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The Oratorio in Venice by Denis Arnold
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80This 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: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Europe 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: £98.15Richard 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
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.84These 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
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67The 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 Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 and The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850: 2 Volume Set by Derek Carew 9780754666646
RRP: £115.98Booksplease Price: £103.29Vol 1: This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and... -
The European Social Model and Transitional Labour Markets: Law and Policy by Professor Ralf Rogowski 9780754649588
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.37Bringing 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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Bringing 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... -
Music for Treviso Cathedral in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Reconstruction of the Lost Manuscripts 29 and 30 by Bonnie J. Blackburn
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78One of the most extensive repertories of Renaissance sacred music to have come down to us was written for the Cathedral of Treviso. An Allied raid over the city on 7 April 1944 resulted in the... -
Life Writings, II: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 2 by Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The... -
Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) by Ernesto Vivares 9781409469599
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The 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... -
The Palestinian Executive: Leadership Under Challenging Conditions by Farid A. Muna 9781409454960
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The Palestinian Executive is based on field research in the West Bank and Gaza, which involved interviewing 110 executives from 63 publicly and family-owned companies. Using a cross-cultural and... -
Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction by Andrea Adolph 9780754667346
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07In 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
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55'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
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37Using 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: £52.92Jonathan 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... -
In Dialogue with the Greeks by Rush Rhees 9780754653714
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05This two volume set of Rush Rhees's In Dialogue with the Greeks brings together Rhees's work on the Presocratics and on Plato. The first volume addresses the central philosophical question: In what... -
Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey: Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13 by Ms Frances E. Dolan
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.84At 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
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85In 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
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £36.10The 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: £75.99Booksplease Price: £68.30Unconventional 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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.58There 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... -
Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641-1700: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 4 by Robert C. Evans
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the... -
Authority, State and National Character: The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700-1900 by Helmut Kuzmics 9780754635604
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67This 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
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Following 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: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Hailing 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... -
The Velvet Revolution at Work and The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer: 2-Volume Set John Smythe 9781472429117
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34John Smythe's two book collection offers a complete perspective of ideas, insights and advice from this award-winning author, one of the pioneers of pragmatic employee engagement. You may be a... -
Little Angels: An International Legal Perspective on Child Discrimination by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter 9781409429807
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.85Following 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: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07James 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: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.37The 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: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.37Drawing 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: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.19Translated 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
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Conrad'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: £98.45The 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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Schoenberg'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
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.67This 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
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67In 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: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03When 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... -
William Walton: Music and Literature by Professor Stewart R. Craggs
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34This collection of essays seeks to reflect the many aspects of the life and work of William Walton. Written by acknowledged Walton scholars they cover the literary influences in his music and the... -
Texts from the Querelle, 1616-1640: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 2 by Professor Pamela J. Benson
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.17Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors...