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Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration by Nigel Blackaby QC 9780192869913
RRP: $140.70$139.02Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration is an established treatise on the law and practice of international arbitration, the pre-eminent method for the peaceful resolution of disputes in international trade, investment, and commerce. This book... -
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $16.78$12.56'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats... -
The Lore And Language Of Schoolchil by Iona Opie
RRP: $44.10$29.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322691Author Iona OpieFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
The Remedies by Katharine Towers
RRP: $20.98$15.71Katharine Towers' second collection is a book of small wonders. From a house drowning in roses to crickets on an August day, from Nerval's lobster to the surrealism of flower remedies, these poems explore the fragility of our relationship with the... -
Style and Necessity in Thucydides by Tobias Joho 9780198812043
RRP: $246.75$222.83Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style," a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately... -
The Gate Natsume Soseki 9781590175873
RRP: $33.58$21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175873Author Natsume SosekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Life Of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9781857151015
RRP: $42.00$32.57The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: $52.40$50.74On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and... -
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
RRP: $42.00$29.11The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and... -
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
RRP: $58.80$40.89Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary film. Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
RRP: $91.33$86.65This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage... -
Charlotte Smith: The Major Poetic Works (1784-1807) by Claire Knowles 9781554812844
RRP: $44.00$40.59Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic works are foundational poetic texts of the Romantic period. Smith's innovations in poetic form have also placed her at the forefront of twenty-first century scholarship on the period. This... -
The Meaning of Shakespeare: v. 1 by Harold C. Goddard
RRP: $56.70$55.59In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius.Book InformationISBN 9780226300412Author Harold C... -
Bacchae: WITH Iphigenia at Aulis AND Rhesus by Euripidies
RRP: $52.40$49.90Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Idylls by Theocritus
RRP: $18.88$13.97'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half... -
The Auto/Biographical: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto/Biography by Elizabeth Stanley 9780719046490
RRP: $41.98$36.98This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves. -- .Book... -
'England'S Darling': The Victorian Cult of Alfred the Great by Joanne Parker 9780719073571
RRP: $41.98$36.98For much of the nineteenth century, King Alfred was as important as King Arthur in the British popular imagination. A pervasive cult of the King developed which included the erection of at least four public statues, the completion of more than... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
$19.24Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: a Biography by Ruvani Ranasinha
RRP: $63.00$28.31Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of... -
How Dead Languages Work by Coulter H. George
RRP: $49.33$41.94What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This... -
Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research by Jim Denison 9780820455419
RRP: $50.61$41.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820455419Author Jim DenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 320g -
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $39.88$27.78Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition by Tony Barnstone 9780385721981
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Reading Poetry: A Complete Coursebook by Tom Furniss
$69.34Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills... -
Tolstoy: A Biography by A. N. Wilson 9780393321227
RRP: $60.90$53.34In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: $35.68$27.03'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- wrote a spirited satire denouncing... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $73.50$51.30Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste... -
The Edexcel Poetry Anthology: The Complete Guide by David Wheeler 9781911477266
RRP: $54.58$45.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911477266Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
Playwriting For Dummies Angelo Parra 9781118017227
RRP: $39.88$28.01The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: $48.28$42.02A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: $27.28$19.61From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
Playing Commedia: A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques by Barry Grantham
RRP: $35.68$27.43A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Chapters include: * Warm-Up... -
Franz Kafka: The Drawings Andreas Kilcher 9780300260663
RRP: $73.50$67.14The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings "The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves."-Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review "A sensational new book... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: $52.40$49.12Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
RRP: $35.68$26.00'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: $25.18$21.86An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and... -
An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? Graham Riach 9781912127504
RRP: $13.65$13.21A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to... -
Phaedo by Plato 9780198720492
RRP: $119.70$96.75PhaedoBook InformationISBN 9780198720492Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 316g -
The World of Odysseus by Professor M I Finley
RRP: $35.60$21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170175Author M. I. FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of...