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The Book of Dede Korkut by Geoffrey Lewis 9780141199030
RRP: £12.99£9.34The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks, a nomadic tribe who had journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century onwards. The stories are peopled by characters as bizarre as they... -
Would You Rather...: Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder by David Gomberg 9780452278516
RRP: £19.10£14.60The perfect gag gift that blends absurdity, wit, and pop culture in a collection of laugh-out-loud funny and irresistibly thought-provoking dilemmas.Within these pages are over 200 hilarious questions that ask readers to look deep inside themselves and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low
RRP: £29.99£26.34Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted... -
Do Not Go Gentle Neil Astley 9781852246358
RRP: £12.00£8.22This 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... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780521670784
RRP: £9.99£8.40The 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... -
Mythologies: The Complete Edition by Roland Barthes 9780809071944
RRP: £16.00£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809071944Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: £23.49£19.97Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Double Falsehood: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436776
RRP: £17.99£16.05On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the... -
All Made Up by Janice Galloway 9781847083272
RRP: £9.99£6.90In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her... -
Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
RRP: £19.99£17.13This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral... -
Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World by Jörg Matthias Determann 9780755650361
£29.35The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity, imagination and future-oriented thought. However, even the most authoritarian Muslim-majority countries... -
Feminism and Women's Writing: An Introduction by Catherine Riley
RRP: £17.99£15.11Outlines the key feminist debates on British women's fiction since the 'second wave' and grounds them in examples of women's writingThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have transformed the form and content... -
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: £24.00£21.51This best-selling translation of Hesiod's the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Shield has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod's poems are foundational... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: £21.00£20.31Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys by Elaine Savory
RRP: £19.99£17.13Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial... -
An Introduction to Plato's Republic by Julia Annas 9780198274292
RRP: £58.99£50.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Economics of the Stock Market by Andrew Smithers 9780192847096
RRP: £34.99£32.01The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. Economic policy based on this consensus has led to the financial... -
The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £29.95£24.03The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient... -
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing 9780006548256
RRP: £13.99£10.95The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994. Doris Lessing's... -
Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies by Peter J Capuano 9780814214398
£70.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214398Author Peter J CapuanoFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 617g -
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
RRP: £11.99£9.17Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur have been going on for a long time. The search has revealed many interesting facts and it has also led to sharp disagreements. By the 1980s, the search was more or less abandoned,... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: £12.99£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389379Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 by Joseph Loconte
RRP: £14.99£11.11Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence-and the end of... -
Exploring the Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
£48.51The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims. But in a modern context of intercultural sensitivity, what the Qur'an says and means are perhaps more urgent questions than ever... -
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: £9.99£7.32Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir... -
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery 9780192856234
RRP: £23.49£19.97An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the... -
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Hillary L. Chute 9780231150637
RRP: £30.00£23.66Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner... -
Hesiod Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta by F. Solmsen 9780198140719
RRP: £22.99£22.85In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and reference has been made to the results of recent research on... -
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell
RRP: £22.00£17.22A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters-Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest-exist in a charmed world filled with... -
Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 9781852249977
RRP: £12.00£8.22Poet, novelist, and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness and the relationship between personal experience and self-awareness, imbued... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: £14.99£13.23As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £23.00£16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Meaning of Contemporary Realism by Georg Lukacs 9780850362503
RRP: £14.95£11.39With a new introduction by Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK An argument for literary realism as opposed to modernism, contrasting Mann and Kafka. The book also argues for socialist as opposed to critical realism in literature.Book... -
The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred by Professor Todd McGowan
RRP: £17.99£16.20What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £11.99£8.09An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
RRP: £19.99£18.10In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in... -
Antony and Cleopatra by Eric Rasmussen
£8.95From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's immortal love story. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Antony and Cleopatra in performance, takes a... -
Corman / Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander
RRP: £22.99£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316073Author Chris AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
After Humanity: A Commentary on C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man by Michael Ward 9781943243778
RRP: £24.95£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943243778Author Michael WardFormat HardbackPage Count 253Imprint Word on Fire AcademicPublisher Word on Fire AcademicWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
The Book of Promethea by Helene Cixous
RRP: £23.99£21.16In writing Le Livre de Promethea Helene Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a sense of...