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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins
RRP: £11.99£8.66The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where... -
On Essays: Montaigne to the Present by Thomas Karshan
£24.93Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions... -
The Rhetoric of the Page by Laurie Maguire 9780198862109
RRP: £35.99£33.29This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers... -
Peter Kuper: Conversations by Kent Worcester 9781496818454
£30.37Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times... -
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self by Marina Warner
£41.74Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: £35.99£31.69An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siecle by Deaglan O Donghaile
RRP: £25.99£21.06This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, workers and migrants. Framing Wilde's literary writing in relation to his very... -
Roman History, Volume II by Appian
RRP: £24.95£23.76Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults by Jean-Marie Apostolides
RRP: £23.99£21.16The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Herge) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with... -
Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif by Fiona Somerset 9780801452819
RRP: £59.00£51.81"Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in... -
The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
RRP: £26.50£23.66"No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests ...Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engage in the political struggle; it is visible at... -
From Mythic to Linear: Time in Children's Literature by Maria Nikolajeva 9780810849525
RRP: £79.00£69.89Now available in paperback! In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children. Nikolajeva identifies a continuum of texts ranging from those that depict non-linear time, typical of... -
This Will Not Be Generative by Dixa Ramírez-D'Oleo 9781009320320
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Will Not Be Generative attends to the semiotics of ecological writings via Caribbean literary studies and black critical theory. Closely reading texts by Donna Haraway, Monique Allewaert, and Lisa Wells, it exposes how the language of tentacles and... -
Obstruction by Nick Salvato 9780822360988
RRP: £21.99£19.49Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be... -
An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View Mark Gridley 9781912127245
RRP: £6.50£6.21Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic... -
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack Zipes 9780415902632
£39.17First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415902632Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 476g -
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time by Mark Currie
RRP: £23.99£19.83Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of... -
the Poetry of Robert Browning by Jonathan Keates
RRP: £8.99£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776113Author Jonathon KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 9780140440591
RRP: £10.99£7.99A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively,... -
Jane Austen: A Family Record by Deirdre Le Faye
RRP: £32.99£27.40This book is the outcome of years of research in Austen archives, and stems from the original family biography by W. and R. A. Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: her Life and Letters. Jane Austen, A Family Record was first published in 1989, and this edition... -
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK) 9781444332001
RRP: £27.95£24.25Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the... -
Wretched Strangers by Agnes Lehoczky 9781911343387
RRP: £15.99£11.42Arranged against surges in violent British nationalism and political panic around borders, and related/growing crises of culture and politics, this is an anthology to mark and celebrate the contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country's poetry... -
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 9780571333721
RRP: £10.99£7.54Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard's witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened... -
The Duty To Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort by Eric Laursen 9781849353182
RRP: £11.00£7.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353182Author Eric LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation by Laura Ashe 9780199575381
RRP: £52.00£51.83The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan 9780198184515
RRP: £52.00£41.68Revenge has long been central to European culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, St Paul to Sylvia Plath, numerous major authors have been fascinated by its emotional intensity, and by the questions which it raises about violence, sexuality, death, and the... -
Victorian Literature and Culture by Maureen Moran 9780826488848
RRP: £21.99£20.59"Introductions to British Literature and Culture" are practical guides to key literary periods. Guides in the series are designed to help introduce a new module or area of study, providing concise information on the historical, literary and critical... -
Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience by Dr Emma Bridges 9780198843528
RRP: £25.00£21.19Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors'... -
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by Elizabeth Fallaize
RRP: £11.99£8.66This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the... -
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals by Karen Raber 9780367522599
RRP: £43.99£38.44Shakespeare's plays have a long and varied performance history. The relevance of his plays in literary studies cannot be understated, but only recently have scholars been looking into the presence and significance of animals within the canon. Readers... -
Romanticism: An Oxford Guide by Nicholas Roe 9780199258406
RRP: £56.00£54.21This book is a comprehensive guide to the richness and diversity of the Romantic field. It includes 46 specially commissioned chapters by an international team of leading scholars and combines chapters offering background and contextual information with... -
On Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.00£23.03Part of the Complete Works series, On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject - how to give and receive benefits and how to... -
Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading by Alex Johnson 9780712352864
RRP: £10.00£7.00Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will... -
Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Gordon Braden (University of Virginia, VA) 9781405101165
RRP: £44.95£39.95This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever... -
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421417974
RRP: £30.50£27.16Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game"... -
Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
RRP: £15.99£9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900965Author Natasha StaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Curious Questions & Answers about Rainforests by Anne Rooney 9781789892178
RRP: £12.99£5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789892178Author Anne RooneyFormat HardbackImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: £24.95£23.76Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
The Idea of Culture Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631219668
RRP: £24.95£22.12Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.About the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of... -
Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative by George Edgar Slusser 9780820314495
£31.81Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millenium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals, and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the...