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The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness by B. Murphy 9781349469727
Booksplease Price: £80.84The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this... -
Critical and Cultural Theory by Dani Cavallaro 9780485006285
Booksplease Price: £42.99This radical, new book brings together the key concepts, issues and debates in critical and cultural theory today. Each chapter presents a self-contained analysis of each concept as well providing a... -
Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France by David A. Bell 9780195076707
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £90.15Not only were lawyers heavily represented among the men who rose to power in France in 1789, to a large extent, they also shapted the evolution of French political culture under the ancien regime... -
Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect by David M. Bell
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.08Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in - or rather because of - the condition of... -
In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia anthology Paul Kane 9781803365640
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.06ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOW A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, M.L. Rio, Susie Yang and more! In these stories, dear... -
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800 by David A. Bell 9780674012370
Booksplease Price: £32.76Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about the origins of nationalism. Before the eighteenth century, the very idea of nation-building-a... -
Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective Cathy Bronstein 9781861562265
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £39.58The purpose of the Whurr series in Psychoanalysis edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the... -
The Dynamics of Connection: How Evolution and Biology Create Caregiving and Attachment by David C. Bell 9780739143520
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £89.42The Dynamics of Connection: How Evolution and Biology Create Caregiving and Attachment describes the logic of giving, love, trust, and nurturance. Bowlby's theory of attachment provides an excellent... -
The West: A New History David A. Bell (Princeton University) 9780393640861
Booksplease Price: £108.10This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing... -
The West: A New History by David A. Bell 9780393640854
Booksplease Price: £108.10This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing... -
The Chaperone by M Hendrix
Booksplease Price: £9.47Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules:Deflect attention.Abstain from sin.Navigate the world with care.Give obedience.Embrace purity.Respect your chaperone.Stella can't go out... -
Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism Ruth Holliday 9781526134257
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.42Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access... -
An Odyssey in Steam: 'Rocket' to 'Evening Star' by David C. Bell 9781846892523
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.09An Odyssey in Steam is renowned artist David Bell's fifth book which features his beautiful and complex paintings of steam engines and locomotives with captivating technical accuracy. It is a unique... -
Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism by Ruth Holliday
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.11Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access... -
Americana by Don DeLillo 9780241953389
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.22David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across... -
Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints by Andreas Marks 9780937108475
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.55With the advent of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, art became accessible to Japan's burgeoning merchant classes. Though a uniquely Japanese art form, the prints reveal interests in celebrity, fashion,... -
The West: A New History David A. Bell (Princeton University) 9780393640823
Booksplease Price: £74.14This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students. Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a continuing... -
A Saint in the Sun: Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV by David N. Bell 9780879072711
Booksplease Price: £36.21This volume contains translations or summaries of the most important panegyrics in praise of Saint Bernard that were preached during the reign of Louis XIV. Some of the preachers were and are... -
The Phenomenology Reader by Tim Mooney 9780415224222
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.75The Phenomenology Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of seminal writings in phenomenology. Carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger,... -
Melanie Klein by Julia Segal 9780761943013
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £45.57Praise for First Edition: `The book is very intimate; the first chapter on Klein's personal and professional life is extremely candid and enlightening. Will be enjoyed by pre-professional students... -
Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction by David A Bell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20This Very Short Introduction provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the... -
Culture and the Unconscious by Caroline Bainbridge 9781403986221
Booksplease Price: £90.66This collection sheds light on how cultural questions can be addressed through a dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical and academic traditions. With accessible introductions to its central themes,... -
My Sister is Missing by Carissa Ann Lynch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.56"Reminiscent of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects" Christina Kaye, award-winning author of Presumed Dead Now a USA Today besteller! A twenty-year-old local... -
Food and the City Karen A. Franck (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 9780470093283
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.76Food and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and... -
Freud's On Narcissism: An Introduction" by Peter Fonagy
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the... -
Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory by Vikki Bell 9781845201050
Booksplease Price: £29.55Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually... -
Meaning and Reference by A. W. Moore 9780198751250
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £44.82The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a wide variety of souces, mostly periodicals, which may not be... -
The Bones of the Story: A Novel by Carol Goodman 9780063265240
Booksplease Price: £12.09The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus-with a murderer among them."One... -
Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care by David Botterill 9780230362369
Booksplease Price: £45.92The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications... -
Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire by Ken Hillis
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.99Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine... -
Turning the Tide: The Work of the Fitzjohn's Unit Rael Meyerowitz 9781782203322
Booksplease Price: £27.58Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has... -
Economies of Design by Guy Julier 9781473918856
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £94.85How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design? Historically, design has been... -
Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath by Peter Starr
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.25Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination,... -
Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran 9780415183734
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.22Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl,... -
Call the Dark: A Thriller by J. Todd Scott 9781662500411
Booksplease Price: £13.14From author J. Todd Scott comes a haunting thriller about a young plane crash survivor and a mysterious hiker who venture into the wilderness to escape a dark and vengeful force. A small white... -
Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present by David A. Bell 9780190262686
Booksplease Price: £34.09David Bell wrote the essays in this collection over the course of more than fifteen years, each in response to a new book or political event and published in the New Republic, New York Review of... -
The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left by Toby Green
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.90During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But social science... -
The New Neighbor: A Thriller by Carter Wilson
Booksplease Price: £10.51"The New Neighbor is a dizzying descent into a Byzantine maze of psychological suspense. Carter Wilson proves once again why he is one of the best most inventive thriller writers working today." - S... -
Dividing Paris: Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852-1870 by Esther da Costa Meyer
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugene...