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Disko Bay Nancy Campbell 9781910392188
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23The poems in Nancy Campbell's first collection transport the reader to the frozen shores of Greenland. The Arctic has long been a place of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 15: March 1789 to November 1789 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045474
RRP: $306.60Booksplease Price: $250.53In Volume 15 Jefferson, a veteran of the councils of his own country's revolution, becomes an eyewitness of the opening events of the great upheaval in France in 1789. The Archbishop of Bordeaux and... -
Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing by Gert Oostindie
RRP: $98.60Booksplease Price: $97.63The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies - Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in the Dutch... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780393929744
Booksplease Price: $29.38Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (Santa Clara University) 9781405146890
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $71.42Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of... -
Late Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe 9781405146883
RRP: $197.30Booksplease Price: $182.11Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of... -
In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil by Allan Charles Dawson
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the... -
Greengown: New and Selected Poems by David Kinloch 9781800172791
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.77David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared,... -
In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil by Allan Charles Dawson 9781442649316
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $88.70In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the... -
Leases for Lives: Life Contingent Contracts and the Emergence of Actuarial Science in Eighteenth-Century England by David R. Bellhouse 9781107111769
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $236.94Many historians of insurance have commented on the disconnect between the rise of English life insurance companies in the early eighteenth century and the mathematics behind the sound pricing of life... -
A Broad Vision: The Price Bailey Story Peter Pugh 9781848316683
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.88This is a book about the 75 years of a very successful accountancy practice.They are 75 important years both in the history of the United Kingdom, encompassing the Second World War and all the... -
Deontology Stephen Darwell (University of Michigan) 9780631231127
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $52.96Deontology brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on ethics, presenting canonical essays on core questions in moral philosophy. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall,... -
Theophilus of Alexandria Norman Russell 9780415289153
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35If Theophilus of Alexandria seems a minor figure today, it is because we persist in seeing him through the eyes of hostile contemporary witnesses, each of whom had his own reasons for diminishing... -
Witnessing Slavery - Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition by Sarah Thomas 9781913107055
Booksplease Price: $96.79A timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in the representation of slavery in British and European art Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints,... -
Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows by Roy Sorensen 9780199797134
Booksplease Price: $94.56If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like... -
Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On the Siege’ Michael Whitby 9781836245261
Booksplease Price: $56.26Theodore Syncellus was a prominent member of the clergy in Constantinople in the 620s, being a close advisor to Patriarch Sergius. As such he was chosen to participate in a delicate mission to the... -
Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean by Maarit Forde
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of... -
American Constitutional History: A Brief Introduction by Jack Fruchtman 9781119734277
Booksplease Price: $57.14Reveals how the Constitution has evolved over the past 235 years, featuring updated coverage of the 2020 presidential election and constitutional changes made by the Supreme Court up to June 2021 ... -
The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000 by Beatriz G. Mamigonian 9780742567290
Booksplease Price: $235.47Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who... -
History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai by Daniel F. Caner 9781846312168
Booksplease Price: $74.63The Sinai peninsula emerged in late antiquity as a distinct region of the Christian holy land, identified from the fourth century onward as the Old Testament place where the Hebrews had wandered,... -
Security: Dialogue across Disciplines by Philippe Bourbeau 9781107514737
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $60.44Security is a vital subject of study in the twenty-first century and a central theme in many social science disciplines. This volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which the concept... -
The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities by Isidore Okpewho
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that... -
Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean by Maarit Forde 9781478000310
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $189.42The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of... -
Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict by Nicholas J. Wheeler 9780199696475
Booksplease Price: $64.64How can two states with enemy relations transform their relationship? Nicholas Wheeler argues that the discipline of International Relations has not done a good job of answering this question because... -
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism: Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion Louise Hickman 9780367595111
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of Richard... -
The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000 by Beatriz G. Mamigonian 9780742567306
Booksplease Price: $82.72Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who... -
Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge by Robert Borofsky 9780521396486
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $81.50Making History begins with a puzzle. In 1976 the inhabitants of Pukapuka, a Polynesian island in the South Pacific, revived a traditional form of social organization that several authoritative... -
Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages by Henri Cardinal de Lubac
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27One of the major figures of twentieth-century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac was known for his attention to the doctrine of the church and its life within the contemporary world. In... -
The Romare Bearden Reader by Robert G. O'Meally
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison,... -
The Romare Bearden Reader by Robert G. O'Meally 9781478000440
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison,... -
The Sentence is Death: A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER by Anthony Horowitz
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Pre-order the next thrilling Hawthorne mystery CLOSE TO DEATH - coming soon!Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's... -
Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature by Paul Giles 9780199567034
Booksplease Price: $95.19Atlantic Republic traces the legacy of the United States both as a place and as an idea in the work of English writers from 1776 to the present day. Seeing the disputes of the Reformation as a... -
The Cyril Scott Companion: Unity in Diversity Desmond Desmond Scott (Customer) 9781783272860
Booksplease Price: $106.64This Companion provides a comprehensive analysis and appraisal of all of Scott's available (published and unpublished) music and a broad picture of his entire output in literary, dramatic and... -
On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture by Lynette S Kripal
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.39"Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather precariously over the Pacific Ocean. The Esselen... -
Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble by J. Lorand Matory
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This book contests both the... -
In Our Future, We Are Free: An Astonishing Story of Resistance and Change by Nell Bernstein 9781620977330
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $37.15A master class in social change-how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destructive institution to its knees "Nell Bernstein's book could be for juvenile... -
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Diana Paton
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events... -
Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo 9781787303775
Booksplease Price: $28.73'Hooks you in immediately' Daily Express'Typically twisty Nesbo' The Sun 'Electrifying' Crime Monthly**A NEW gritty standalone thriller from the global crime sensation**'Nesbo deserves to be crowned... -
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Diana Paton 9781478010494
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.67From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events...