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A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb by Walter Prescott Webb 9780806190211
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books-but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely... -
Carlo di Rudio and the Age of Revolution by Nick Ridley 9781032543604
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39From a Europe convulsed by revolutions to an assassination plot and international secret diplomacy, to conflict between major European powers which changed the strategic power balance, to the... -
Decolonization: A Short History by Jan C. Jansen 9780691192765
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the... -
Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English by Damian Walford Davies 9780708324769
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00This pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'.About the AuthorDamian Walford Davies is Professor of English and... -
The GAA and the War of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of... -
Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter 9780195395921
Booksplease Price: £49.90The site of William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' in religious toleration and representative government, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential 'free' African American... -
The Eagles of Bastogne: The Untold Story of the Heroic Defense of a City Under Siege by Martin King 9781636244136
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.10There are few names in the annals of military history that evoke such emotion, and in some cases controversy, as the small Belgian town of Bastogne. The 101st Airborne are the best known defenders of... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society by Joseph J. Lee
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.45Ireland, 1912-1985 is the first study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century. Although stressing the primacy of politics in Irish public affairs, it argues that... -
Neil Jordan: Interviews by Carole Zucker 9781617037450
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.25These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the... -
Star Trek Explorer: "The Mission" and Other Stories by Titan Magazines 9781787739635
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.28A thrilling anthology of short stories from Star Trek Explorer magazine, collected for the first time! Featuring tales by Una McCormack, Gary Russell, Michael Carroll, John Peel, Chris Dows, Chris... -
Moth Catcher: An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass by 9780874177350
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since he was a boy. This family - which includes the largest and most colorful of the North American moths - led Collins into a long career... -
Tomi: Tomi Reichental's Holocaust Story by Eithne Massey 9781847179753
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'At the age of six I began to fear for the future. ... By the age of nine I was on the run for my life. ... By the time I was ten I had seen all there was to see.' An accessible and honest account... -
Apollo by Matt Fitch
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.05In 1969, humankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins carried the fire for all the world. Backed by the brightest minds in engineering and science, the... -
Best-Loved Irish Legends by Eithne Massey
RRP: £5.50Booksplease Price: £4.94Stories from long, long ago, part of an ancient oral tradition, handed down from generation to generation and written down by the Christian monks of medieval Ireland. FAVOURITE LEGENDS... -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
Booksplease Price: £57.10Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By... -
Third World Protest: Between Home and the World by Rahul Rao 9780199650545
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £37.42If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights emanate from both outside the state and the state itself? Arguing... -
Sinn Fein by Brian Feeney 9780299186746
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Sinn Fein (""ourselves alone"") is one of the most controversial political movements in Ireland. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the rise and fall-and rise again-of a party... -
Forages, Volume 1: An Introduction to Grassland Agriculture C. Jerry Nelson 9781394258598
RRP: £91.95Booksplease Price: £85.51Comprehensive introduction to forages enabling readers to understand the complexity of grassland ecosystems and their relationships to the wider environment Forages delivers a balance of scientific... -
Tomorrow with Bayonets: Dublin: July 1921 – July 1922 by Derek Molyneux 9781781178638
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The raw intensity of the Irish Civil War is brought to life in this gripping, fast-paced journey from July 1921 to July 1922 - a year of change and conflict. Dublin's descent into violent unrest... -
Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't... It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands ... And at the end of... -
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil... -
Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments by J.L. Pickering 9780813056173
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.00Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and... -
Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households: Theory and Practice by Margaret Sherrard Sherraden 9780190238568
Booksplease Price: £70.14Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining incomes. Many have not recovered from the... -
The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity by Kristen Renwick Monroe
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.73Is all human behavior based on self-interest? Many social and biological theories would argue so, but such a perspective does not explain the many truly heroic acts committed by people willing to... -
Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat: A Biography of Leopold Kerney by Barry Whelan 9780268105051
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.32Leopold Kerney was one of the most influential diplomats of twentieth-century Irish history. This book presents the first comprehensive biography of Kerney's career in its entirety from his... -
Third World Protest: Between Home and the World by Rahul Rao 9780199560370
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £86.44If boundaries protect us from threats, how should we think about the boundaries of states in a world where threats to human rights emanate from both outside the state and the state itself? Arguing... -
The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It's Going by Chris Baldwin 9781475809480
Booksplease Price: £56.67This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and... -
Spirit Stones: The Ancient Art of the Scolar's Rock by Kemin Hu 9780789211521
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £48.90Renowned photographer Jonathan M. Singer presents his striking black-and-white images of Chinese ornamental rocks from a leading collection. Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks,... -
The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 by David M. Harland 9780387341767
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £38.02On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. ... -
The Completion Agenda in Community Colleges: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It's Going by Chris Baldwin 9781475820683
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book is intended to improve understanding about the complex issues surrounding the national college completion agenda. By highlighting the origins of this agenda and the dilemmas and... -
The History of Human Space Flight by Ted Spitzmiller 9780813054278
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Highlighting men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of space exploration, this book surveys the programs, technological advancements, medical equipment,... -
The Secret of Kells by Eithne Massey
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A boy orphaned by invaders. A strange fairy girl in the forest. A serpent god seeking blood. A book to turn darkness into light. Brendan's uncle, Abbot Cellach, forbids him to set foot outside the... -
The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923: 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines' Gerard Noonan 9781786940131
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91Between 1919 and 1923, Ireland was engulfed by violence as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla campaign against the British state and later fellow Irishmen and women in pursuit of an... -
Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual by Richard English 9780198208075
Booksplease Price: £55.68Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916-1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a... -
Sport and Social Exclusion: Second edition by Mike Collins 9780415568814
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike... -
The IRA in Britain, 1919–1923: ‘In the Heart of Enemy Lines’ by Gerard Noonan 9781781380260
Booksplease Price: £119.73Between 1919 and 1923, Ireland was engulfed by violence as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla campaign against the British state and later fellow Irishmen and women in pursuit of an... -
Irish Legends: Newgrange, Tara & the Boyne Valley by Eithne Massey 9781788495394
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Stories inspired by the Boyne Valley from long, long ago, part of an ancient oral tradition, handed down from generation to generation and written down by the Christian monks of medieval Ireland... -
The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small by Neil Jordan 9781803289328
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From multi-award-winning author and film director Neil Jordan comes a thrilling reimagining of a turning point in Irish, American and European history. 'A masterwork from one of the most inventive... -
The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix Michael J. Bradshaw 9781529247299
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived...