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Haiku: Love Alan Cummings 9780714123394
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Haiku poems about the natural world and the seasons are well known, but many poets have used the genre to capture the evocations of love. Combining elegant and restrained haiku with lively senryu... -
Netsuke: 100 miniature masterpieces from Japan Noriko Tsuchiya 9780714124810
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this is due to the phenomenal success of Edmund De Waal's 2010 book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, which... -
Look Here Axelle Russo 9780714150833
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The ultimate picture book - packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing and delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, and combinations of pictures, speak for... -
Chinese Art: Close-Up Carol Michaelson 9780714124797
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Beautifully illustrated with an array of Chinese art, this book offers a closer look at the rich variety of styles, decoration, motifs and patterns - and the sheer craftsmanship - of Chinese culture... -
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome Caroline Vout 9780714122786
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises... -
The British Museum Guide: (English) The British Museum 9780714151069
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.92This practical guide is split into seven main sections, each covering a key geographical area or historical period: Africa, the Americas, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, Asia, Europe, and the... -
7000 Years of Jewellery Hugh Tait 9780714150321
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.20This panoramic illustrated history explores the varied styles, techniques and materials used to make jewellery throughout the world since earliest times. Egyptian necklaces, Celtic torcs, South... -
Legion: life in the Roman army by Richard Abdy 9780714122939
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35The Roman army has been immortalised in heroic art and screen epics, but what was life really like for an ordinary soldier? 'Everything the best history books can be: erudite, entertaining and... -
Salon culture in Japan: making art, 1750-1900 by Akiko Yano 9780714124964
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.90The first publication to celebrate the British Museum’s rich collection of these technically sophisticated artworks created as part of Japanese cultural salons in the late 18th and 19th centuries,... -
Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt by Marie Vandenbeusch 9780714191317
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10'A comprehensive but accessible introduction for anyone interested in the history of ancient Egypt, and offers a showcase of highlights from the British Museum's world-class collection.' - The Past ... -
Haiku Animals by Mavis Pilbeam 9780714124612
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This second volume of haiku focusing on the animal kingdom takes you on a journey through a single day with a variety of animal companions. This book reproduces works by the great 17th and 18th... -
Samurai Rosina Buckland 9780714137018
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.03The word 'samurai' stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality,... -
Watches David Thompson 9780714151106
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. Within the collection are examples ranging from... -
Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt by Nigel Strudwick
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.62The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Packed with information and insights, this classic book, now in paperback,... -
Latin Inscriptions Dirk Booms 9780714122885
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Latin inscriptions can appear daunting - a jumble of letters without any structure or meaning. However, once you know how, most are easy to read as they follow strict rules of grammar and... -
Haiku David Cobb 9780714124018
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Japanese Haiku has been a much-loved form of poetry for many centuries. Composed of 17 syllables, it can convey the essence of an emotion, a fleeting moment in nature, or a throwaway comment. This... -
The British Museum Colouring Book of Bible Peoples Patricia Hansom 9780714131320
Booksplease Price: £3.31A selection of attractive pictures to colour, based on people and objects from the Bible lands. All the images are based on artefacts in the British Museum.A selection of attractive pictures to... -
Aztecs Sticker Book Susan Raikes 9780714131368
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.66The first title in a colourful series of sticker books, Aztecs, introduces the famous civilization of the Aztecs who flourished about 600 years ago in what is now central Mexico, before the arrival... -
Shakespeare: staging the world Jonathan Bate 9780714128245
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional creative imaginations in history. While matters of... -
Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums by Gaye Sculthorpe 9780714124902
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714124902Author Gaye SculthorpeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint British Museum PressPublisher... -
Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain and their Wider Context by Eleanor Ghey 9780861592364
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £38.22This volume was prompted by the recent discovery in Britain of two large coin hoards dating from the first decade of the fourth century AD – Wold Newton and Rauceby. Coins of this early Tetrarchic... -
Greek inscriptions Peter Liddel 9780714122960
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An accessible introduction that reveals the importance of Greek inscriptions in the understanding of ancient Greek culture. Inscriptions are an important form of evidence for our interpretation of... -
The British Museum Quiz Book by Carolyn Howitt 9780714130354
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Hours of fun for the whole family and a painless way to learn more about the ancient world. Fifty fantastic quizzes are arranged in increasing levels of difficulty, so that there's a quiz suitable... -
Medieval Love Poetry by John F. Cherry 9780714150161
Booksplease Price: £4.83Combines the two distinct but related themes of love and romance, this giftbook illustrates texts with the images of medieval romances. It also juxtaposes words of love alongside images of gold... -
Nordic noir: works on paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson Jennifer Ramkalawon 9780714136509
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Showcases the British Museum's remarkable collection of graphic art from the post-war period to the present day from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. With many works published for the... -
Africa: Arts and Culture by John Mack 9780714125480
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86The collections of the British Museum provide an exceptional resource for exploring both African antiquity and its contemporary arts and cultures. This book looks at the continent as a whole. It... -
Japanese Art: Close-Up John Reeve 9780714124803
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Beautifully illustrated with an array of Japanese art, this book offers a closer look at the rich variety of styles, decoration, motifs and patterns - and the sheer craftsmanship - of Japanese... -
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity across the World R. B. Parkinson 9780714151007
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first 'lesbian'? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily 'gay'? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? A... -
The British Museum Colouring Book of Ancient Rome by John Green
Booksplease Price: £3.06Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, and jokes and cartoons.Providing a fun way to find out about... -
Assyrian Palace Sculptures by Paul Collins
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Between the ninth and seventh centuries BC the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded through conquest to dominate the region from Egypt to Iran. The power of the Assyrian kings was... -
Chinese Love Poetry Jane Portal 9780714124827
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifully presented anthology of forty Chinese love poems... -
Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century Kim Sloan 9780714150208
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.20The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilisations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all... -
African Textiles Today by Chris Spring
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65A fascinating insight into the living history of Africa. African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. In Africa, cloth... -
Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art by Timothy Clark
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.10Discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e 'school of the floating world' to advertise brothels in 17th-century Yoshiwara, these popular 'spring pictures'... -
The Cat in Ancient Egypt Jaromir Malek 9780714119700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An informative guide to the relationship between humans and cats in the ancient Egyptian world. Cats can be seen in ancient Egyptian homes, temples and adorning the heads of their gods. Cats in... -
China's hidden century: 1796 - 1912 Jessica Harrison-Hall 9780714124933
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.15'Handsomely illustrated' - Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 'The exhibition catalogue's seven essays...are a guide to [a] re-reading of the past, threading the relics on display into a rich tapestry... -
Silk Roads Sue Brunning 9780714124971
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35'Filled with insights, the very latest research and plenty of surprises: a superlative catalogue of one the most ambitious and spectacular exhibitions ever staged at the British Museum.' - Peter... -
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman Grayson Perry 9780714118321
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40'The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is a civilisation of one. The territory it springs from is my imagination. ... The... -
Hiroshige: artist of the open road by Alfred Haft 9780714137001
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most talented, prolific and popular artists. Famed for his landscapes, he was also a great observer of nature with a visionary approach to colour and brushwork. His... -
Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960 by Dawn Ades 9780714126708
Booksplease Price: £6.32Between 1910 and 1920 Mexico was convulsed by socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting revolutionary values...