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And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman 9780571299652
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39In the comfortable suburb where she lives, Heloise is just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses her son's soccer games or school plays. But in discrete... -
Hotel Vendome by Danielle Steel
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The Sunday Times BestsellerWhen Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance,... -
Hotel Vendome by Danielle Steel 9780552159029 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The Sunday Times BestsellerWhen Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance,... -
The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature Jennifer Boyle 9781032402055
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools and interfaces, as well as the modalities, theories and forms, central to some of... -
Westminster West Chard deNiord 9781961209237
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75This collection bears witness to ecstasy and grief through persona. By inhabiting the voices of Adam and Eve, Abelard and Heloise, etc., deNiord reveals the enduring alterity contained within the... -
Justice Unfinished by Dario Lisiero 9780615191898
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £14.81Heloise, a young lawyer from Washington, D.C., deeply shocked by her best friend's untimely death, vows to uncover the truth. In her spare time, she becomes private detective. Underestimating the... -
Hotel Vendome by Danielle Steel 9780593063088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.55Swiss-born Hugues Martin has worked for the world's most prestigious hotels, so when he purchases a small, run-down place in New York, everyone thinks he must be crazy! He alone sees it for the rough... -
Half-Told Tales: Dilemmas of Meaning in Three French Novels by Philip Stewart 9780807892329
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Philip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels--Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise-the characters' sincerity disguises how... -
Ugo Foscolo's Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis: A Translation by Ugo Foscolo 9780807890899
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteenth-century tradition of novels like Clarissa Harlowe... -
The Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus by Juanita Feros Ruys 9780312240028
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife... -
Who Wrote That?: Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov by Donald Ostrowski
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Who Wrote That? examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials, and apocryphal... -
Who Wrote That?: Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov by Donald Ostrowski 9781501749704
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.20Who Wrote That? examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials, and apocryphal... -
Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk by Bonnie Wheeler 9781403969705
Booksplease Price: £46.74In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection dedicated to... -
New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America by Mariola V. Alvarez 9780367787004
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense... -
The Cambridge Companion to Abelard by Jeffrey E. Brower 9780521772471
Booksplease Price: £92.84Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of... -
Connecting ICTs to Development: The IDRC Experience by Laurent Elder 9780857281241
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £68.04Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can... -
Connecting ICTs to Development: The IDRC Experience by Laurent Elder 9781783082537
Booksplease Price: £25.71Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can... -
Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle 9781328603661
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.06When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, she's intrigued - he seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he's... -
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female labourers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In... -
Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £42.36Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna... -
Regressive Fictions: Graffigny, Rousseau, Bernardin by Robin Howells
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19In a cultural shift around the mid-point of the French eighteenth century, the mode of wit is increasingly displaced by bourgeois pathos. Social sophistication and sexual experience are rejected in... -
Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400: Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser Lesley Smith 9780367602086
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying ... ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which small children bring into the home? The... -
Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies by Wojciech Czakon 9781032476056
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94As more and more strategic alliances are forged between competitors, a dedicated word has been coined to described this strategy: coopetition. Coopetition strategy research began in the early 1990s... -
Purity is a Myth - The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay by Zanna Gilbert
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.42Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s.;; Purity Is a Myth... -
Women of the Twelfth Century: Vol 1: Eleanor of Aquitane and Six Others by Georges Duby 9780226167763
Booksplease Price: £46.73This is an examination of the lives of prominent 12th-century French women as well as popular female literary figures of the time. Focusing on medieval notions of women and love, the author studies... -
The Cambridge Companion to Abelard by Jeffrey E. Brower 9780521775960
Booksplease Price: £33.50Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of... -
War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century: Development, Violence and Insecurity by Mark T. Berger
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of... -
Varieties of the Self: Peter Abelard and the Mental Architecture of the Paraclete by Babette S. Hellemans 9789004540835
Booksplease Price: £113.32The Paraclete was founded in 1129. Out of necessity to find a new place to shelter a group of nuns, this female community was created by Peter Abelard (1079-1142) for Heloise of Argenteuil... -
Authors of the Middle Ages, Volume II, Nos 5-6: Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West by Dr Constant J. Mews
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos. 5-6 in the series: 'Peter Abelard' by Constant J. Mews and 'Honorius Augustodunensis' by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) was... -
The Medieval Idea of Marriage by Christopher N. L. Brooke 9780198205043
Booksplease Price: £55.68`What is marriage and what sets it apart from other human relationships'? These are the key questions which Professor Brooke addresses in this important study of marriage in the medieval world. He... -
The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages Clare Monagle 9781041188254
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the... -
The Devil's Horse: The Morland Dynasty, Book 16 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751500806
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021820: the landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the country pioneers the steam-driven machine age. The Morlands, too, face change: Cousin Africa returns from St Helena to startle... -
Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe by Timothy J. Reiss
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £59.44Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers... -
The Armored Saint by Myke Cole
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Myke Cole, author of the beloved military fantasy Shadow Ops series, debuts a new epic fantasy trilogy with The Armored Saint, a tale of religious tyrants, arcane war-machines, and underground... -
The Wisdom of the Middle Ages Michael K. Kellogg 9781633882133
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the Middle Ages... -
Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839 by F.A. Chardon 9780803263758
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.28Thirty years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Upper Missouri River region was being plied by fur traders. In 1834 Francis A... -
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard by Dr. John Marenbon 9780521553971
Booksplease Price: £78.08This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one... -
The Poison Tree: The Morland Dynasty, Book 17 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751512465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021831: as England emerges from the post war depression, the country is changing, and the birth pains of the Reform Act bring it to the brink of revolution.The violent times breed violent acts, both... -
Rousseau and <i>l'Infame</i>: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment by Ourida Mostefai 9789042025059
Booksplease Price: £105.39Ecrasez l'infame! Voltaire's rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition,... -
The Reckoning: The Morland Dynasty, Book 15 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751500585 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.471816: Napoleon has at last been defeateed, but victory brings no peace to the English.The cost of war strikes deep into the country- there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of...