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Mussolini by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780340981733
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $42.37In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and... -
The Origins of the Second World War by Patrick Finney 9780340676400
Booksplease Price: $58.85Our understanding of the origins of the Second World War have been transformed in recent decades. The opening of the archives of the major combatant powers, changing perspectives, and the... -
Get Me a Murder a Day! by Kevin Williams 9780340983256
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $62.38'Get Me A Murder A Day!' the famous motto of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the Daily Mail, says it all. Murder, sex and scandal seem to be the mass media's staple diet in Britain. Now we have 24-hour... -
England in Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth by Derek Hirst 9780340625019
Booksplease Price: $87.93This book, by one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, is a wholesale revision of his classic "Authority and Conflict, England 1603-1658" (1986). Hirst has... -
What is Cultural Studies?: A Reader by John Storey 9780340652404
Booksplease Price: $87.87The subject of cultural studies has not yet been fully defined, since it is a relatively new and still-evolving area, although various schools of thought have sought to claim it as their own. This... -
Europe 1600-1789 by Anthony F. Upton 9780340663387
Booksplease Price: $85.92Anthony F. Upton's new history of the period leading up to the French Revolution provides both a coherent survey of the main developments and a compelling interpretation of which forces ultimately... -
Reinventing Film Studies by Christine Gledhill 9780340677230
Booksplease Price: $126.52Reinventing Film Studies offers a comprehensive introduction to film studies in a changing environment. Written by a team of noted film scholars, it surveys the key issues for students today,... -
Edward IV by Michael Hicks 9780340760062
Booksplease Price: $85.33Edward IV was the first Yorkist king. He ruled (with only a brief hiatus) for 22 years, ended the Wars of the Roses triumphantly in 1471, and died in his bed not invariably the place of death for a... -
Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V by Glenn Richardson 9780340731437
Booksplease Price: $79.54What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the early sixteenth century and how did the great cultural and artistic changes of the period flourish... -
Religion in the Medieval West by Professor Bernard Hamilton 9780340808399
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $61.99Western European civilization evolved during the medieval centuries when the whole area was converted to Christianity in its Latin Catholic form. This account is an introduction to the religious life... -
Postmodern Literature by Ian Gregson 9780340813713
Booksplease Price: $87.28The books in the Contexts series provide broad-ranging and accessible information about the literary, historical and cultural background of the major periods and genres, Taking its instigation from... -
Information Age Journalism: Journalism in an International Context by Vincent Campbell 9780340763490
Booksplease Price: $87.28For almost four hundred years, journalism has played a central role in the evolution and development of societies across the globe, but as we enter the 21st Century and the age of information,... -
The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective by Peter Jones 9780340652909
Booksplease Price: $56.90Every year no fewer than 2,000 items are published on the French Revolution. Anyone approaching the subject has immediately to confront the difficulty of choosing what to read. This is exacerbated by... -
Italy by Nicholas Doumanis 9780340691618
Booksplease Price: $69.87During the first half of the 1990s it seemed that Italy was in danger of disintegration. The collapse of the established political parties and the increasing prominence of the secessionist Northern... -
The German Question and Europe: A History by Peter Alter 9780340540176
Booksplease Price: $110.49The "German question" has been at the heart of European politics since 1800 and of significance for an even longer period. It has acquired a fresh stimulus from German reunification. The "question"... -
If You Take My Meaning: Theory into Practice in Human Communication by Richard Ellis 9780340604069
Booksplease Price: $56.32This volume uses the minimum of jargon and a wide range of exercises to relate theory to practical experience. It covers key topics including - perception, attitudes, listening, non-verbal behaviour... -
The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780340706473
Booksplease Price: $80.13The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in... -
Elizabeth I by Susan Doran 9780340614556
Booksplease Price: $159.45In this major biography of the queen, Wallace MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her testing personal experience, her temperament, her own view... -
Cultural Studies and Communication by James Curran 9780340614174
Booksplease Price: $85.33A companion volume to Mass Media and Society, this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, written by influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour... -
