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Volcanoes and the Making of Scotland by Brian Upton
Booksplease Price: £47.60Scotland's mountains and glens retain the secrets of the long and frequently violent geological history that has gone into their making. Volcanoes have played a major role in the creation of Scotland... -
Street Art Tel Aviv: In a Time of Transition by Lord K2
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.94Distinctly unique, Tel Aviv's street art represents a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities. Echoing the uncertainty that permeates Israel's daily existence, it possesses... -
The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817 by Jr. Raymond Davis
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £30.74In The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes Raymond Davis continues from the year AD 715, where his Book of the Pontiffs (revised edition, Liverpool, 2000) stopped, and deals with the next nine... -
Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry by Thorlac Turville-Petre
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of... -
Buddhism and the Coronavirus: The Buddha's Teaching on Suffering by Jeaneane Fowler
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.89This book examines the early teachings of Buddhism associated with the life of the Buddha, Siddhatta Gotama. In these teachings, the Buddha put forward his famous Four Noble Truths concerning the... -
Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by Lucy Evans
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival... -
Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941 by Christopher Miller
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as advisers to the Principal Supply Officers Committee... -
Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft & Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £44.67The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic... -
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion': The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922 Erin Kate Scheopner 9781800856493
Booksplease Price: £119.01This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the 'Irish question' from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in... -
The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction by Valerie Pedlar
Booksplease Price: £40.29An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning... -
Scotland's Mountain Landscapes: A Geomorphological Perspective Colin K. Ballantyne 9781780460796
Booksplease Price: £47.60The diversity of Scotland's mountains is remarkable, encompassing the isolated summits of the far northwest, the serrated ridges of Skye, the tor-studded high plateau of the Cairngorms and the... -
A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre by Marguerite Corporaal
Booksplease Price: £56.30As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of... -
Talking Politics in Japan Today by Ofer Feldman
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.51This book focuses on the rhetoric used by members of the political elite and the news media in Japan as the core of political dynamics in this country. Based on the notion that political society is... -
The Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Antisemitism and Opportunism Isabelle Rohr 9781845191825
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.About the AuthorIsabelle Rohr is a visiting lecturer at King's College, University of London and at St Mary's... -
Europe and Its Muslim Minorities: Aspects of Conflict, Attempts at Accord by Amikam Nachmani
Booksplease Price: £109.14The presence of Muslim communities in Europe is a politically charged issue. Sporadic attacks by radical Muslims have further highlighted the problem of a deep cultural divide between the Muslims and... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814 Franca Dellarosa (University of Baro Aldo Moro (Italy)) 9781800348981
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.92This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of... -
Water in the Middle East: Cooperation & Technological Solutions in the Jordan Valley by K. David Hambright
Booksplease Price: £44.80"Water in the Middle East" presents historical and cross-cultural perspectives on water and conflict, prospects for future cooperation in the water arena among Middle Eastern countries, the political... -
The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 Martin O'Donoghue 9781800856738
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70This book provides the first detailed analysis of the influence of former Irish Parliamentary Party members and methods in independent Ireland and the place of the party's leaders in public memory... -
A Sultanate that Endures: Oman in the World from Qaboos bin Sa'id to Haitham bin Tariq Joseph A. Kechichian 9781789762075
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.80Qaboos bin Sa'id, Sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020, marked Omani history. He belonged to that very small circle of leaders who solemnized their time in power, transforming the... -
The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volume 1 (1716-1992) David Clare 9781800859463
Booksplease Price: £114.18This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners... -
Publishing Africa in French: Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945–1967 by Ruth Bush
RRP: £35.25Booksplease Price: £33.15Publishing Africa in French was the winner of the African Literature Association's First Book Award in 2018.It has become commonplace to note that the global French literary marketplace is dominated... -
Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011) by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.29An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.At the turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene... -
Jews of Libya: Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement by Maurice M. Roumani
Booksplease Price: £109.44This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), a period crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's evolution into a community playing significant roles... -
Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis by Adam H. Becker
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £30.74The Aramaic-speaking Christian community of late antique and early Islamic period Mesopotamia developed a school culture that persisted for several centuries. Not unlike the Rabbinic academies, the... -
Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700 by Richard Price
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.73This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Chalcedon. Its aim is to place Chalcedon in a... -
Geology and Landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen 9781780460093
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.00The six hundred miles between the northernmost Shetland island and the Mull of Galloway in the South of Scotland contain some of the most interesting geology and most varied landscapes in Europe... -
Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool?: Success, decline, and irrelevance since 1945 by David Jeffery
Booksplease Price: £42.30An Open Access edition of this book, supported by the LUP OA author fund, is available on the Liverpool University Press website, the OAPEN library and our Digital Collaboration Hub. In the 1968... -
The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts by Richard Miles
Booksplease Price: £119.01This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian... -
What Fire by Alice Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on everyone, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the... -
Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes by Christine Hunefeldt
Booksplease Price: £109.14Scholars from Anthropology, History, and Literary and Cultural Studies present their current research on culture and violence in the Andean region. Within an interdisciplinary approach, the... -
Spanish Education in Morocco, 1912-1956: Cultural Interactions in a Colonial Context by Irene Gonzalez
Booksplease Price: £109.14After establishing the Spanish Protectorate in Northern Morocco (1912-1956), Spain needed to create a system of colonial policies for the territory it was now to govern. Education became one... -
Spain 1936: Year Zero by Raanan Rein
Booksplease Price: £109.44Marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, this volume takes a close look at the initial political moves, military actions and consequences of the fratricidal conflict and... -
Francophone Afropean Literatures by Nicki Hitchcott
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70What does Afro-Europe signify? This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and... -
Juvenal’s Tenth Satire by Professor Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70This is not a commentary on Juvenal Satire 10 but a critical appreciation of the poem which examines it on its own and in context and tries to make it come alive as a piece of literature, offering... -
Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. by Andrés Zamora
RRP: £30.25Booksplease Price: £28.77In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to... -
A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929-1946 Michael D Callahan 9781845196509
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.47The second volume explains how the League of Nations mandates system fused two of the predominant and compelling global forces of the twentieth century: imperialism and Wilsonian internationalism... -
Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds: From Galicia to the World by José Colmeiro
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.81Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred... -
Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru by Anne Lambright
RRP: £32.45Booksplease Price: £30.70Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru studies how literature, drama, film, and the visual arts contest the dominant narrative of national... -
Portuguese Orientalism: The Interplay of Power, Representation and Dialogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Marta Pacheco Pinto
Booksplease Price: £109.14Research on Portuguese orientalism has been mostly centred on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and has focused on missionary work and Catholic orientalism. In contrast, reflection on the...