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What Meets the Eye?: The Deaf Perspective by Lisa Kelly 9781913665487
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96A tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it./Beloved: It's not that I am/unwilling to be seized by sound,/ everyday I am undone by it. Khando Langri Our poets and authors... -
Japanese Success? British Failure?: Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945 by Etsuo Abe 9780198290582
Booksplease Price: £86.71The significance in business and economic history of Japan's startling rise in international competitiveness since the mid-1950s has not only given business academics much food for thought but has... -
Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture by Stephen Kite
Booksplease Price: £36.96The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in... -
Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings by Zeuler Lima 9780691191195
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century... -
Redeeming the Great Emancipator by Allen C. Guelzo 9780674286115
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's... -
The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius 9780674048355
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.34In this highly praised new translation of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great... -
Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century Sarah Sharp 9781474483421
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99The early nineteenth century saw the dead take on new life in Scottish literature; sometimes quite literally. This book brings together a range of Scottish Romantic texts, identifying a shared... -
Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims by John P. Wilson 9780415943970
Booksplease Price: £91.89Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been... -
Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims John P. Wilson 9781138987975
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.03Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been... -
The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John K. Wilson 9780822317135
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The classics of Western culture are out, not being taught, replaced by second-rate and Third World texts. White males are a victimized minority on campuses across the country, thanks to affirmative... -
Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000 by David French 9780199541058
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £50.45The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was... -
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale... -
Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism by Andrei S. Markovits 9780691074474
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why... -
The Uses of the University: Fifth Edition by Clark Kerr 9780674005327
Booksplease Price: £37.25America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on... -
Volunteers: A Social Profile by Marc A. Musick
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.00Who tends to volunteer and why? What causes attract certain types of volunteers? What motivates people to volunteer? How can volunteers be persuaded to continue their service? Making use of a broad... -
Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor: Pathways of Transformation and Integration John P. Wilson (Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA) 9780415953313
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.51In Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor, John Wilson and Jacob Lindy explore the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. Through lucid,... -
Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000 by David French 9780199258031
Booksplease Price: £92.49The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was... -
Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective by Pamela Paxton 9781538137512
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £51.98Women, Politics, and Power provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political participation and representation across all branches of government and a wide range of countries and regions... -
Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry by David Impastato 9780195104004
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £42.15From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of... -
Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor: Pathways of Transformation and Integration by John P. Wilson 9780415953306
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.53In Trauma, Culture, and Metaphor, John Wilson and Jacob Lindy explore the language of both individual and collective trauma in an era dominated by globalization and interconnectedness. Through lucid,... -
Cote d'Or: The Wines and Winemakers of the Heart of Burgundy Raymond Blake 9781913141646
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45The Cote d'Or may be small in size but its influence is huge and its reputation alone can intimidate even the most seasoned wine professional. Divided into two halves, the Cote de Nuits and the Cote... -
Côte d'Or: The Wines and Winemakers of the Heart of Burgundy Raymond Blake 9781913141943
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45The Cote d'Or may be small in size but its influence is huge and its reputation alone can intimidate even the most seasoned wine professional. Divided into two halves, the Cote de Nuits and the Cote... -
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian... -
The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691178233
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.18Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural... -
The Oxford Book of Descants by Julian Elloway 9780193365988
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £20.09The Oxford Book of Descants is a definitive collection of 102 descants to well-known hymns, carols, and worship songs. It features descants by a wide range of composers, including contemporary names... -
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood by Carlo Rotella 9780226759616
Booksplease Price: £16.75An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly,... -
Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy by David Altman
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.26Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative democratization and to... -
The Oxford Book of Descants by Julian Elloway 9780193386808
RRP: £8.75Booksplease Price: £7.32The Oxford Book of Descants is a definitive collection of 102 descants to well-known hymns, carols, and worship songs. It features descants by a wide range of composers, including contemporary names... -
Finding a New Midwestern History by Jon K. Lauck
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary... -
Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools by Henry H. Rubin 9781412965446
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.51"Hank Rubin has fashioned a new and needed vision for collaborative leadership that can work anywhere-especially in schools. Rubin properly argues that public school success is not a top-down... -
Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy by David Altman 9781108721776
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative democratization and to... -
Building Co-operation: A Business History of The Co-operative Group, 1863-2013 by John F. Wilson 9780199655113
Booksplease Price: £75.66Building Co-operation traces the development of The Co-operative Group and its predecessor, the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), over the course of 150 years. Born from the efforts of the... -
Death Comes for the Deconstructionist by Daniel Taylor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When Jon Mote is hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor, literary star Richard Pratt, the grad school dropout feels woefully unequal to the task. Skittering on the edge of madness,... -
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 by Lawrence Goldman
Booksplease Price: £110.81Who made modern Britain? This book, drawn from the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, tells the story of our recent past through the lives of those who shaped national life... -
French Novels and the Victorians by Juliette Atkinson 9780197266090
Booksplease Price: £87.60In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single page of the hundred thousand licentious pages... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell 9780268206673
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal... -
The Old Man and the Sand Eel by Will Millard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A wonderfully fluent account of how the strange magic of water and the beings that inhabit it can enchant and intoxicate' Chris Yates'[Will Millard] writes with a genuine sense of humility (...)... -
Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball by David Block 9781496208514
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Long before baseball became America's national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern... -
The Final Martyrs by Shusaku Endo 9780811218115
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during the 18th-century Shogunate persecution of Christians...