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What is Urban History? Shane Ewen 9780745652689
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.70Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of... -
Tragedy by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $26.55An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from... -
Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy: Volume 6 by Greg Suttor 9780773548152
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.95Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness,... -
London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade by James A. Rawley 9780826214836
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $66.86In London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, James A. Rawley, a pioneer in the modern study of the slave trade, collects some of his best works from the past three decades. Also included in this volume... -
Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches and the Morality of Conflict Andrew Todd 9781409431589
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Chaplaincy highlights the need for faith and society to re-engage with vital moral questions. Military chaplains continue to operate within the dynamic tension between faith communities, the armed... -
Defying the Holocaust: Ten courageous Christians who supported Jews by 9780281083626
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15'Some books have to be written . . . Defying the Holocaust will make your heart pound.' - Steve Chalke MBE During the Second World War, Christians from many nations and denominations stepped... -
George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other Questions D. J. Taylor 9780300284232
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state-our foremost... -
The Rain at the End of the Summer by John B Keane 9781781174807
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn B. Keane, one of Ireland's most prolific and respected literary figures, died on 30 May 2002 at the... -
Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $55.50In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and... -
Principal Characters: Film Players Out of Frame by Christopher Neame 9780810856837
Booksplease Price: $82.37As the grandson of actress Ivy Close and son of director Ronald Neame (Straight from the Horse's Mouth; Scarecrow, 2003), Christopher Neame's roots in the film business were already firmly... -
A Research Agenda for Spatial Analysis Levi John Wolf 9781035391219
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $37.90Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of... -
A Life on the Lines: The Grand Old Man of Steam by R. H. N. Hardy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.33During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his... -
Many Young Men of Twenty by John B Keane 9781781174791
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.20A musical play dealing with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England. It describes the emigrants 'longing for home' - 'Everyone is lonesome... -
Détente: The Chance to End the Cold War by Richard Crowder
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $46.53Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Detente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the... -
Durango by John B. Keane 9781856350013
Booksplease Price: $22.97Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex, money and betrayal... -
Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s by Carolyn S. Loeb
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $35.78During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S.Originally... -
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction Rowan Williams (Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK) 9781441183880
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.43An extraordinary book, which enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels. The current rash of books hostile to religious faith will one day be... -
Big Maggie by John B. Keane 9781856359542
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.20The story of Big Maggie Polpin and her attempts to keep her family together after the death of her husband is an enduring theatre favourite. The dialogue crackles with hilarious, caustic putdowns as... -
Psalms for the City: Original poetry inspired by the city by John-Paul Flintoff
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16The whole of life can be found in the psalms. It can also be found in our cities. Psalms for the City is a beautifully illustrated book of poetry that offers comfort, inspiration and... -
Death: A Graveside Companion by Joanna Ebenstein
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $37.28Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse... -
Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation by Michael S. Merry 9781137033703
Booksplease Price: $59.70Merry argues that most voluntary separation experiments in education are not driven by a sense of racial, cultural or religious superiority. Rather, they are driven among other things by a desire for... -
The Voluble Soul: Thomas Traherne's Poetic Style and Thought by Richard Willmott
Booksplease Price: $35.60"The world's fair beauty set my soul on fire." In this first study of the full range of Traherne's poetry Richard Willmott explains his 'metaphysical' poetry to all who are attracted by the beauty... -
The Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values by Nick Spencer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95What has Christianity ever done for us? A lot more than you might think, as Nick Spencer reveals in this fresh exploration of our cultural origins. Looking at the big ideas that characterize... -
Christmas Stories by John B Keane 9781781177471
Booksplease Price: $17.42According to the irrepressible John B Keane, "When Christmas came to our street it came with a loud laugh and an expansive humour that healed old wounds and lifted the hearts of young and old." In... -
The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625–1725 by Abbott Lowell Cummings 9780674316805
RRP: $117.33Booksplease Price: $96.13A nation's buildings are a record of the character and aspirations of its people. In a rich blend of social and architectural history, Abbott Lowell Cummings reconstructs, through text and pictures,... -
False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico by Professor Nora E. Jaffary
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52False Mystics provides a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. Nora E. Jaffary examines more than... -
Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by... -
Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism by John Finnis 9780198247913
Booksplease Price: $76.10Nuclear deterrence requires objective ethical analysis. In providing it, the authors face realities - the Soviet threat, possible nuclear holocaust, strategic imperatives - but they also unmask moral... -
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir by The Rt Hon Frank Field 9781399408417
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.64'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it... -
Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann 9780812248272
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $84.10Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by... -
Newspaper City: Toronto's Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935 by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $56.90In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets. He demonstrates how Toronto's two liberal newspapers, the Toronto Globe and... -
Harry Potter: Page to Screen: Updated Edition by Bob McCabe 9781789090703
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $55.92Harry Potter Page to Screen: Revised and Expanded now has more pages devoted to the legacy of the Harry Potter films. In addition to the complete history of all eight Harry Potter films, the book now... -
The Road to Riverdance HB by Bill Whelan
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $36.83Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublin's Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Ireland. It was a watershed moment in... -
Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul Pillar 9780231157933
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially measures enacted since 9/11, can be deeply misguided... -
Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response by Brian Wicker 9781409408086
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly... -
Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul Pillar 9780231157926
RRP: $172.86Booksplease Price: $137.42A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially measures enacted since 9/11, can be deeply misguided... -
Notes on an Execution: Meditations for Lent, Holy Week and Easter Rhidian Brook 9780281091720
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Experience Holy Week as if for the first time... first hand. Bestselling novelist and broadcaster Rhidian Brook invites you to step back into the story of Holy Week and see it unfold as if you... -
Critical Statistics: Seeing Beyond the Headlines by Robert de Vries 9781137609793
Booksplease Price: $35.58Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they... -
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism by Giles Fraser
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011,... -
The Listening Leader: Powerful New Strategies for Becoming an Influential Communicator by Richard M. Harris 9780275989835
Booksplease Price: $79.50In today's complex, fast-paced, high-intensity organizations, effective communication is paramount. But all too often, messages are misinterpreted, ignored, or missed altogether-stifling creativity,...