Visual Cultures and Critical Theory by Patrick Fuery 9780340807477
Booksplease Price: $201.06Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies... -
Tales from the Hanging Court by Tim Hitchcock
RRP: $126.73Booksplease Price: $123.49Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal history. Through these compelling true stories of theft,... -
Sociolinguistics Reader Vol 1: Variation & Multilingualism by Peter Trudgill
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.17First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780340652060Author Peter TrudgillFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Hodder... -
The Tudor Monarchy by John Guy 9780340652183
Booksplease Price: $54.97Making available a selection of some of the most significant recent work on the Tudor monarchy, this text provides a sense of the issues that have preoccupied historians, and of the ways in which the... -
Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media by Myra Macdonald 9780340580165
Booksplease Price: $178.21This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and... -
Nixon by Iwan Morgan 9780340760321
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book examines Richard Nixon within the context of the emerging revisionism that his place in history should not be defined entirely by Watergate. It assesses his many achievements and explains... -
The Western Church in the Middle Ages by John A.F. Thomson 9780340601181
Booksplease Price: $120.16From its origins in the ancient world as a rival to traditional paganism, Christianity has become one of the great world religions. How the Church took over spiritual control of Western Europe to... -
Germany: A New Social and Economic History Since 1800: v. 3: Since 1800 by Sheilagh Ogilvie 9780340652145
Booksplease Price: $87.87The third volume of this three-volume history focuses on Germany's late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the... -
The Essentials of Literature in English, pre-1914 by Tony Myers 9780340816318
Booksplease Price: $69.87The reading, study and criticism of books has always been popular and never more so than now, with events such as the BBC's Big Read and the glamour and controversy attached to awards such as the... -
Representing Sport by Rod Brookes 9780340740521
Booksplease Price: $67.94Sport stories and sports coverage are transforming the media. Live sports events are central to the success of new TV services based on subscription and pay-per-view. The antics of sports stars... -
Early Modern England: A Social History, 1550-1760 by J. A. Sharpe 9780340577523
Booksplease Price: $82.06Widely praised and consistently popular since its first publication in 1987, Early Modern England now reflects in this new edition the invigorating and substantial changes that have swept the field... -
Gorbachev: Man of the Twentieth Century? by Mark Sandle 9780340761595
Booksplease Price: $58.85This new study draws upon a wide variety of sources East and West, textual and visual, newspaper and memoir, academic and popular to try and understand the reasons why Gorbachev still appears to be... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Patricia Waugh 9780340573815
Booksplease Price: $85.33"Postmodernism" is a valuable resource for the increasing numbers of teachers and students in higher education involved in courses on postmodernism and literary theory. It is a collection of the... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $62.38Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or... -
Visual Cultures and Critical Theory by Patrick Fuery 9780340807484
Booksplease Price: $72.83Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies... -
Modernism by Steven Matthews 9780340763254
Booksplease Price: $69.87The early twentieth century saw modernist writers challenge literary conventions to express their perspectives on a dynamic but unsettling world. This book provides a lucid overview of the period,... -
Renaissance Drama by Andrew McRae 9780340763476
Booksplease Price: $60.20Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associations and wider cultural climate of the main literary... -
Modern Literary Theory: A Reader by Patricia Waugh 9780340761915
Booksplease Price: $88.78This book covers the key theoretical approches in modern literary theory, and includes essays and texts that are essential reading for any student of critical theory. It includes sections on... -
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE by 9780340807705
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.52Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural... -
Revision in Sciences Basic to Ophthalmology Raman Malhotra 9780340676783
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.66This is a self-assessment book for candidates for postgraduate examinations in ophthalmology, principally the FRCOphth Part I. It covers all of the sciences fundamental to ophthalmology: anatomy (60... -
European Media Studies by Kevin Williams
Booksplease Price: $69.87Study of the mass media in Britain and the USA is dominated by an Anglo-American framework. European Media Studies seeks to redress this imbalance by looking at the mass media in a European context...