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Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State by Laurence M. Hauptman 9780815607120
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37An exploration of family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance in the Middle East. This second edition is revised to expand and update coverage of family law... -
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Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean 9780195159059 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £1.97Weird and Wonderful Words is a pot-pourri, a gallimaufry, a salmagundi, a treasure trove of colourful, quirky, and unusual words. Containing hundreds of definitions written in a clear and... -
Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean 9780195159059
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £14.01Weird and Wonderful Words is a pot-pourri, a gallimaufry, a salmagundi, a treasure trove of colourful, quirky, and unusual words. Containing hundreds of definitions written in a clear and... -
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The Book of Feckin' Irish Slang that's great craic for cute hoors and bowsies by Colin Murphy 9780862788292 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.50Booksplease Price: £2.50New edition of this bestselling and laugh out loud humour title. The almost incomprehensible wit and wonder of Irish slang words. Can you tell your bowsies from your gougers from your gurriers?... -
Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications by A. P. Cowie 9780198299646
Booksplease Price: £65.73Over the last twenty years phraseology has become an important field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. In this book the world's leading specialists... -
Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins: Volume 3 Chris Baldick 9780748627318
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22The first general account of this exceptionally vibrant decade of writing in Britain. Eclipsed until now by the dominant story of Modernism, a much more inclusive range of 1920s literature emerges... -
Ambassadors of Goodwill: MCC tours 1946/47-1970/71 by Mark Peel
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.45Since Victorian times, the MCC had embraced the amateur ideal that cricket was more than a game. It was the very essence of camaraderie and good sportsmanship. Yet for all their evangelising, the... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826475732
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie 9781107605695
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. Begun in England 150 years ago, it took more than 60 years to complete and, when it was finally finished in... -
Oxford English Mini Dictionary by Moonstone 9780198075554
Booksplease Price: £13.88A dictionary is a compilation of words in one or more languages, generally in the alphabetical order. It specifies the meanings of the words, their definitions, synonyms (in some cases), etymologies,... -
The End of the German Monarchy: The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns by John van der Kiste 9781781556368
Booksplease Price: £22.05By the autumn of 1918 Germany was on the verge of starvation-the result of four years of war and blockade. Sailors led a revolt in Wilhelmshaven on 29 October 1918, followed by the Kiel mutiny in the... -
Conceptualizing Truth: Implications for Teaching and Learning by Kevin S. Krahenbuhl 9798887300153
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74It has been widely noted that society has moved away from seeing truth as an objective and, in some ways, important part of what it means to be educated. Varied conceptions of truth have existed and... -
Secret Rye & Around by Terry Philpot
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.60Rye and Winchelsea's unhurried appearance and ancient buildings disguise a history that ranges from Danish and French invaders to the notorious Hawkhurst gang of smugglers. E. F. Benson, creator of... -
World Religions, New Edition by John Bowker
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.29Baffled by Buddhism? Confused by Catholicism? Mystified by Mysticism? Discover everything you need to know about the world's major religious faiths. A compelling and insightful guide for uncovering... -
Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World by Giuseppe Pezzini 9781108480666
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14A familiar theme in Greek philosophy, largely due to the influence of Plato's Cratylus, linguistic naturalism (the notion that linguistic facts, structures or behaviour are in some significant sense... -
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice by G. R. Berridge 9783030859305
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.99This fully revised and expanded sixth edition of Diplomacy, written by an internationally respected researcher and teacher of the subject, is richly illustrated with examples from the worlds of... -
Conceptualizing Truth: Implications for Teaching and Learning by Kevin S. Krahenbuhl 9798887300160
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.12It has been widely noted that society has moved away from seeing truth as an objective and, in some ways, important part of what it means to be educated. Varied conceptions of truth have existed and... -
Playing the Game?: Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present by Mark Peel
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.75Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game?... -
That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' by David Crystal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and... -
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation by Michael Allaby
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.85Thoroughly revised and updated to include the latest research in the field, A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation provides over 9,000 A to Z entries on scientific and social aspects of the... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Civil War Era Biographies John D Wright 9781032917627
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the people whose lives and hard work defined the Civil... -
While You See A Chance: The Steve Winwood Story by John Van der Kiste 9781781556733
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Born in Birmingham, Steve Winwood was already a semi-professional musician, playing keyboards and guitar, while still at school. As lead vocalist with The Spencer Davis Group, he had had two... -
How to Write Melodies by Rikky Rooksby 9781493073399
Booksplease Price: £18.06Melody is the true heart of music-the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert. Composing melodies is often... -
Pop Pickers and Music Vendors: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Roger Scott by John Van der Kiste 9781781555446
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Roger Scott were in their different ways five of the greatest pioneering British disc jockeys of the last sixty years. All were accomplished... -
A Dictionary of Zoology by Michael Allaby
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £13.49With over 6,000 entries, A Dictionary of Zoology is a detailed and authoritative guide to all areas of the field. It offers full taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles,... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement by Chris Baldick 9780199288342
Booksplease Price: £50.93This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. Chris Baldick places the modernist achievements of... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
Booksplease Price: £18.18Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
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A Dictionary of Law by Elizabeth Martin 9780199669868 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.03This best-selling dictionary is an authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information. It contains over 4,200 entries that clearly define the major terms, concepts, processes,... -
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional... -
The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction by William F. Bynum
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key... -
Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate by Karolyn Shindler 9780565094379
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the... -
In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer by Doloranda Pember 9780750989770
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53In 1927, Mercedes Gleitze became the first British woman to swim the English Channel, transforming her from a humble working-class typist into one of the most iconic sportswomen of her age. Fiercely... -
The Kiss in History by Karen Harvey
Booksplease Price: £23.93Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a single kind of kiss... -
The King's Cathedral: The ancient heart of Christ Church, Oxford by Judith Curthoys
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.42The cathedral church of Christ in Oxford - better known as Christ Church Cathedral - was established in 1546. It forms one half of Christ Church, the unique joint foundation of cathedral and... -
A Dictionary of Ecology by Michael Allaby
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.99This is the fourth edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of ecology available. Written in a clear, accessible style, it contains over 6,000 entries on all aspects of ecology... -
A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences by Michael Allaby
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £13.99This new edition includes 10,000 entries which cover all areas of geoscience, including planetary science, oceanography, palaeontology, mineralogy and volcanology. In this edition, 675 new entries... -
A Dictionary of Physics by Richard Rennie
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Now with over 4,000 entries, this new eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect progress in physics and related fields. It sees expansion to the areas of cosmology, astrophysics, condensed... -
Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste 9781781553190
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Prince Alfred, who was created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866 and became Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1893, was the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A patron of the arts, pioneer... -
A Dictionary of Opera Characters by Joyce Bourne 9780198804895
Booksplease Price: £37.55This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in...