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The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9781786941473
RRP: $57.65$52.27This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim... -
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 9780521532532
RRP: $20.98$19.40The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Professor Seth Lerer
RRP: $39.90$34.02Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
RRP: $48.28$40.01Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens'... -
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips 9780375707049
RRP: $33.60$24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707049Author Caryl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace
RRP: $23.08$17.05Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism offers... -
Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford 9780375760815
RRP: $42.00$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760815Author Nancy MilfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 500g -
Queering the Gothic by Hughes William 9780719086434
RRP: $41.98$36.98Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors explore... -
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Anthony Musson 9780719038020
RRP: $41.98$30.95This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array... -
The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse Caroline Franklin 9781405899314
RRP: $92.38$90.28Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity. Some poets intended merely to shock or entertain, but Gothic also liberated the creative imagination and inspired them to enter disturbing... -
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation Norris Lacy 9780415782890
RRP: $115.48$102.31The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian... -
Salamati: Hamed's Persian kitchen; recipes and stories from Iran to the other side of the world by Hamed Allahyari 9781911668565
RRP: $52.50$33.87'By eating my food, you come into my family. You are sitting with me, with my grandparents, parents and cousins, talking, sharing and enjoying the feeling of being together.'Hamed Allahyari cooks to connect - for that joyful moment you can say salamati... -
Asimov's Foundation and Philosophy by Joshua Heter 9781637700303
RRP: $37.78$25.83Isaac Asimov's Foundation is the most influential science-fiction epic of all time. Published as a series of books and short stories from the 1940s to the 1980s, the series has impacted most subsequent science fiction, and influenced sciences like... -
Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide by Duncan Heath
RRP: $18.88$14.07Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $48.28$42.67In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
On Symbols and Society by Kenneth Burke
RRP: $56.70$55.59Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines-education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a... -
Pencil by Carol Beggy 9781501392245
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,... -
Power: A Philosophical Analysis by Peter Morriss 9780719059964
RRP: $41.98$38.01When it first appeared, Power: A philosophical analysis was the first full-length attempt to analyse, in a philosophically rigorous way, what we mean when we talk about power. This revised second edition reprints the original, with an extended new... -
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico Francesca Bratton 9781529383379
RRP: $31.48$21.11'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood... -
Reading for Life by Philip Davis 9780198815983
RRP: $71.38$54.31Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It... -
Romanticism by Aidan Day
RRP: $41.98$37.15Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical... -
The Spenser Encyclopedia A.C. Hamilton 9780415755610
RRP: $113.38$103.47'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers ElizabethainsEdmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:*... -
Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" by John Fleming 9780826496218
$41.98This is an accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" - a play commonly studied at undergraduate level.Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has... -
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow by Jacqueline Allan
RRP: $13.65$13.21Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns... -
Dostoevsky by John Jones 9780198126454
RRP: $288.75$237.97In this passionate and tender book, John Jones discusses the narrative techniques and linguistic subtleties of the novels of Dostoevsky.Book InformationISBN 9780198126454Author John JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Oxford University... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: $73.48$64.79This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
The People's Favourite Poems: Out and about with Kipling, Larkin and the rest by Gary Dexter 9781910400982
RRP: $18.88$13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400982Author Gary DexterFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire 9780470658512
RRP: $39.80$35.39Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship... -
Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
$42.19Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected... -
Literacy, Narrative and Culture by David R. Olson 9780700714971
RRP: $283.50$249.06An important contribution to the multi-disciplinary study of literacy, narrative and culture, this work argues that literacy is perhaps best described as an ensemble of socially and historically embedded activities of cultural practices. It suggests... -
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie
RRP: $44.08$39.19In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: $46.18$30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
The Origins of Science Fiction by Dr Michael Newton 9780198891949
RRP: $18.88$13.48'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision...' This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. It... -
The Literature of Wales by Dafydd R. Johnston 9781786830210
RRP: $23.08$17.89A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This illustrated guide, containing extracts from original texts with English translations, is a revised version of... -
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
$49.39"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized."-Studies in the Humanities "This work is altogether first rate. It is informative,... -
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
RRP: $44.10$42.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226414195Author Tony JudtFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer 9780195083613
RRP: $85.03$59.60Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as... -
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan by Adam Kabat 9780231209731
RRP: $63.00$51.35In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyoshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics... -
A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds by Jaime Semprun 9780262546171
RRP: $35.68$27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546171Author Jaime SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Rise of the Memoir by Alex Zwerdling 9780198755784
$210.92The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp...