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George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community by Dr. Timothy C Baker
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.56George Mackay Brown has long been recognised as one of the most original and important Scottish writers of the twentieth century. This book is the first comprehensive account of Brown's work from a... -
British Government and Politics: A Comparative Guide by Duncan Watts
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.61Your handy guide to the British political system New for this edition: * Updated throughout to reflect the outcome of the 2010 General Election * All relevant case studies and tables replaced with... -
Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays by Natalie Pollard
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $111.19This is the first collection of critical essays on the prize-winning contemporary British poet, Don Paterson. In 10 original chapters, leading literary critics and writers discuss the social,... -
Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.56Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on... -
A Guide to Speech Production and Perception by Mark Tatham
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.00What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how those working in the area think about speech... -
Space, Politics and Aesthetics by Mustafa Dikec
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Focusing on the works of Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Ranciere, 'Space, Politics and Aesthetics' reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie their political thinking, and demonstrates... -
The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East by Patrick Wing
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.55This book traces the origins, history, and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the 14th and early 15th centuries. The story of how the... -
The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $122.95Set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189 - 92), The Betrothed is the first of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders. The betrothed is Eveline, daughter of a Norman noble, who is a victim of the Crusade in... -
Winter Evening Tales by James Hogg
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $123.59Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting the most complex genesis of any of Hogg's works, it is the... -
Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader by Paul Grainge
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.81A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day. The book is arranged chronologically, and each chapter contains an introduction by... -
Deleuze and Queer Theory by Chrysanthi Nigianni
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.00This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving... -
Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880 by Ewen A. Cameron
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.05Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish... -
The Transformation of Scotland: The Economy Since 1700 by Tom M. Devine
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.00This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art'... -
Get Set for English Language by Christine Robinson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.63The English Language volume assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. For students who have never studied English Language before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already... -
Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 by Dr. Richard Oram
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.05This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical... -
The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy by John Protevi
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.39The first ever dictionary of continental philosophy to be published. With over 450 clearly written definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this authoritative dictionary... -
Red Scotland!: The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932 by William Kenefick
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.00An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response... -
Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics by Andreas Niederberger
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences. Can republican thought offer a conception of democracy that addresses the challenges it faces within contemporary... -
Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate by Jessica Howell
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across... -
Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction by Gavan Lennon
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474461580Author Gavan LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University... -
The Civil War in American Culture by Will Kaufman
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.72The Civil War is an event of great cultural significance, impacting upon American literature, film, music, electronic media, the marketplace and public performance. This book takes an innovative... -
On Determinism and Freedom by Ted Honderich
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $136.28The most recalcitrant problem of philosophy, free will, laid out and taken beyond unsatisfactory standard solutions by Britain's foremost working philosopher. Determinism comes in many forms, some... -
Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African Nation by Dr. David Johnson
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism. How the Cape Colony was imagined as a political community is examined by considering a variety of... -
Media Arabic by Julia Bray
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96Gives you up-to-date expressions, jargon and new coinages for modern concepts in media Arabic. What is the Arabic term for the UN? What phrase would be used to describe 'rogue state' in the Arab... -
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.85This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the... -
Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World by Leslie Eckel
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $117.26This is a rediscovery of the bold cosmopolitan activism and professional literary adventures of six antebellum writers. By looking beyond the familiar works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo... -
Modernist Literature: An Introduction by Mary Ann Gillies
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.61This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British modernist literature produced between 1900 and 1945. Each chapter focuses on a single decade, a distinct genre and a specific theme:... -
Brokeback Mountain by Gary Needham
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.55Upon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee,... -
A Historical Phonology of English by Donka Minkova
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.54This title charts the historical development of the English phonological system. Phonological evolution is a major component of the overall history of the language; the subject matter is both... -
Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul by Matthew Sharp
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $93.76Studies the topic of divine communication in Paul's letters in the context of Graeco-Roman divination. This book analyses the apostle Paul's claims to receive and interpret knowledge from divine... -
Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and Gordon by Stephen Monteiro
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.36Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum... -
Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power: Reconstructing Modern Philosophy by Pierfrancesco Basile
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87At the beginning of Process and Reality (1929), Alfred North Whitehead condemns a list of beliefs, which he thinks are widely held by contemporary philosophers, as dangerously mistaken. Pierfrancesco... -
The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure by Ewa Mazierska
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.36Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the... -
Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $122.36Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority... -
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece by A. M. Snodgrass
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $154.50Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book brings together twenty-five papers by A. M... -
American Autobiography by Rachael McLennan
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.55Published in association with the British Association for American Studies, this innovative series is an indispensable collection in American Studies. Each volume tackles an important area and is... -
The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema Corinne Maury 9781399501392
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $106.28Examines the purpose that place serves in filmsAbout the AuthorCorinne Maury, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaures.Book InformationISBN 9781399501392Author Corinne... -
The History of Matthew Wald: John Gibson Lockhart by Thomas C Richardson
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399506687Author Thomas C RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake Laura Mee 9781474440646
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $111.73Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as derivative rip-offs, Mee approaches the films as... -
Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia by Joshua Gedacht
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.85Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such...