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Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon David I Sandberg 9781639368938
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $17.75A warm and brilliant memoir that captures the medical and emotional intensity of pediatric neurosurgery.In this moving, unflinching, and inspiring book, Dr. David Sandberg, an internationally... -
Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance by Stephen M. Stigler
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $94.88The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. In the 1750s, at the urging of famed... -
Georgian Houses for All John Woodforde 9781032542058
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.24First published in 1978, Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them. Gregorian houses at their smallest and simplest can... -
The Predicament William Boyd 9780802166272
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802166272Author William BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860 Daniel Maudlin 9780815383895
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it. It is a study of... -
The Maze of Cadiz: Peter Cotton Thriller 1: The first thriller in this gripping espionage series by Aly Monroe
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Atmospheric and surprising' The Sunday Times 'Cotton's investigating is clever and fascinating' GuardianBook 1 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris... -
Washington Shadow: Peter Cotton Thriller 2: The second 'addictive' spy thriller Aly Monroe 9780719520938
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Book 2 in the Peter Cotton spy thriller series, for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.'Addictive' Sunday Telegraph'Monroe provides terrific and convincing historical atmosphere; I am delighted... -
Democracy and the Human Rights Act: Republican Analysis of Citizen Power by Dennis Dixon 9780367196608
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03This book discusses the extent to which the UK Human Rights Act successfully balances protection of rights and democracy. It explores the claim that the Act achieved a reconciliation between the... -
A History of Money: From AD 800 John F Chown 9780415137294
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.40This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. It also summarizes twentieth century developments... -
The Birds Have Also Gone by Yashar Kemal 9781846559624
RRP: $28.84Booksplease Price: $26.24There is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a bird-catching business to enable people to free them in order to... -
The Origin Of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics Eric Beinhocker 9780712676618
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Economics is changing radically. This paradigm shift, the biggest in the field for over a century, will have profound implications for business, government and society for decades to come.In this... -
Field Notes from the Edge by Paul Evans
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'A profoundly satisfying read' Financial TimesIn Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of... -
The New Judiciary: The Effects of Expansion and Activism Kate Malleson 9780367605094
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81During the last thirty years, the judiciary has undergone an unprecedented expansion in its size and power. Judges now have more influence over our private and public lives than ever before. The... -
The Sun King at Sea - Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Meredith Martin 9781606067307
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.41Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France's King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Yet most studies of French art in this... -
Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The more-than-human condition Kristin Asdal 9781472448682
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering... -
Credit, Currency, and Capital: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727 by Andrew McDiarmid 9781032257433
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.51The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, punctuated by bouts of economic turmoil and... -
White Corridor: (Bryant & May Book 5) by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of... -
Management, Social Work and Change by Elizabeth Harlow 9781138733817
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.87This title was first published in 2000: This text focuses on developments in social work and its management. In doing so, it is of necessity multi-disciplinary: research and literature from the... -
Management, Social Work and Change by Elizabeth Harlow 9781138733855
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $143.64This title was first published in 2000: This text focuses on developments in social work and its management. In doing so, it is of necessity multi-disciplinary: research and literature from the... -
Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor) 9781472111869
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35This superb annual anthology of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in unearthing the best... -
Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights - Effects and Implementation by Anja Seibert-Fohr 9780367599539
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $53.20This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to the various levels of legal orders in Europe. The starting point is the divergent... -
Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends John Storey 9781138905696
RRP: $86.42Booksplease Price: $76.42This third edition of Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends builds on the success of the previous versions, with new and updated chapters providing fresh and lively insights into... -
The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton by Antoin E. Murphy 9780199543236
Booksplease Price: $72.94This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined. The cast of authors varies from doctors and physicians (Sir William Petty... -
Democracy's Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s by Lauren Pearlman 9781469653907
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $16.15From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal... -
Communities of Ludlow: Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission by Fawn-Amber Montoya
Booksplease Price: $51.15For more than one hundred years, people have come to the Ludlow Massacre Memorial site to remember the dead, to place themselves within a larger narrative of labor history, and to learn about what... -
Democracy's Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s by Lauren Pearlman 9781469653891
RRP: $101.91Booksplease Price: $82.71From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal... -
The Fighter by 'John' Wayne Parr 9780733651908
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39The Fighter is the compelling life story of Australian Muay Thai legend 'John' Wayne Parr - a fighter's odyssey full of twists, turns, world titles, personal challenges and triumphs.Hailed as a... -
Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion by Penny Harvey
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.79There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human... -
Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering by Gavin Kendall 9780761965152
Booksplease Price: $77.97Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing′ cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in... -
The Experience of Suburban Modernity: How Private Transport Changed Interwar London Michael Law 9780719089190
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these... -
A History of Scottish Economic Thought by Alexander Dow
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a... -
A Treatise on Hannibal's Passage of the Alps: In Which his Route Is Traced over the Little Mont Cenis by Robert Ellis 9781108075770
Booksplease Price: $29.23The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE began within fifty years of the event and has... -
An Enquiry into the Ancient Routes between Italy and Gaul: With an Examination of the Theory of Hannibal's Passage of the Alps by the Little St Bernard by Robert Ellis 9781108075763
Booksplease Price: $30.52The controversy over the route taken by Hannibal, the Carthaginian army and his famous elephants in their crossing of the Alps to attack Rome in 218 BCE began within fifty years of the event and has... -
Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives by Bob Carter 9780230246591
Booksplease Price: $60.29This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are... -
In the King's Wake: Post-absolutist Culture in France by Jay Caplan
Booksplease Price: $41.67Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. This book traces the... -
In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France by Jay Caplan 9780226093116
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. This book traces the... -
The Wild Reciter: Poetry and Popular Culture in Australia 1890-2020 by Peter Kirkpatrick 9780522880298
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.24Just over a century ago poetry was all the rage in Australia. Newspapers and magazines published it, entertainers and elocutionists performed it on stages across the country, and ordinary Australians... -
Accountability: Power, Ethos and The Technologies of Managing by Rolland Munro 9780412625602
Booksplease Price: $81.67For the first time, this book makes available a framework for discussion of the important topics of accountability. Different voices of Europe's leading academics in the area have been drawn together... -
Pyrotechnic Cities: Architecture, Fire-Safety and Standardisation by Liam Ross 9781032214740
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81This book explores the relationship between architecture, government and fire. It posits that, through the question of fire-safety standardisation, building design comes to be both a problem for, and... -
Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs: Essays in Honour of Ted Benton by Rob Stones 9780230201156
Booksplease Price: $59.70Bringing together some of the most eminent thinkers in the field, this book celebrates the seminal contribution of Ted Benton to such pressing themes as: realism, naturalism and the philosophy of the...