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Working-class Stories of the 1890s by Peter Keating
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.89First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows... -
Working-class Stories of the 1890s by Peter Keating 9781138658622
Booksplease Price: £54.29First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows... -
The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction Peter Keating 9781138650084
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. It considers the different types of working men and women who appear in... -
Sailing on the Edge: Alone Across the Atlantic by Peter Keating 9780645153231
Booksplease Price: £12.62At the age of 57, Peter Keating set out to sail, single-handed, across the Atlantic. It was a lifelong dream of a lifelong sailor and though it was to be a solo journey, his waking and sleeping hours... -
Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice Peter Keating 9780226143040
Booksplease Price: £31.67In Cancer on Trial Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing... -
Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice by Peter Keating 9780226428918
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60Until the early 1960s, cancer treatment consisted primarily of surgery and radiation therapy. Most practitioners then viewed the treatment of terminally ill cancer patients with heroic courses of... -
Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World by Peter Keating 9781579658779
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05A collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking-and our world. In a world where Google Maps has largely taken over... -
100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand by Scott McConnell 9780451231307
Booksplease Price: £22.26Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual, Ayn Rand. Focusing on the private Rand,... -
Selected Poems by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant... -
The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences by Adele E. Clarke 9780691603421
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £70.85This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in... -
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: Volume 6: 1931-36 by T. Pinney 9781403921321
Booksplease Price: £91.68This new volume of The Letters of Rudyard Kipling , fully annotated, is the last of six volumes which form the first comprehensive publication of Kipling's letters, and covers the last five years of... -
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere 9781349337422
Booksplease Price: £92.10This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved... -
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere 9780230301962
Booksplease Price: £92.21This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved... -
De Havilland Comet: The World's First Commercial Jetliner by Colin Higgs 9781526719614
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The world got a little smaller in July 1949 when the first jet-powered airliner took to the skies barely four years after the end of the Second World War. Not only was the de Havilland Comet 1 was a... -
King Labour: The British Working Class, 1850-1914 David Kynaston 9781138352100
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1976. This book covers working-class history from the decline of Chartism to the formation of the Labour Party and its early development to 1914. It gives a historical perspective... -
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives by Carsten Timmermann 9781137272072
Booksplease Price: £46.28Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and...