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Slay: Ancient legends of female slayers and the hidden mythology of dragons by Jasmine Elmer 9781408750094
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.81A 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... -
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Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim Brandt 9780822339830 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $37.75A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the... -
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..... -
Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body by Beverly Yuen Thompson 9780814789209
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29A small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade-among the women who make up the twenty percent of all adults in the USA who... -
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The Child: The must-read Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2018 by Fiona Barton 9780552172455 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.10THE 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... -
![The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt 9781509854271 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9688066/10704782/9781509854271__82128.1781309394.jpg?c=1 "The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt 9781509854271 [USED COPY]")
The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt 9781509854271 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.26The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.'David... -
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris
Booksplease Price: $17.02In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya... -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value Guglielmo Carchedi (Amsterdam University) 9780745340883
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $22.27Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn... -
The Roof: The Beatles' Final Concert by Ken Mansfield 9781642932843
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95As seen on The 700 Club! HE WAS THERE! Apple Records former US manager Ken Mansfield takes a touching and comprehensive look back on one of Rock'n'Roll's most significant events, while bringing an... -
The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt 9781509854271
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.'David... -
Mimbres Far from the Heartland Volume 85: Identity at the Powers Ranch Site of East-Central Arizona Mary E. Whisenhunt 9780816554904
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25This new work offers a unique investigation into the complexities of Mimbres identity and social dynamics beyond the traditional Mimbres Valley heartland. Situated at the western edge of the Mimbres... -
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim Brandt 9780822340003
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.61A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the... -
Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire by Agnia Grigas 9780300214505
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $37.69How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its... -
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite by D. Michael Lindsay
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.16Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short... -
Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning by William B Honachefsky
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26In the decades following the first Earth Day in 1970, a generation has been enlightened about the unspeakable damage done to our planet. Federal, state, and local governments generated laws and... -
Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains by Jennifer J Hill 9781496226853
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious... -
Gdańsk: Portrait of a City Peter Oliver Loew 9780197603864
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.86It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Gunter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes... -
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The Widow by Fiona Barton 9780552172363 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.10THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. Engrossing... -
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The Child: The must-read Richard and Judy Book Club pick 2018 by Fiona Barton 9780593077719 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.28THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Clever and compelling. You'll love THE CHILD' Clare Mackintosh'Tense, tantalising and ultimately very satisfying . . . definitely one of the year's must-reads' Lee... -
Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates... -
Operation Black Buck 1982: The Vulcans' extraordinary Falklands War raids by Andrew Bird 9781472856661
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'The definitive account of the Vulcan raids... taught me something new on every page' - Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607 A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how... -
Representing Russia's Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song by Adalyat Issiyeva 9780190051365
Booksplease Price: $74.81What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century... -
Gender Identity: The Career of a Category by Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) 9781509575558
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.67From its obscure mid-twentieth-century origins in clinical assessments of intersex individuals, "gender identity" - understood as an inner sense of self that may or may not align with one's natal sex... -
A God of Incredible Surprises: Jesus of Galilee Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre Dame 9780742533882
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.41Why was Jesus, Son of God, from an obscure village in Galilee? What does it mean to our spirituality that he chose not to seek favor from the powerful, but identified with the marginalized, the... -
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence Gavin Francis 9781800810488
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.70THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: an uplifting account of hope and healing by GP Gavin Francis 'I cannot think of anybody - patient or doctor - who will not be helped by reading this short and profound... -
New World, Inc.: The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98'Deeply researched and well-written' - Financial TimesIn the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a... -
A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond by Victoria Shmidt 9781032223544
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57The burgeoning scholarship on Western health films stands in stark contrast to the vacuum in the historical conceptualization of Eastern European films. This book develops a nonlinear historical... -
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which... -
Sprawl: Poems by Andrew Collard 9780821425282
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49These lyrical poems about growing up and becoming a parent in Detroit reflect deeply felt connections to places and experiences that inevitably fall victim to irrevocable change. Sprawl is a... -
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest by Andrew Needham 9780691173542
Booksplease Price: $42.58In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a... -
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 by Mark Driscoll 9780822347613
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical... -
I'm Highly Percent Sure by Caroline A Wanga 9780063360389
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03In this rich, transparent, and witty memoir for women in business, the Co-Founder of WangaWoman LLC, current President & CEO of Essence Ventures, and ambassador of authenticity navigates the lifelong... -
Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'I absolutely loved this smart, twisty novel' Sunday Times bestseller SHARI LAPENA'A dark and twisty read' Sunday Times bestseller NITA PROSEEveryone watches their neighbours.Everyone lies about... -
Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656-1833 by Kathleen Wilson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 9781108790819
Booksplease Price: $36.86Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of... -
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency by William G. Howell
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the... -
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter Angela Hui 9781398705562
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.07SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023_______________'A beautiful book: compellingly written, tender and thoughtful' Ruby Tandoh'A warm,... -
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation by James Mark 9780198904113
Booksplease Price: $32.50This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late...