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Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £27.99£24.27This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
Literary Analysis: The Basics by Celena Kusch
RRP: £19.99£17.69Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons,... -
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn
RRP: £16.99£11.58During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
The Little Book of Alice: Wonderland's Wit & Wisdom by Orange Hippo!
RRP: £5.99£4.40The wit and wisdom of Wonderland in one handy companion. From the indisputable logic of Tweedledum to the nonsensical riddles posed by the Mad Hatter, the witty rejoinders of the Red Queen to the strange wisdom of the Cheshire Cat, there is no denying... -
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky 9781503635494
RRP: £11.99£8.71An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell,... -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
£28.88In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Tank Girl - Cream of the Tank by Alan Martin
RRP: £19.99£16.03Spewing filth and fury since 1988, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's foul-mouthed, anarchic creation with "The Cream of Tank Girl"!Boasting tons of unseen artwork, rarely seen comic strips, every Jamie Hewlett "Tank Girl"... -
A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: £31.00£28.69A collaborative close reading of 'A Thousand Plateaus' by some of the world's leading Deleuze and Guattari scholarsThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each... -
Conversations with James Baldwin by Fred L. Standley 9780878053896
RRP: £29.95£27.41This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas
RRP: £12.99£9.09How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: £27.50£24.12Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: £16.99£15.22A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a... -
Much Ado About Nothing by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99£7.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's much-loved comedy of the battle between the sexes. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Much Ado About... -
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.80One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so... -
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy
RRP: £22.99£20.01Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been... -
A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition by Scott C. Lucas
£23.25Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on... -
Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis
RRP: £27.45£24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954712Author David EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
RRP: £16.00£9.12What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death... -
National 4 & 5 English: Second Edition by Jane Cooper
£25.61Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: August 2017First exams: Summer 2018Introduce, develop, test and reinforce the skills required for success in National 4 & 5 English.Fully updated in accordance with the revised N5... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: £8.99£8.72Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
RRP: £9.99£7.11Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shape of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
£51.68This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
Cane by Jean Toomer 9780393931686
£14.28Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a... -
The Histories, Volume VI: Books 28-39. Fragments by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: £3.49£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295770Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack 9780861541218
RRP: £9.99£5.47'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: £12.99£8.56A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC... -
The Women Writers' Handbook: 30th Anniversary edition: 2020 by Ann Sandham
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430338Author Ann SandhamFormat PaperbackImprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami
RRP: £25.00£18.88In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of... -
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley
RRP: £8.99£7.07"Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: £16.95£13.85"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about... -
The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork by Joseph Campbell 9781608681662
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681662Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden by Steven N. Zwicker 9780521531443
RRP: £28.99£24.42John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural... -
Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £18.99£16.72Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation,... -
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare by Sally Weintrobe
RRP: £22.99£18.88Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also... -
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue 9780521547550
RRP: £25.99£21.99Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists... -
Do Not Go Gentle by Neil Astley
RRP: £12.00£8.00This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are poems here for churchgoers and believers, including... -
The Sociological Imagination by Ismael Puga
RRP: £6.50£6.11C. Wright Mills's 1959 book The Sociological Imagination is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of post-war sociology. At its heart, the work is a closely reasoned argument about the nature and aims of sociology, one that sets out a...