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The Future of Higher Education: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience by Les Bell
Booksplease Price: $88.34"The Future of Higher Education" coursebook comprehensively explores policy, pedagogy and the student experience. "The Future of Higher Education" explores policy, pedagogy and the student experience... -
Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by John Cavanagh
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.19Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter... -
Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland by John Perry
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.6533 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the... -
Ramones' by Nicholas Rombes
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones' repetition and attitude... -
Nirvana In Utero by Gillian G. Gaar
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Though "Nevermind" was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, "In Utero" has increasingly become regarded as the... -
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality by John Darnielle
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65John Darnielle describes Master of Reality through a fictional character, a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centre in southern California in 1985.John Darnielle describes... -
Guns n' Roses Use Your Illusion I and II by Eric Weisbard
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica,... -
Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" by Allan Simmons
Booksplease Price: $220.21"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh... -
The Art of Dying by Peter Fenwick
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.68Is there an art to dying? And if there is, what can we do to achieve a good death? We have few special rituals to prepare for death, or to mark it, and we often fail to help the dying prepare for... -
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV by Erik Davis
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully... -
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street by Bill Janovitz
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a... -
Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones by David Smay
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and... -
Flaming Lips' Zaireeka by Mark Richardson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Released in October 1997, the "Flaming Lips' Zaireeka" was met with some critical praise and more general puzzlement. The album comes as four separate CDs intended for playback at the same time... -
A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm by Shawn Taylor
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like "Can I Kick It?" and "Bonita Applebum") took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male... -
The MC5 Kick Out the Jams by Don McLeese
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It's a unique band that can land itself on... -
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited by Mark Polizzotti
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65"Highway 61 Revisited" resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal... -
Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life by Zeth Lundy
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Like all double albums, "Songs in the Key of Life" is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of... -
Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis" by Warren Zanes
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his... -
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing,... -
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future by Dan Kois
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65"Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future" represents, to most locals and especially to Native Hawaiians, the shining apex of a brilliant career and a crucial artifact of local culture. Dan Kois returns... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
Booksplease Price: $56.30Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the... -
A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity by Manuel DeLanda 9780826491695
Booksplease Price: $71.49Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity... -
Translation as Intervention by Jeremy Munday 9780826495204
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book examines the role of the translator as a politically active one, with the potential to change the outcome of political, religious and social events. The contributors examine the effect of... -
Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin by Bob Proehl 9780826429032
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Bob Proehl uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a device to understand this classic album.In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released their debut album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin" on A&M Records, selling... -
Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov by Yitzhak Buxbaum 9780826418883
Booksplease Price: $67.80This is a life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and... -
Working with Discourse - Meaning Beyond the Clause by J. R. Martin 9780826488503
Booksplease Price: $80.65This second edition of the best-selling textbook "Working with Discourse" has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how... -
Moment of Christ by Main 9780826411235
Booksplease Price: $40.68"Learning to meditate is the most practical thing in the world. You require only one quality when you begin. That is seriously to want to learn to mediate."The central message of the New Testament is... -
Come to the Feast: Invitation to Eucharistic Transformation by Richard N. Fragomeni 9780826411297
Booksplease Price: $36.64An attempt to revive the Mass through an interpretation of the Eucharistic story, this text offers a central notion by which one can experience the fullness of the Eucharist, as a gift that is God's... -
What Anglicans Believe by David L. Edwards 9780826476890
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.98This new edition of the 1974 classic What Anglicans Believe is for the very different world of the twenty-first century and its powerful new preface examines the whole question of belief. David... -
God is New Each Moment by Edward Schillebeeckx 9780826477019
Booksplease Price: $54.72Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-) is a prominent Catholic theologian, remarkable for having survived three inquiries into his possible heresy by the Vatican. He explores traditional Catholic concepts in... -
Erasmus by Erika Rummel 9780826491558
Booksplease Price: $55.01Desiderius Erasmus was one of the most influential writers of his time and widely acclaimed as the principal Northern humanist. He was, however, not only a man of letters but also a shrewd observer... -
Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us by Marie Fortune 9780826411280
Booksplease Price: $55.56This work is aimed at those caught somewhere in the middle between those for whom only heterosexual and monogamous marriage or "anything goes" are paradigms of suitable behaviour and imtimate... -
Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire 9780485127089
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $77.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780485127089Author Guillaume ApollinaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Continuum International... -
Time for Revolution by Antonio Negri 9780826473288
RRP: $146.23Booksplease Price: $135.70Written in prison two decades apart, these two essays reflect Antonio Negris abiding interest in the philosophy of time and resistance. The first essay traces the fracture lines that force capitalist... -
Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang by Paul Baker 9780826473431
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $75.23Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the twentieth century. But more than a language, Polari is an attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to... -
The Guerilla Guide to Performance Art: How to Make a Living as an Artist by Leslie Hill 9780826473981
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $162.81Guerilla Performance and Multimedia is written by artists and for artists. It is designed for the benefit of artists engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including live art,... -
God Still Matters by Herbert McCabe 9780826476692
Booksplease Price: $35.47Herbert McCabe, who died in 2001, was one of the most intelligent Roman Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. An influence on philosophers such as Anthony Kenny and Alasdair MacIntyre he was... -
Four Talks on the Spiritual Life by Dalai Lama XIV 9780826410757
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $104.89Many thousands of people across the world have found their spiritual lives enriches by the daily practice of Christian meditation, the method of silent prayer taught by Benedictine monk John Main. It... -
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Dick Riley 9780826411167
Booksplease Price: $68.39Providing an overview of all aspects of the life and times of the world-famous detective, Riley and McAllister offer interesting and entertaining information about the fictional sleuth. Along with... -
From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700-1918 by Faith Berry 9780826413703
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $186.54Until the late 1960s, the traditional American literary canon was segregated. Moreover, writings of widely anthologized authors rarely touched on race. Not until the 1980s did studies begin to...