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Rock Music in American Popular Culture: Rock 'n' Roll Resources by Frank Hoffmann 9781560238539
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock... -
World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media: Towards a Transartistic Commons Robert Stam 9781138369597
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40With extraordinary transnational and transdisciplinary range, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media comprehensively explores the genealogies, vocabularies, and concepts orienting... -
Wired to Create: Discover the 10 things great artists, writers and innovators do differently by Scott Barry Kaufman
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.59Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity?Creativity works in mysterious ways, with inspiration often arising out of nowhere - and then failing to show up when we need it... -
Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins by Grace Maxwell 9780091930004
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he... -
Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures by Sally M. Newman
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and... -
Me And A Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley by Jerry Schilling
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local... -
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues Roger Lytollis 9781472146137
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them.As Roger... -
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace
Booksplease Price: $32.16First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include... -
Elvis by the Presleys by The Presleys
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis... -
Warrior of Rome V: The Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom marks the start of a new trilogy within the Warrior of Rome series.AD263 - barbarian invasions and violent uprisings threaten to tear... -
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Elvis by the Presleys by The Presleys 9780099497974 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.02The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis... -
Gorilla Adventure by Willard Price
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.86'You stand rooted to the spot or you run like mad.' Hal and Roget Hunt head off for another challenging mission - this time to search for gorillas in the Congo jungle. But when the boys stumble... -
All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison by Marc Shapiro
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle' As part of the biggest band in pop history, he took a back seat to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but his talent shone through in the... -
The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America Paul M. Renfro 9781469680842
RRP: $101.91Booksplease Price: $82.71In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed... -
The Road Home: My Journey by Sister Stanislaus Kennedy 9781848270602
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.72Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, or Sister Stan as she is affectionately known, has been described as a visionary and social innovator. Now, in The Road Home she looks back on her life - from her early... -
The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America by Paul M. Renfro 9781469680859
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed... -
Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks With an Intro by Ozzy Osbourne and Afterword by Gene Simmons by Jason Arnopp
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09"The only plan right now is to kill everybody" Joey Jordison, drummerIgnoring every rule in the book and more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage... -
Romola by George Eliot
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.86One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the... -
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.54Born Natasha Zakharenko, Natalie Wood continues to haunt us 20 years after her tragic and mysterious death. Her dark hypnotic beauty and passionate performances made her a movie star legend,... -
A Primer For Daily Life Susan Willis 9781138979345
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.26Author's previous titles include Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (Routledge 1990)20 photographs include 11 specially commissionedCurrent interest in patterns of consumption in... -
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication by Jonathan Lethem
Booksplease Price: $53.54The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and... -
Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies by Kobena Mercer 9780415906357
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.04Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of... -
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $18.82Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR - Spin - USA Today - CNBC - Pitchfork -... -
Between One and One Another by Michael D. Jackson 9780520272330
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $71.25Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of... -
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob 9781526631596
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME, BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, LIBRARY JOURNAL AND KIRKUS REVIEWS LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD 'Hilarious and... -
Cover Versions: Singing Other People's Songs by Adam Sweeting 9781844135448
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.29Girls Aloud record the Pointer Sisters' 'Jump'; Atomic Kitten record Blondie's 'The Tide is High' and Kool and the Gang's 'Ladies Night'' Westlife record Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', Phil Collin's... -
Between One and One Another by Michael D. Jackson 9780520272354
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of... -
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Hallelujah!: The extraordinary story of Shaun Ryder and Happy Mondays by John Warburton 9780753507810 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.27The Mondays were the band who had it all. Credited with a range of achievements, from creating Madchester and introducing indie kids to dance music to bringing ecstasy to Britain, they were the rock... -
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade... -
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel 9780252083365
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade... -
The Great Adventure: Al-Fayed’s Rollercoaster Ride with Fulham FC by Tony Banks 9781801505024
Booksplease Price: $16.87The Great Adventure: Al-Fayed's Rollercoaster Ride with Fulham FC is the fascinating tale of Mohamed Al-Fayed's remarkable 16-year reign as the owner of Fulham. The flamboyant Harrods owner bought... -
The Fame Lunches by Daphne Merkin 9781250074768
Booksplease Price: $24.54Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life... -
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies Nina Morgan 9781032401577
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as... -
Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain by Alan Light 9781476776750
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Alan Light, former writer for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of The Holy or the Broken, "gets inside Prince's mind palace in Let's Go Crazy, a history of the... -
The Sanest Guy in the Room: A Memoir by Don Black
Booksplease Price: $9.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a delightful collection of memories, insider information and after-dinner anecdotes' The... -
Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age by Anne Bremner
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.16From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of "innocent until proven... -
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards 9781398525245
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.07'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'If you love music, you should definitely read this book' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'Alan Edwards is a class act: observant, attentive,... -
The Sanest Guy in the Room: A Life in Lyrics by Don Black 9781472132949
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a delightful collection of memories, insider information and after-dinner anecdotes' The... -
Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection by Michael Luckman 9780743466738
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.06Whether you're a UFO skeptic, believer, or merely a rock music fan, Alien Rock takes you on a fascinating and irreverent journey exploring the extraterrestrial stories of your favorite rock icons... -
An Improbable Journey: Music, Money, and the Law by Charles G. Lubar 9781637585528
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40An insider's view on blockbuster deal-making and part cultural tour de force, An Improbable Journey is a one-of-a-kind, deeply textured account of how some of the greatest artists of all time pushed...