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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941423649Author Harvey PekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running PressWeight(grams) 672gDimensions(mm) 276mm * 214mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578946Author Alex IrvineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle...

Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780264448Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy...

Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.Zen Pencils: Living a Creative Life is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Pencils...

Meditation, Karma, Zen, Tantric and Nirvana are some of the many Buddhist ideas Westerners hear of frequently, even if their meaning has been lost in translation. This vast and complex non-theistic religion is woven into the fabric of Asian civilisations...

Nejishiki unveils the most iconic scenes from Yoshiharu Tsuge s highly respected body of work alongside his most beloved stories. A cornerstone of Japan s legendary 1960s counterculture that galvanized avant-garde manga and comics criticism, the title...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800128Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis...

INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of...

The term 'feminism' came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes much further back. This completely new and updated edition of "Introducing Feminism" surveys the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408672Author Florian GrossetFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, hidden pregnancy, spiritual quackery...

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social...

Every week we pile our rubbish out on the pavement. We go to work and when we return it's gone. Like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf's follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning national bestseller My...

The story of one woman's quest to move to Los Angeles and got a job in animation...and how you can too. When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research,...

The rebellion that set Ireland free, told as a graphic novel. The 1916 Easter Rising was an attempt by a small group of militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain. It was the most significant rebellion in Ireland. Though a military...

Obsessed with revisiting the sunset city of his dreams, Randolph Carter leaves the humdrum confines of reality behind, traveling into a vivid dreamworld where anything is possible. But while Carter draws closer to his goal-the mysterious Kadath, home to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580000Author Jonathan HennesseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanicsTotally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics--entanglement: what it is, what it means, and what you can do with...

Farai and Adam have been dating for two years, but she's never met his parents. Until this weekend. Adam's parents have a lovely house in a beautiful small town. But after they arrive, Adam's mom immediately begins making racist comments about...

In the Middle Ages, surgery was performed by barbers, owing to their skill with sharp instruments. In the mid-19th century, a "grand exhibition" of the effects of laughing gas inadvertently led to the discovery of anaesthesia. Three decades later, Louis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809089475Author Mark SchultzFormat PaperbackImprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities. Only the patient's final visitor, family physician Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett-himself a piece of the...

Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history. But is the historical Jesus the same as the Christian Saviour? And...

The King in Yellow: a play that brings madness to all who read it. Irresistible and insidious, it lures the reader with its innocence and dooms them with its corruption. In a series of interlinked stories, Robert W. Chambers' classic work of weird...

This stunning graphic novel tell 4 extraordinary tales of heroism set during the World War II Normandy landings on D-Day, June 6th 1944 The biggest military operation of the Second World War. 6th June 1944 - D-Day, the allies launch a great offensive in...

This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.About the AuthorJohn Heaton is a psychotherapist and was a colleague of R.D. Laing. He studied natural and...

Illustrated by leading UK manga artists, this series feeds into the growing popularity of manga worldwide, and presents Shakespeare's classic works in a highly visual and dynamic form. Shakespeare's epic history play Richard III reveals the power of...

Karl Marx did not write Das Kapital for the bookshelves of economists and philosophers. It is economics for working people, from their viewpoint and history. It is the classic masterpiece of revolutionary working-class politics. Here, David Smith and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408542Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected...

Miskatonic University, Arkham, 1908. Professor Nathaniel Peaslee collapses in front of a class of students, only coming to his senses five years later. Horrified to discover that his body has been far from inactive during the intervening period-and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588766Author David KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm...

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who...

In 1518, during his violent colonial campaign, Cortes introduces hemp farming to Mexico. In secret, locals begin cultivating the plant for consumption. Cannabis makes its way to the United States by means of the immigrant labour force. Once the plant has...

Napoleon is furious. It appears the battle can no longer be won. The French cavalry is so exhausted it can t even gallop when charging. Ammunition is running out, while losses mount horrifically both in men and in irreplaceable officers But the Austrians...

Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and...