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The Jews of Modern France by Paula E. Hyman 9780520209251
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26"The Jews of Modern France" explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century,... -
Making Sense of Science: Understanding the Social Study of Science by Steven Yearley
Booksplease Price: £116.11`Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines... -
Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreets Quest by William G. Godfrey
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.76How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid - eighteenth - century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world... -
My Next Breath Jeremy Renner 9781398539471
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover,... -
Other '68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ’68 by Christian Emden 9781789974300
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.56May '68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has also been used to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the... -
The Ideas That Conquered The World: Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.51At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize... -
Nirvana - A Tour Diary by Andy Bollen 9781857828757
Booksplease Price: £10.29Afforded the kind ofaccess a journalist can only dream of, Andy Bollen gives fansanew story focusing on the real Kurt Cobain not the angst-ridden, troubled rock star of folklore, the kind and... -
My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner 9781398539488
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.07The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover,... -
Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life by Deborah Tooker 9789089643254
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £46.79Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically re-examines assumptions about space, power, and the politics... -
Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles by W. Maxwell Prince 9781534306752
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasy...there's a flavor for everyone's misery.ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate "one-shot" ... -
Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence by Monique Giroux 9780228022251
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50What makes music Metis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Metis music-making, from the Red River Resistance all... -
Encounters with Muslim Nomads: The Wandering People who have Shaped the Islamic World by Luqman Nagy 9781915357199
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.38"Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveller." (Bukhari) Who better to teach us how to be in this world than a true traveller? Former nomad and environmental activist, Luqman... -
Radioactive Flourishing: An Innovative Approach to Perpetual Behavioural Enrichment Arpan Yagnik 9781032627557
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Radioactive Flourishing is for seekers of lasting happiness and peace. Radioactive Flourishing supplies cognitive insights for eventual behavioral stability. The USP of the book is its flipped human... -
Materialien (H) by Peter Pillar 9783905999839
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Accepting the steirischer herbst invitation to its 50th anniversary, in March 2017 I entered the room where all regional, national and international press releases concerning the festival have been... -
Care Crosses the River by Hans Blumenberg
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or... -
It-Clefts: Empirical and Theoretical Surveys and Advances by Caterina Bonan 9783112213810
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.62Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure... -
Conflict in a Buddhist Society: Tibet under the Dalai Lamas by Peter Schwieger 9780824888480
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.01Conflict in a Buddhist Society presents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lamas (1642-1959). Although this era can be clearly delineated as a distinct period in the history of... -
Whitetail Shooting Gallery by Annette Lapointe 9781897535981
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30'Whitetail Shooting Gallery', a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette Lapointe, is set in the outer urban, often desolate, landscape of the Saskatchewan prairie... -
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World by Patrick Wyman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick... -
The Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol 9780811219471
Booksplease Price: £9.98It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of... -
New Covenant Bound by T. Crunk
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.71Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction... -
Socialist Realism without Shores by Thomas Lahusen 9780822319412
Booksplease Price: £40.03Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism-an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the... -
Clara Schumann Studies by Joe Davies 9781108747677
Booksplease Price: £27.60Since the 1980s, when she re-emerged from the peripheries into a more central position in music studies, Clara Schumann (1819-1896) has exerted an enduring fascination over the scholarly and popular... -
Revolution, She Wrote: Historical Fiction and Radical Knowledge in Interwar Europe Dr. Ksenia Shmydkaya 9798765133835
Booksplease Price: £90.57This intellectual and literary history explores the entanglement of historical imagination and left-wing politics in interwar Europe. Contrary to the popular perception of historical continuity and... -
Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation by B.C. Clark 9780080433547
Booksplease Price: £42.63Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common... -
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The Empire Stops Here: A Journey along the Frontiers of the Roman World by Philip Parker 9780224077880 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.63The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the barbarian invasions of... -
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the... -
The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 by Jonathan Gosnell
Booksplease Price: £96.11In recent years, a multicultural society and changing conceptions of French identity have been the source of considerable debate in scholarship, literature and the media in France. This book examines... -
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous... -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Dominic Sanderson 9781789522402
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Not many artists can boast a career like Nick Cave, which has gone from strength to strength since the debut album from his band The Bad Seeds in 1984. Most musicians in their 60s are relegated to... -
The Geopolitics of Sovereignty: International Law and Labour Struggles in Independent Iraq Ali Hammoudi 9781509952878
Booksplease Price: £90.87This book delves into the legal and labour history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq to explore the role international law and its institutions played in Iraq's state formation.Focusing on a turbulent... -
Urban Marginalisation in South Asia: Waste Pickers in Calcutta by Nandini Sen
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The community of waste pickers in Calcutta stands on its own against the hostile outside which comprises the state, elites and mainstream society. The residents of this unique world continuously try... -
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 9781760290450 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the... -
Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore by S. E. Schlosser 9781493069866
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorS. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built... -
Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £45.70The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole... -
Sowing Empire: Landscape And Colonization by Jill H. Casid 9780816640966
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping-landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century-are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From... -
Borders of the Early Modern Ius Commune: England, Venice, and Scandinavia by Dolores Freda 9781032544700
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization. As shown by several recent studies, the influence of ius commune extended much farther than its... -
The Ballad of the Last Guest by Peter Handke 9780374616151
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.13Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly dotted with small villages, has been absorbed into the outskirts of a large city, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His... -
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Another World Was Possible: A Century of Movements by Duane J. Corpis 9780822366386 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.78Another World Was Possible modifies the slogan of the World Social Forum-an annual meeting formed as an alternative to the more elite World Economic Forum-"Another world is possible!" The change from... -
Lamp of the Goddess by Rae Beth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89At the dawn of a new era we are drawn to modern Goddess spirituality. Rae Beth feels the world can change by sharing our personal spiritual experiences with each other. She has gone within herself...