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On Liberty by Ashleigh Campi
RRP: €7.74€7.27In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest route to collective happiness, he argues passionately... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance by Wyatt Michael 9780521699464
RRP: €36.88€25.39The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn... -
An Introduction to Children's Literature by Peter Hunt 9780192892430
RRP: €60.69€50.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €29.69€27.83Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Retold by William Shakespeare 9781914927225
RRP: €13.08€9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927225Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail by C. Scott Littleton
RRP: €45.21€39.72This volume boldly proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes... -
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts by Conor Carville
RRP: €22.60€20.50Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts is the first book to comprehensively assess Beckett's knowledge of art, art history and art criticism. In his lifetime Beckett thought deeply about visual culture from ancient Egyptian statuary to Dutch realism, from... -
Magazine by Prof Jeff Jarvis 9781501394959
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the... -
Dracula by John Paul Riquelme
€17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781457619328Author John Paul RiquelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey by Daniel Keyes 9780156029995
RRP: €22.60€15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156029995Author Daniel KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *... -
This Is Not A Science Fiction Textbook by Mark Bould 9781915983091
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915983091Author Mark BouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: 1 by G. K. Chesterton 9780898700794
€19.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898700794Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 395Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: €11.89€6.66A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five... -
ISA Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver by Lisa Lee 9780226409979
RRP: €41.65€40.83The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures,... -
Selected Poems of Du Fu by Du Fu 9780231128292
RRP: €26.18€20.66Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant... -
The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature by Sean Keilen 9781032096988
€53.53In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare's relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare's specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism's likeness... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: €28.55€23.22This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Quotable Shakespeare by Max Morris
RRP: €8.32€5.95This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: €29.75€21.10The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost scholar,... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: €41.65€37.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081666Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Virgil Aeneid XI: A Selection by Ashley Carter
€22.80This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 1-224, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XI, lines 498-521, 532-596, 648-689, and 725-835, giving... -
Walks in the Footsteps of Daphne du Maurier by Sue Kittow 9781910758380
RRP: €10.70€8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758380Author Sue KittowFormat PaperbackImprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma Press -
Selected Poetry by John Keats
RRP: €10.70€7.68John Keats's abiding poetic legacy is one of extraordinary and triumphant richness. Before the moment of `self-will' when he declared his intention to be a poet, Keats (1795-1821) had chosen the medical profession. His apothecary's training... -
The Seed Of Yggdrasill by Maria Kvilhaug 9781959350026
RRP: €71.40€46.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959350026Author Maria KvilhaugFormat PaperbackPage Count 646Imprint Three Little SistersPublisher Three Little SistersWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm)... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts by Mark Hewson 9781138908567
RRP: €30.93€26.93Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key... -
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass 9780099507598
RRP: €19.03€13.82Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one... -
Visions of Science: Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age by James A. Secord 9780199675265
RRP: €26.76€19.93The early 1830s witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. New scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world were hotly debated. James Secord, Director of the... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: €29.69€27.83A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Diablo: Book of Tyrael by Blizzard Entertainment 9781803368320
RRP: €33.31€21.72From Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of critically acclaimed games such as Warcraft (R), StarCraft (R), and Diablo (R) comes this exciting companion edition to Diablo III: Book of Cain, giving fans an in-depth look into the mind of Tyrael. One of... -
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
€61.83Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by... -
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment by Graham Huggan 9781138784192
RRP: €45.21€39.72This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse... -
The Authority of the State by Leslie Green 9780198273134
RRP: €92.82€71.82The modern state claims supreme authority over the lives of all its citizens. Drawing together political philosophy, jurisprudence, and public choice theory, this book forces the reader to reconsider some basic assumptions about the authority of the... -
Milton's Words by Annabel Patterson 9780199573462
RRP: €55.32€54.87Milton's Words approaches John Milton in both an old and a new way, focusing on his genius with words: keywords - the keys to a text or a theory; words of sexual avoidance and distress; words of abuse; words of privilege because 'Scripture'; big learned... -
Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad
RRP: €23.80€23.56Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society... -
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry by Emanuel Brasil 9780819560230
RRP: €20.17€17.34A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as "notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of the translations." Work by 14 Brazilian poets, including the late Joao Cabral... -
One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell by F.C. Ball 9781905007127
€20.38Robert Tressell described his famous book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as 'the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned'. This biography of Tressell, first published in 1973, tells the story of a man about whom virtually nothing... -
The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible by Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
RRP: €23.79€20.87A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by Joanne Parker 9780198883340
€48.91In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
RRP: €29.69€27.83Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical...