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Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-century Assessment: An End-of-century Assessment by Steven A. Shull 9780765602596
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08A comprehensive overview of the president's policy-making role and the way this role structures the president's interaction with other institutions of government. The book concludes with a discussion... -
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century Subject by E. Konig 9781349479849
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this... -
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII. Century: a Romance of the XVIII. Century: a by Georgette Heyer 9781940849447
Booksplease Price: £18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940849447Author Georgette HeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Ancient Wisdom... -
Elias Portolu by Grazia King
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's... -
Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics by Ann T. Delehanty 9781611484892
Booksplease Price: £96.35Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.64An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America by David George Surdam 9780190211561
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £109.33American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have used other... -
Celtic Warfare: From the Fifth Century BC to the First Century AD by Canestrelli, Gioal 9781399070171
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Warfare was a crucial aspect of Celtic society, deeply linked to the spreading of their culture through all Europe. Between the fifth century BC, when La T ne Culture Celts developed in Europe, and... -
The Rebirth of Education: From 19th-Century Schooling to 21st-Century Learning by Lant Pritchett 9781933286778
Booksplease Price: £21.65Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty... -
The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century: The 20th Century by Miriam Forman-Brunell 9780252077685
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century provides scholars, instructors, and students with the most influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and... -
Edvard Munch: Magic of the North by Thomas Köhler 9783777442181
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.55Munch's pictorial worlds - the initial impetus for modernism Edvard Munch's radical modernity in painting was a challenge for his contemporaries. This applied in particular to the art scene in... -
Venezia 500: The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting by Andreas Schumacher 9783777441764
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.30Brushwork and poetry - the great awakening of Venetian painting around 1500. In the Venice of the Renaissance, master artists like Bellini, Giorgione, Palma Vecchio and Titian explored the essence... -
Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900 by Professor Melia Belli Bose 9781138353411
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900 brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists, commissioners, collectors, and subjects from... -
The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism by Allon White 9781032645933
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and... -
The Sylph by Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana 9780810122291
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91This ranging epistolary novel follows Julia Grenville, a Welsh beauty who knows little of the world until her marriage to the older Lord Stanley. Through Julia's letters to her sister, readers learn... -
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art Linda Walsh (Independent scholar; formerly of The Open University, UK) 9781118475515
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £32.86A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and... -
Actresses of the Restoration Period: Mrs Elizabeth Barry and Mrs Anne Bracegirdle by Susan Margaret Cooper
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The Restoration represents an exhilarating period of English history. With Charles II, the Merry Monarch' restored to the throne, the country saw artistic and literary talent flourish. Charles was... -
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation by Margaret Connolly
Booksplease Price: £24.15This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned... -
Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century by Angus McLaren
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary... -
Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Marjatta Rahikainen 9781138263543
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Most historical studies of child labour have tended to confirm a narrative which witnesses the gradual disappearance of child labour in Western Europe as politicians and social reformers introduced... -
Art and Architecture of the 20th Century Art and Architecture of the Early 20th Century by Dorothea EIMERT 9781646996971
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646996971Author Dorothea EIMERTFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA,... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse by Rebecca Messbarger 9780802036520
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.50Eighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' - an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various... -
A Century of Birkenhead & Wirral: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Cliff Hayes 9780750949040
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Star Wars Archives. 1999–2005 Paul Duncan 9783836598231
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas ... -
Cement by Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A classic of socialist realism, Cement became a model for Soviet fiction in the decades following its publication in the early 1920s. Gleb, a soldier hero, returns from the revolution to a world in... -
George Sand by Martine Reid 9780271081069
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.88The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France's most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by... -
Crime At El Escorial: The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury by D. J. Walker 9780761863557
Booksplease Price: £40.79Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of... -
Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler 9780810109964
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Turn-of-the-century Vienna was the scene of tremendous social and artistic upheaval. Arthur Schnitzler's novel The Road to the Open brilliantly captures the complex world of Freud, Mahler, Strauss,... -
Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook Ilias Arnaoutoglou 9780415149853
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with... -
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz 9781469672953
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative... -
The Two Worlds of Nineteenth Century International Relations: The Bifurcated Century by Daniel M Green 9781032094267
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for international relations (IR) history in the pivotal nineteenth century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be a long century of... -
A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Colin G. Pooley 9781138259003
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and... -
Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century: A Century after the Bolshevik Revolution by Alberto Gabriele 9781032212227
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is... -
![The Bryant Festival at "The Century" by N y ) Century Association (New York 9781275718708](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2994864/2994199/9781275718708__06490.1715435465.jpg?c=1 "The Bryant Festival at "The Century" by N y ) Century Association (New York 9781275718708")
The Bryant Festival at "The Century" by N y ) Century Association (New York 9781275718708
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275718708Author N y ) Century Association (New YorkFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Gale... -
A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century by B. G. Sidharth 9789048171149
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £122.04Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and... -
We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam by Nick Brokhausen 9781612005805
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.97On his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and... -
Single No. 03: Hawker Hurricane 1 by Dariusz Karnas
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.95A compilation for aero modellers of 4-view colour profiles, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Hawker Hurricane I, with scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from... -
Untitled by 9783836592017
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74In I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life -that is also a culmination and a public promise - captured by a unique photographic point of view which shows... -
Neutra. 45th Ed. Barbara Lamprecht 9783754400043
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on postwar architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being...