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Continuation or Change? Borders and Frontiers in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe: Landscape of Power Network, Military Organisation and Commerce by Gregory Leighton 9781032212838
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This volume examines interdisciplinary boundaries and includes texts focusing on material culture, philological analysis, and historical research. What they all have in common are zones that lie in... -
The Kashubs: Past and Present: Past and Present by Krzysztof Jaskulowski 9783039119752
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.04The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. As a community, they have undergone significant political, social,... -
The Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Imagery in South-Central Anatolia Patrycja Filipowicz 9783032027573
Booksplease Price: £100.19This book provides a synthesis of Late Neolithic / Early Chalcolithic imagery from South-Central Anatolia, encompassing both Central Anatolia and the Lake District. It explores the nature of... -
Juliusz Slowacki`s Agamemnon`s Tomb - A Polish Oresteia Catherine O`neil 9781587310171
Booksplease Price: £14.88The importance of Juliusz Slowacki (1809-1849) as Poland's second greatest Romantic poet, after Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1856), is a platitude. Yet, in the English-speaking world, Slowacki receives... -
Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19: How the Pandemic Has Changed the World Jędrzej Skrzypczak 9781032773681
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.The COVID-19 pandemic... -
Quantum Optics for Beginners by Zbigniew Ficek
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £85.88Atomic correlations have been studied in physics for over 50 years and known as collective effects until recently when they came to be recognized as a source of entanglement. This is the first book... -
Chinese Language(s): A Look through the Prism of The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects by Maria Kurpaska 9783110219142
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94The major aim of the book is to trace the current structuring of the Chinese language(s) on the ground of Chinese linguistics. The research presented is based on the newest and most renowned sources,... -
Utah English by David Ellingson Eddington 9781647691097
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Is English in Utah truly unique? If so, what makes it different? What stereotypes about how Utahns speak are completely off base? Which are accurate? To answer these questions, linguist David... -
Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible by Joanna Kopaczyk 9781107118478
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £114.02Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They are... -
Psalms by Julia Fiedorczuk 9780299346942
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Fiedorczuk was inspired by her readings of the original Hebrew Psalms, as well as by the process of learning to sing. In her poems she captures the heartache and joy of the Biblical Psalms, but in... -
Demotivation in Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Japan by Keita Kikuchi 9781783093946
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help... -
Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 by Tamara Trojanowska 9781487524593
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.94Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of... -
Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films by Artur Skweres 9783319838694
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo... -
Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present by Dr Andrzej Rozwadowski
Booksplease Price: £31.53Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent... -
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Dr Dawid Rogacz 9781350150096
Booksplease Price: £112.13Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese... -
John Cruso of Norwich and Anglo-Dutch Literary Identity in the Seventeenth Century by Christopher Joby 9781843846147
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.62The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3), a second-generation migrant poet, translator and military author, that explores ideas and practices of identity formation in the... -
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Dr Dawid Rogacz 9781350215344
Booksplease Price: £33.84Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese... -
Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet Oscar Pérez de la Fuente 9781032228488
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet explores the regulation of free speech online and offline.Views are divided as to how much regulation of the Internet is appropriate. Some argue that it... -
Complexity in Polish Phonotactics: On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences by Paula Orzechowska 9789811372988
Booksplease Price: £112.21This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles... -
From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius 9780815399629
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of... -
Women Sport Fans: Identification, Participation, Representation Kim Toffoletti 9780367233303
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the... -
Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System Valerio Carruba 9780443247705
RRP: £121.99Booksplease Price: £111.13Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System provides the latest developments and methods in applications of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to different aspects of... -
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love by Joanna Bourke
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs depict the subject... -
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Public Years, Volume II by Charles Capper 9780195063134
Booksplease Price: £65.52Winner of the 1993 Bancroft Prize and praised in The Nation as 'the richest account we have yet of Fuller's formative years,' the first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life was... -
New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe by Katharina Bluhm
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule... -
Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice by Grace Ji-Sun Kim 9781137475459
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangelica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the... -
Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland: Linguistic Practice and Ideology by Stuart S. Dunmore
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Situated within the interrelated disciplines of sociolinguistics and sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received... -
Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space by Marion Hohlfeldt 9789462703599
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £31.59In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social... -
The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Ogilvie 9780190913199
Booksplease Price: £41.87Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America,... -
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence by Innocent Chiluwa 9781394375158
RRP: £61.95Booksplease Price: £54.96Examines How Social Media and AI Reshape Global Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Israel-Palestine conflict has long stood at the center of international attention, but in the... -
Quantum Physics for Beginners Zbigniew Ficek 9789814669382
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £63.44The textbook covers the background theory of various effects discussed from first principles, as clearly as possible, to introduce students to the main ideas of quantum physics and to teach the basic... -
The Evaluation Game: How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication by Emanuel Kulczycki 9781009351195
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Scientific research is communicated, organized, financed, governed, and evaluated through the process of publication. The result of this process is a highly competitive academic environment that... -
The Strategy Factor in Successful Language Learning: The Tornado Effect by Carol Griffiths 9781783099740
RRP: £129.95Booksplease Price: £116.60This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful language learning and strategy use and development, according to learner, situational or target variables. It... -
Crosslinguistic Influence in L3 Acquisition: Bilingual Heritage Speakers in Germany Eliane Lorenz 9780367681227
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition, drawing insights from a study of young bilingual secondary school students in Germany to unpack the importance of different... -
Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) by Jérôme Bazin 9789633860458
RRP: £82.95Booksplease Price: £72.81This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united... -
The Evaluation Game: How Publication Metrics Shape Scholarly Communication by Emanuel Kulczycki 9781009351188
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Scientific research is communicated, organized, financed, governed, and evaluated through the process of publication. The result of this process is a highly competitive academic environment that... -
Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition and Identity by Zoltan Doernyei
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63How do some language learners triumph against all odds, despite not having obvious heritage links or spending extended periods of time in the L2 environment pre-adulthood? This book delves into the... -
The Strategy Factor in Successful Language Learning: The Tornado Effect Carol Griffiths 9781783099733
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.82This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful language learning and strategy use and development, according to learner, situational or target variables. It... -
Agency in the Peripheries of Language Revitalisation: Examining European Practices on the Ground by Mary S. Linn 9781800416253
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £24.20This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe, with each chapter presenting an ethnographic account of how language policy operates in a specific... -
Organizational Olympians: Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths by Monika Kostera 9780230515710
Booksplease Price: £90.56The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations. Attitudes and...