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Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad Hallvard Notaker 9781784993313
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of... -
Theophile Gautier, Conteur Fantastique Et Merveilleux by Peter Whyte
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Between 1831 and 1866, Theophile Gautier published two dozen tales which can be designated contes fantastiques or contes merveilleux. These works are examined in chronological sequence, in French, in... -
British Political Parties Today Robert Garner 9780719051050
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Combines historical analysis with a sharp commentary upon the modern political scene. Reflects the key, recent developments in British Party Politics, such as the 1997 general election, 'New Labour'... -
Portraiture: Facing the Subject by Joanna Woodall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.98Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism... -
Roosevelt'S Peacetime Administrations, 1933-41: A Documentary History by G. Bennett
Booksplease Price: £23.54Over a half-century after the death of Roosevelt the debate on his presidency and the New Deal remains vibrant, for in many ways he created the modern presidency and he remains a giant of American... -
The Kiss in History by Karen Harvey
Booksplease Price: £23.93Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a single kind of kiss... -
Antonio and Mellida: John Marston by Reavley Gair
Booksplease Price: £13.34Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical,... -
Malherbe, TheOphile De Viau and Saint-Amant: A Selection by Richard G. Maber
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the... -
The Continental Connection: German-Speaking eMigres and British Cinema, 1927-45 by Tobias Hochscherf
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £79.30This study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies,... -
Finance and Accounting for Business: A New Insight, by Bob Ryan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.45This is a self-contained treatment of all the of the accounting and finance needed for students to be able to work effectively at the highest levels within business. It is written in a readily... -
'Rendering to God and Caesar': The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 by Daithi Corrain
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book discusses the history of the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church and their Episcopal leaders in the period from 1949 to 1973. It considers the opening years of the Troubles in... -
New D.H. Lawrence Howard Booth 9780719078361
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11New D.H. Lawrence uses current and emergent approaches in literary studies to explore one of Britain's major modernist writers. The collection features new work by the present generation of Lawrence... -
Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities by Ruth Sheldon
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this... -
Internet-Mediated Participation Beyond the Nation State by Bart Cammaerts
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic institutions. It examines internet-mediated... -
Managing Change by Avril Ehrlich
Booksplease Price: £14.37This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps... -
Epicene, or the Silent Woman: By Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually... -
Martin Del Rio: Investigations into Magic by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Booksplease Price: £23.54This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published. Investigations into magic deals not only with... -
Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England by John Walter
Booksplease Price: £23.54Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in... -
Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England by Lindy Brady
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current... -
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France by John Whale
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.23First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but... -
Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland by Professor Bryan Fanning
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54In the last decade Irish society has visibly changed with the emergence of new immigrant communities of black and ethnic minorities. Argues that Ireland was never immune from the racist ideologies... -
Interpreting Rock Movies: Pop Film and its Critics in Britain Andrew Caine 9780719065392
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s. By examining the British reception of films such as Rock Around the Clock, Love Me Tender, A Hard Day's... -
Mother Bombie: John Lyly by Leah Scragg
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies in its urban setting and focus upon middle and lower class concerns. The play turns on the tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four... -
Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke De Jong by Dorine van Espelo
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £80.30This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her... -
Sir Thomas More: By Anthony Munday and Others by Vittorio Gabrieli
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single... -
Men in Political Theory by Terrell Carver
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54Men in political theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in Political Philosophy by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies... -
Charity and Poverty in England, C.1680-1820: Wild and Visionary Schemes Sarah Lloyd 9780719078835
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether discussing proposals for vast inland... -
Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-Century France: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Quainton by Elizabeth Vinestock
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61These essays written to celebrate the distinguished career of Renassiance scholar, Professor Malcolm Quainton, confirm the idea that the sixteenth-century in France was deeply marked by conflict, but... -
Developing Africa: Concepts and Practices in Twentieth-Century Colonialism by Joseph Hodge
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.84This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning... -
Dr Faustus 1616 Chiaki Hanabusa 9781526123879
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £26.92This is an edition of Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus as it was printed in its revised and augmented form in 1616. It follows the publication of the Malone Society edition of the 1604 text in... -
Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams by Laura Marcus
Booksplease Price: £23.54Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking... -
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction by Scott McCracken
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories... -
Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy by Jane Stabler
Booksplease Price: £23.54"Unfolding the South" presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods. Responding to recent developments in the fields of literary criticism and... -
Youth Policy, Civil Society and the Modern Irish State Fred Powell 9780719095429
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This book, now available in paperback, explores the development of youth policy and youth work in Ireland from the mid-nineeenth century to the present day. Based on original research, funded by the... -
Performing the Jumbled City: Subversive Aesthetics, Anticolonial Indigeneity and Collaborative Ethnography in Santiago De Chile by Olivia Casagrande
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06This book engages with shared representations of the (post)colonial city, challenging the socio-spatial categories usually assigned to indigenous bodies and subjects. Building on analyses of the... -
Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo: Exploiting the Forbidden by Michelle Bentley
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.65This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the... -
Engendering an Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism by Leah Modigliani
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse analysis of... -
Masques of Difference: Four Court Masques by Ben Jonson by Kristen McDermott
Booksplease Price: £12.64Masques of difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the... -
The Peeps: Ancoats: the Presence of Absence Dan Dubowitz 9780719085529
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.85Ancoats, in Manchester, was once unimaginably different. One of the world's earliest industrial suburbs, it was dark and dense, noisy, frenetic, violent and unhealthy. It was also vibrant and... -
The Schubert Song Companion by John Reed
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.51This reference book provides an encyclopaedic guide to every song by Schubert for solo voice and piano, 600 in all, including different versions, unfinished songs and variants.Book InformationISBN...