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Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that... -
Deadly Justice by Kenneth Clarke 9781403306463
RRP: £10.37Booksplease Price: £9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403306463Author Kenneth ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography by Andy McSmith
Booksplease Price: £22.32'Affable, invisible... the man with a brilliant future behind him.' Thus Varsity magazine appraised Kenneth Clarke's term as President of the Cambridge Union in the summer of 1963. Dominated by his... -
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A landmark study of the nude in art-from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore-by a towering figure in art historyIn this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the... -
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton 9780007493449
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 ... -
A Practical Guide to Medicine and the Law by Rt. Hon. Kenneth Clarke 9781447118657
Booksplease Price: £91.34Legal action involving doctors, either as defendants or expert witnesses, has greatly increased over the past decade and few can now remain aloof from this aspect of their profession. Written by... -
One Step to L.I.F.E.-Living in Faith Everyday by Kenneth Clark 9781637906903
Booksplease Price: £19.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637906903Author Kenneth ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.21Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. ... -
Young Rembrandt: A Biography by Onno Blom
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his formative years shrouded in mystery, the only... -
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Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke 9781509837199 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £4.02Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the... -
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.80A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence... -
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250297044
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallised the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General... -
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Following the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, a panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany'Riveting,... -
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present Sir Roy Strong 9781474607063
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has... -
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier 9780374536770
Booksplease Price: £13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536770Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat Paperback -
The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, as featured on Radio 4 by Ian Blatchford
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to... -
A Lesson For Us All: The Making of the National Curriculum by Duncan Graham 9781138318571
Booksplease Price: £86.28Originally published in 1993. "A Lesson for Us All" tells of the intrigue and pressures that surrounded the introduction of the National Curriculum, the most sweeping educational reform since 1944,... -
A Lesson For Us All: The Making of the National Curriculum Duncan Graham 9781138321670
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Originally published in 1993. "A Lesson for Us All" tells of the intrigue and pressures that surrounded the introduction of the National Curriculum, the most sweeping educational reform since 1944,... -
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Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade 9780297869207 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £3.00BOOK OF THE WEEK on BBC Radio 4, a GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Book of the Year and a Waterstones.com Best Biography of 2016'A brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining account of the... -
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author available' Irish TimesThe much mythologised author... -
Psychopathology and personality dimensions: The Selected works of Gordon Claridge by Gordon Claridge 9781032476186
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research... -
Romanticism by Hugh Honour
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £56.69"This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable Neo-classicism.... -
Policy Makers on Policy: The Mais Lectures by Forrest Capie 9781138855120
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19In this volume, a wide range of leading policy makers and practitioners reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve, The contributors include: * Tony Blair * Sir... -
On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis by Daniel Matlin 9780674725287
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern cities... -
Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage . Price 9780892363988
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.67This first volume of the Getty Conservation Institute's "Readings in Conservation" series presents a comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Designed for... -
British Television Intellectuals: Unusual Kinds of Star John Tulloch 9781835952153
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £79.77This book explores for the first time the rise of one of Britain's least-recognised but most significant television genres. Working within the frame of public intellectual theory, it tells the story... -
The Making of the Conservative Party's Immigration Policy by Rebecca Partos 9781032401478
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book explains the development of the Conservative Party's immigration policy during the seven decades since 1945, up to today. By bringing together existing theories from the fields of political... -
The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Fifty Years Elizabeth Cropper 9780300099614
Booksplease Price: £26.54The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of... -
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard 9781805222460
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator What are civilisations? At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain's... -
Civilisation by Jonathan Conlin 9781844572700
Booksplease Price: £29.95Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), was a landmark documentary series, pioneering the 'presenter as hero' model. Jonathan Conlin draws on interviews with the original crew and archival research to... -
Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 Ian Archie Beck 9781851242597
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver... -
The History of Richmondshire J.M.W. Turner 9781843683049
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.75An History of Richmondshire (1819-23) is the only part to be published of the largest commission ever received by Turner. Originally intended to count 120 drawings for a General History of the County... -
On Craftsmanship: Towards a new Bauhaus by Christopher Frayling 9781786820853
Booksplease Price: £11.29'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.' The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed... -
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American by Nat Hentoff 9780520219816
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In "Living the Bill of Rights", he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.05Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and... -
The Nature Of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition by Gordon W. Allport
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.77With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice... -
What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World by Tim Spofford 9781728294803
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self?The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll.Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America,... -
Praeterita And Dilecta by John Ruskin 9781857152791
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an... -
Beyond the Doll Tests: Affirming and Uplifting Black Students Wellbeing Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy 9798895570661
Booksplease Price: £35.89A transformative guidebook for K–12 school counselors, teachers, and administrators seeking to create affirming, equitable, and healing-centered environments for Black students In Beyond the Doll...