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"Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography." -The Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has...

How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of...

A new edition of the fifth book in Michael Bond's classic series about the unstoppable and much-loved guinea-pig, Olga da Polga. From the author of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond's little guinea-pig with a big imagination has been charming readers for...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely...

'Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.' - Viv Groskop Cats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved...

Explores Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963. Sharing her more than 15 years of compelling research-including analysis of Sylvia Plath's unpublished calendars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666736762Author Landon LoftinFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789593310Author Michael HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626098Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922792273Author Greg K BathgateFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Inspiring PublishersPublisher Inspiring PublishersWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

How should I make the most of being alive in this moment? How should I try to enjoy life whilst also being a good person who makes space for a better future? What is love and where do I find it? Why do the men in this play have all the lines? Sisters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935965985Author James J O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Counter-Currents PublishingPublisher Counter-Currents PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us...

An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846511Author Carol A. BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm)...

From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses-reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789529490356Author Bram E GiebenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Revol PressPublisher Revol PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also...

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural...

This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare's 'universality' from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the 'global bard' as...

Leadership is a growing preoccupation of the contemporary church, but for some of the most inspiring examples of good leadership we need to go back, not forwards. Archbishop William Temple is widely regarded as one of the most influential church leaders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095995Author Martin AmisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Our most travelled monarch has covered at least 1,032,513 miles and 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, a look back at the Queen's most memorable commonwealth visits.Book InformationISBN 9780008548315Format HardbackImprint Times...

'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785420634Author The Meco NetworkFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Open Humanities Press CICPublisher Open Humanities Press CICWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532635687Author Tom BrousFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942357Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250285126Author Kate KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The journey is the joy, and Emily Thomas a terrific guide." - Mike Parker How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the...

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005248Author Jennifer L. HolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1200g

'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation; the result of decades of answering questions that don't really matter-and not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884829Author Jane DesmaraisFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062947369Author Azar NafisiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 646g

For more than 250 years, biblical Hebrew poetry scholarship has been dominated by metrical assumptions and the idea of parallelism. While a consensus is emerging that biblical poetry is not metrical, no consensus has arisen regarding what parallelism is,...

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that...

Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,...

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos...