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British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce by A. Neill 9780333973745
Booksplease Price: £46.28British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic... -
Pacific: An Ocean of Wonders Philip Hatfield 9780712352192
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.87If you centre a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes,... -
Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements by Lars Eckstein 9781032084145
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian... -
Environment, Race, and Nationhood in Australia: Revisiting the Empty North by Russell McGregor 9781349905737
Booksplease Price: £46.28This new study offers a timely and compelling account of why past generations of Australians have seen the north of the country as an empty land, and how those perceptions of Australia's tropical... -
Interviewing: A Guide for Journalists and Professional Writers Gail Sedorkin 9781032124063
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This is an essential guide to the art of interviewing, with checklists, tips and examples from leading journalists and PR specialists, covering basic to advanced techniques. Sedorkin and Forbes... -
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 9781107464889
Booksplease Price: £57.73Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the... -
Possession and Ownership: A Cross-Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 9780198723004
Booksplease Price: £45.60Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if... -
Savage Coloniser Book, The by Tusiata Avia
Booksplease Price: £18.02The voices of Tusiata Avia are infinite. She ranges from vulnerable to forbidding to celebratory with forms including pantoums, prayers and invocations. And in this electrifying new work, she gathers... -
The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World by Stephen Naylor 9780367499808
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia,... -
Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery Bruce Kapferer 9781571814180
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16" ...Kapferer's introduction is an intellectual tour de force, perhaps the most important rethinking of the problems of rationality that underlie the study of witchcraft and sorcery since... -
Towards a Sociology of the Coast: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship to the Shore by Nick Osbaldiston 9781349695447
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically. Using several case studies in Australia, the author uses Max Weber's approach to... -
Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood by Carmen Luke 9780791400036
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.94Using Foucault's history of discourse, this book examines the relationship between the invention of the printing press and the evolution of concepts regarding childhood and schooling. It is an... -
The Artist Explorers: Painting The New World by John Fairley 9781399047111
Booksplease Price: £31.22It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out to unknown lands. These intrepid... -
A Grammar of Southern Pomo by Neil Alexander Walker
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the... -
Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education Jo-Anne Ferreira 9789811395352
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28This book offers an accessible guide to understanding the importance of a systems approach to embedding sustainability into teacher education practice, providing a practical resource for teacher... -
How Gender Shapes the World by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 9780198826156
Booksplease Price: £44.02This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way... -
Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas by David Rains Wallace 9780520258143
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88"Neptune's Ark" illuminates the dramatic saga of evolution spanning 500 million years of marine life along the magnificent Pacific coast of western North America. In an engaging narrative... -
Essential Academic Skills 2e: Essential Academic Skills 2e by Kathy Turner
RRP: £111.99Booksplease Price: £110.88Essential Academic Skills encourages and supports students to develop their skills to become the best learners they can be. It takes a step-by-step approach to the essential skills required to... -
Fundamentals of Charged Particle Transport in Gases and Condensed Matter by Robert Robson 9780367781903
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book offers a comprehensive and cohesive overview of transport processes associated with all kinds of charged particles, including electrons, ions, positrons, and muons, in both gases and... -
Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason: A Critical Interpretation of Peter Winch's Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Berel Dov Lerner 9780415758529
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences. The author points to Winch's tendency to over-emphasize the importance of... -
Rural social work: International perspectives by Richard Pugh 9781861347206
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.28In much of the West the concerns of rural people are marginalised and rural issues neglected. This stimulating book draws upon a rich variety of material to show why rural social work is such a... -
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas by Frank McLynn
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.70A vivid reappraisal of the legendary Captain Cook, from bestselling biographer Frank McLynn The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the... -
Intercultural Parenting: How Eastern and Western Parenting Styles Affect Child Development Koong Hean Foo 9781138580879
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89How do parenting styles differ globally? How do different, international, parenting practices impact on children's development? Can we bring together and hybridise different international parenting... -
The Bostonians by Henry James 9780140437669
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet... -
Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 9783111627168
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.62Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and... -
Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life Victor Turner 9780854962822
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University... -
Clark Gable: Biography, Filmography, Bibliography by Chrystopher Spicer 9780786411245
Booksplease Price: £27.05"Clark Gable is a man de-classed. You can't guess in any way where he came from or what he was." Frank Taylor, producer of Gable's last film, The Misfits (1961), said this of the man who, to many... -
Host Gaze in Global Tourism, The by Omar Moufakkir
RRP: £115.15Booksplease Price: £108.72Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists' perspective, including the seminal work by John Urry, 'The Tourist Gaze', which is now a classic text. The Host Gaze in Global Tourism is... -
A True Child of Papua New Guinea: Memoir of a Life Between Two Worlds Maggie Wilson 9781476677033
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to Melka Amp Jara, a native of the highlands, and Patrick Leahy, brother of Australian explorers Michael and Daniel Leahy. Wilson's life... -
Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 9783110789775
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £83.87Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and... -
Essential Neonatal Medicine Sunil Sinha (South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough) 9781119235811
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £45.06Providing a comprehensive yet concise guide for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, Essential Neonatal Medicine continues to be an indispensable resource that combines the depth and... -
Marketing of Tourism Experiences by Noel Scott 9780415641227
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order... -
Fishes of the Maldives: Indian Ocean Rudie H Kuiter 9781876410155
Booksplease Price: £41.62Fishes of the Maldives - Indian Ocean is a comprehensive identification guide with over 1130 colour photographs of sharks, rays and fishes likely to be seen by divers. This book uses an innovative... -
Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £34.08This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in... -
Inspirational Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Tourism: Lessons From the Himalayas in India Emiel L. Eijdenberg 9783031856174
Booksplease Price: £41.36This book explores inspirational entrepreneurial activities in the tourism industry of Ladakh, India. It particularly looks at ways to develop an entrepreneurial yet environment-friendly tourist... -
Changing Art into Research: Alchemy Methodology by Jocene Vallack
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Changing Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology presents a research methodology that enables inquiry into one's personal experiences in an endeavour to reveal essential commonalities of human... -
Anecdotes of Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth by James Robert Wood 9780813942209
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the animating effects anecdotes had on intellectual and... -
![The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix by Chrystopher J. Spicer 9781476665313](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2986959/2986294/9781476665313__22851.1715416898.jpg?c=1 "The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix by Chrystopher J. Spicer 9781476665313")
The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix by Chrystopher J. Spicer 9781476665313
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Australia (as co-pilot with her close friend Captain... -
Energy, Risk and Governance: The Case of Nuclear Energy in India by Catherine Mei Ling Wong 9783319875347
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.02This book is about how energy, risk and governance are intertwined in the development of the nuclear industry in India and its relationship with the Indian public. It provides a rare insider-view of...