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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Martin Fuller
RRP: €7.74€7.27Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism by Walter Kalaidjian
RRP: €32.12€27.13The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: €29.69€27.83A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays by Evelyn Gajowski 9781138377875
RRP: €59.49€51.77The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: €29.69€27.83Three 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... -
The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz 9780863563751
RRP: €13.08€8.81Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money... -
Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked by Lucy Ferriss 9781632461544
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461544Author Lucy FerrissFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
Heart of Darkness SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469815
RRP: €7.13€5.24When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: €35.64€28.63What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and... -
Ghostbusters: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa 9781803363097
RRP: €29.74€14.22From big city bites to small town tastes, feed your interdimensional demon inside with a smorgasbord of paranormal-inspired recipes with the first-ever official Ghostbusters cookbook! Who you gonna call... to eat?! Featuring more than 50 recipes... -
Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology by Michael O'Neill 9780631213178
RRP: €45.16€40.17Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley,... -
Aristotle De Arte Poetica by Rudolf Kassel 9780198145646
€59.99Aristotle De Arte PoeticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145646Author Rudolf KasselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm * 11mm -
X by Alistair McDowall
RRP: €13.08€9.97"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ... -
The Connell Short Guide To E. M. Forster's A Room with a View by Michael Patrick Allen 9781911187110
RRP: €7.13€6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187110Author Michael Patrick AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin by Sarah Knight 9780190886998
RRP: €48.78€45.55From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book... -
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge
RRP: €32.12€27.13This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on... -
Exploring the Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
€54.00The 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... -
The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best by Claire Heywood 9781529333732
RRP: €11.89€8.52'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPER*****Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint,... -
Shakespearean Rhetoric: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Benet Brandreth
RRP: €22.60€19.97Classical Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the sum and substance of Shakespeare's education and was the basis of his understanding of the power of language and how it worked to move, delight and teach. Rhetoric, which seeks to explain the way... -
Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises by Pierre Hadot
RRP: €23.80€20.21The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual... -
Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome by Julian Lovelock 9780718894368
RRP: €27.97€21.23In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and eleven more wonderful books followed, spanning in... -
Oxford Literature Companions: King Lear by Carmel Waldron
RRP: €11.89€11.41Easy 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,... -
An Extra Mile Study Guide by Sharon Garlough Brown 9780830846566
RRP: €13.08€9.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846566Author Sharon Garlough BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods 9780719079962
RRP: €14.27€10.20'Postmodernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and... -
Annals: Bks. 4-6, 11-12, v. 4 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €23.80€17.48This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
RRP: €28.55€24.80Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Argues that... -
Burning the Days by James Salter
RRP: €15.46€11.02This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases James Salter's uniquely beautiful... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
RRP: €17.85€15.53"A year in Paris"...Countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. "Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary... -
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A. M. Homes 9781847080110
RRP: €13.08€8.71On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
€42.26This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. In early... -
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser 9780801844997
RRP: €28.56€25.68"Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field... -
The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780872209015
RRP: €23.79€19.56Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
€18.12Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: €17.84€13.98A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the... -
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €9.51€6.89In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic... -
Shelley: Selected Poems by Jack Donovan 9781405858199
RRP: €42.83€37.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405858199Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 952Imprint LongmanPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Book in the Renaissance by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: €22.60€19.73A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: €24.98€21.86Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
RRP: €14.27€14.22A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering...