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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me Douglas Field 9781526175175
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.25A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The... -
The Labour Movement in Lebanon: Power on Hold Lea Bou Khater 9781526178954
Booksplease Price: $30.37The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the... -
False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk Claire Parfitt 9781526174246
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48False profits of ethical capital is a thought-provoking approach to understanding stakeholder capitalism. Rather than focusing on the inadequacies of corporate responsibility, sustainable investment... -
Neither Use nor Ornament: A Cultural Biography of Clutter and Procrastination Tracey Potts 9781526173928
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a... -
Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present Joanne Laycock 9781526179050
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $24.81Interventions on behalf of Armenia and Armenians have come to be identified by scholars and practitioners alike as defining moments in the history of humanitarianism. This book reassesses these... -
Smart Pickings: 2nd Edition by Professor Lynne Bianchi 9781526181817
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.95Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) further engages young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends. The book introduces a... -
The Women'S Suffrage Movement: *New Feminist Perspectives* by Maroula Joannou 9780719080456
Booksplease Price: $30.37Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.73Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery... -
Sodomy in Early Modern Europe by Tom Betteridge 9780719061158
Booksplease Price: $30.37This fascinating collection of essays reflects closely the main areas of debate within gay historiography. For the last twenty years scholars have argued over the nature of early modern sodomy,... -
Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24 by Elisabeth Piller 9781526173249
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.94This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of... -
The Magnetic Lady: Ben Jonson by Peter Happe 9780719048890
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for... -
Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama by Daisy Black 9781526172136
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings... -
The 'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media by Anna Dezeuze 9780719087479
Booksplease Price: $30.37Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why... -
Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment by Niall O’Flaherty 9781526166777
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $83.99This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. It brings together experts with a wide... -
The Common Writer in Modern History by Martyn Lyons 9781526170750
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.94This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it... -
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: A Gendered Opportunity by Jane Brooks 9781526167422
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with... -
The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914 by Wm. Matthew Kennedy 9781526162755
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what ‘empire’ was and could be. Reinterpreting their... -
Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes by Jen Harvie 9780719074929
Booksplease Price: $30.37Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent... -
The Stomach for Fighting: Food and the Soldiers of the Great War by Dr. Rachel Duffett 9780719099878
Booksplease Price: $30.37Food is critical to military performance, but it is also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of the Great War did not shed their eating preferences... -
Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance by Hero Chalmers 9780719063398
Booksplease Price: $30.37This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering... -
Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, Literature and Religion by Hugh Adlington 9780719088346
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious... -
Refugee Women in Britain and France by Gill Allwood 9780719071225
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France. Who are they? Where do they come from? What happens to them when they arrive, while they wait for a decision on their claim for... -
Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 by Susan Barton 9780719095658
Booksplease Price: $30.37Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of... -
Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology by Andrew Bennett 9780719074875
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary... -
Sport and British Jewry: Integration, Ethnicity and Anti-Semitism, 1890-1970 by David Dee 9780719096570
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Sport and British Jewry, available at last in paperback, provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period... -
The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence by Craig Brandist 9780719064098
Booksplease Price: $30.37This book is a collection of essays on the most important figures associated with the Bakhtin Circle. It offers new biographical material, valuable translations of important Russian texts, a timeline... -
Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought by Cesare Cuttica 9780719099182
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.79This book studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unexplored primary material and... -
Music, Scholasticism and Reform: Salian Germany 1024-1125 by T. J. H. McCarthy 9780719078897
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This fascinating study looks at music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a... -
The English System: Quarantine, Immigration and the Making of a Port Sanitary Zone by Krista Maglen 9780719089657
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth... -
The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court by Jayne Elisabeth Archer 9780719090097
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.81This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion,... -
Cultures of Empire: A Reader : Colonisers in Britain and the Empire in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Catherine Hall 9780719058585
Booksplease Price: $30.75Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A... -
Modernist Sexualities by Hugh Stevens 9780719051616
Booksplease Price: $30.37Employing diverse theoretical approaches, the essays in this volume show how modernism intersects with historical developments such as the suffragette movement, technological change and its effects... -
Charlemagne: Empire and Society by Dr. Joanna Story 9780719070891
Booksplease Price: $30.37The age of Charlemagne was a crucible for change in the history of Europe, bridging the divide between the medieval and the classical worlds and setting the political and cultural tone for centuries... -
Animals, Politics and Morality by Robert Garner 9780719066214
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.79How do we treat animals? How ought we to treat them? These are the two central questions tackled in the extensively re-written and up dated second edition of this well-regarded and much-cited text... -
Communism in Britain, 1920-39: From the Cradle to the Grave by Thomas Linehan 9780719071416
Booksplease Price: $30.37Based on extensive use of primary evidence, and newly available in paperback, this study of interwar British communism sets the communist experience within the framework of the life cycle. Communism... -
Sovereign States or Political Communities?: Civil Society and Contemporary Politics by Darrow Schecter 9780719082863
Booksplease Price: $30.37This book explores the ideas, meaning and history of civil society. It considers the role civil society played in the 1989 revolutions and in new social movements, as well as its relationship with... -
The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain by Sophie Page 9780719078354
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the... -
Henry V by James N. Loehlin 9780719059445
Booksplease Price: $30.37This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic... -
Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings by Harriet Margolis 9780719071997
Booksplease Price: $30.37Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This... -
Redefining Social Justice: New Labour, Rhetoric and Reality by Valerie Bryson 9780719082214
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91The rhetoric of 'New Labour' has captured the centre ground of British politics and now frames the policy making agenda of all mainstream political parties. In linking this rhetoric to the impact of...