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GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples Mike Leeder 9781780460604
Booksplease Price: $113.30GeoBritannica concerns the geological legacy of Britain, an inheritance bequeathed by its bedrock to the peoples who have lived on the island for the eleven millennia since the final spasms of the... -
Semitism: The Whence and Whither, 'How Dear Are Your Counsels' by Kenneth Cragg
Booksplease Price: $53.90Semitism is a human story of distinctive intimacy with a God, believed to belong with birth, sealed in history and homed in given territory. These three denominators of tribe, territory and... -
Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula: Making Allies Out of Clients Tore T. Petersen 9781845194666
Booksplease Price: $65.07When the British Labour party announced the withdrawal of British forces from the Persian Gulf in January 1968, the United States faced a potential power vacuum in the area. The incoming Nixon... -
War, Peace & International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel by Yitzhak Reiter
Booksplease Price: $60.72Foreword 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... -
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Presence of Chinese & Indian Firms in Europe by Francoise Hay
Booksplease Price: $55.59This book investigates the presence of Chinese and Indian companies in Europe and the impact that the current global financial crisis has had on their corporate behaviour and strategies. Have... -
Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Supression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 by Keith Hamilton
Booksplease Price: $69.32Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in... -
Dawn of the Dead by Jon Towlson
Booksplease Price: $175.11George 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... -
All-women art spaces in Europe in the long 1970s by Professor Agata Jakubowska
Booksplease Price: $74.88The texts gathered in this volume embrace women artists-only exhibitions, festivals, collective art projects, groups and associations, organised in the long 1970s in Europe (1968-1984). These... -
Soldiers as Workers: Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military Nick Mansfield 9781800348974
Booksplease Price: $70.10The 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... -
Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain by Masud Hamdan
Booksplease Price: $69.32This 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... -
The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century by Helen Graham
Booksplease Price: $65.07In Spain today the civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away'. The long shadow of the Second World War is now also bringing back centre frame its most disquieting aspects, revealing to a... -
Spanish Second Republic Revisited: From Democratic Hopes to Civil War (1931-1936) by Manuel Alvarez Tardio
Booksplease Price: $65.07The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in modern European history. Its origins, that is to say the politics of the Second Republic (1931-1936), have been much debated. The republican... -
Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans by Andrew Fear
Booksplease Price: $78.41This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely... -
Geoffrey Chaucer by Steve Ellis
Booksplease Price: $41.48This study of Geoffrey Chaucer addresses both recent theoretical approaches to his work, as well as various popular tropes - 'Father of English Poetry', poet of 'Merrie England' - that have enshrined... -
Shaping the City to Come: Rethinking Modern Architecture and Town Planning in England, c. 1934-51 by Deborah Lewittes
Booksplease Price: $230.51This 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... -
Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910 by Angela McCarthy
Booksplease Price: $70.10This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families,... -
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: $222.65This 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... -
Spectre of the Stranger: Towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality by Manu Bazzano
Booksplease Price: $55.59Manu 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... -
Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-Up to the Six Day War: Balancing Moral Commitments & National Interests by Zaki Shalom
Booksplease Price: $222.65The 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... -
Italian Volcanoes Christopher J. Kilburn 9781903544044
Booksplease Price: $69.30Based on an intimate knowledge and extensive research, Italian volcanoes, provides a complete introductory guide to one of the world's best known and most intensively studied volcanic areas. It is a... -
Transnational East Asian Studies Kevin Cawley 9781802077308
Booksplease Price: $74.41Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just... -
Measures for Measure: Geology and the industrial revolution by Leeder, Mike
Booksplease Price: $98.09Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title' award 2022Measures for Measure features once greatly-disturbed landscapes - now largely reclaimed, physically at least, by post-industrial activity. Yet the... -
Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries by Anne Hudson
Booksplease Price: $70.10The 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... -
The French Anarchists in London, 1880–1914: Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation by Constance Bantman
Booksplease Price: $70.10This book is a study of political exile and transnational activism in the late-Victorian period. It explores the history of about 500 French-speaking anarchists who lived in exile in London between... -
Economy: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century by Angela Dimitrakaki
Booksplease Price: $79.50What happened in art following the consolidation of capitalist globalisation after 1989? Drawing on work in art history, curating, critical theory, political economy and sociology, essays in Economy:... -
The Earles of Liverpool: A Georgian Merchant Dynasty by Peter Earle
Booksplease Price: $74.88This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840... -
Sex, Lies & Politics: Gay Politicians in the Press by Donna Smith
Booksplease Price: $222.65This 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... -
Waiting at the Shore: Art, Revolution, War & Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla by Paul Quintanilla
Booksplease Price: $75.15Waiting at the Shore chronicles the extraordinary life of the Spanish artist Luis Quintanilla, championed by Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Elliot Paul, and many other American and European... -
Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain by Andrew Hassam
Booksplease Price: $55.59In the last 25 years of the nineteenth century, around two hundred thousand visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience... -
Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico by Paul Julian Smith
Booksplease Price: $70.10Over 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... -
Farewell, King Coal: from industrial triumph to climatic disaster by Anthony Seaton
Booksplease Price: $102.57When 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... -
Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland by Michael Dwyer
Booksplease Price: $70.10Winner 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... -
Trauma Informed Care in the Perinatal Period Julia Seng 9781780460536
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.84Pregnancy is a crucial point of intersection between generations. During pregnancy, women with a childhood maltreatment history have a 12-fold increased risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)... -
The Human Phenomenon: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 2nd Edition Sarah Appleton-Weber 9781902210308
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $60.72The 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... -
Portuguese Colonialism and Islam: Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction by Mário Artur Machaqueiro
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $111.97In Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslim communities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiations presented a... -
Asad's Autocratic Dynasty in Syria: Civil War and the Role of Regional and Global Powers by Moshe Ma'oz
Booksplease Price: $69.24In 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... -
The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative by Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Booksplease Price: $70.10This collection of essays considers the means and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalization' - its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the... -
The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics by Chris Campbell
Booksplease Price: $70.10Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political... -
Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance by Dafydd Jones
Booksplease Price: $70.10Dada 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... -
Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826 by Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz
Booksplease Price: $70.10This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last...