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Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation by Susan Oliver
Booksplease Price: €98.41The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and... -
Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship by Kevin L. Cope
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of "long" eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research... -
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation by Susan Oliver 9781108926881
Booksplease Price: €33.77The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and... -
The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia by Lynnea Chapman King 9780810885769
Booksplease Price: €114.59Joel and Ethan Coen have written and directed some of the most celebrated American films of the last thirty years. The output of their work has embraced a wide range of genres, including the... -
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach 9780691117669
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €77.12This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam... -
Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy by Paul Bryant-Jackson 9780816620166
Booksplease Price: €31.70This collage of essays and interviews illuminates the complexity and richness of Adrienne Kennedy's innovative dramas.Although Adrienne Kennedy's plays are highly regarded in the world of American... -
A Place of Safety: A Midsomer Murders Mystery 6 by Caroline Graham
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesDiscover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions.A Place of Safety by... -
Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism by Susan Wolfson
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.06Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine"... -
Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space Tricia Cusack 9781138247963
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
Booksplease Price: €19.29Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life... -
Why Being Yourself is a Bad Idea by Graham Tomlin 9780281081790
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Building on the success of books offering key concepts in digestible form, Graham Tomlin writes for millennials and emerging adults who are seeking to make sense of life. Each of the ten chapters... -
Faithful unto Death: A Midsomer Murders Mystery 5 Caroline Graham 9781472243690
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesDiscover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions. The compelling fifth novel... -
The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times Martin Priestman 9781032922089
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.59While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin's scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry... -
Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 by David McKitterick
Booksplease Price: €34.37This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with... -
Written in Blood: A Midsomer Murders Mystery 4 Caroline Graham 9781472243683
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesDiscover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions.The fourth novel in the... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462647
Booksplease Price: €51.27Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life... -
A Ghost in the Machine: A Midsomer Murders Mystery 7 by Caroline Graham
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday TimesDiscover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions. A Ghost in the Machine is... -
Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running by Rachel Toor 9780803234260
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus. How such an unlikely athlete became a runner of ultramarathons is the story of Personal Record, an exhilarating meditation on the... -
Ernst Gamperl Ernst Gamperl 9791254600863
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €49.48The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material and the acknowledgment of inescapable serendipity are a source of creative inspiration... -
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy by Jim Proser 9780062803917
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.44The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis.A devout student of history and erudite reader... -
Clear Skies, Deep Water: A Chautauqua Memoir by Beth Peyton 9781438451725
Booksplease Price: €14.99A memoir about loss, restoration, and finding home on a lake in western New York.After a year of devastating personal and financial loss, Beth Peyton and her husband, Jeff, moved to the hamlet of... -
Wordsworth Before Coleridge: The Growth of the Poet’s Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797 by Mark Bruhn
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a... -
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston 9780198823674
Booksplease Price: €100.95In Nietzsche's first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. In the person of Richard Wagner, Nietzsche saw someone who might bring together a fragmented... -
Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch 9780367753511
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological... -
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. Hasselstrom 9780874178319
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into... -
Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy by Donald A. Maxton 9781476679389
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return... -
Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling by Michael Bell 9780333721100
Booksplease Price: €109.66Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment, despite... -
Hope: A Literary History by Adam Potkay
Booksplease Price: €47.24Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a... -
XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense by Anton Rager 9781597491549
Booksplease Price: €72.55A cross site scripting attack is a very specific type of attack on a web application. It is used by hackers to mimic real sites and fool people into providing personal data. XSS Attacks starts by... -
Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950 by Ann Zulawski
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Unequal Cures illuminates the connections between public health and political change in Bolivia from the beginning of the twentieth century, when the country was a political oligarchy, until the eve... -
Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950 by Ann Zulawski 9780822339007
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52Unequal Cures illuminates the connections between public health and political change in Bolivia from the beginning of the twentieth century, when the country was a political oligarchy, until the eve... -
Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Crochet: Create 12 Iconic Characters in Amigurumi by Sarah-Jane Hicks 9781800921535
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.97Take up your hook and with the expert guidance of crochet and amigurumi expert Sarah-Jane Hicks, recreate the wonderful world of Aardman Animations' beloved twosome, Wallace & Gromit! Taking... -
The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema by Peter Stanfield
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Explosive! Amazing! Terrifying! You won't believe your eyes! Such movie taglines were common in the 1950s, as Hollywood churned out a variety of low-budget pictures that were sold on the basis of... -
Vesuvius: A Biography by Alwyn Scarth 9780691143903
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.64Capricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its calm, its... -
Wordsworth's Revisitings by Stephen Gill 9780199268771
Booksplease Price: €68.59Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man. In this beautifully written and thoughtful book... -
'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 by Michael J. Franklin 9780199532001
Booksplease Price: €88.21Sir William Jones (1746-94) was the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time. He re-drew the map of European thought. 'Orientalist' Jones was... -
The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love Harry Tanner 9781399422291
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14'BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' TOM HOLLAND'MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS NEEDED. HISTORY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE ALIVE...' RUSSELL T DAVIESA gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins... -
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative by Linda Tate
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €25.81Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination,... -
Thirsty: A Novel by Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.31It is 1883, and all of Klara Bozic's girlish dreams have come crashing down as she arrives in Thirsty, a gritty steel town carved into the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of... -
Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work by 9780874176278
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.65An important collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the effects of ranching on the environment. Acclaimed nature writer Linda M...