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Black Country Steam, Western Region Operations, 1948 1967 by Dorney, Paul 9781399090322
RRP: £25.00£17.62The railway lines of the heavily industrialised Black Country were of considerable commercial importance to the fortunes of the Great Western Railway and its successor, the Western Region of British Railways. Nevertheless, they received little attention... -
Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyo Saigyo 9781611809428
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier
RRP: £15.99£13.43The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world-"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic) A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a... -
Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper by Hicks, Norman 9781399014571
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tom Hicks story begins when he joins the LMS straight from school and follows his early life on the railways in the 1930s, through enlistment, training as a paratrooper, wartime service, imprisonment and his return to the LMS as an engine driver. Tom... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: £35.00£32.49Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Theodore W. Goossen
RRP: £11.99£8.43This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary... -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: £29.95£24.66Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
RRP: £12.99£9.09REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk,... -
Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book by Kelly Anton 9780137967445
RRP: £48.99£36.37Learn graphic design using Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: £50.00£39.00This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of... -
The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu) by Confucius 9780195112764
RRP: £14.99£11.43In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it... -
Tu Fu by William Hung 9780674334847
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334847Author William HungFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 612g -
Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Miner by Natsume Soseki
RRP: £10.99£7.38From the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki, The Miner is an absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality. 'It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be... -
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong by Pu Songling 9780197606308
RRP: £22.99£19.96The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one... -
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 9781789098570
RRP: £9.99£7.11"Khaw's got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: £30.95£24.82Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
The Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons by Liu Hsieh 9789629965853
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629965853Author Liu HsiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The Chinese University PressPublisher The Chinese University PressWeight(grams)... -
Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 by Anthony Seldon 9780198202387
RRP: £56.00£53.16The Conservative Party has been the dominant force in twentieth-century British politics. On its own or as the predominant partner in a coalition it has held power for more than sixty years since 1900. Despite this it has been the most neglected and... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People Solah Lim 9781939568434
RRP: £11.99£8.00A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple... -
Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide by William J. Puette
RRP: £8.99£8.47"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: £22.00£17.36Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United... -
Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 by Bruce Lenman
RRP: £23.99£21.85This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: £39.00£36.80Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan by Adam Kabat 9780231209731
RRP: £30.00£24.45In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyoshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics... -
The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam 9780974566719
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974566719Author Omar KhayyamFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bardic PressPublisher Bardic PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958 by Yurou Zhong
RRP: £30.00£23.29Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation's civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to... -
How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: £35.00£28.14This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners.How... -
A Saint in Swindon by Alice Jolly 9781912054206
RRP: £7.99£5.69When a stranger arrives in town, with a bulging blue bag and a whiff of adventure, the neighbourhood takes notice. When he asks for his meals to be sent to his room and peace and quiet for reading, curiosity turns to obsession. Each day he stays there,... -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665233
RRP: £18.99£15.67The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: £21.99£14.83Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
The History of MDMA by Prof Torsten Passie
RRP: £45.00£40.87As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: £38.00£31.01In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
The British Bonapartes: Napoleon's Family in Britain by Edward Hilary Davis 9781399088527
RRP: £22.00£15.62A hitherto unexamined history presented in a new way of the wider Bonaparte family shedding new light on their eventful lives in Britain. From duels on Wimbledon Common and suicides in Hyde Park, to public lynchings in Shropshire and the sexual... -
Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History by Eike Exner 9781978827226
RRP: £23.99£20.842022 Eisner Award Winner for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the... -
New Selected Poems: Shuntaro Tanikawa by Shuntaro Tanikawa
RRP: £12.99£8.94Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Alone in Two Billion Light Years (1952), his first book, aged twentyone. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has... -
Haiku Enlightenment: New Expanded Edition by Gabriel Rosenstock 9780985467982
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985467982Author Gabriel RosenstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Poetry ChaikhanaPublisher Poetry ChaikhanaWeight(grams) 363g -
Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1 by 616th Special Information Battalion
RRP: £10.99£10.93Our protagonist is a college student who enjoys playing as the evil-aligned faction Arachnea in her favorite real-time strategy game. One day, she finds herself in a world similar to the one in the game; additionally, her body is now that of a... -
Living With Thanks: The Gojo Ofumi: The Five Fascicle Version of Rennyo Shonin's Letters by Kemmyo Taira Sato 9780901032539
RRP: £85.00£53.35This impressive new scholarly translation and commentary on the key work of J do Shinsh 's 8th lineage successor to founder Shinran is an extremely valuable contribution by one of the leading academics in the field. Professor Kemmyo Taira Sato is...