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Teaching Number Sense by Julia Anghileri
Booksplease Price: $50.05What is number sense? How does children's number sense develop? What are the most effective teaching methods and resources? How can research findings inform classroom practice? The fully revised... -
Madness One Step Beyond by Terry Edwards
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Through extensive interviews with the band, as well as producers Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, Terry Edwards tells the inside story of how Madness rose to be the most successful singles band of the... -
Radiohead's OK Computer by Dai Griffiths
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Seemingly granted 'classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World - a label the... -
Studying English Literature by Dr. Ashley Chantler
Booksplease Price: $40.97This is a new textbook designed to help new undergraduates adopt a degree-level approach to the study of English literature in their first or foundation year. "Studying English Literature" offers a... -
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark by Sean Nelson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02"Court and Spark" is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie... -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
Booksplease Price: $27.97This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African... -
James Brown's Live at the Apollo by Douglas Wolk
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk recreates the evening of October 24th 1962, at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, an evening at the epicentre of Cold War tensions. An evening when James Brown took the... -
Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' on by Miles Marshall Lewis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious... -
Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine by Daphne Carr
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Trent Reznor rode into music mythology on "Pretty Hate Machine", powered by Futurist industrial pistons and covered in ice-spiked synth hooks shined by new wave robots. Then there was his voice... -
Dr Dr I Feel Like... Doing a PhD by Lucy Russell
Booksplease Price: $58.44What is it like to undergo the process of doing a doctorate? This book provides an insight into life as a research student; the elation, the guilt, the isolation, the self-doubt, the loneliness. It... -
Care in Chaos: Frustration and Challenge in Community Care by Roger Hadley
Booksplease Price: $144.65This text-book examines the policy and organizational context for community care, and consists of interviews and case studies, showing how community care is (or is not) working within the areas of... -
R.E.M.'s Murmur by Justin Niimi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the... -
Patti Smith's Horses by Philip Shaw
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural... -
Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Drew Daniel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.02Drew Daniel explores the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, with key concepts, strategies, and contexts.Previous writings about Throbbing Gristle have tended to... -
Best of Blue by Lionel Blue
Booksplease Price: $21.92A child of poor Jewish parentage, educated in the roughest part of the East End of London, worked his way to Balliol College, Oxford and the Rabbinate to become a star of radio and stage. His... -
The Joy of God by H.A. Williams 9780826454164
Booksplease Price: $25.43In this text, that is a celebration of joy as hope, H.A. Williams explores the world of selfhood, of other people, of nature and of the arts. It acts as a reminder that we are often in the position... -
Hamlet: Character Studies by Michael Davies 9780826495921
Booksplease Price: $32.15Designed for first year students, this innovative guide builds on the usual knowledge base of students beginning literary study in "HE" by focusing on the familiar characters but introducing more... -
Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education: Global Perspectives by D.L. Bird 9781847063120
Booksplease Price: $57.16Theology and religious studies co-exist in the majority of departments in higher education institutions within the UK, yet there has been very little debate or discussion on how these two disciplines... -
Key Terms in Logic by Jon Williamson 9781847061140
Booksplease Price: $34.47This is an accessible guide for those facing the study of Logic for the first time, this book covers key thinkers, terms and texts. "The Key Terms in Philosophy" series offers clear, concise and... -
Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination by Professor Mary Catherine Hilkert
Booksplease Price: $47.86It is not a lack of training in the art of rhetoric that accounts for the ineffectiveness of preaching within Christian churches. More significant is the lack of adequate theological foundations... -
A Deeper Love: An Introduction to Centering Prayer by Elizabeth Smith
Booksplease Price: $22.77This brief but illuminating introduction to Centering prayer is based on the teachings and writings of Cistercian monk and abbot Thomas Keating, most notably his books 'Open Mind, Open Heart';... -
A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity by Jenny Taylor 9780826487124
