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Raymond Williams by Fred Inglis
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a... -
Cultural Studies by Fred Inglis 9780631184546
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81What is, or are, Cultural Studies? In this outstanding critical and historical account, Fred Inglis, strips away the philosophical incoherence of Cultural Studies to reveal a common focus within the... -
Culture Fred Inglis (University of Sheffield) 9780745623818
Booksplease Price: £18.18Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts:... -
The Delicious History of the Holiday Fred Inglis 9780415133050
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what... -
A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis 9780691135625
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening... -
Education and the Good Society by Fred Inglis 9780333802342
Booksplease Price: £92.13The many public debates launched by governments on education, such as Tony Blair's emphasis on "education, education, education" have nonetheless failed to consider the place of the good society in... -
Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and Ethics by Fred Inglis 9780745621586
Booksplease Price: £18.18This is the first full--scale study of the work of Clifford Geertz, who is one of the best--known anthropologists in the world today. In a lively and accessible introduction to his work, Fred Inglis... -
Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward Fred Inglis (University of Sheffield) 9780745651712
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy, provided... -
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies... -
The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction by Fred Inglis 9780521270700
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Originally published in paperback in 1982, this book was written in answer to the question 'which books should our children read, and why?' It is a study of what is, in the author's opinion, the best... -
Beauty and Education Joe Winston 9780415896641
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas, seeking it through our senses and through our intellect, in others and in ourselves. This book... -
The Myth of the Titanic: Centenary Edition by Richard Howells 9780230313804
Booksplease Price: £21.68Why does the story of the Titanic retain such a hold on the popular imagination, one hundred years after it sank on the night of 15 April 1912? In this new centenary edition, Howells explores the... -
Visual Culture Richard Howells (King's College London) 9781509518784
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.47This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our... -
Key Concepts in Education by Jon Nixon 9781412903158
Booksplease Price: £78.19[The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill 9780198713180
Booksplease Price: £39.85Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano,... -
The Myth of the Titanic by Richard Howells 9780333725979
Booksplease Price: £90.56The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic , the rusting remains of which can still be found... -
Politics and the Imagination by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left by Ash Amin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt,... -
Life among the Anthros and Other Essays by Clifford Geertz 9780691156255
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his... -
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism by Tim Rogan 9780691191492
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on... -
Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production by John Berra 9781841501857
Booksplease Price: £31.20American independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. The approach of this sector is one of cultural construction that simultaneously... -
Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner 9780199558247
Booksplease Price: £24.96Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing some of the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative... -
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright 9780199239689
Booksplease Price: £38.25'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
Booksplease Price: £36.92Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano,... -
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood by Didier Fassin
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not... -
Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain James Curran 9781032112015
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £40.49This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet;... -
The Long, Long Life of Trees Fiona Stafford 9780300228205
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.66A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served... -
William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians by John Haffenden 9780199276608
Booksplease Price: £38.06Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of... -
Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome by Julian Lovelock 9780718894368
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £22.60In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.32"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall-how his experiences shaped his intellectual,...