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Return of King Arthur British and American Arthurian Literature since 1800 by Beverly Taylor
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval... -
Observers from Abroad: Twentieth Century Western Documentary Photography in the USSR Martin A. Miller 9781032532875
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.The book... -
Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White 9780141368733
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'One of the finest, most magical and extraordinary children's books ever written.'- Anne Fine, author and former Children's LaureateTen-year-old orphan Maria lives in her ancestors' crumbling mansion... -
Cultural Sniping by Jo Spence 9780415088848
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.51Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. This book is the first to reflect her unique contribution to photography and photographic theory.About the AuthorJo SpenceBook InformationISBN... -
Decisions at Franklin: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle by Andrew Bledsoe
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Battle of Franklin pitted beleaguered Confederate general John Bell Hood against Union general John Schofield and his Army of the Ohio. The Army of Tennessee had nearly twenty thousand men when... -
A New Matrix for Modernism: A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew & Anna Wickham by Nelljean McConeghey Rice 9780415867061
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Many studies of poetic modernism focus on the avatars of High Modernism, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, who created a critical coterie based on culture and class. A New Matrix for Modernism introduces a... -
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories by Carla Valderrama
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan... -
Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II by Christian Blauvelt
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Remember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of life? It was World War II and the gravest threat... -
Joseph Conrad by Normand Sherry 9780415846745
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Nostromo. Volume covers the period 1895 - 1993... -
Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage by 9781032337098
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period. Magda Dragu distinguishes between the... -
Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850's to the Present Liz Heron 9781860640704
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.29This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years,... -
Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Women and Children by Chrystal, Paul 9781399011921
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and... -
Karma and Rebirth: The Karmic Law of Cause and Effect Christmas Humphreys 9780700701636
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the oldest doctrine in the world. In today's turmoil,... -
A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left by Paul Buhle
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled 'a very dangerous citizen' by Harold Velde, a congressman from... -
Materiel Culture: The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict Colleen M. Beck 9780415510769
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Materiel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range... -
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Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice: "And Must They All Be Hanged?" by ew D. Gray
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were... -
Feynman Lectures on Computation: Anniversary Edition by Tony Hey 9780367857332
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37The last lecture course that Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman gaveto students at Caltech from 1983 to 1986 was not on physics but on computerscience. The first edition of the Feynman Lectures on... -
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 by Tony Henderson 9780582264212
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £76.99This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes,... -
Modernism by Robin Walz 9781408264492
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.72Robin Walz's updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning... -
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality Ann Lewis 9781138661509
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was... -
Close Reading the Anthropocene by Helena Feder
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Reading poetry and prose, images and art, literary and critical theory, science and cultural studies, Close Reading the Anthropocene explores the question of meaning, its importance and immanent... -
The English Police: A Political and Social History by Clive Emsley 9780582257689
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.86A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact... -
Photography and Doubt by Dr. Sabine Tania Kriebel 9781138914612
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Recent decades have seen photography's privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies... -
The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol Malcolm Quinn (University of the Arts London, UK) 9780415756334
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that... -
The Arthurian Legend: Comparison of Treatment in Modern and Mediaeval Literature by Margaret J. C. Reid
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94First published in 1938, this study explores the reception of the mythology of King Arthur by modern poets and playwrights. More specifically, the author explores the lineage of the legendary... -
Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press by Rhona Brown 9781138110045
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate... -
Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art by Louise Carrie Wales 9781032003870
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Responding to Heidegger's stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art's capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing. Louise... -
Willi Munzenberg: Fighter against Fascism and Stalinism by John Green
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Willi Munzenberg was a towering figure in the anti-fascist movement during the first half of the twentieth century. He was acquainted with many of the leading left wing activists and thinkers of his... -
Visual Sociology Douglas Harper (Duquesne University, School of Law, Pennsylvania, USA Duquesne University Duquesne University, PIttsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Duquesne University, USA) 9781032171098
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80This new version of the authoritative textbook in the field of visual sociology focuses on the key topics of documentary photography, visual ethnography, collaborative visual research, visual... -
A Concise Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes Richard Kostelanetz 9781138577442
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.79For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition... -
Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 Clive Emsley 9781138941762
Booksplease Price: £41.02Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system... -
The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 by Sam Mitrani 9780252038068
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent,... -
The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 by Sam Mitrani 9780252087721
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent,... -
Daily Life Along the Underground Railroad Cassandra Newby-Alexander 9781440881404
Booksplease Price: £60.74Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad.Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women either escaping slavery or helping... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside 9780691218861
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.80A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet... -
Studying the English Language: A Resource Book for Students Louise Mullany 9781032563923
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.26During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits, 1925-1992 by Mark A Vieira 9780762484607
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65George Hurrell was called the "Rembrandt of Hollywood." Before his arrival, movie star portraits were "soft focus" and undistinguished, derivative of the Main Street USA portrait salon. Hurrell... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135113
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics by Liz McQuiston 9780691198330
Booksplease Price: £41.36An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political...