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Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature 9781611865578
RRP: $115.40Booksplease Price: $107.69Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of... -
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks 9781785151514 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.19A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between... -
The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching page-turner based on real events by Kate Thompson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel HoreLondon, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground... -
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture Amelia Abraham 9781509866175
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the pros and cons, the myths and realities of life for LGBTQ+ people today.Shortlisted for the Polari... -
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy William G Howell 9780226763170
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $29.27Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $62.33A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and... -
A Kitchen In The Corner Of The House by Ambai
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $25.89In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the... -
An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America by Timothy R. Pauketat
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious... -
The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635 by Megan L. Cook 9780812250824
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.97Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and... -
Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu by Peimin Ni 9781442257429
Booksplease Price: $78.58Through a systematic introduction of Confucius as a historical figure, a spiritual leader, a philosopher, a political reformer, an educator, and a person, this book offers a comprehensive, lucid, and... -
Witness Jamel Brinkley 9780008538675
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.18'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT ... -
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.56'A splendid warm-hearted novel' - Rachel HoreLondon, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground... -
The Bar at Twilight by Frederic Tuten
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential... -
Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory by Kate Kenny
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $63.55Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Kate Kenny draws on the stories of whistleblowers to explain why this is, and what... -
Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better by Nancy Cartwright 9780199841622
RRP: $59.83Booksplease Price: $54.79Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy... -
America Challenged: The New Politics of Race, Education, and Culture by Rosalie Pedalino Porter 9780761873785
Booksplease Price: $129.42Social change and cultural division in America have accelerated in this century and further intensified with the Covid-19 pandemic, the George Floyd incident, and the two recent presidential... -
Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 by Richard A. Meckel 9780813562407
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $187.78Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression... -
Medical Neuropsychology and Behavioral Health Cady Block 9781462557448
Booksplease Price: $144.04It is increasingly recognized that medical conditions can have a range of neurocognitive, psychosocial, and functional implications, even in the absence of obvious neurological involvement. Filling a... -
The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art: Marionettes, Models and Mannequins by Adam Geczy 9781472595959
Booksplease Price: $64.87Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of... -
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory by Holly Faith Nelson
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.41Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These... -
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week by Edward Enninful
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.24* AS HEARD ON STEPHEN BARTLETT'S DIARY OF A CEO * * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'I wish he could be editor of the world!' GRAHAM NORTON 'Courageously truthful'... -
Mediterranean: A Year Around a Charmed and Troubled Sea by Huw Kingston 9781849952743
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.62On 26th April 2014 Huw kayaked away from Anzac Cove at Gallipoli, Turkey, taking the next three months to navigate around the coasts of Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, and Croatia. Following... -
Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703-1811 by Robert E. Jones 9780822964933
RRP: $102.80Booksplease Price: $95.72In eighteenth-century Russia, as elsewhere in Europe, bread was a dietary staple-truly grain was the staff of economic, social, and political life. Early on Tsar Peter the Great founded St... -
The Trials of Portnoy: how Penguin brought down Australia's censorship system Patrick Mullins 9781913348175
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that - with the help of booksellers and readers around the country - forced the end of literary... -
Exhalation Ted Chiang 9781035039210
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.' - The Daily TelegraphFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and... -
The Stories by Jane Gardam 9780349140384
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her... -
Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing by Douglas Glover
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.54A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 "Glover is a master of narrative structure." --Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has... -
Nights From This Galaxy by Wil Weitzel
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45"What magic, what beauty there is in these pages."-John Freeman, author of Wind, TreesIn this adventurous debut lurk stories that are deep, lush, and full of wonder. While camping in the Kalahari... -
Decision Advantage: Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar by Jennifer E. Sims
RRP: $87.13Booksplease Price: $83.16A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise... -
Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village by Ruth Kirk 9780295994628
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $47.80Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government's requirement that they send their children to school, and by doing so they ended nearly two... -
Cybersecurity Awareness by Jerry Andriessen 9783031042294
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $221.95This contributed volume tells the story of the establishment of a cybersecurity awareness framework for organizations, and how it was piloted in two public sector municipal contexts. It presents a... -
Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor 9781529080339
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Hayley Scrivenor is a major new talent' - Erin Kelly, author of The House of Mirrors'Australian Crime has a new star' - Chris Hammer, author of The ValleyWhy would my best friend want to destroy my... -
Babies and Young Children in Care: Life Pathways, Decision-Making and Practice by Harriet Ward
Booksplease Price: $142.25Babies and very young children in care often experience several changes of placement and carer, which can have a negative impact upon their long-term ability to develop secure attachments.Babies and... -
Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy: How Civic Entrepreneurs Are Building Prosperous Communities by Douglas Henton 9780787908270
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.06A seminal work in fleshing out the kind of leadership we need to renew and prepare communities for the demands of democracy in the coming era. Ronald Heifetz, director, Leadership Education... -
In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad Madeline Bassnett 9781041181330
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts... -
How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change Chris Rose 9781849711142
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $73.27How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced communicator alike, it explores what works (and what... -
Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama by Doyeeta Majumder
Booksplease Price: $75.56In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant by entrie' or the usurper, who supplanted earlier 'tyrant by the administration' as the main... -
Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520266018
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $61.03From the Introduction: The papers collected in this book are based on the assumption that art, as any other activity of the mind, is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for... -
Becoming a Wildlife Professional by Scott E. Henke 9781421439150
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $75.50The essential guide for anyone planning a career in wildlife management and conservation.Working with wildlife can be a thrilling adventure steeped in the wonders of the natural world, but entering... -
Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History by Stuart Hall
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall...