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Policing Terrorism by Christopher Blake 9780857255181
Booksplease Price: £46.12This is an accessible and up to date text for students on police-related degree courses covering a highly topical area of policing. Terrorism has become a major issue for policing during the 21st... -
Mozart by West Riding Professor of Music Julian Rushton 9780195182644
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.98Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy--he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his... -
Multigenerational Family Living: Evidence and Policy Implications from Australia Edgar Liu 9780367595777
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Multigenerational living - where more than one generation of related adults cohabit in the same dwelling - is recognized as a common arrangement amongst many Asian, Middle Eastern and Southern... -
Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition by Peter Evans 9780198184140
Booksplease Price: £63.75The liveliness and importance of Spanish cinema is increasingly being recognised outside Spain, in film festivals, television exposure, and courses in Institutions of Higher Education. To a large... -
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism by Tristram Wolff 9781503632769
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers... -
The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms by Barbara Owen 9780195311075
Booksplease Price: £51.82Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the... -
The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate by Dr Philip Seargeant 9781350278851
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.03Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The... -
The Pop Musical: Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias by Professor Alberto Mira
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32After Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley's iron grip on the movie musical began to slip in the face of pop's cultural dominance, many believed that the musical genre entered a terminal decline and finally... -
Understanding Policing and Professional Practice by Barrie Sheldon
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81This book outlines the foundations for understanding modern policing. It is an essential introduction for all policing students and trainee police officers to the underpinning aspects of the... -
From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19 by Benjamin Isitt 9780774818025
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78As the last guns sounded on the Western Front, 4,200 Canadian soldiers, some of them conscripts, travelled from Victoria to Vladivostok to open a new theatre of war in Siberia. Part of the Allied... -
Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters by Jo Evans 9781501312588
Booksplease Price: £40.17Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Bunuel... -
![The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Ce - Punctuating the Classical "Period" by Stephanie D. Vial](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/362088/361805/9781580460347__01607.1687041770.jpg?c=1 "The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Ce - Punctuating the Classical "Period" by Stephanie D. Vial")
The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Ce - Punctuating the Classical "Period" by Stephanie D. Vial
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in eighteenth-century musical notation. There are, of course, no commas,... -
Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night - The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850 by John Michael Cooper 9781580463683
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust and other works. This paperback edition of Mendelssohn,... -
Soldiers and Societies in Postcommunist Europe: Legitimacy and Change by A. Forster 9780333946220
Booksplease Price: £46.58This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe... -
Substance Not Spin: An Insider's View of Success and Failure in Government by Nick Raynsford 9781447331926
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Why does policy succeed or fail? Nick Raynsford, a former MP, Minister and campaigner, tells us how it looks from the front line of policymaking. Based on his vast personal experience at the very... -
Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema by Julie Lobalzo Wright 9781501353987
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.29Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Stars in American Cinema focuses on male music stars who have attempted to achieve film stardom. Crossover stardom can describe stars who cross from one medium to... -
The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate Dr Philip Seargeant 9781350538474
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.62Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives?Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future... -
Widor - A Life beyond the Toccata by John R. Near
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10Brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to... -
Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of Principles and Techniques by Mick N. Clout 9780199216338
Booksplease Price: £48.99Invasive alien species are a major and growing threat to biodiversity worldwide. The transport of organisms through increased levels of trade and tourism is leading to the widespread breaching of... -
Pierre Cochereau - Organist of Notre-Dame by Anthony Hammond
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28Noted organist and scholar Anthony Hammond tells the full story, for the first time, of one of the great organists of the twentieth century. Described by his teacher Marcel Dupre as "a phenomenon... -
Beyond The Art of Finger Dexterity - Reassessing Carl Czerny by David Gramit
Booksplease Price: £109.33The first English-language book on Czerny, and the broadest survey of his activity in any language. Within the history of European music, Carl Czerny (1791-1857) is simultaneously all too familiar... -
Variations on the Canon - Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday by Robert Curry 9781580462853
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.28Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is... -
Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ T. C. Schmidt 9780192866783
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This book brings to light an extraordinary connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jewish historian Josephus. Writing in 93/94 CE, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium... -
Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City by Craig D. Townsend 9780231134699
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy... -
Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State by Emily Bell 9780231176132
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three... -
Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City by Craig D. Townsend 9780231134682
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.68On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy... -
Bach: Essays on His Life and Music by Christoph Wolff 9780674059269
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.68Johann Sebastian Bach holds a singular position in the history of music. A uniquely gifted musician, he combined outstanding performing virtuosity with supreme creative powers and remarkable... -
Geocryology: Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms Stuart A. Harris 9780367528959
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.58This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of environmental factors... -
Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States by Peter W. Williams 9780252069178
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Houses of God is the first broad survey of American religious architecture, a cultural cross-country expedition that will benefit travelers as much as scholars. Beautifully illustrated with over 100... -
Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating translation and accessibility into the filmmaking process Pablo Romero-Fresco 9781138493018
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.89Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film industry, where... -
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah 9780300158267
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Journalist Tim Judah's classic account, now brought fully up to date to include the overthrow of Milosevic, the assassination of Zoran Djindic, the breakaway of Kosovo, and the arrest of Radovan... -
The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach by Stephen Rose 9781107428041
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Using novels and autobiographies from Bach's Germany, Stephen Rose suggests new ways of interpreting the lives and social status of musicians. This study focuses on satirical novels written by... -
What is Life and How Might it be Sustained?: Reflections in a Pandemic by Jim Lynch
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.14How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. Studies on the... -
What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained?: Reflections in a Pandemic Jim Lynch (Univ. of Surrey) 9781032303888
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £34.91How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. Studies on the... -
Romans: A Letter That Makes Sense of Life by Andrew Ollerton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'On all my travels, if I had the Gospels, Paul's letter to the Romans and Andrew Ollerton's book I would need nothing else!'Sir David SuchetWith his trademark straightforward teaching style, Andrew... -
Hearing Bach's Passions by Daniel R. Melamed 9780190490126
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £21.37Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These... -
Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections by Ralph P. Locke 9780521349550
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.94A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been... -
In Search of Alberto Guerrero by John Beckwith 9781554584420
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70In Search of Alberto Guerrero is the first full biography of the influential Chilean-Canadian pianist and teacher (1886-1959), describing Guerrero's long career as virtuoso recitalist, chamber music... -
Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections by Ralph P. Locke 9780521877930
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £63.92A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don Jose - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been... -
After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance by Kenneth Hamilton 9780195178265
Booksplease Price: £39.38Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a...