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Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 by Catherine Hall 9780521576536
Booksplease Price: £45.31Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall... -
International System: Theoretical Essays by Klaus Eugen Knorr 9780691623252
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A sample of recent thinking in international relations theory, World Politics, October 1961, is offered also in a special hard-cover edition. Contributors: M.A. Kaplan, A.L. Burns, T.C. Schelling, R... -
Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion by Pablo Lopez-Silva 9780192896162
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £46.89Thought insertion is the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, which causes people to believe that external agents have inserted ideas or thoughts into their minds. More prevalent in... -
Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia by Earl J. Hess
Booksplease Price: £35.52Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union... -
Letters to Melanie Kochert by Hugo Wolf 9780299194444
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This volume tells of a relationship between Hugo Wolf, one of the greatest masters of the German art song, and Melanie Kochert, the wife of a prominent Viennese jeweller with whom Wolf shared a... -
Actualized Leadership: Meeting Your Shadow and Maximizing Your Potential by William L. Sparks
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99What motivates great leaders to be great? Based on the works of Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Carl Jung, and Carl Rogers, this groundbreaking book shows how actualized leaders think, feel, and... -
Usability Evaluation In Industry Patrick W. Jordan (The Contemporary Trends Institute, London, UK) 9780748404605
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £86.44This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool. It contains new... -
People in Organisations: An Active Learning Approach Kevin Gallagher (University of Sunderland) 9780631201816
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.24People in Organisations is concerned with the examination of contextual and content issues surrounding people and organisations. The module examines those sociological issues such as organisational... -
Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma by 9780786448517
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma. Its in-depth examination... -
Terra Northwest: Interpreting People and Place by David H. Stratton 9780874222913
Booksplease Price: £17.64Eleven thought-provoking experts from the United States and Canada explore society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine the European exploration of the Pacific... -
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee 9781419727610
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who was forced at age twelve to live on the... -
The German Historians and England: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Views by Charles E. McLelland 9780521083966
Booksplease Price: £43.34Between the late eighteenth century and the eve of World War I, England assumed a special significance for the German intellectual elite. In the beginning, the preponderant admiration for England was... -
Disguise the Limit: John Yau's Collaborations by John Yau 9781882007011
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.15Five decades of Yau's diverse poetic collaborations with artists from Pat Steir to Richard Tuttle The poetry of Chinese American poet John Yau (born 1950) is infused with humor and intelligence... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance Professor Alessandro Arcangeli 9781350461017
Booksplease Price: £31.31A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled their medieval forebears, but the incorporation of athletics into the... -
Emancipation and the Remaking of the British Imperial World by Catherine Hall 9780719091834
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown... -
Cortical Circuits: Synaptic Organization of the Cerebral Cortex Structure, Function, and Theory by White 9781468487237
Booksplease Price: £46.74This elegant book presents current evidence on the organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The focus on synapses and their function provides the basis for understanding how this critical part... -
Single Sickness and Other Stories by Masuda Mizuko 9781933947563
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Here is a collection of short stories by the contemporary woman writer Masuda Mizuko, who has been writing actively since the late 1970s and is anthologized in major collections of Japanese women's... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age Noel Fallows 9781350461000
Booksplease Price: £31.31A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats... -
Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology: Contemporary Readings by Aud Sissel Hoel 9780230365476
Booksplease Price: £46.28Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into... -
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess 9781538174272
Booksplease Price: £86.73Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around three thematic elements: tactics, technology, and... -
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess 9781538174289
Booksplease Price: £33.49Civil War Torpedoes examines the history of landmine development and use in the Civil War and beyond. The author organizes his scholarship around three thematic elements: tactics, technology, and... -
The Bite of Mango by Mariatu Kamara 9781554511587
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.02As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old... -
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi by Earl J. Hess 9781469621869
Booksplease Price: £39.48The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the... -
Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect by Leonore Davidoff 9780631219989
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.70This book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on... -
Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics by Lesley Sharpe 9780521030649
Booksplease Price: £41.37In this important study, Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics... -
The Anomeric Effect and Related Stereoelectronic Effects at Oxygen by A. J. Kirby 9783642686788
Booksplease Price: £110.25The anomeric effect is a well-defined and much studied example of a deep- seated and very general effect in organic chemistry. It involves a fundamental interaction between the lone pair electrons of... -
Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess 9781469643427
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fortifications located to take advantage of rugged... -
Acting and Reflecting: The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy by Wilfried Sieg 9789401076173
Booksplease Price: £92.16In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the social... -
Life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp: Evangelical, Catholic and Ritual Revivalism in the Nineteenth-Century Church by Michael Trott
Booksplease Price: £114.18Richard Sibthorp, youngest son of a celebrated Lincolnshire family, became through his forceful preaching and acknowledged piety, one of the leading Anglican Evangelicals of the 1820s. During the... -
Managing Emotion in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and Imaginings by Margaret Mullett 9781032340470
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age by Steven A. Riess 9781350461055
Booksplease Price: £31.31A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and... -
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign by Earl J. Hess
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment Rebekka von Mallinckrodt 9781350461024
Booksplease Price: £31.31A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800, a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact, a rich sporting culture... -
Acting and Reflecting: The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy by Wilfried Sieg 9780792305125
Booksplease Price: £90.56In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the social... -
Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union by Earl J. Hess 9780823217991
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil War. Arguing for the primary significance of... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry Dr Mike Huggins 9781350461048
Booksplease Price: £31.31A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920. Over this period, sport become increasingly global, some sports were radically altered, sports clubs proliferated,... -
Dead Writers: Stories Jean Marc Ah-Sen 9781778430541
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this collaborative omnibus-style fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the "bargain" in novella-length stories. The lives of a biographer surveying the career of a... -
Mirror on the Floor by George Bowering 9781927380956
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Mirror on the Floor was first published in 1967 by McClelland and Stewart, the first novel from a young writer named George Bowering. Now with over 100 publications to his credit, we are proud to be... -
Ministries of Song: Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity Susan Ashbrook Harvey 9780520422681
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.30A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Ministries of Song is a... -
Ministries of Song: Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity Susan Ashbrook Harvey 9780520412378
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Ministries of Song is a...