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The Star Wars Archives. 1977–1983 Paul Duncan 9783836598194
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically... -
The Seventeenth Century by Andrew Lossky 9780029194003
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47In this revised edition edited by Andrew Loskey, readers are presented with information on the characteristics and intellectual developments of the seventeenth century.The Seventeenth Century 1600 -... -
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America by Carla Bittel 9780807859476
Booksplease Price: £39.44In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally... -
The History of Plainville Connecticut, 1640-1918 by Henry Allen Castle 9781493033287
Booksplease Price: £12.41This is a comprehensive history of the beginnings, trials, and flourishing of Plainville Connecticut. As Gertrude Castle Nystrom wrote in the preface to her father's book, "This history of the... -
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle 9781469676623
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the... -
Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear 9781352003130
Booksplease Price: £30.87This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe. Including coverage of the central scientific... -
The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism Allon White 9781032646015
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Originally 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
Modernist Design Complete by Dominic Bradbury 9780500518427
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.25The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that modernism ushered in during the early part of the 20th century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles,... -
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... -
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... -
Civilisation and Nineteenth-Century Art: A European Concept in Global Context by David O'Brien 9781784992682
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £80.53Over the course of the long nineteenth century, Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States, especially those that... -
Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers by Guido Messling 9783777442037
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £38.95Illustrious turning point - Augsburg as the centre of the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Durer as the forerunners of Renaissance... -
Elizabeth Taylor Susan Smith 9781844574865
Booksplease Price: £28.10Elizabeth Taylor was one of the major film stars of the twentieth century, embodying all the glamour and allure of Hollywood stardom. Yet her achievements as an actress have often been overshadowed... -
Cement by Fedor Gladkov
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810111752Author Fedor GladkovFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Northwestern University... -
Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater Priscilla Dionne Layne 9780472076246
Booksplease Price: £67.25Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the... -
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... -
German Uniforms of the 20th Century Vol II: The Infantry 1919-to the Present by Jorg Hormann
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.78Detailed history of all aspects of German infantry uniforms in over 200 photos, many in color.Book InformationISBN 9780887402159Author Jorg M. HormannFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Schiffer... -
The Chemical Century: Molecular Manipulation and Its Impact on the 20th Century by Richard J. Sundberg 9781774636183
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £72.84This fascinating new volume provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of the chemical aspects of some of the major innovations and changes that occurred during the 20th century, relating chemical... -
The Bloody Century 2: More Tales of Murder in 19th Century America by Robert Wilhelm 9798990788107
RRP: £13.52Booksplease Price: £13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990788107Author Robert WilhelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Night Stick PressPublisher... -
Jesus and Mental Health: 1st Century vs 21st Century by Marvin K Lucas 9781953623980
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953623980Author Marvin K LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Illumination Publishers Intl...