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The Peeps: Ancoats: the Presence of Absence Dan Dubowitz 9780719085529
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.96Ancoats, 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 New Bauman Reader: Thinking Sociologically in Liquid Modern Times by Tony Blackshaw 9781784994037
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $26.59Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in... -
Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds of Soft Cell Patrick Clarke 9781526173560
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.32A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981,... -
Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract Common Sense Policy Group 9781526180766
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.52An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future. We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd Stephen Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life... -
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Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Rachel Gibbons 9780719075889 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.22Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers... -
Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity by Paola Tinagli
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18This richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance painting. It is clearly arranged into four distinct areas that relate to the... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace
Booksplease Price: $16.04Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to... -
Animals, Politics and Morality Robert Garner 9780719035753
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.26"What gives the book distinction is Garner's comprehensive grasp of and sympathy with this subject."--New Statesman and Society"Thorough and compelling."--Political Studies"Meticulously researched..... -
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Beginning Film Studies by Andrew Dix 9780719072550 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.94Beginning film studies offers the most lucid, thorough and up-to-the-minute introduction to this popular subject. Written with verve and wit, it reviews a wealth of significant trends in the... -
![The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd by David Bevington 9780719043444 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10016605/11033022/9780719043444__27596.1787122520.jpg?c=1 "The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd by David Bevington 9780719043444 [USED COPY]")
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd by David Bevington 9780719043444 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.51The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life... -
The Culture of Fashion: A New History of Fashionable Dress Christopher Breward 9780719041259
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.59This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and... -
The Cossacks by Shane O'Rourke
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.18This is an exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have... -
Art and the British Empire by Tim Barringer
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.96This pioneering study argues that the concept of 'empire' belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Recent scholarship in history, anthropology, literature and... -
Contemporary German Cinema Paul Cooke 9780719076190
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18German film is enjoying enormous levels of success, be success defined in terms of financial returns, popularity with audiences at home and abroad or critical acclaim. On the one hand, the 2000s saw... -
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present by Paul Crosthwaite 9780719096259
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.59What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and... -
Paramilitary Loyalism: Identity and Change by Richard Reed 9780719095306
RRP: $113.90Booksplease Price: $82.96This book takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism, charting the evolution of the loyalist identity through more than forty years of conflict and peace. Based on extensive documentary... -
Mathematics for Economists: An Introductory Textbook (New Edition) by Malcolm Pemberton 9781784991487
Booksplease Price: $51.80This book is a self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and masters-level students of economics. Building up gently from a very low level, the authors provide a clear,... -
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel 9781526176813
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526176813Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manc -
The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.77This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance... -
Wales Since 1939 by Martin Johnes
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.59The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. ... -
The Witch of Edmonton: By William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford by Peter Corbin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a... -
Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods by Michael Hatt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
Booksplease Price: $23.93Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex... -
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi 9780719095634
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.37During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, available in... -
Michael Reeves by Benjamin Halligan 9780719063510
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating... -
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves... -
The Duchess of Malfi: By John Webster (Revels Student Editions) by John Brown
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often... -
The Uk Financial System: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition by Mike Buckle
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $35.98Throughout the world the nature and regulation of financial systems have changed dramatically following the global financial crisis. This book introduces the necessary theory and a range of relevant... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood... -
The Political Writings of EVA Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political... -
Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism by Rehana Ahmed 9781526116772
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18The Rushdie affair, September 11 2001 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims into the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images have proliferated, reducing a... -
Darts in England, 1900-39: A Social History by Patrick Chaplin 9780719089046
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18Drawing on an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources Chaplin examines the development of darts in the context of English society in the early twentieth century. He reveals how darts was... -
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Plays on Women: Anon, Arden of Faver by Kathleen McLuskie 9780719016462 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $4.58Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's EnglandThe only available anthology focusing on... -
The White Devil: By John Webster by John Brown
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid... -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the... -
Developing Africa: Concepts and Practices in Twentieth-Century Colonialism by Joseph Hodge
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.59This 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... -
Falling from Grace: Reversal of Fortune and the English Nobility 1075-1455 by J. S. Bothwell 9780719075223
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $26.18This original study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell, usually dramatically and often violently, from position and power in the period 1075-1455. It also... -
'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia by A. James Hammerton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.38More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life... -
The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.09This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised...