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Chivalry James Branch Cabell 9781513267609
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.87Chivalry (1909) is a fascinating collection of tales that draw inspiration from the popular chronicles of medieval Europe. Author James Branch Cabell immerses his reader into this distant world ,... -
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell 9781513295695
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and... -
THE AMERICANIST 9780472115778
Booksplease Price: £39.22"I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is... -
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser 9781513135410
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79The Financier (1912) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The first installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example... -
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper 9781682262597
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Swindler. Murderer. Scoundrel. Robert Boatright was one of Middle America's greatest confidence men. Although little remembered today, his story provides a rare glimpse into America's criminal past... -
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper 9781682262450
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.03Men of No Reputation is the first account to explore the life of Robert Boatright, one of America's most gifted, but forgotten, confidence men. Boatright's story provides a rare window into the... -
Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History by Joseph A. Amato
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.47Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that... -
Eurasian Cities: Rethinking Cities along the Silk Road by Souleymane Coulibaly 9780821395813
Booksplease Price: £25.92This report responds to pressing questions for policymakers in Eurasian cities and national governments. Faced with changing economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe and... -
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley 9780465025039
Booksplease Price: £23.03Born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast by adulthood he had matured into the iconic American... -
Campaigns Inc.: Leone Baxter, Clem Whitaker, and the Invention of Political Consulting Cayce Myers 9781666905595
Booksplease Price: £80.73Set against the changing and turbulent politics of California from the 1930s through the 1950s,Campaigns Inc.: Leone Baxter, Clem Whitaker, and the Invention of Political Consulting examines the life... -
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance by Jeffrey B. Ferguson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of... -
Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature Robert A. Brawer 9780471371687
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Find out what Joseph Conrad, Arthur Miller, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Mark Twain can tell you about being a more effective manager. Looking for business insights? Forget the Wall Street Journal. You can... -
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorUrsula Parrott (1899-1957) was born Katherine Ursula Towle in Dorchester, Massachusetts. After graduating... -
Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism by Brendan Goff
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £33.55A new history of Rotary International shows how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the idealized image of Main Street... -
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma 9780691156057
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized... -
Scientific and Horrific Stories by H G Wells 9781513136639
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers... -
Scientific and Horrific Stories by H.G. Wells 9781513201290
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.14Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers... -
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume I: The World Before the War by Max Saunders 9780199668342
Booksplease Price: £42.36The first volume of a major new critical biography Ford Madox Ford wrote some of the best English prose of the twentieth century, mastering and metamorphosing all its major forms: the novel, literary... -
Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods by Curt Sampson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76The incredible true story of Tiger Woods's dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical, and professional setbacks. One publicly... -
The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel by Tom Miller 9781476778167
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.83The first book in a new series and a thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America that "[begins]... -
Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780813575971
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.54Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows... -
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton 9780674032538
Booksplease Price: £34.31From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...