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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires by Julie Peakman 9781789141405
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $48.46Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through 500 years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines... -
Rum: A Global History by Richard Foss 9781861899262
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii drink straight? What helped spark the American... -
Vera Röhm by Stephen Bann 9781861892645
Booksplease Price: $60.96Vera Rohm's name comes up in discussions of contemporary constructive art as an unorthodox example of the sculptural approach. Since the very beginning of her artistic career she has been concerned... -
Women, Islam, and Cinema by Gönül Dönmez-Colin 9781861892201
Booksplease Price: $38.24This is the first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema. Film critic and author Gonul Donmez-Colin explores the role of women as spectators, images and image... -
Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men: Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England by David Brown 9781780236445
Booksplease Price: $122.48Lancelot 'Capability' Brown is often thought of as an innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, 'naturalistic' style of landscape design. But he was only one of many landscape designers... -
Herman Melville by Kevin J. Hayes 9781780238074
Booksplease Price: $33.13American novelist and poet Herman Melville is considered by many to be the finest author his nation has produced. Born in New York in 1819, he achieved recognition as a leader of world literature... -
Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and the Visual Arts by Phillipe Junod 9781780238111
Booksplease Price: $90.79Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by... -
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond 9781780236407
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $80.52Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used... -
Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics by Allen Weiss 9781780231907
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $64.66The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a memory theatre, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization... -
The Shape of Craft by Ezra Shales 9781780238227
Booksplease Price: $67.24Today, the word 'craft' is linked to a vast array of items, from handmade objects to microbreweries. The term 'artisanal' is so overused that it can strain our credulity. But this also reveals that... -
Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley, The by Ted Harrison 9781780239903
Booksplease Price: $28.92Elvis Aaron Presley is more popular today than ever, yet he died nearly forty years ago. His music is constantly remixed and re-released to a new generation of fans, and his image thrives in popular... -
Earthly Immortalities: How the Dead Live On in the Lives of Others by Peter Moore 9781789140583
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.04In this thought-provoking book, Peter Moore examines the often overlooked issues concerning human mortality, the fragile ways in which the dead can be said to "live on" in earthly terms: through... -
Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Edouard Vuillard by Julia Frey 9781789141603
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $80.52Edouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $55.19In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book... -
Turkey: Modern Architectures in History by Esra Akcan 9781861898784
Booksplease Price: $84.83'Gentlemen, it was necessary to abolish the fez, which sat on the heads of our people as an emblem of ignorance ...and hatred of progress and civilization. It was necessary to accept in its place the... -
A Philosophy of Discomfort by Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau 9781861899033
Booksplease Price: $51.91A hard chair, an irritating draught of air, an embarrassing conversation - all of these provoke in us a sense of discomfort. Normally we define 'discomfort' simply as a lack of comfort. But which... -
Foreshadowed: Malevich's Black Square and Its Precursors by Andrew Spira 9781789145359
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $43.00When Kasimir Malevich's Black Square was produced in 1915, no-one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, over the previous 500 years, several painters,... -
The Art of Verbal Warfare by Rik Smits 9781789145946
Booksplease Price: $78.18A dive into salty and artful language, invective and off-colour jokes the world over.Book InformationISBN 9781789145946Author Rik SmitsFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint -
The Devil and His Advocates by Erik Butler 9781789143737
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $40.19Satan is not God's enemy in the Bible, and he's not always bad - much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil through literature, theology, visual... -
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History by Tijl Vanneste 9781789144352
Booksplease Price: $75.82Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expose of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the environment, and the monopolization of uncut diamonds, and how... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $26.81From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the... -
Edible Insects: A Global History by Gina Louise Hunter 9781789144468
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought of eating insects while others find them delicious?... -
Charles Darwin by J. David Archibald 9781789144406
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new origin-story for all life: evolution rather than creation. In his new biography J... -
The Private Lives of Pictures: Art at Home in Britain, 1800-1940 by Nicholas Tromans 9781789146233
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $55.19A superbly illustrated, innovative history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home.Book InformationISBN 9781789146233Author Nicholas TromansFormat HardbackPage Count 272 -
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt's Treasures by Maria Golia 9781789146295
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.50A history of tomb-raiders in Egypt since antiquity.Book InformationISBN 9781789146295Author Maria GoliaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain by Michael Gilson 9781789148602
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.60It is said that Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions across... -
Why Waste Food? by Andrew F. Smith 9781789143447
Booksplease Price: $23.09About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental and ethical reasons to not waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed... -
Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Alan G. Jamieson 9781789149180
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on... -
Coal: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane 9781789143669
Booksplease Price: $34.92While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the... -
Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging by Gonul Donmez-Colin 9781861893703
Booksplease Price: $76.09"Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging" is the first comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey to be published in English. A recurring theme in the book is the Turkish quest for a modern... -
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time Bernadine Barnes 9781836391616
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $22.93In this engaging account, now in paperback, Bernadine Barnes uses new research to show how Michelangelo's art was seen in its own time. The original setting is reconstructed for works that... -
A History of Reading by Steven Roger Fischer 9781789140682
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $25.66Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating A History of Reading offers a... -
Pelican by Barbara Allen 9781789140750
Booksplease Price: $33.13With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill, and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But as Barbara Allen reveals, this graceful skimmer of ocean... -
Animal Rights: Political and Social Pb by Hilda Kean 9781861890610
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $30.23In the early twenty-first century animals are news. Parliamentary debates, protests against fox hunting and television programmes like Animal Hospital all focus on the way in which we treat animals... -
Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting Pb by Oskar Batschmann 9780948462436
Booksplease Price: $55.63In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of... -
Rhinoceros by Kelly Enright 9781861893741
Booksplease Price: $44.52On Disneyland's 'Jungle Cruise', three men are forever chased up a palm tree by a rhinoceros whose sharp horn moves endlessly just out of reach of the lowest man's bottom. Having lived with the... -
Ape by John Sorenson 9781861894229
Booksplease Price: $45.12Apes - to look at them is to see ourselves in a mirror. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behaviour and social personalities. In Ape, John Sorenson delves into... -
Frida Kahlo by Gannit Ankori 9781780231983
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was 22; he was 43. Hailed as Rivera's exotic young wife who 'dabbles in art', she went on to... -
Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam by Vu Hong Lien 9781780233642
Booksplease Price: $92.35With the exception of its war with the United States, Vietnam's history remains significantly under-studied. In this comprehensive book, Vu Hong Lien and Peter D. Sharrock chronicle the vast sweep of... -
What's the Matter with Meat? by Katy Keiffer 9781780237602
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $17.98What's the Matter with Meat? draws back the curtain that obscures the true costs of indus trialized meat production. The book exposes how the industry is expanding worldwide ata rapid pace, with just...