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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean by Irad Malkin 9781009466080
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $162.94Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the... -
The Neurobiology of Disease: Contributions from Neuroscience to Clinical Neurology by Hugh Bostock 9780521342384
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $157.67This volume demonstrates the value of interactions between neurology and the basic sciences that underpin it. The text considers a range of topics from the points of view of both neurobiologist and... -
The Dormition and Assumption Apocrypha by S.J. Shoemaker 9789042935990
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $164.62This volume gathers a dozen essays by the author on the ancient traditions of Mary's Dormition and Assumption, all of which expand on the work published in his major study on... -
Remaking Romanticism: The Radical Politics of the Excerpt by Casie Legette 9783319469287
Booksplease Price: $169.51This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends-and for their largely working-class readership-long after those works'... -
The Moon: A Translation of Der Mond by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt 9783030372712
Booksplease Price: $235.45Julius Schmidt was one of the finest astronomical observers of his time, and his detailed map of the Moon surpassed anything that had come before. Today, the German astronomer and geophysicist has... -
The Communist Manifesto: New Interpretations by Mark Cowling 9780814715772
Booksplease Price: $60.00Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the original publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1848, and including the Manifesto's complete text, The Communist Manifesto: New... -
We Built Our Own Computers by A. B. Bolt 9780521093781
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $91.64First published in 1966, We Built our own Computers was written to share the skill and enthusiasm of the students with others. At the time of original publication there were already many popular... -
American Automobile Advertising, 1930-1980: An Illustrated History by Heon Stevenson 9781476693477
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $54.12This book provides a comprehensive history of American print automobile advertising over a half-century span, beginning with the entrenchment of the "Big Three" automakers during the Depression and... -
History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 1: The Period of the Philosophers (from the Beginnings to Circa 100 B.C.) by Yu-lan Fung
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book... -
Tarantas: A Novella by Vladimir Sollogub
Booksplease Price: $42.95In this 19th century Russian social novella, two contrasting characters - one a western-educated intellectual, the other a hidebound country squire - find themselves thrown together on a long cross... -
Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Casebook by William L. Andrews 9780195157727
Booksplease Price: $90.49This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by... -
New Musical Resources by Henry Cowell 9780521499743
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $40.47Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognised as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971,... -
Colloquial Hindustani A. H. Harley 9781032933405
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50First Published in 1944, Colloquial Hindustani is intended to supply the beginner in the language not only with the common rules of grammar and their exemplification with sentences of a practical... -
Shell Art & Advertising by Scott Anthony
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $73.96Exploring Shell's remarkable archive of advertising art, this book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the company's artistic heritage. Examinations of the historical, political and... -
Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition by Crescent Dragonwagon
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.20Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread has brought recipes of delightful sustenance to experienced cooks and novices alike since its original publication thirty years ago. Rejoicing in soups like wicked... -
Living, Loving and Learning by Leo Buscaglia 9780913590881
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $62.06A collection of lectures by New York Times bestselling author, professor, and PBS motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning combines essential insights and teaching anecdotes to... -
Unexplained Presence Tisa Bryant 9798891060050
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural... -
Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers by G. E. R. Lloyd 9780521397629
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $90.41This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and... -
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780521688963
RRP: $144.90Booksplease Price: $138.14Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books... -
Pavlov and his School: The Theory of Conditioned Reflexes Y. P. Frolov 9781041026679
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $232.45Originally published in 1937, Pavlov and his School provides fascinating biographical information about Pavlov himself and is a clear and concise account of the theory of conditioned reflexes... -
Romanticism and Theatrical Experience: Kean, Hazlitt and Keats in the Age of Theatrical News by Jonathan Mulrooney 9781316635179
Booksplease Price: $67.45Bringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical... -
Newborns and Parents: Parent-Infant Contact and Newborn Sensory Stimulation Vincent L. Smeriglio 9781032861906
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50In hospitals in the 1970s there was considerable variation in the nature of hospital environments experienced by newborns and their parents. The effects of such experiences are of great interest to... -
Human Suggestibility: Advances in Theory, Research, and Application John F. Schumaker 9781041271802
Booksplease Price: $271.51Originally published in 1991, Human Suggestibility is a collection of papers that reflected recent advances in the study of human suggestibility at the time, including not only the topic of hypnosis,... -
Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles by Dr. Kenneth Womack 9781501387067
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $97.21In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band’s story vividly to life—from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their... -
The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna by Walter Ullmann 9780415578530
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into... -
A Sociology of Special Education (RLE Edu M) Sally Tomlinson 9780415753135
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77At the time of original publication, special education in Britain was permeated by an ideology of benevolent humanitarianism and this is ostensibly the moral framework within which the professionals... -
Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en al Frontera by Norma Elia Cantu, Ph.D. 9780826356192
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.68Winner of the Premio Aztlan Literary PrizeCanicula-the dog days-a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cantu's fictionalized memoir of Laredo... -
Early English Recipes: Selected from the Harleian Manuscript 279 of about 1430 AD by Margaret Webb 9781107586406
Booksplease Price: $20.37Originally published in 1937, the text used is from the first of two fifteenth-century cookery books edited by Thomas Austin and published in 1888 for the Early English Text Society. The recipes are... -
Normal Life: A Study of War and Industrially Injured Pensioners Sally Sainsbury 9781041259770
Booksplease Price: $227.05It is widely accepted that disabled people should be enabled to have as normal a life as possible. This raises the key question of what is 'normal' and who should define it. Originally published in... -
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Michael Taussig 9781138242982
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves... -
Analytical Archaeology by David L. Clarke 9781138817296
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $117.14This study was well-established as a pioneer work on archaeological methodology, the theoretical basis of all archaeological analysis whatever the period or era. The first edition of the book... -
Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals: Containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, Founded on a Series of Experiments, with an Extensive Table of the Properties of Materials by Thomas Tredgold 9781108070348
Booksplease Price: $76.55Although cast iron was used in pagoda construction in ancient China, it was in Britain in the eighteenth century that new methods allowed for its production in quantities that enabled widespread use... -
Selves in Relation: An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups by Keith Oatley
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Emotional crises and breakdowns are not things going wrong in individuals' minds: they are disturbances in their relations with themselves and others. In psychotherapy an attempt is made to resolve... -
Black Star Over Japan: Rising Forces of Militarism by Albert Axelbank
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired,... -
Persius and Juvenal Saturae by W. V. Clausen 9780198147985
Booksplease Price: $84.61Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62) and Juvenal (fl. early 2nd century AD) were two major, highly influential writers of satirical poetry of the early Roman Empire. The mordant wit of each, and the... -
Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts by Joshua C. Taylor 9780226791548
Booksplease Price: $31.25Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations... -
History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 2: The Period of Classical Learning from the Second Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D by Yu-lan Fung 9780691020228
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.77Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book... -
New Musical Resources by Henry Cowell 9780521496513
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $180.89Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognised as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer. In 1971,... -
Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals: Containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, Founded on a Series of Experiments, with an Extensive Table of the Properties of Materials by Eaton Hodgkinson 9781108070355
Booksplease Price: $55.88Although cast iron was used in pagoda construction in ancient China, it was in Britain in the eighteenth century that new methods allowed for its production in quantities that enabled widespread use... -
Dynamics of Elastic Containers: Partially Filled with Liquid by I. M. Rapoport 9783642461088
Booksplease Price: $190.18The motions of liquids in moving containers constitute a broad class of problems of great practical importance in many technical fields. The influence of the dynamics of the liquid on the motions of...