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Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History by Andrew Denning 9780520284272
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87Skiing into Modernity is the story of how skiing moved from Europe's Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing... -
Vaccination Wars: Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century by Ella Stewart-Peters 9781804130001
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87For as long as there have been vaccines, there have been those who oppose them. As the world continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges of managing an effective vaccination... -
A Geopolitics Of Academic Writing by A. Suresh Canagarajah 9780822957942
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72A Geopolitics of Academic Writing critiques current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. As a periphery scholar now... -
Connecting Metal to Culture: Unity in Disparity by Mika Elovaara 9781783207008
Booksplease Price: $101.64Though it's given little attention - and even less serious attention - by the mainstream press, metal music has for decades been a major creative and cultural force around the world. This book brings... -
Masculinity, Coloniality, and the US-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture: Violent Borders and Gender Orders Joshua D. Martin 9781666966442
Booksplease Price: $169.53Joshua D. Martin explores how four novels set in the nineteenth-century shortly after the creation of the modern-day US-Mexico border reveal a cultural continuum of masculinized violence and cultural... -
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines Marie Brenner 9781250837158
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $26.23In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent... -
Infrastructure in Video Games Daniel Punday 9783031720918
Booksplease Price: $76.52This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player interaction. It will discuss a variety of commercial... -
Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland by Nina Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 9781032123783
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the... -
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia Elyn R. Saks 9781844081677
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.13Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on... -
The Cliff by Manon Debaye 9781770466944
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.70A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their... -
Transforming the Borderland: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization in Qing Inner Mongolia by Yi Wang 9781538146071
Booksplease Price: $215.27This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of... -
The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru by Jose R. Deustua 9780896802094
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $45.49Mining was crucial for the development of nineteenth-century Peru. Silver mining in particular was a key to both the export sector and the creation of an internal market and national development. The... -
Transatlantic Gender Crossings by Anne Emmanuelle Berger 9780822363972
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27A special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies As much as French feminism influenced the establishment of women's studies in U.S. universities, so has U.S. gender and queer... -
The Global South: Histories, Politics, Maps by Pamila Gupta 9781478000983
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27This special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South. Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South, the... -
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One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter 9780091940560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.04What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride... -
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman 9781538701195
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.62In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick... -
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 by Christer Jorgensen 9781473884564
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German... -
Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 by Helen Berry 9781138263581
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional... -
One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.64What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling?Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride... -
Contents of Faith in Transfer: Texts and Contexts of Early Modern Catechism Translations Elena Parina 9783662725375
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $69.30This open-access volume explores translations of catechisms produced during the Early Modern period (1450-1800), a type of text now increasingly recognized as pivotal for understanding cultural... -
The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s by Maria Todorova 9781350150331
Booksplease Price: $236.10Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an... -
Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology by Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco 9783030533205
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $169.51What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order by Mette Birkedal Bruun 9780521171847
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $55.17This volume presents the composite character of the Cistercian Order in its unity and diversity, detailing the white monks' history from the Middle Ages to the present day. It charts the geographical... -
Her Mother's Daughter: Agnes' Story by Evie Grace
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $19.38THE SECOND SAGA IN EVIE GRACE'S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. 'One of the most gifted saga writers writing today' Bookish Jottings ***Will she break free and change her future? Canterbury, 1853 Agnes... -
Europe Entrapped Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) 9780745687513
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.00Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European... -
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Her Mother's Daughter: Agnes' Story by Evie Grace 9781784756239 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $3.23THE SECOND SAGA IN EVIE GRACE'S MAIDS OF KENT TRILOGY. 'One of the most gifted saga writers writing today' Bookish Jottings ***Will she break free and change her future? Canterbury, 1853 Agnes... -
The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951 by Gonda Van Steen 9781032281773
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings... -
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended . . . " -Choice" . . . the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates... -
Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan by Eluned Gramich 9781917140027
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $13.38Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative... -
Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied Keith Jarrett 9781913268886
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.11Poetry Book Society RecommendationKeith Jarrett's dazzlingly lyrical new collection asks how we process violence when it's lionised in our language, on city street signs, in the edicts of a vengeful... -
The Politics of Ethnicity and Federalism in Pakistan: Local, National, and Comparative Perspectives by Ryan Brasher 9780190700454
Booksplease Price: $34.00This volume seeks to address two distinct yet interconnected issues: centre-periphery relations and ethnic identity in Pakistan. First, there has been a recurring debate about the formal structure of... -
Conflict, International Intervention and Local Agency: Education in a Changing Global Order by Ervjola Selenica 9781032707839
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47This book analyses international interventions in the education sector of conflict-affected countries in a world order shifting towards multipolarity.The work presents a genealogy of interventions in... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $32.89By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
Populism and Courts in an Age of Constitutional Impatience: Judges vs the People Raphaël Girard 9781509987542
Booksplease Price: $190.20This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: the rise of populism and its implications, particularly for courts and other legal institutions.It questions and ultimately challenges... -
The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas 9781839767845
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.02The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The Pandemic Crisis has... -
Picking Up Signals Jane Pearn 9781836281818
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68These are poems for our time, which stir as well as make us reflect. Flowing between childhood and adulthood and ranging from the deeply personal to the universal, themes of motherhood, adoption,... -
This Song Is About Us Sara Barnard 9781529525366
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Told over three summer festivals, this stunning novel from a bestselling author charts the emotional turmoil of young love and early fame.The Kerbs are a four-piece pop rock band on the verge of... -
Glasgow in Photographs David Collie 9781398122031
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.35Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, has long been an important cultural and trading centre. Its historic university and the wealth generated by the Atlantic trade, followed by massive industrial... -
Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World by Isa Blumi
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $51.41Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces-supported by Britain and the United States-has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world's media, the resulting...