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What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini 9781786631657
Booksplease Price: $33.92In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
Booksplease Price: $33.49This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of... -
Dark Academia: Despair in the Neoliberal University by Peter Fleming 9780745341064
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.60'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological... -
Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
Booksplease Price: $48.01When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western... -
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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture by Mark S. Micale 9780804731164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched... -
Malthus: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Winch 9780199670413
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.85Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short... -
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, Tenth Anniversary Edition Maggie Berg 9781487559465
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07A decade after its initial release, The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy returns with an expanded anniversary edition that both reaffirms and reignites its call to... -
Plain Words by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman 9781399638098
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRE'A fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud' Sunday Telegraph'It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book... -
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $26.53How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success... -
School Wars: The Battle for Britain's Education by Melissa Benn 9781844670918
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain's education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over... -
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era' John Gray, New Statesman'The...