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For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: £22.00£17.36In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist... -
NET Bible Indexed Full-Notes Edition [Teal] by Thomas Nelson 9780785225102
RRP: £65.00£62.54The most translator notes in any Bible to help you clearly understand how the Bible was translated. Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don't need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect... -
Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events by Timothy J. Burbery
RRP: £17.99£16.04Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky-such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
RRP: £28.00£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
Irony by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £19.99£17.69In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.Students will welcome this clear, concise guide, which:*traces the use of the concept through history, from Greek times to the... -
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kojin Karatani
RRP: £20.99£19.06Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western... -
Celtic Unconscious, The: Joyce and Scottish Culture by Richard Barlow 9780268101015
RRP: £39.00£34.52The Celtic Unconscious offers a vital new interpretation of modernist literature through an examination of James Joyce's employment of Scottish literature and philosophy, as well as a commentary on his portrayal of shared Irish and Scottish histories and... -
Hope: A Literary History by Adam Potkay
RRP: £34.99£30.25Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do... -
The Beauty Of The Husband by Anne Carson 9780224061308
RRP: £16.00£11.62Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of... -
Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780374520625
£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520625Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713427
RRP: £17.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713427Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams) 440g -
Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance by Richard Wilson 9780719070259
RRP: £19.99£14.52Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family... -
His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy by Millicent Lenz 9780814332078
RRP: £29.95£26.93British author Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy for young readers, His Dark Materials [Northern Lights/Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), The Amber Spyglass (2000)], has reached a broad spectrum of readers, from those appreciating his... -
Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies Luc Boltanski ( Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris) 9780745664057
RRP: £24.99£22.15The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book XXII by John Briscoe
RRP: £26.99£23.82Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and most dramatic book, and the one most likely to appeal to students at every level. Livy drew on the Greek... -
An Analysis of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice Filippo Dionigi 9781912127849
RRP: £6.50£6.29John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the... -
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: £18.85£14.42After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer... -
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 9780618057023
£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618057023Author Humphrey CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 292g -
The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Prose Fictions by Rudyard Kipling 9781108476423
RRP: £22.99£20.27Rudyard Kipling's (1865-1936) work is known and loved the world over by children and adults alike; it has been translated into many languages, and onto the cinema screen. This volume brings together for the first time some 86 uncollected short fictions... -
Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature by Christopher Abram 9780813942278
£29.06Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts... -
A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV by David Asheri 9780199639366
£68.68Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with the causes and course of the great wars that brought the... -
Les Misérables and Its Afterlives: Between Page, Stage, and Screen by Kathryn M. Grossman
RRP: £39.99£35.06Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations. In spite of a mixed response from critics, Les Miserables instantly became a global bestseller. Since its... -
Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies by Cristina Bacchilega
RRP: £23.99£21.16Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories:... -
French Crime Fiction, 1945-2005: Investigating World War II Margaret-Anne Hutton 9781138274969
RRP: £49.99£43.50In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as... -
Mixed Race Literature by Jonathan Brennan 9780804736404
RRP: £27.99£24.14This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditions-African-European, Native-European, Eurasian,... -
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini 9781250758149
RRP: £17.00£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250758149Author Nicola GardiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 18mm -
Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic-Book Heroes (1939-41) by Greg Sadowski 9781560979715
RRP: £26.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560979715Author Greg SadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 734g -
ISA Genzken: Sculpture as World Receiver by Lisa Lee 9780226409979
RRP: £35.00£34.31The 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,... -
The Uppsala Edda: DG 11 4to by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521857
RRP: £12.00£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521857Author Heimir PalssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Student Guide to Antonin Artaud: From Theory to Practice Lee Jamieson 9781871551983
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551983Author Lee JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide by Helen Stoddart 9780415350129
RRP: £37.99£33.38A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much... -
Science Fiction by Adam Roberts
RRP: £22.99£20.16Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new... -
A Homemade World: American Modernist Writers by Hugh Kenner 9780714526096
RRP: £7.95£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714526096Author Hugh KennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Liberty, Equality, and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals by David Dwan 9780198738527
RRP: £28.99£20.80George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands outside Broadcasting House in London and he continues to... -
Experiences in Translation by Umberto Eco
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco... -
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan 9780593088005
RRP: £24.00£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593088005Author Vanessa ZoltanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
The Literature Student's Survival Kit: What Every Reader Needs to Know Ian Littlewood (Independent Scholar) 9781405122856
RRP: £19.95£17.67Who was Jezebel? What was the Wooden Horse? When was the Enlightenment? Who were the Luddites? And what is blank verse? The Literature Student's Survival Kit gives students about to embark on a literature degree all the background information they need... -
Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War by Erica Sheen 9780198888611
RRP: £70.00£63.74Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in... -
Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory by Harald Hendrix
RRP: £46.99£40.97This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author's private and artistic persona; it also... -
The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds by David Hook 9781783162413
RRP: £55.00£45.32This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan,...