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Trouble in Paradise by David Weir
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932) was released at a critical moment in cinema history, just after the advent of synchronized sound technology and just before the full implementation of the... -
Decadence and the Making of Modernism by David Weir
Booksplease Price: £31.47The cultural phenomenon known as "decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue that fluorished briefly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This study makes the... -
Decadence: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The historical trajectory of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome, to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siecle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The first of these, the decline... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir 9781839026157
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy... -
The Bhopal Syndrome: Pesticides, Environment and Health by David Weir
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world's worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development... -
The Bhopal Syndrome: Pesticides, Environment and Health David Weir 9781032346922
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world’s worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development... -
American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century by David Weir
Booksplease Price: £33.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558498792Author David WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Massachusetts... -
Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce's Modernist Vision by David Weir 9781137488404
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative,... -
The Honourable Member for Murder: The witty crime caper that lifts the lid on life in the Houses of Parliament David Weir 9780749033798
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The witty crime caper that lifts the lid on life in the Houses of Parliament -
Work, Working and Work Relationships in a Changing World by Clare Kelliher
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While technological innovation has been a key contributor... -
The New Post-oil Arab Gulf: Managing People and Wealth by Nabil Sultan 9780863564901
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are... -
Belief and Organization by Peter Case 9780230284715
Booksplease Price: £91.89Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. This volume... -
Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in an Evolving Sector Daniel Clarke (University of Dundee, UK) 9781800431850
Booksplease Price: £75.81Decades of stagnating demand for beer and the emergence of global brewing conglomerates had seen many of Britain's longstanding breweries disappear and a decline in the diversity of beer styles on... -
Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais 9781108426244
Booksplease Price: £111.44Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered... -
Youth Soccer: From Science to Performance Thomas Reilly 9780415286626
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80As the adult game has increased in popularity, youth soccer has also seen significant expansion in recent years. The popularity of the youth game is set to continue. Young boy and girl players wish... -
Managing and Leading Organizational Change Mark Hughes 9781138577411
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Organizational change impacts upon all organizations regardless of size and sector. In this unique organizational change textbook, important ongoing debates about managing change and leading change... -
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations by Gerald Mars
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts... -
Police Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives by Paresh Wankhade 9783319165677
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of... -
Police Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives by Paresh Wankhade 9783319377773
Booksplease Price: £67.38This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of... -
Capitalism, Corporations and the Social Contract: A Critique of Stakeholder Theory by Samuel F. Mansell 9781107529946
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.01In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its... -
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence by Vincent Sherry 9781107079328
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.39In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm... -
Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence by Vincent Sherry 9781107437500
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm... -
Modernism at the Barricades: aesthetics, Politics, Utopia by Stephen Eric Bronner 9780231158237
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the... -
Modernism at the Barricades: aesthetics, Politics, Utopia by Stephen Eric Bronner 9780231158220
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride 9780231186445
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £83.55Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
On the Nature of Human Resource Development: Holistic Agency and an Almost-Autoethnographical Exploration of Becoming by Monica Lee
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.37The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic - the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee's seminal 2001 paper which refused to define the discipline of... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.44Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
Patterns of Strategy Patrick Hoverstadt 9781138242678
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.97Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to understand how to manoeuvre their organisation to... -
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.44Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of... -
Shadow Trades: The Dark Side of Global Business by Amos Owen Thomas 9781529743197
Booksplease Price: £50.52Alongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy. Not only do...