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An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities Martin Fuller 9781912128594
RRP: £6.50£6.11Despite 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... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £22.00£14.69"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to... -
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... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: £37.99£33.38Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.69This 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... -
Burning the Days by James Salter
RRP: £12.99£9.26This 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... -
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
£12.64Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin... -
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson 9780143126065
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126065Author Paul JohnsonPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Shelley: Selected Poems by Jack Donovan 9781405858199
RRP: £35.99£31.69Apologies 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 -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
RRP: £17.99£15.90In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of "minor literature"-the use of a major language... -
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfers Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
RRP: £12.99£10.29Apologies 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 *... -
"Raw," "Weirdo," and Beyond: American Alternative Comics, 1980-2000 by John McCoy
RRP: £48.00£47.61Apologies 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... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar Jaehoon Yeon 9781138064492
RRP: £49.99£43.90Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean. The book moves from the alphabet and pronunciation through morphology and word... -
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible by Imtiaz Habib
RRP: £32.99£29.56Containing 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... -
Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing by Anand Pandian
RRP: £21.99£19.19Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres... -
Trauma Lucy Bond (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415540421
RRP: £19.99£17.69Trauma 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... -
Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson) by Ann Thwaite
RRP: £9.99£6.75The definitive and revealing biography of the author of The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett's favourite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she... -
Poems Of Friendship Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: £12.00£8.44There 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... -
Heart Of Darkness: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by David Burke 9781901447576
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447576Author David BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 301g -
Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett by Daniela Caselli 9780719087844
RRP: £19.99£17.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Studying Poetry by Stephen Matterson 9780340985151
£28.38Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide... -
Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations by Luisa Moncada
RRP: £8.99£4.08"Reading on Location" is a country-by-country guide to the regions and cities made famous by both well-known and cult books. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's "Persuasion" to the South India of Arundhati Roy's "The... -
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum 9780415087971 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£12.35Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from... -
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum
RRP: £19.99£17.69Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
RRP: £14.99£9.98`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: £16.00£15.77A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of... -
Narrative Paul Cobley 9780415834445
RRP: £19.99£17.69Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a... -
How to Write: Successful Essays, Dissertations, and Exams by Chris Mounsey
RRP: £11.99£8.43This book provides students of all levels with essential and easy-to-follow guidance on how to plan, research, and write essays, dissertations, and exams. Taking you step by step through the process, from understanding a title or choosing your own,... -
Peeing is Relieving: 200 original maxims by the world's leading aphorist by Robert Eddison
RRP: £12.99£9.09Feeling down in the mouth? Then brighten your day with Peeing is Relieving! It's packed with pithy one-liners, like: Fame is when reporters beg to interview your cat and: The British Empire ceased when butlers stopped ironing the morning paper. As the... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £62.00£49.22This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745651309
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226005508
RRP: £15.00£13.05The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture... -
The New Testament As Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kyle Keefer 9780195300208
RRP: £8.99£6.45The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only helped create and sustain a vast world religion, but... -
Antigones by George Steiner
£34.99The Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.Book InformationISBN 9780192819345Author George SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *... -
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543
£60.60'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' David LodgeThis anthology uses extracts from the works of the... -
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
RRP: £26.95£21.41In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from... -
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman 9780747529460
RRP: £25.00£12.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: £24.95£20.29The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
RRP: £30.00£26.95Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing...