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The Legacy Of The Blues: Art And Lives Of Twelve Great Bluesmen by Samuel Charters 9780306800542
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15Blues is a language,one which has evolved its own rules and which is the sole property of a culture always forced to the periphery of white society. As such it is a political language. Whether it is... -
Double Stopping: How Migration Shaped the Careers of Australia’s Celebrity Violinists Dr. Suzanne Robinson 9798765135044
Booksplease Price: $116.84Double Stopping traces the migration of celebrity violinists to and from Australia to investigate routes of contact between metropoles and peripheries, and the impact of world wars and political... -
Tiny: A Memoir About Love, Letting Go and a Very Small House by Louise Southerden 9781741179224
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.52Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer,... -
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West: A Visual History of Cultural Exchange by Charlotte Jirousek 9780253042163
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of... -
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies by Scott A. Eldridge II (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 9781032369815
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $62.15This second edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers a truly global and groundbreaking collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of... -
Sweet Anaesthetist by Jay Whittaker
Booksplease Price: $16.67Jay Whittaker's debut collection, Wristwatch, won the 2018 Saltire prize for Poetry Book of the Year. In this eagerly awaited follow-up, Jay explores themes of origin, asking what shapes us most: our... -
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism Kevin B. Anderson 9781804296875
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the years... -
Britannia AD 43: The Claudian Invasion by Nic Fields
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.18For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the... -
The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque by John V. Waldron 9781498557252
Booksplease Price: $58.44For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my... -
Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic by David Treece 9781785273841
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil,... -
Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other Essays by Ángel Rama 9781438494487
Booksplease Price: $35.29Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Angel Rama's most important essays.Angel Rama was among the most prominent Latin American literary and cultural critics of... -
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature by Zhang Longxi 9781041005483
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $62.15The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engaged in comparative literary studies and addresses a central and highly important... -
The Importance of Being Poirot by Jeremy Black
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during... -
Hollow in the Land by James Clarke
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Out walking Ada Robinson's dog while his wife drinks herself into a forgetful fug, Harry Maiden discovers an intricate system of caves beneath the wind turbines. Over at the Woolpack one night, Rosco... -
Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts by Feliciano Chimbutane 9781847693631
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.24This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the... -
Maliheh Afnan: Traces, Faces, Places by Rose Issa 9780863564864
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.74Malileh Afnan's work appears 'as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers... -
Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781398109735
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.23These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love. These are the women who made a difference, who influenced... -
Heroines of the Tudor World Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781398133518
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love. These are the women who made a difference, who influenced... -
The Child: The must-read Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2018 by Fiona Barton
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Clever and compelling. You'll love THE CHILD' Clare Mackintosh, author of LET ME LIE********When a paragraph in an evening newspaper... -
On Love: A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century Luc Ferry 9780745670171
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.18All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost... -
The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context Roberta Piazza 9781350448582
Booksplease Price: $123.18This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation... -
Monetary Whispers Across Space Iwan J. Azis 9789819546244
Booksplease Price: $59.70This open access book explores how macroeconomic policy, specifically monetary policy, interacts with interregional inequality. Using the case of monetary policy in Indonesia, a country with high... -
The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986 by Edgar J. Dosman 9780773534124
RRP: $86.43Booksplease Price: $40.44Raul Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and international economic policy, an institution builder, and an international diplomat. The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986... -
Slay: Ancient legends of female slayers and the hidden mythology of dragons by Jasmine Elmer 9781408750100
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.49A groundbreaking and seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer.The dragon is a... -
The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma by Eniko Vincze (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) 9781032862552
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political... -
The Off-Modern by Svetlana Boym
Booksplease Price: $35.58Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the... -
Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond by Rama Salla Dieng 9781772582284
Booksplease Price: $34.22Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The... -
Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers by Maria Aresin 9781915401007
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 offers a fresh perspective on the art of Venice and the Veneto. The volume brings together the contributions of scholars and curators specialist on... -
Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture by Raffaella Zanuttini 9781589010802
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.44Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in... -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... -
The Authority Guide to Developing High-performance Teams: How to develop brilliant teams and reap the rich rewards of effective collaboration in the workplace by Andrew Jenkins
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Are you making the most of the greatest asset in your business? To make your good business a great business you need to have more than just a strong product or service. Having a high-performing team... -
Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization by Tyler Andrew Barrett
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $47.50The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of 'linguistic diversity' and 'hybridity' through the lenses of new critical theories and theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader... -
The Original: A Novel by Nell Stevens 9781324130697
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Brought to her uncle's decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in her own home. Now a self-possessed and secretive... -
Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization by Tyler Andrew Barrett 9781788922845
RRP: $167.64Booksplease Price: $150.03The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of 'linguistic diversity' and 'hybridity' through the lenses of new critical theories and theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader... -
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran 9780691259116
Booksplease Price: $24.90A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities... -
Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $40.80This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and... -
Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal - The Murid Order by John Glover
Booksplease Price: $123.98Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an "alternative modernity" as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples. The Murid order,... -
Women by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the... -
Selected Tales (The Norton Library) by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.84Part of the Norton Library series "As Kate Holland notes in her fine introduction to these new translations, Nikolai Gogol is a hybrid: Ukrainian-Russian, Romantic-Realist, equal parts nightmare and... -
Chasing the Dark: The Story of Britain's Most Famous Paranormal Investigator and the Question of Life After Death by Ben Machell 9780349146829
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $17.52'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational.....