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The Reckoning: The Morland Dynasty, Book 15 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751500585 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.471816: Napoleon has at last been defeateed, but victory brings no peace to the English.The cost of war strikes deep into the country- there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of... -
Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete by Peter Dronke
Booksplease Price: £47.28This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets... -
The Regency: The Morland Dynasty, Book 13 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751506501
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021807: the Napoleonic Wars continue and their violence reverberates in the lives of the Morland family.Lucy trying to rebuild her life after the death of her lover, Captain Weston, is thrown into... -
The Reckoning: The Morland Dynasty, Book 15 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751500585
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021816: Napoleon has at last been defeateed, but victory brings no peace to the English.The cost of war strikes deep into the country- there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of... -
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard by Dr. John Marenbon 9780521663991
Booksplease Price: £50.53This 1997 book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a predominantly critical thinker but a constructive one... -
Abelard: A Medieval Life Michael T. Clanchy (University of London) 9780631214441
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.71Michael Clanchy introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools.About the AuthorM. T. Clanchy is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History... -
The Campaigners: The Morland Dynasty, Book 14 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021815: Napoleon's escape from Elba and the preparations for battle entangle the Morland family in a web of romance and heartbreak.The Allied Army is gathering in Flanders, and where the army is, the... -
The Body Politic Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780241252017
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.One of... -
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Jeffrey S. Ravel 9780801885983
Booksplease Price: £43.90This new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Undertaking critical investigation... -
Second Chance by Elizabeth Wrenn 9781847560049
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Every woman needs a best friend... And Deena Munger needs one more than most. Faced with an almost empty nest, a marriage that's as stale as week-old bread, and hot flushes that are... -
The Silence Seeker by Ben Morley
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17When a new family moves in next door, Joe's mum explains that they are asylum seekers. Joe hears that they are silence seekers, especially as Mum adds that they need peace and quiet. When he sees a... -
Emile: or on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on the development of pedagogy in the... -
Bloody History of Paris: Riots, Revolution and Rat Pie by Ben Hubbard
Booksplease Price: £23.00'He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.' Victor Hugo Think of Paris and you might picture... -
Daughters of the Storm by Elizabeth Buchan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Paris, 1789. As the shadow of the guillotine falls over a nation at war with itself, three very different women find themselves caught up in the storm of revolution... In France under the last... -
To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy by Jacques Dalarun 9781501768354
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.24To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels-most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be... -
Black Max Volume Three by Ken Mennell 9781837861026
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33German World War One flying ace Baron Maximilien Von Klorr returns and this time he isn't on his own! Evil scientific genius, Doctor Gratz has formed an unholy alliance with the giant bat-controlling... -
To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy by Jacques Dalarun 9781501767852
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £90.52To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels-most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be... -
The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious... -
Nanochemistry: Chemistry of Nanoparticle Formation and Interactions by Anna Klinkova 9780443214479
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £118.22Nanochemistry: Chemistry of Nanoparticle Formation and Interactions provides an overview of the chemistry aspects of nanoparticle science, including nanoparticle synthesis, chemical properties,... -
Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth by Ann W. Astell 9781501743160
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the... -
Story and History – Narrative Authority and Social Identity in the Eighteenth–Century French and English Novel by W Ray 9780631175124
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration... -
Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings by Jennifer FitzGerald 9783034309783
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.46The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research... -
The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History by Susan Cahill
Booksplease Price: £17.25For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters - from medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame... -
Worry Doll Laura McPhee-Browne 9781917189422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From the author of the acclaimed Cherry Beach comes a thrilling exploration of love and desire - obsessive, all-consuming, and impossible to look away from. On an ordinary day, two women meet on a... -
George Moore: Spheres of Influence Kathryn Laing 9781805966777
Booksplease Price: £32.91This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852-1933). With an eye to Moore's innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary... -
Josephine Baker's Last Dance by Sherry Jones
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.14From the author of The Jewel of Medina, a moving and insightful novel based on the life of legendary performer and activist Josephine Baker, perfect for fans of The Paris Wife and Hidden Figures... -
The World of George Sand by Natalie Datlof 9780313275845
Booksplease Price: £76.81Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of George Sand scholarship around the world. It contains... -
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence by Marilynn Desmond 9780801473173
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.89Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative... -
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective Philip McMichael (Cornell University, USA) 9781544305363
Booksplease Price: £114.27Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their... -
Black Max Vol. 2 by Frank Pepper
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.77Bi-planes vs giant vampire bats in this thrilling collection of war comics with a horror twist! Lieutenant Tom Wilson returns to battle Baron Maximilien Von Klorr and his attack force of giant... -
Survival: 66.5 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) 9781032806631
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:Riccardo Alcaro and Nathalie... -
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories by Lauren Groff
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Echoes the magic of gothic forebears' FINANCIAL TIMES'Groff is a writer of rare gifts' NEW YORK TIMES'Lauren Groff is a virtuoso' Emily St John MandelDelicate Edible Birds is a short story... -
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.97'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view... -
The Disability Bioethics Reader by Joel Michael Reynolds
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability.Introductory and... -
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance: A Reader by Alex J. Novikoff 9781442605466
Booksplease Price: £44.61The twelfth century was a time of new ideas and creative innovation spurred on by patron-monarchs like King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, poets like Marie de France and Chretien de Troyes,... -
A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 by John M Rhea 9780806152271
Booksplease Price: £32.15One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field... -
The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States by Mark T. Berger
Booksplease Price: £110.69The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the... -
Early Childhood Studies: A Student′s Guide by Damien Fitzgerald 9781529794892
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.99The second edition of this indispensable textbook supports your academic development as you explore key concepts, theories, and practices. Engaging case studies bring theory to life, encouraging you... -
Knowledge True and Useful: A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism by Frank Rexroth 9781512824704
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own... -
Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity by Carter Lindberg
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £25.223,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and...