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Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.09This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works by philosophers including... -
Cities in Contemporary Africa by Martin J. Murray 9780230116641
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £88.27This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time... -
Controversy in French Drama: Moliere's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence by Jeffrey Prest 9781349465941
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.14In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important... -
Controversy in French Drama: Moliere's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence by Julia Prest 9781137343994
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.45In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important... -
The Aesthetics of Violence in the Prophets by Julia M. O'Brien 9780567688378
Booksplease Price: £36.82This volume explores multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and their violent rhetoric, providing a rich and engaging discussion of violent images not only in prophetic texts and in ancient Near... -
Taproots of Tennessee: Historic Sites and Timeless Recipes by Lynne Drysdale Patterson 9781621905110
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £5.30What was served at President James K. Polk's White House dinners? What foods graced the table of John Sevier, Tennessee's First Governor? In Taproots of Tennessee, Lynne Drysdale Patterson answers... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex... -
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop by Imani Kai Johnson
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £25.64The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those... -
Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: The Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop by Imani Kai Johnson 9780190856694
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £89.88The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those... -
Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States by Caroline J. Tolbert 9780472068708
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.27"This body of research not only passes academic muster but is the best guidepost in existence for activists who are trying to use the ballot initiative process for larger policy and political... -
Professional Services Marketing Handbook: How to Build Relationships, Grow Your Firm and Become a Client Champion by Nigel Clark 9780749479183
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £107.61The market for professional services and consulting firms is changing, driven by evolving and more demanding client requirements. Legal, accountancy and other professional services firms are now... -
Holy Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins by David M. Carr
Booksplease Price: £17.90A leading biblical scholar offers a powerful reexamination of the Bible's origins and its connections to human suffering Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.89'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one... -
Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts by Daniel Lynwood Smith 9780567657022
Booksplease Price: £27.89Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient... -
Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts by Daniel Lynwood Smith 9780567657039
Booksplease Price: £96.65Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient... -
Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths by Caitlin Davies 9780750998888
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.44'Private Inquiries is a must-read - a riveting mythbuster, with its revelations of the real histories of women PIs.' - Val McDermidThe female private detective has been a staple of popular culture... -
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. Smith 9781503613614
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of... -
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. Smith 9781503605053
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of... -
The Inheritor: A Play Kate Bredeson 9780810147829
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The first English-language translation of the 1968 activist play about inequality and access to education In The Inheritor, surrealist imagery and experimental forms convey the uncanny experience of... -
The Incandescent by Michel Serres 9781474297400
Booksplease Price: £29.88The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human. With his characteristic breadth of... -
The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century by Kevin McDonald 9781501340185
Booksplease Price: £37.81Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a successful business model, and in the process it changed how consumers... -
Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers by Henry Somers-Hall 9781009048637
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works by philosophers including... -
Professional Services Marketing Handbook: How to Build Relationships, Grow Your Firm and Become a Client Champion Nigel Clark 9780749473464
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.24The market for professional services and consulting firms is changing, driven by evolving and more demanding client requirements. Legal, accountancy and other professional services firms are now... -
Assemblage Theory and Affect Ian Buchanan 9781350268760
Booksplease Price: £66.59In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demystifying the critical elements of the work of Deleuze and Guattari.He argues that... -
Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790 by Daniel O'Quinn 9780801899317
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.28Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and... -
The Anatomy of Boredom Andreas Elpidorou 9780197564332
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £59.38Boredom is a common human experience. It may strike us as straightforward-a mere absence or lack, an emotional emptiness of sorts-yet it is anything but simple. It is complicated: personal and... -
Assemblage Theory and Affect Ian Buchanan 9781350268777
Booksplease Price: £23.54In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demystifying the critical elements of the work of Deleuze and Guattari.He argues that... -
Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves by Lee Daniel Kravetz
Booksplease Price: £11.78Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion.In 2009,... -
Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions by Peter J. Boettke
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Contemporary monetary institutions are flawed at a foundational level. The reigning paradigm in monetary policy holds up constrained discretion as the preferred operating framework for central banks... -
Jean Haines' Atmospheric Flowers in Watercolour: Painting with Energy and Life by Jean Haines
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.56'This is an extraordinary book.' Review of Jean Haines' Atmospheric Watercolours in The Artist Magazine 'It simply dazzles on the page and makes you want to grab your brushes and get going... -
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge by Marjorie Heins 9780814790519
Booksplease Price: £90.87Priests of Our Democracy tells of the teachers and professors who battled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunes of academic freedom beginning in the late...