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The Hebrides Con Gillen 9781780460413
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.49Field guide to the one of the most popular areas in Scotland for geological field trips and studies.Book InformationISBN 9781780460413Author Con GillenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Liverpool... -
How to Manage an Emergency or Disaster David Alexander 9781780460895
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.25The practical guidance and assistance needed to manage the consequences of an emergency or disaster. It is a practical ‘how to’ manual and guide.Book InformationISBN 9781780460895Author David... -
Socialism and the Diasporic 'Other': A comparative study of Irish Catholic and Jewish radical and communal politics in East London, 1889-1912 Daniel Renshaw 9781786941220
Booksplease Price: £111.11The late-Victorian and Edwardian East End was an area not only defined by its poverty and destitution, but also by its ethnic and religious diversity. In the neighbourhoods of East London diasporic... -
Material Transgressions: Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things by Kate Singer 9781789621778
Booksplease Price: £113.10Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or... -
Shaping the City to Come: Rethinking Modern Architecture and Town Planning in England, c. 1934-51 by Deborah Lewittes
Booksplease Price: £107.30This 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... -
thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art by Fan Di'An 9781781381458
RRP: £49.50Booksplease Price: £46.86Richly illustrated and boasting an array of distinguished artists, scholars and curators, thingworld is the catalogue of the International Triennial of New Media Art held at the National Art Museum... -
Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance by Dafydd Jones
RRP: £27.45Booksplease Price: £25.59Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at... -
J.R.R.Tolkien by Charles Moseley 9780746307496
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.33Tolkien 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... -
Muriel Spark by Bryan Cheyette 9780746309070
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £17.26Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and... -
Margaret Drabble by Glenda Leeming 9780746309841
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £17.26Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks... -
Alfred Tennyson by Seamus Perry 9780746309193
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £17.26This title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.About the... -
Cultures of Anyone: Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis by Luis Moreno-Caballud 9781781381939
Booksplease Price: £35.01The text of Cultures of Anyone is freely available online at the Modern Languages Open platform www.modernlanguagesopen.org Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and... -
Senoritas in Blue: The Making of a Female Political Elite in Francos Spain - The National Leadership of the Seccion Femenina de la Falange (1936-1977) Inbal Ofer 9781845193140
Booksplease Price: £103.30This book explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange -- SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the... -
War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel by Yitzhak Reiter
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.44Foreword by Efraim Halevy, former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence service. This book presents and analyses fatwas -- rulings of Islamic law -- issued by religious sages and... -
Smashing H-Block: The Popular Campaign against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982 by F. Stuart Ross 9781846317101
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.46Smashing H-Block is a political history of the Irish republican struggle against criminalization from 1976 to 1982. This struggle, which culminated in the historic hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, is... -
Aphra Behn by S.J. Wiseman 9780746309650
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £17.26During a writing career from the Restoration (1660) to the so-called Glorious Revolution (1688-9) Aphra Behn was prolific in all the commercial genres of her time and treated the most controversial... -
Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature by Sharae Deckard 9781781381892
Booksplease Price: £112.80The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of... -
Critical Engagement: Irish republicanism, memory politics and policing by Kevin Hearty 9781786940476
Booksplease Price: £33.93An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of how memory has... -
Prisoner of the Levant: by Darina Al Joundi by Darina Al Joundi 9781802078756
Booksplease Price: £51.89“I had a dream that women, all women, will hold their heads high, that women will work, that in their eyes we will no longer see fear or defeat or humiliation. That women will never again be shackled... -
Christopher Smart by Neil Curry 9780746310236
Booksplease Price: £73.22This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In contrast to... -
Offshore Island Politics: The Constitutional and Political Development of the Isle of Man in the Twentieth Century by David Kermode
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.57Offshore Island Politics is a fascinating study of the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man. The book analyses three broad aspects of twentieth-century political development:... -
Dawn of the Dead by Jon Towlson
Booksplease Price: £84.14George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978) is celebrated both as a ‘splatter’ movie and as a satire of 1970s consumerism. One of the most financially successful independent films ever produced, Dawn... -
Women Poets of the 19th Century by Emma Mason 9780746310014
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £17.26This title illuminates the importance of the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.About the AuthorEmma Mason is Lecturer in Nineteenth... -
My Dark Horses Jodie Hollander 9781786940049
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Set 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... -
Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain by Masud Hamdan
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.78This book highlights the so far unappreciated merit of the Syrian playwrights Durayd Lahham and Muhammad al-Maghout, whose plays are representative of the new wave of Arab theatrical realisation in... -
Memory, Narrative and the Great War: Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience by David Taylor 9781846318719
Booksplease Price: £112.80Memory, Narrative and the Great War provides a detailed examination of the varied and complex war writings of a relatively marginal figure, Patrick MacGill, within a general framework of our current... -
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture by Melissa Percival 9781789620030
Booksplease Price: £86.00Fancy 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,... -
Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 19 Ilia Rodov 9781835532379
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.70Ars Judaica is an annual publication of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present... -
HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 by Jean-Pierre Boule 9780853235781
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.89This 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... -
Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850 by Catherine E. Ross 9781837644452
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £91.59Educating 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... -
A Perfect Mirror by Sarah Corbett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Walking, 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... -
QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi 9781802074772
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Janette 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... -
Spectre of the Stranger: Towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality by Manu Bazzano
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.86Manu 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... -
Cold War Negritude: Form and Alignment in French Caribbean Literature by Christopher T. Bonner 9781837644711
Booksplease Price: £96.54Cold War Negritude is the first book-length study of francophone Caribbean literature to foreground the political context of the global Cold War. It focuses on three canonical francophone Caribbean... -
Triumph at Midnight in the Century: A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea - Explaining the Roots of the Spanish Civil War by Michael Eaude 9781845192884
Booksplease Price: £103.30Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously: about himself in order to... -
Poetry & Displacement by Stan Smith 9781846311161
Booksplease Price: £112.80The paradigmatic figure of twentieth-century history is the 'displaced person', a concept which emerged from the demographic migrations, deportations and genocidal purges that accompanied two world... -
Death & Dying in Hispanic Worlds: The Nexus of Religions, Cultural Traditions, and the Arts by Debra D. Andrist
Booksplease Price: £103.30The dispassionate intellectual examination of the concepts of death & dying contrasts dramatically with the emotive grieving process experienced by those who mourn. Death & dying are binary concepts... -
Penelope Fitzgerald by Hugh Adlington 9780746312940
Booksplease Price: £73.22Penelope 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,... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Winner 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... -
One Poultry Speaks by Marco Iuliano 9781786940742
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £10.29Number One Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ, was a commission awarded by Peter Palumbo to James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates in May 1985. Designed from July 1985 onwards, it was completed in 1998...