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In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfers Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
RRP: $25.33$20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421770Author Allan WeisbeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History by Robert P. Green 9780719070136
RRP: $38.98$34.75The American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and... -
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy
RRP: $46.70$39.27What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: $31.18$22.64In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists, novelists, poets, painters and film-makers who have... -
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann
RRP: $40.95$28.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375311Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship by Kath Weston 9780231110938
RRP: $42.90$32.88This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism... -
"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000 by John McCoy
RRP: $93.60$92.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892850430Author John McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint McMullen Museum of Art, Boston CollegePublisher McMullen Museum of Art, Boston... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: $48.65$45.61Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title is... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
RRP: $48.75$35.00For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy 9780691174563
RRP: $81.90$65.21The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
The True Performing Of It by Andrew Muir
RRP: $31.18$22.27The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by reflecting on the significance of Dylan's remarks on... -
The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith 9780521149723
RRP: $31.18$22.27Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike,... -
Ovid, Heroides: A Selection by Dr Christina Tsaknaki
RRP: $25.33$23.13This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides I lines 1-68, and Heroides VII lines 1-140, with a detailed introduction... -
One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean 9781350265998
RRP: $23.38$21.49Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect GBP6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been... -
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics by Jr S K Heninger 9781621380375
$43.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380375Author S K Heninger, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
RRP: $48.65$45.61Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger... -
Summa Technologiae by Stanis aw Lem
RRP: $38.98$34.98The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his... -
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein by Jacqueline Rose 9780631189244
RRP: $75.95$66.69Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture. In these essays, Jacqueline Rose continues her engagement with these... -
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
RRP: $70.18$61.80From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical,... -
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
RRP: $29.23$22.50Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country... -
Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case by Batya Gur 9780060926540
RRP: $33.13$22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926540Author Batya GurFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Vampirology: The Science of Horror's Most Famous Fiend by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: $38.98$33.09Our fascination with the vampire myth has scarcely diminished since Bram Stoker's publication of the classic Dracula tale in 1897, but how much of the lore is based in fact and can science explain the origins of horror's most famous fiend? Vampirology... -
Somerset: South and West by Julian Orbach
RRP: $117.00$97.71This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape is enriched by buildings of outstanding... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: $39.00$30.99An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain 9781782277248
RRP: $39.00$34.36When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses... -
The Instant of My Death /<I>Demeure</I>: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot 9780804733267
RRP: $33.13$26.05This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to... -
Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present by John Gatta 9780195165067
RRP: $89.68$61.99In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases... -
Summary and Analysis of Thinking, Fast and Slow: Based on the Book by Daniel Kahneman by Worth Books 9781504046756
RRP: $17.53$12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046756Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance by Bernard Semmel 9780195086577
RRP: $154.05$112.46In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores George Eliot's use of the plot of inheritance in her novels. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and a study of the intellectual currents of the time,... -
Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East by Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
RRP: $55.56$52.01From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Josie Billington
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776571Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Trauma by Lucy Bond 9780415540421
RRP: $38.98$34.50Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late... -
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology by Xenophon 9780198856092
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was... -
London Diaries by Lorenza MAzzetti
RRP: $17.53$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267856Author Lorenza MAzzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane Press -
Poems Of Friendship by Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: $23.40$16.46There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods... -
The Selected Poems by A. R. Ammons 9780393303964
RRP: $29.25$24.86To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work... -
Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty by Nathan K. Hensley 9780198792451
$214.60In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837... -
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible by Imtiaz Habib
RRP: $64.33$57.64Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and... -
The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: $25.33$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...