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Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02Kenneth 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: €12.34Booksplease Price: €11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403306463Author Kenneth ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint AuthorHousePublisher... -
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.80A 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 Clarke: A Political Biography by Andy McSmith
Booksplease Price: €26.80'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... -
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton 9780007493449
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90SHORTLISTED 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: €107.77Legal 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: €23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637906903Author Kenneth ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Kingdom Book and Gift Publishers... -
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress: As seen on TV by David Olusoga
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.96Oscar 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47Rembrandt'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... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.27Ken 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: €17.85Booksplease Price: €11.78A 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.80An 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.46Following 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,... -
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Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003 by Sir Roy Strong 9781474603898 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €3.63Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. Shaking off the shackles of public life, Roy was... -
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present Sir Roy Strong 9781474607063
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95'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... -
The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, as featured on Radio 4 by Ian Blatchford
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.24Based 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... -
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier 9780374536770
Booksplease Price: €15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536770Author Professor of Sociology Mitchell DuneierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
A Lesson For Us All: The Making of the National Curriculum by Duncan Graham 9781138318571
Booksplease Price: €89.20Originally 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: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.33Originally 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,... -
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'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: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66In 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: €72.58Booksplease Price: €65.03"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: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.47In 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: €49.92Booksplease Price: €41.78In 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: €53.55Booksplease Price: €47.21This 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... -
The Making of the Conservative Party's Immigration Policy by Rebecca Partos 9781032401478
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72This 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... -
British Television Intellectuals: Unusual Kinds of Star John Tulloch 9781835952153
RRP: €107.04Booksplease Price: €94.93This 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 A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Fifty Years Elizabeth Cropper 9780300099614
Booksplease Price: €31.58The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'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: €35.49Kenneth 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... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.38Peter 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... -
Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 Ian Archie Beck 9781851242597
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.78Janet 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 Nature Of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition by Gordon W. Allport
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.80With 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Does 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,... -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower 9780471977636
RRP: €64.20Booksplease Price: €57.31"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review. A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic. Focusing on the... -
Beyond the Doll Tests: Affirming and Uplifting Black Students Wellbeing Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy 9798895570661
Booksplease Price: €42.32A 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... -
Policy Makers on Policy: The Mais Lectures by Forrest Capie 9781138384255
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions... -
Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King 9781408831182
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.24For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its... -
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson 9781399721653
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in... -
F**k Business: The Business of Brexit Iain Anderson 9781785905322
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.58When a senior Cabinet minister dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt `F**k business,' it seemed emblematic of a growing distance between the country's politicians and its wealth...