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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance by Jonathan Adams
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.86The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative... -
Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861 by Brian Hamnett
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.71Between 1836 and 1861, Mexico's difficulties as a sovereign state became fully exposed. Its example provides a case study for all similarly emerging independent states that have broken away from... -
Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run! Dawn Stobbart 9781786834362
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Videogames are full of horrors - and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked in the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast growing field of videogame... -
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. On the one hand, critics have considered weird... -
South Asian Gothic: Haunted cultures, histories and media Katarzyna Ancuta 9781786838001
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume... -
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing Louise Campion 9781786838308
Booksplease Price: £62.71This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and... -
Introducing the Medieval Swan by Natalie Jayne Goodison
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase 'swan song'. This book... -
For the Recorde: A History of Welsh Mathematical Greats by Gareth Ffowc Roberts
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This book celebrates the life and work of twelve mathematicians who were either born in Wales or who worked in Wales. When the Welsh national anthem was composed in 1856, Wales was at the centre of... -
Dona Barbara Unleashed: From Venezuelan Plains to International Screen Jenni M. Lehtinen 9781786836861
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.65Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen. Dona Barbara... -
A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with... -
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson 9781786833860
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.49After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the... -
Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America by Vivienne Sanders 9781786837905
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that 'very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of... -
The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism by Richard Jones 9781783160563
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For decades, otherwise highly respected figures in Welsh life have repeatedly claimed that Welsh nationalists sympathised with Fascism during the dark days of the 1930s and the Second World War. In... -
'Mae'r Beibl o'n tu': Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868) by Gareth Evans Jones 9781786838834
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786838834Author Gareth Evans JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Wales... -
The Women's Movement: A Little Welsh History by Daryl Leeworthy 9781786838544
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women's movement in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of... -
Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–1980 by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786836144
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45The Brexit debates confirmed how Wales’s relationship to Europe has for too long been discussed exclusively, narrowly and suffocatingly in terms of its social, political and economic aspects. As a... -
Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: A Philosophy of Freedom Otfried Hoeffe 9781837720453
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.34Published in English for the first time, Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason is a slightly abridged and updated edition of Professor Höffe’s groundbreaking work originally published in German. In the... -
Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from Psycho-Sexual Servitude by Rhian Barfoot 9781783162109
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.77Throughout the history of Thomas's critical reception, psychoanalytic interpretations have been applied that have privileged the psychosexual over the psycho-linguistic elements of his work. The... -
Count Us In: How to Make Maths Real for All of Us by Gareth Ffowc Roberts 9781783167968
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures... -
Community Organization and Development: from its history towards a model for the future by Steve Clarke 9781786830500
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.05This book traces the development of community development/organization as it evolved separately in Britain and the United States, and how the social and political situations in each country... -
Entrancement: The consciousness of dreaming, music and the world by Ruth Finnegan 9781786830760
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology... -
Free and Public: Andrew Carnegie and the Libraries of Wales by Ralph A. Griffiths 9781786837745
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A study of the thirty-five Carnegie libraries built in towns and industrial communities in Wales before the First World War. The library system is in a transformative phase that attracts much... -
Energy, the Great Driver: Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change by Gareth Wyn Jones 9781786834232
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positively to its challenges. It argues that the... -
Paul Murphy: Peacemaker by Paul Murphy 9781786834720
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Born into a traditional Welsh valley community, Paul Murphy has been a member of the Labour Party for more than 55 years. In this book, he describes how the socialist beliefs of that community, and... -
John Ormond's Organic Mosaic: Poetry, Documentary, Nation by Kieron Smith 9781786834881
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. Born in Swansea, he learned to 'think... -
Llenyddiaeth Mewn Theori by Owen Thomas 9780708320655
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Offers a collection of articles from young academics who delivered papers to a seminar, entitled Llenyddiaeth Mewn Theori held at the University of Wales Lampeter in April 2005. This volume presents... -
The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century: Film, Literature and Television John Kirk 9780708321904
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.07Challenges the suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary analysis. This work examines how the lives and experiences of working-class people have changed, and how these changes have... -
Cardiganshire and the Cardi, c.1760-c.2000: Locating a Place and its People by Mike Benbough-Jackson 9780708323946
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02This book explores the ways in which the distinctive Welsh county of Cardigan and its inhabitants (known as Cardis) have been represented during the late modern era. The image of both Cardiganshire... -
Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families: Policy in Wales and Beyond Wendy Ball 9780708325513
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period following devolution, concerns the... -
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print by Kate Griffiths 9780708325940
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert,... -
The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997 by Sam Blaxland 9781837720811
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain, with the party unable to connect with voters. The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1997 offers a more nuanced... -
Transatlantic Vistas: Engagements with the Literatures of Wales and the United States M. Wynn Thomas 9781837721597
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work – on... -
Revisiting the Medieval North of England: Interdisciplinary Approaches by 9781786833945
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language,... -
Inventor of Britain: The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd by Philip Schwyzer 9781837722228
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23The work of the map-maker and historian Humphrey Llwyd (1527–68) were a crucial contribution to a new vision of Britain in the early modern period. It lies close to the roots of the emerging ideology... -
Introducing Medieval Animal Names by Ben Parsons 9781837722617
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary,... -
Women and Power in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures and Societies by Shirley Jordan 9781837723669
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03The women represented in this volume as both authors and protagonists exert power by resisting the social paradigms that govern how they ‘should’ behave – by thwarting expectations of typical... -
Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction Sami Ahmad Khan 9781786837622
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.11India is mutating - and its Science Fiction (SF) with it. Star Warriors of the Modern Raj is a critical catalogue of contemporary India's anglophone SF, a path-breaking work that flits between texts,... -
Minerva's Gothics: The Politics and Poetics of Romantic Exchange, 1780-1820 by Elizabeth Neiman
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.03Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane's Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure female authors. Because these novels catered to the day's fashion for... -
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler
Booksplease Price: £62.71Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval... -
Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: citizenship, gender and ethnicity by Anne Grydehoj
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.40This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period from 1965 to the present, during which both Scandinavian and French societies have...