2019!Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which... -
Who Killed John Lennon?: The lives, loves and deaths of the greatest rock star Lesley-Ann Jones 9781789464191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Late on 8 December 1980, the world stopped turning for millions when news broke that its best-loved rock star had been gunned down in cold blood in New York City. But who, or what, really killed him?... -
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London Leo Hollis 9781474622868
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMISTThe remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814345290
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £69.22Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent Film comedy. For many people the term ""silent comedy"" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814341025
Booksplease Price: £24.63Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent film comedy.For many people the term "silent comedy" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp,... -
A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific by Alexander R. Brash 9781493074761
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98At the heart of A Whaler at Twilight is the long-lost true story of an American whaler who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific in the mid-nineteenth century in search of absolution... -
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women Jennifer Rycenga 9780252088377
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen... -
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women by Jennifer Rycenga 9780252046308
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen... -
Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Linking Actors and Territories Through Manufacturing and Innovation by Valentina De Marchi
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The international fragmentation of economic activities - from research and design to production and marketing - described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the... -
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale by Jeanett Bjønness 9780367761622
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken... -
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide Victory and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal by David Pietrusza
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.10Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for US HistoryFrom the acclaimed author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents and 1960: LJB vs JFK vs Nixon-The Epic Campaign that... -
Language and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words Matter by Mary H. Davis 9781442238206
Booksplease Price: £51.70Language plays a major role in our daily lives. Humans are specialized to live in a social environment, and our brains are "designed" to manage interactions with others which are, for the most part,... -
Language and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words Matter by Mary H. Davis 9780765708731
Booksplease Price: £85.65Language plays a major role in our daily lives. Humans are specialized to live in a social environment, and our brains are "designed" to manage interactions with others which are, for the most part,... -
Referencing, Understanding Plagiarism and Ethical AI Kate Williams 9781350561502
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This concise and user-friendly guide explains why referencing is an essential part of good writing and shows students how to reference correctly. It also develops students' understanding of what... -
A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century by Mary Beth Harris 9781644533284
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman... -
The English Novel, 1700-1740: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert Letellier 9780313317460
Booksplease Price: £66.89The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English... -
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind by M. Hossein Etezady 9781442235083
Booksplease Price: £51.70Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to... -
Referencing and Understanding Plagiarism by Kate Williams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.35This concise and user-friendly guide explains why referencing is an essential part of good writing and shows students how to reference correctly. It also develops students' understanding of what... -
Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature: From Caedmon to Malory by Lawrence Besserman 9780415744225
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in... -
Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850-1913 by Ann Marie L Davis 9781498542166
Booksplease Price: £39.39In the winter of 1913, a small crowd gathered on the streets of a famous red-light district on the outskirts of Tokyo. Curious patrons, journalists, and onlookers formed a steady procession to see... -
Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice: The Second Century of the Talking Cure by M. Hossein Etezady 9781498577861
Booksplease Price: £113.41Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice serves as a guide for the novice, and a refresher for the expert, into the history and current status of major psychoanalytic concepts. Each chapter... -
Red Star Over the Third World Vijay Prashad 9780745339665
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.53From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow... -
The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay 9780718078096
Booksplease Price: £13.50When Mary Davies travels to Jane Austen's Bath for a historical getaway, she expects a luxurious escape from reality. Instead she finds her friendship at a crossroads, her love life upended, and her... -
The Yellow Houses by Stella Gibbons
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and... -
Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel by Helen Thompson
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by... -
Gardening Myths and Misconceptions by Charles Dowding
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Conventional wisdom is difficult to question, even when it is misguided and contains many contradictions. Should you water in the evening? Do containers need pottery shards for drainage? Can... -
Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power by Jill Flynn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.47New York Times Bestseller How women can make it to the top by adopting the new rules of leadership Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations-a... -
A Short History of Gardens by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.77Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally,... -
A Political Family: The Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War by John Green
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The Kuczynskis were a German-Jewish family of active anti-fascists who worked assiduously to combat the rise of Nazism before and during the course of the Second World War. This book focuses on the... -
Whittled Away by 9781848893108
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.90`Ireland's heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.' Irish Government... -
Garden History: A Very Short Introduction by Gordon Campbell 9780199689873
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally,...