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Archbishop William Temple: A Study in Servant Leadership by Stephen Spencer 9780334061670
RRP: $29.66$28.07Leadership is a growing preoccupation of the contemporary church, but for some of the most inspiring examples of good leadership we need to go back, not forwards. Archbishop William Temple is widely regarded as one of the most influential church leaders... -
Great Dialogues Of Plato by Plato 9780451471703
RRP: $10.26$7.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451471703Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry David Thoreau 9780226624969
RRP: $15.48$12.20"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every... -
The World of El CID: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest by Simon Barton 9780719052262
RRP: $25.79$23.35Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: $45.14$36.78This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: $32.19$30.65Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six... -
Expiation Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781910263235
RRP: $21.93$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263235Author Elizabeth Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams)... -
Maurice Blanchot by Ullrich Haase
RRP: $33.53$29.19Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.This accessible... -
Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum: Text, Translation, and Commentary by David West 9780198721659
RRP: $81.27$66.51The aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the 'Roman odes' in praise of Augustus, the... -
Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 by John Kerrigan 9780198183846
$40.20Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how... -
Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook by Kimberley Reynolds 9780230525542
$41.64Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of... -
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson 9781442277946
RRP: $45.15$39.62Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful... -
Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance by Hero Chalmers 9780719063398
RRP: $25.79$22.72This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern... -
Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by W Ralph Eubanks 9781604699586
RRP: $32.25$23.61"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created."... -
Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Professor Louisa Gairn
RRP: $27.08$25.22This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the... -
The Sacred Fount by Henry James
$128.90The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: $11.60$8.24Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to... -
Vienna a Cultural and Literary History by Nicholas T. Parsons 9781904955450
RRP: $19.35$17.61From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy,... -
The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus: The Invention of Literary History by Christopher S. van den Berg
RRP: $96.75$87.38Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously... -
The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727
RRP: $25.79$20.56Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first tell the tale? The poem exists now in just one manuscript, but careful study of the literary and historical associations... -
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault
RRP: $32.24$27.95Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most... -
Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian 9781479825851
RRP: $32.24$27.95Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film,... -
A Separate Peace SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 58 SparkNotes 9781411469792
RRP: $7.73$5.88When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Shakespeare's Henriad - Complete Tetralogy: Including a Detailed Analysis of the Main Characters: Richard II, King Henry IV and King Henry V by William Shakespeare 9788027306923
RRP: $14.06$10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027306923Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer 9780691176048
RRP: $20.63$15.80A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to... -
The Vikings Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Bergen) 9781942401896
$20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401896Author Saebjorg Walaker NordeideFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
As You Like It by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $10.31$9.51From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of As You Like It in performance,... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $32.19$30.65The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Frank Exchanges: Letters between Frank Whitbourn, theatre enthusiast, and David Wood, children’s dramatist by David Wood 9781915603876
RRP: $16.76$12.05Between 1959 and 2005, David Wood ('the national children's dramatist') corresponded with his mentor, Frank Whitbourn, teacher, writer and theatre practitioner. Frank Exchanges opens with a letter from Whitbourn, praising a young Wood following a... -
Positive Stories For Negative Times: Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely by Sabrina Mahfouz
$28.70Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. ... -
We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Rick Monture 9780887557675
RRP: $41.22$26.01The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to... -
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education by Laura M. Berquist 9780898706604
$16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898706604Author Laura M. BerquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology by Nancy Perloff 9781789147766
RRP: $25.80$18.72Now available in paperback, Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential works,... -
How to Kill A Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics by Calvert Watkins 9780195144130
RRP: $67.08$52.86In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that... -
Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: A Guide by Lynette Hunter 9781903436295
$34.09This accessible and interdisciplinary volume addresses a fundamental need in current education in language, literature and drama. Many of today's students lack the grammatical and linguistic skills to enable them to study Shakespearean and other... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature by Caryl Emerson 9780521606523
RRP: $34.82$28.24Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of... -
Collins Cambridge International AS & A Level - Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English Student's Book by Maria Cairney
RRP: $38.70$37.29Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in EnglishFirst teaching: September 2019 First examination: from 2021 The Student's Book introduces the key concepts and... -
The Literature of Terror: Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition by David Punter 9780582237148
$61.71The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range... -
Latin Prose Composition by "Bradley's Arnold" 9780862921507
$38.38This frequently reprinted volume is the 'sine qua non' for all who would attempt to write faultless classical Latin Prose. It is impressively detailed in explaining syntactical nuances, in its exemplification and in the range of its exercise. Bradley's... -
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) 9781635579048
RRP: $21.92$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g