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Reading on Location: Great Books Set in Top Travel Destinations by Luisa Moncada
RRP: $18.88$8.23"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... -
Stephen Lives by Anne Puryear 9780671536640
$32.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671536640Author Anne PuryearFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
RRP: $31.48$20.41`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... -
Trauma by Lucy Bond 9780415540421
RRP: $41.98$37.15Trauma 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... -
Poems Of Friendship by Peter Washington 9781857157192
RRP: $25.20$17.72There 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... -
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226447889
RRP: $48.30$46.47N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible... -
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the Invisible by Imtiaz Habib
RRP: $69.28$62.08Containing 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... -
Vamps and Tramps by Camille Paglia 9780679751205
RRP: $35.60$31.67The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book... -
Peeing is Relieving: 200 original maxims by the world's leading aphorist by Robert Eddison
RRP: $27.28$19.09Feeling 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 Report On Unidentified Flying Objects: By The Former Head Of Project Blue Book by Edward J Ruppelt 9781440462375
RRP: $24.32$20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440462375Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Scott Hamilton
RRP: $63.00$53.07Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved... -
Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900965Author Natasha StaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Narrative by Paul Cobley 9780415834445
RRP: $41.98$37.15Human 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... -
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory by Nikki Sullivan
RRP: $65.10$53.87This new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
RRP: $63.00$55.50Upon 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... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $130.20$101.56This 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... -
Genre by John Frow
RRP: $50.38$44.08This second edition of John Frow's Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in... -
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson
RRP: $39.90$38.85Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character... -
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A. M. Homes 9781847080110
RRP: $23.08$15.37On 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... -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Thomas Docherty 9780745012438
$7.14 - $109.12This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.About the AuthorThomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.Book InformationISBN... -
Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones 9780198826484
RRP: $25.18$18.14Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So... -
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives by Maria C. Scott
RRP: $100.78$87.80Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth... -
Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell 9781394187935
RRP: $39.88$27.11Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to... -
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
RRP: $52.48$44.58In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and... -
Creativity: Theory, History, Practice by Rob Pope
$52.58 - $70.10Creativity: Theory, History, Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory and cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries and builds new... -
Critical Theory: The Key Concepts by Dino Franco Felluga
RRP: $62.98$55.94Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of... -
Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Keymer 9780198725954
RRP: $18.88$13.55Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: $52.48$42.61This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical introduction to "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968): Gilles Deleuze's most important work... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: $47.25$39.80An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
Love Songs: The Hidden History by Ted Gioia 9780199357574
RRP: $48.28$42.21The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions... -
Somerset: South and West by Julian Orbach
RRP: $126.00$105.23This 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... -
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
RRP: $20.98$15.31From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children,... -
The Connell Short Guide To Cormac McCarthy's The Road by David Isaacs
RRP: $12.58$9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776991Author David IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature by Janice Radway 9780860918936
RRP: $39.88$33.81Janice Radway challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most profitable categories, captivates millions of female readers. Many feminists, literary critics and theorists of mass culture have claimed... -
Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah by Prof Francis Landy 9780198856696
RRP: $252.00$227.49The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy's book tells... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
RRP: $50.38$43.16From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century... -
The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: $25.20$16.95A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as... -
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish 9780674467262
RRP: $62.90$48.70Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes... -
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror by Olivia Luna Eldritch
RRP: $35.68$24.23Immerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the... -
Edward Said by Pal Ahluwalia
RRP: $54.58$47.52Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political...