Booksplease Price: $21.41In A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity, Taylor addresses the provocative subject of celibacy. Too often considered an exclusively religious option, celibacy has been reclaimed by some feminists... -
A Feminist Companion to Mark by Amy Levine 9781841271941
Booksplease Price: $117.89Launching a new series to include both reprints of classic studies and specially commissioned essays (includes essays by J. Dewey, S. Ringe, R. Wickramaratne-Rebera and E. Struthers Malbon). A... -
Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding": A Reader's Guide by Alan Bailey 9780826485090
Booksplease Price: $38.55"Continuum's Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key... -
Victorian Literature and Culture by Maureen Moran 9780826488848
Booksplease Price: $30.30"Introductions to British Literature and Culture" are practical guides to key literary periods. Guides in the series are designed to help introduce a new module or area of study, providing concise... -
The Good Life by Herbert McCabe 9780826476470
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.37The Dalai Lama once wrote that the object of human existence was to be happy. This sounds extremely glib as happiness in the popular imagination is a feeling and in the words of the song 'the... -
Human Nature: Fact and Fiction - Literature, Science and Human Nature by Robin Headlam-Wells 9780826485465
Booksplease Price: $32.40"Human Nature: Fact and Fiction" brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and original perspectives on human nature by ten leading writers, scientists and academics. What do we... -
Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!: An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets by Carol J. Adams 9780826415837
Booksplease Price: $32.74This original, insightful, and compassionate book empowers parents to respond with understanding and support to the surprising challenges, the worry, and changes that occur when their young person... -
Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass 9780826407337
Booksplease Price: $43.80For many years, Gunter Grass (born 1927) has been one of the world's most vital literary figures. From the publication of The Tin Drum through his latest pleas for sane government and civil treatment... -
Silent Dwellers: Embracing the Solitary Life by Barbara Brown Taylor 9780826412126
Booksplease Price: $26.87The inspiration for this book comes from its author's wanting a modern-day vision for solitude. She had no calling to leave society. She had deeply woven relationships as mother, former wife,... -
C.S. Lewis: A Short Introduction by Philip Vander Elst 9780826484703
Booksplease Price: $22.77C.S. Lewis (1898-1953) was the most talented and lucid apologist for Christianity that the last century produced. In essays, critical studies, poems, novels and works of autobiography, he turned his... -
Dyspraxia by Geoff Brookes 9780826492357
Booksplease Price: $27.26Up to ten per cent of the population is believed to suffer from some form of dyspraxia. Accessible and engaging, this practical guide provides teachers with tips and techniques for teaching students... -
Why Truth Matters by Ophelia Benson 9780826476081
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $56.90Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to... -
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Shakespeare by Dick Riley 9780826412508
RRP: $83.84Booksplease Price: $82.30This volume takes readers into the wonderful world of the Bard. For scholars, theatre lovers, students - everyone - this book wraps nearly 400 years of "Bardology" into a concise package. The authors... -
American Muslims by Asma Hasan 9780826414168
RRP: $56.75Booksplease Price: $56.12Twenty-five-year-old Asma Hasan describes herself as a Muslim feminist cowgirl (she was raised in Puebo, Colorado). Convinced that Muslim Americans are the victims of mistaken identity Hasan breaks... -
Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization by Robert H. King 9780826414670
Booksplease Price: $54.36The author began the practice of Zen meditation a decade ago under the tutelage of a Jesuit priest. This book is the fruit of his spiritual journey. Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh were and are two... -
America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair by Ann Rowe Seaman 9780826416445
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.83Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"? Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the Constitution? They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up, and burned... -
When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families Left Behind by Stacy Bannerman 9780826417954
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $63.98Stacy Bannerman's husband, Lorin was a 43-year-old Sergeant First Class in the reserve army who had never thought he'd be called upon to wage war, but in October 2003 he was called to active duty as... -
The Essence of Truth by Martin Heidegger 9780826477040
RRP: $83.84Booksplease Price: $81.24The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger's most important works, for nowhere else does he give a comparably thorough explanation of what is arguably the most fundamental and abiding theme... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley 9781847060136
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.83This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and...