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Is Shakespeare Still Our Contemporary? by John Elsom
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14First published in 2004. The publication of Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary some twenty-five years ago had an immediate impact on Shakespearian criticism and productions. This book is an... -
Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will by Richard Wilson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his... -
Town Planning into the 21st Century Andy Blowers 9780415105262
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium... -
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy by Bob Hancke 9780199206483
Booksplease Price: £85.34Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification... -
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism: Conflict, Contradictions, and Complementarities in the European Economy by Bob Hancke
Booksplease Price: £51.93Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification... -
If I Don't Write It Nobody Else Will by Eric Sykes 9780007177851
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The long awaited story of one of Britain's greatest comic legends. 'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant... -
An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised Oscar Wilde 9781408137208
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.79One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial... -
Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003 by Richard Scholar 9780192807083
Booksplease Price: £29.51Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of... -
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"Sienna Red" by Stephen Poliakoff 9780413664303
Booksplease Price: £14.24"Poliakoff inhabits his own world, a world that contains all the factors and influences of modern living. He always has an eye fixed on where society and fashion is going. His plays are evolutionary... -
Are You There Crocodile? Inventing Anton Chekhov by Michael Pennington 9781840024586
Booksplease Price: £21.68Michael Pennington's work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London's 'Russian Actor' from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the... -
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING: New Cartographies of Networks and Territories by Janet Abrams
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.88ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments... -
Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare by Richard Dutton 9780719063633
Booksplease Price: £23.54This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.In the... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This fresh edition of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnets, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by the actor/director, Fiona Shaw. Its easily accessible layout and... -
Social Media Homicide Confessions: Stories of Killers and their Victims Elizabeth Yardley (Birmingham City University) 9781447328018
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.54The relationship between crime and social media has become an increasingly important topic in a networked world. However, the use of social media in relation to violent crime is little understood... -
Process-Tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines by Derek Beach 9780472131235
Booksplease Price: £71.55Process-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make strong inferences about how a cause (or set of causes)... -
Covert Human Intelligence Sources: The 'unlovely' Face of Police Work by Roger Billingsley
Booksplease Price: £24.15A unique insight into the hidden world of informers and related aspects of covert and undercover policing. Edited by Roger Billingsley, head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland... -
The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting by Dominic Dromgoole 9780413771346
Booksplease Price: £24.92Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,... -
Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled... -
Artists' Homes: Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers by Tom Harford Thompson
Booksplease Price: £29.61In Artists' Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer's studio in Hackney to an eco-warrior's... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192831422
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.35The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern... -
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The "Sneeze" by Anton Chekhov 9781408105221
Booksplease Price: £14.24Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest... -
Staging Beckett in Great Britain by David Tucker 9781474240161
Booksplease Price: £36.82Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense. Uniquely placing performance history at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines... -
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The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is... -
Handbook of Microstrip Antennas: Volume 2 by J. R. James 9780863417597
Booksplease Price: £88.60This book presents a wide ranging coverage of principles, state-of-the-art design and up-to-date applications of microstrip antennas; Includes detailed explanations of a variety of analytical... -
Sonnets and Other Poems by Eric Rasmussen 9780230576247
Booksplease Price: £10.53From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's much-loved sonnets and poems. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a... -
The Old Vic: The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey by Terry Coleman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of... -
Just Adrian by Adrian Mitchell 9781849430470
Booksplease Price: £19.72Just Adrian is a patchwork tour of a legendary playwright, poet and activist's life in the theatre. It is a fascinating first-hand account of groundbreaking productions featuring figures like Kenneth... -
Bacchai by Euripides 9781840022612
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.83"Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black... -
The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates
Booksplease Price: £68.91The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
English Romantic Poets by Sir Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early... -
Developing Thinking in Algebra by John Mason 9781412911719
Booksplease Price: £90.61'This is an incredibly interesting and thought provoking book. Intended for anyone interested in developing their own mathematical thinking, or of the students they teach, whether at a primary level... -
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo Saskia Sassen 9780691264721
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel... -
Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London Nick Buck 9780415279321
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £52.39For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and... -
Governing for Sustainable Urban Development by Dr. Yvonne Rydin 9781844078196
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive analysis of sustainable urban development and to... -
Making Math Connections: Using Real-World Applications With Middle School Students by Hope Martin 9781412937665
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £41.02'Making Math Connections integrates mathematics into a variety of subject areas and real-life settings, providing motivation for students to want to learn the material being presented. The book also... -
Making Math Connections: Using Real-World Applications With Middle School Students by Hope Martin 9781412937658
RRP: £94.95Booksplease Price: £86.20'Making Math Connections integrates mathematics into a variety of subject areas and real-life settings, providing motivation for students to want to learn the material being presented. The book also... -
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36 by Dr Elizabeth Baigent 9781350367944
Booksplease Price: £43.33Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36 focuses on 20th-century Britain and 19th- and 20th-century France. Six essays on individual geographers are complemented by a group article which... -
The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality by Peter Dobkin Hall 9780814734254
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the colonists' declatation of independence from England, nor from the political union of the states under the Constitution of 1789. It...