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The Oratorio in Venice by Denis Arnold
Booksplease Price: $59.97This study fills a gap in general histories of the oratorio. The number of oratorio performances given in Venice from 1662-1809 was huge, yet the contribution of the city to the history of the genre... -
Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations Peter Berger 9780754660118
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? The first chapter of this book... -
Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages by Richard Newhauser
Booksplease Price: $139.47Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality... -
County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938: A Comparative Analysis: Volume 2: Chester to East Ham by Sam Davies
Booksplease Price: $82.16These volumes provide an essential comprehensive work of reference for the annual municipal elections that took place each November in the 83 County Boroughs of England and Wales between 1919 and... -
The Party of Patriotism: The Conservative Party and the First World War by Nigel Keohane
Booksplease Price: $60.36The First World War was a period of turbulent and unprecedented political upheaval that witnessed contrasting fortunes for Britain's major political parties. This book demonstrates how the... -
The European Social Model and Transitional Labour Markets: Law and Policy by Professor Ralf Rogowski 9780754649588
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $117.36Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM... -
Engendering Violence: Heterosexual Interpersonal Violence from Childhood to Adulthood by Myra J. Hird
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Bringing together unique international research from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Europe, this book presents a detailed examination of the violence perpetrated by males... -
Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) by Ernesto Vivares 9781409469599
Booksplease Price: $60.36The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world... -
Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction by Andrea Adolph 9780754667346
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.98In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea... -
Threat Talk: The Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction by Mary Manjikian 9781409433941
Booksplease Price: $142.40'Threat Talk' exposes how US and Chinese scientists and policy-makers have understood and responded to the problem of internet addiction in their societies. Is the internet good or bad for society?... -
From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights by Penelope Andrews 9780754679967
Booksplease Price: $142.40Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in... -
Edwards on God by Sebastian Rehnman 9780754665342
Booksplease Price: $68.27Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely regarded as America's most important and original philosophical theologian. Edwards on God presents an historically informed and philosophically rigorous... -
Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13 by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $118.01At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith, was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did... -
The Focused Organization: How Concentrating on a Few Key Initiatives Can Dramatically Improve Strategy Execution Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez 9781409425663
Booksplease Price: $142.79In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows you how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. Using his own research and work... -
Legal Treatises: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 1 by Ms. Lynne A. Greenberg
Booksplease Price: $60.36The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of 'Legal Treatises' reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly... -
Unconventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present by Dr. Kaushik Roy
RRP: $98.03Booksplease Price: $96.09Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this... -
Globalization and Common Responsibilities of States by Koen de Feyter
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $118.01There is a growing awareness that international law insufficiently protects common global interests and that States and non-State actors need to work together to protect global aims. The focus of... -
Authority, State and National Character: The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700-1900 by Helmut Kuzmics 9780754635604
Booksplease Price: $62.94This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies... -
Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response by Brian Wicker 9781409408079
Booksplease Price: $59.97Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly... -
Understanding the Tea Party Movement Nella Van Dyke 9781409465232
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement... -
Little Angels: An International Legal Perspective on Child Discrimination by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter 9781409429807
Booksplease Price: $142.79Following on from her previous nine books on discrimination law, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter now focuses on the goal of child equality. Examining issues of child labour and the relevant laws which are... -
Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Movable Types by James Mussell 9780754657477
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.98James Mussell reads nineteenth-century scientific debates in light of recent theoretical discussions of scientific writing to propose a new methodology for understanding the periodical press in terms... -
Bilateral Ecopolitics: Continuity and Change in Canadian-American Environmental Relations by Philipee le Prestre 9780754641773
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $117.36The context in which environmental policy decision-making occurs has changed, resulting from widening environmental problems, increased demands from groups and citizens, continuing pressure on the... -
Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony by Nonso Okafo 9780754647843
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $117.36Drawing on data from a cross-section of postcolonial nations across the world and on a detailed case-study of Nigeria, this book examines the experience of recreating law and justice in postcolonial... -
Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. II.- Edited Title: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, Secretary to Francisco Pizarro. - Edited Sub Title by 9781409413134
RRP: $95.45Booksplease Price: $95.06Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Documents of c. 1533. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1872.Book InformationISBN... -
Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts by Katherine Isobel Baxter
Booksplease Price: $77.50Conrad's fiction is characterized by an enduring recourse to the performing arts for metaphor, allegory, symbol, and subject matter; however, this aspect of Conrad's non-dramatic works has only... -
Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy by Stephen Kolsky
Booksplease Price: $139.86The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the... -
'Composing with Tones': A Musical Analysis of Schoenberg's Op.23 Pieces for Piano Kathryn Bailey 9780947854096
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Schoenberg's Op.23 for solo piano, written between 1920 and 1923, represented a move from his atonal music of the preceding twelve years to 12-note music. In this analysis of the five pieces which... -
The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in Civil Religion by Gerald Parsons
Booksplease Price: $142.79This book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. Gerald Parsons argues that the cult of Catherine of Siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult... -
Power and Passion in Shakespeare's Pronouns: Interrogating 'you' and 'thou' by Penelope Freedman
Booksplease Price: $60.36In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the... -
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 David Fanning 9780754606994
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.40When it was first performed in October 1960, Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet was greeted with a standing ovation and given a full encore. Its popularity has continued to the present day with... -
American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 by Matthew Wynn Sivils 9781409431633
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be... -
Global Trends in Eastern Europe by Nikolai Genov 9781409409656
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $117.36Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralized political and economic organization of the societies in the region. They shared the same official ideology and were members of the same... -
Sensible Religion by Christopher Lewis 9781409468080
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36Around the globe religion is under attack. Humanists, secularists and atheists depict believers as deluded and dangerous. The aim of this book is to challenge this perception. Sensible Religion... -
Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World by Anne Holohan
Booksplease Price: $59.97Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate... -
A Protestant Purgatory: Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779 by Laurie Throness
Booksplease Price: $60.36How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking... -
Languages of Labour John Belchem 9781859284285
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language in relation to the subject of history. The British and American contributors put forward the idea that language is a broadly... -
Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding by Anthony J. Connolly
Booksplease Price: $60.36Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to... -
Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service by Stephen M. Cherry
Booksplease Price: $59.97From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role... -
Confronting Sexual Harassment: The Law and Politics of Everyday Life by Anna-Maria Marshall 9780754625209
Booksplease Price: $59.97Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in...