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Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly by Worth Books 9781504046657
RRP: $11.60$5.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046657Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
A Sea of Words by Dean King
$19.38A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea loving novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political... -
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $25.79$22.82In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original... -
The Art of Discworld by Paul Kidby
RRP: $24.50$16.96A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HEROIn THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following... -
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by Michael Ferber 9781316623329
RRP: $34.82$28.68This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon,... -
Hamlet SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 31 SparkNotes 9781411469587
RRP: $7.73$5.68When 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 Complete Tolkien Companion by J E a Tyler 9781250023551
RRP: $38.70$23.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023551Author J E a TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland 9781847946409
RRP: $61.86$40.05As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
Georgics by Virgil
RRP: $12.89$9.17'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labour of his life. So he sustains his native land ...' Virgil's affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more than the labour of the farmer can easily be... -
A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375389174
RRP: $12.84$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375389174Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $19.34$14.13The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that... -
The Great Gatsby SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 30 SparkNotes 9781411469570
RRP: $7.73$5.68When 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... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: $16.76$11.73The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John... -
A Study Guide for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398473
RRP: $12.84$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398473Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
The Booklovers' Guide To Wine: A Celebration of the History, the Mysteries and the Literary Pleasures of Drinking Wine by Patrick Alexander 9781633536067
RRP: $19.34$15.04Great Wines and Great Writers are a Wonderful Blend"Guides to the wide world of wine are many but this is the first book on the market to pair books with wine by an author who is a preeminent expert on both." -Thriftbooks.com#1 Best Seller in Wine &... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: $16.76$11.73Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an authoritative resource for all students.About the... -
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: $32.25$22.42The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionary of sources, Tolkien scholar and best-selling author David Day's four decades of research inform us about... -
A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375376327
RRP: $12.84$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375376327Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 82g -
The Hunger Games (SparkNotes Literature Guide): Volume 34 SparkNotes 9781411470989
RRP: $7.73$5.68When 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... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: $16.76$11.09The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed... -
Animal Farm SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 16 SparkNotes 9781411469426
RRP: $7.73$5.68When 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 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by SparkNotes 9781411471009
RRP: $7.73$6.48When 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 Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s by James Smith 9781108703796
RRP: $32.24$27.01The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s... -
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books by Professor John Carey 9780571204489
RRP: $16.76$11.04Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the 'definitive' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey,... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$6.75Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. As You Like It is a popular... -
An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic by David Cowan 9780521092401
RRP: $55.46$48.72The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding... -
Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders: Based on the Book by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry by Worth Books 9781504046725
RRP: $11.60$5.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046725Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: $22.56$17.20Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context,... -
A Study Guide for Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399142
RRP: $12.84$11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399142Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
The Old Man and the Sea SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 52 SparkNotes 9781411469723
RRP: $7.73$5.68When 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... -
John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies by Michael Glover 9781848223745
RRP: $25.79$19.65From Aesthete to Ziffern, Baby-Language to Verbosity, Badgers to Railway Stations: this gloriously serendipitous dictionary presents the life, times and strong opinions of John Ruskin (1819-1900) - art critic, patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, social... -
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson
RRP: $11.60$7.77'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling... -
Harbors and High Seas: Map Book and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King 9780805066142
$21.97A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the... -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
RRP: $23.21$20.51In 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... -
A Study Guide for Edward Bond's "Saved" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387446
RRP: $12.84$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387446Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature M.C. Howatson (St. Anne's College, Oxford) 9780199548552
RRP: $22.56$16.27The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales,... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB English A: Literature Course Book by Brent Whitted
RRP: $63.20$59.71Developed in cooperation with the IB, this student-friendly, concept-based Course Book has been comprehensively updated to support all aspects of the new English A: Literature syllabus, for first teaching in September 2019. With in-depth coverage of the... -
Byron in Context by Clara Tuite
RRP: $30.95$29.48George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the... -
The Durrell Log: A chronology of the life and times of Lawrence Durrell by Brewster Chamberlin
RRP: $20.00$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912788040Author Brewster ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Colenso BooksPublisher Colenso BooksWeight(grams) 149g