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The City on the Hill: A Life of the University of Exeter by 9780993371301
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.94In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. Its development over the the subsequent six decades is the subject of this... -
The University of Exeter: A History by B.W. Clapp 9780859891332
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.58This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College... -
West Country Maritime and Social History: Some Essays by Stephen Fisher 9780859891219
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.13In the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the maritime and social histories of the South-West of England were inextricably linked. The chapters in this volume cover important... -
Capital Formation in South-West England by Walter Minchinton 9780859890380
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.13The formation of capital has long been a key element underpinning British economic history. This brief but perspicacious volume contains four papers: an economist’s view on capital formation (Jeffrey... -
Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement by Mick Gidley 9780859893510
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $21.32The Shakers were a celibate, mystical and communitarian sect led by Mother Ann Lee of Manchester, which flourished in the United States from the 1770s to the end of the nineteenth century. Their... -
Population and Marketing: Two Studies in the History of the South-West by Walter Minchinton 9780859890359
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.13This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing. Individual... -
Cornish Mines: Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom, 1845-1913 by Roger Burt 9780859892872
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $108.50This is the seventh volume in a continuing series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining... -
Theology and Families Adrian Thatcher (University of Exeter) 9781405152754
RRP: $47.67Booksplease Price: $43.49This timely book, by one of the world's leading theologians in this field, makes a positive theological contribution to present intellectual and practical discussions about families and children. ... -
Aldred's Marginalia: Explanatory Comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels by W.J.P. Boyd
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.40Aldred's Marginalia provides an introductory discussion to the explanatory comments in the Lindisfarne Gospels.Book InformationISBN 9780859890366Author W.J.P. BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint... -
Cynewulf's Juliana by Rosemary Woolf 9780859894210
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.56Part of the "Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies" series, which includes works of interest and importance previously unpublished, long out-of-print, or otherwise inaccessible to students. This... -
Food in Antiquity: Studies in Ancient Society and Culture by John Wilkins 9780859894180
Booksplease Price: $154.17Food as a cultural symbol was as important in antiquity as in our own times and Food in Antiquity investigates some of the ways in which food and eating shaped the lives and thoughts of the... -
The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary Christiania Whitehead (Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)) 9780859897785
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $33.42This volume makes readily available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin... -
A Companion to 'The Doctrine of the Hert': The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts by Denis Renevey 9780859898218
Booksplease Price: $153.52The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. The text progressively pairs the... -
Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality by Daniel Ogden 9780859898386
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $40.20What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $34.06Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination,... -
Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-83 by Andrew Stockley 9780859896153
Booksplease Price: $153.52This is the first comprehensive study of the peace negotiations which ended the American War of Independence. It challenges traditional views and uses a wide range of sources to provide a detailed... -
Studies in Eighteenth Century French Literature: Presented to Robert Niklaus by John Howard Fox 9780859890502
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $81.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859890502Author John Howard FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint University of Exeter... -
From Goethe To Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1936 by Mary Orr 9780859897211
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $79.94From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays,... -
The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy 1797-1820 by Charles E. Davies 9780859895095
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.40During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the... -
Autour De La Lettre Aux Directeurs De La Resistance by Jean Paulhan 9780859897242
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.51Jean Paulhan's Lettre aux directeurs de la Resistance was an important and contentious statement about the influence of communism in intellectual and literary circles. On publication in 1952, the... -
John Betjeman and Cornwall by Philip Payton 9780859898485
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $24.81"I was one of the 8,000-strong `Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high... -
New Arabian Studies Volume 2 by R. L. Bidwell 9780859894524
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $69.63New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents,... -
A Beowulf Handbook by Robert E. Bjork 9780859896214
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.49The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is a landmark of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly... -
The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World by Maren Clegg Hyer 9780859898805
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.49This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources. Everyday... -
Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook for Beginners, New Edition with Illustrations by John Parker 9781804130810
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91This compact book reproduces fifty-two memorials in Latin taken from churches situated largely in the West Country. Each memorial is accompanied by a translation and by notes on the grammar. The book... -
Turkish Drama Serials: The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon by Miriam Berg 9781804130421
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $86.88The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to... -
Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience: From the Black Decade to the Hirak by Latefa Narriman Guemar 9781804130544
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45This book uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict. It details... -
Three Old English Elegies by Roy F. Leslie 9780859891844
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.56Edition of 'The Wife's Lament', 'The Husband's Message' and 'The Ruin' with contextual introduction, notes and glossary.Book InformationISBN 9780859891844Author Roy F. LeslieFormat PaperbackPage... -
Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language: Effects of Trauma and Foreign Language Immersions by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg 9781804130391
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language, focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’... -
Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interaction in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (Sixth Century BC to First Century AD) by David Braund 9780859897464
Booksplease Price: $153.52Scythians and Greeks focuses on the ancient history of the northern Black Sea region: a major 'new frontier' of Classical studies. The book presents a series of engagements with key themes bearing on... -
Mental Health Ontologies: How We Talk About Mental Health, and Why it Matters in the Digital Age by Janna Hastings 9781905816507
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $85.90Mental health presents one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Proponents of different conceptions of what mental illness is wage war for the hearts and minds of patients,... -
The Apocryphal Lives Of Adam And Eve by Brian Murdoch 9780859896986
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.80This edition, the first since 1878, offers Middle English texts accompanied by detailed notes contextualizing the poems within an apocryphal tradition and full glossary. The Introduction reviews the... -
From Mimesis to Interculturalism: Readings of Theatrical Theory Before and After 'Modernism' by Graham Ley 9781905816170
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed... -
Crestien's Guillaume d'Angleterre / William of England: Edition with Annotated Translation by Ian Short 9781905816705
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $85.90The book is an edition with facing annotated translation of the 12th-century Medieval French popular romance Guillaume d'Angleterre. The claim to fame of this verse narrative is to have had its... -
The Failure of Political Extremism in Inter-War Britain by Andrew Thorpe 9780859893077
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.40The period between the two World Wars saw the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in most European countries, and the development of powerful communist and fascist movements in most... -
Against Transgression Ashley Tauchert (University of Exeter) 9781405169899
RRP: $26.77Booksplease Price: $25.72Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the... -
First Portuguese Colonial Empire by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $33.67The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century... -
Poetics Of The Pretext: Reading Lautréamont by Roland-François Lack
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.58Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautréamont (1846-1870), who was rediscovered by the Surrealists in the 1920s and promoted to the vanguard of theoretical debate by the... -
Phalante by Jean Galaut
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $38.30This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study,... -
Satyres Nouvelles by Jean Benech de Cantenac
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $38.25Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac (Bordeauz 1630?-1714) was notorious in his own time but has only recently...