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Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850 by Catherine E. Ross 9781837644452
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £95.86Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850 explores how the public and endowed grammar schools and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge trained some of... -
Salud!: British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Linda Palfreeman 9781845195014
Booksplease Price: £110.38Salud! reviews the enormously valuable contribution of the volunteers who left Britain to serve with the Republican Medical Services during the Spanish Civil War. Acknowledgement is given to the... -
Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling: Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy by E. Chaves-Carballo
Booksplease Price: £110.38Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in... -
Strangers in Their Homeland: A Critical Study of Israel's Arab Citizens by Ra'anan Cohen
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.96Too little is written about the ethnic-nationalist identity crisis between the State of Israel and its Arab citizens which becomes intensified with every regional event -- from the US invasion of... -
Spectre of the Stranger: Towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality by Manu Bazzano
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.08Manu Bazzano engages with identity, otherness and ethics in a wide-ranging discussion of hospitality, exploring various social and political implications. Identity is examined primarily through the... -
Racism Postcolonialism Europe by Graham Huggan 9781846318146
RRP: £23.69Booksplease Price: £23.19Racism Postcolonialism Europe turns the postcolonial critical gaze that had previously been most likely to train itself on regions other than Europe, and sometimes those perceived to be most... -
Sex, Lies & Politics: Gay Politicians in the Press by Donna Smith 9781845196042
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.72This book provides a much-needed analysis of the changing representation of gay politicians in UK newspapers. Focusing on the 1950s onwards, a time when the press became more personal and gay... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World Professor Carl Chinn 9781781382479
Booksplease Price: £22.02Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial... -
Gifts for the Gods: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies and the British by Lidija Mary McKnight 9781781382554
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.10Gifts for the Gods is an enlightening and richly illustrated book on animal mummies from ancient Egypt. Introducing readers to the wealth of animal mummies in British museums and private... -
HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 by Jean-Pierre Boule 9780853235781
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.12This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing... -
Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture by Richard Marggraf Turley 9781846318139
RRP: £23.69Booksplease Price: £23.19If we could ask a Romantic reader of new poetry in 1820 to identify the most celebrated poet of the day after Byron, the chances are that he or she would reply with the name of 'Barry Cornwall'... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £14.25This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of... -
Soldiers as Workers: Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military Nick Mansfield 9781800348974
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.92The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most... -
Shaping the City to Come: Rethinking Modern Architecture and Town Planning in England, c. 1934-51 by Deborah Lewittes
Booksplease Price: £115.88This study reassesses modern architecture and town planning in mid-twentieth-century England, highlighting ideas and debates that were in circulation as modernist ideals gradually took root. The book... -
Analyzing Drama: A Student Casebook by James R Russo 9781789761115
Booksplease Price: £111.76This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and... -
Reclaiming al-Andalus: Orientalist Scholarship and Spanish Nationalism, 1875-1919 by Pablo Bornstein 9781789760606
Booksplease Price: £111.76Reclaiming al-Andalus focuses on the construction of the scholarly discipline of Orientalist studies in Spain. Special attention is paid to the impact that the elaboration of a series of historical... -
The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory by Tom Buchanan 9781845191269
Booksplease Price: £63.79The Spanish Civil War has had a profound and lasting impact on Britain. At least 2400 Britons volunteered to fight for the Spanish Republic (of whom more than 500 died), while others provided medical... -
Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-Up to the Six Day War: Balancing Moral Commitments & National Interests by Zaki Shalom
Booksplease Price: £111.76The outbreak of the Six Day War was primarily the outcome of the tense relations between Israel and Syria in the period preceding the war. Aware of Israel's overall military superiority, the radical... -
Portuguese Colonialism and Islam: Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction by Mário Artur Machaqueiro
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.16In Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslim communities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiations presented a... -
Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland by Michael Dwyer
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £31.48Winner of the 2019 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History. This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of... -
Human Phenomenon: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 2nd Edition by Sarah Appleton-Weber 9781902210292
Booksplease Price: £112.06The Human Phenomenon by the priest, paleontologist, and geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is his book of the Earth, a discovery and an epic journey to open the way out for humanity in a time of... -
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 by Jane Roberts 9781781382660
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £36.28The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a... -
J.R.R.Tolkien by Charles Moseley 9780746307496
Booksplease Price: £22.57Tolkien was a specialist in a recherche field. He did not, at least initially, write for a mass audience. Yet for many in the 60s his books, particularly Lord of the Rings, became a political badge... -
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture by Melissa Percival 9781789620030
Booksplease Price: £100.32Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term,... -
Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries by Anne Hudson
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £31.48The first complete translation of the Bible into English was produced by the followers of John Wyclif in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; it is known in two versions, very literal and more... -
Arab Political Demography: Volume One: Population Growth and Natalist Policies by Onn Winckler 9781902210711
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.24Written specifically for classroom and student use, with more than 35 tables and figures, this book sets out the political demographic of the Arab countries by: Examining the sources for demographic... -
Asad's Autocratic Dynasty in Syria: Civil War and the Role of Regional and Global Powers by Moshe Ma'oz
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.72In 2011, the diplomatic and expert consensus was that Bashar al-Asads regime would fail, causing Syria to disintegrate into several ethnic enclaves or mini-states. A decade later and Bashar is still... -
Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry & Symbolist Poetics by Lisa Goldfarb 9781845199470
RRP: £37.60Booksplease Price: £36.09The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical fashion. Pairing poets who are not usually studied... -
Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £31.48Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception and international theories of... -
Penelope Fitzgerald by Hugh Adlington 9780746312957
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £18.59Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest British novelists of the late twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of them,... -
Measures for Measure: Geology and the industrial revolution by Leeder, Mike
Booksplease Price: £48.48Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' award 2022Measures for Measure features once greatly-disturbed landscapes - now largely reclaimed, physically at least, by post-industrial activity. Yet the... -
Farewell, King Coal: from industrial triumph to climatic disaster by Anthony Seaton
Booksplease Price: £48.78When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this account of the rise and decline of the coal industry... -
The persistence of memory: Remembering slavery in Liverpool, 'slaving capital of the world' Jessica Moody 9781800348288
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.75An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund.The Persistence of Memory is a history of... -
Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War by Ray Costello 9781781380192
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.68Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been... -
A Perfect Mirror by Sarah Corbett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.14Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection... -
My Dark Horses Jodie Hollander 9781786940049
Booksplease Price: £10.99Set against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians, Jodie Hollander's beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter's maturing relationship... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
Booksplease Price: £10.99Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow... -
QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi 9781802074772
Booksplease Price: £10.99Janette Ayachi’s second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking flight from the page to parachute into performance. Her hypnotic voice lifts from... -
Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions by John Holmes 9781846318092
Booksplease Price: £119.73Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of... -
Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law by David Farrier 9781846314803
Booksplease Price: £119.73Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary...