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Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The first significant biography of the artist' Michael Prodger, The Times' 'Best art books of 2021' 'Exemplary ... a scintillating read' Alastair Sooke, Daily... -
Cezanne: A life by Alex Danchev
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex... -
The Letters of Paul Cezanne by Alex Danchev
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.73A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth, Cezanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging intellect and ferocious wit into his letters. This translation by Alex... -
On Art and War and Terror by Alex Danchev
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.90This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult... -
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev 9781781250785
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The first significant biography of the artist' Michael Prodger, The Times' 'Best art books of 2021' 'Exemplary ... a scintillating read' Alastair Sooke, Daily... -
On Art and War and Terror by Alex Danchev 9780748642595
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, newly available in paperback, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to... -
On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone by Alex Danchev
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled... -
The Iraq War and Democratic Politics by Alex Danchev 9780415351485
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The Iraq War and Democratic Politics contains the work of leading scholars concerned with the political implications of the Iraq War and its relationship to and significance for democracy. The book... -
International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict by Alex Danchev 9780333657751
Booksplease Price: £47.28International Perspectives on the Yugoslav Conflict is a collection of important new work by the leading authorities in the field. Unusually, this is an international investigation of an... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
Fin de Siecle: The Meaning of the Twentieth Century by Alex Danchev 9781350183865
Booksplease Price: £34.84Bringing together specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics, this work attempts to answer three main questions regarding the 20th century. It considers what the... -
International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict: A Matter of Life and Death by Alex Danchev 9780333525920
Booksplease Price: £90.56This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the... -
International Perspectives on the Falklands Conflict: A Matter of Life and Death by Alex Danchev 9781349219346
Booksplease Price: £90.56This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and the... -
The Second World War by Nick Smart
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.49The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide... -
The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991 by Richard Crockatt
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £78.09This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century.For fifty years relations... -
Visual Global Politics Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland, Australia) 9780415726078
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse... -
No End to Alliance: The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present and Future by Geir Lundestad 9780333740804
Booksplease Price: £90.56Distinguished historians and political scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, are the contributors to No End to Alliance . The... -
Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Hill 9780230223738
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £32.99In the years since 9/11, followed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, public attention the world over has been on foreign policy. From the United States to Yemen, from China to Venezuela, the... -
The Modern Art Cookbook by Mary Ann Caws 9781780239132
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art... -
Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism by Mary Ann Caws 9781789140552
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.10Art is seen as a solitary, even a reclusive, endeavor. But visual artists, writers, and musicians often find themselves energized by a collective environment. Sharing ideas around a table has always... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
How Plays Work: Reading and Performance by Martin Meisel 9780199215492
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £63.20Why are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays? The complication lies in... -
Seurat Re-viewed by Paul Smith 9780271035451
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £71.26Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of A Sunday on the Grande Jatte-1884, one of the most recognizable and reproduced works of art in the world. In recent years the painting has been the... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest... -
On the Political by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a... -
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy by David Mayers 9780195063189
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £16.47One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American... -
The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600-1850 by Anthony D. Smith 9780199662975
Booksplease Price: £75.79What role did visual artists play in the emergence and spread of nationalism and a sense of national identity? Focusing on late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Britain and France, this... -
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson by John Lamberton Harper
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.75This book is a biographical study of three American statesmen, concentrating on the development of their distinct attitudes and political programs with respect to the problem of Europe in American... -
Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945 by David French 9780198206415
RRP: £160.00Booksplease Price: £126.07This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
Booksplease Price: £22.00In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East,... -
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright 9780199239689
Booksplease Price: £35.76'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech... -
Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman 9780745633633
Booksplease Price: £20.09Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have... -
Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman 9780745633626
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
Booksplease Price: £18.07Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that... -
Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers 9780674064362
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.07In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities,... -
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali 9780691143330
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.23This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late...