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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909914261Author Neil WaldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell BooksDimensions(mm) 180mm * 110mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420955514Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 26mm

A Freeman Award Winner for Young Adult Literature For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translated, bold, and endearing novel about love, loss, and the pain of racial discrimination. As a Korean...

Intertitles is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781594633799Author Meghan O'RourkeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hudson Street Press (an...

Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire...

In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian chic. In fact she turns out to be the English author Emma...

The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time;...

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries -- on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895550507Author R.Gerard CulletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486218304Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his...

'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal...

"Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader's life." --Michael Chabon A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last...

A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806840Author Jane HirshfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 189mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625473Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562702Author Meghan O'GieblynFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062149893Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867018Author Andrew ForsthoefelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513652511Author Branko MikasinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm)...

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995003941Author CICI BFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Crimson KissPublisher Crimson KissWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867735Author Robert GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 538g

Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence. By this time Greece...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478033Author Susan GlaspellFormat PaperbackImprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 180mm * 140mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519377Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the "catastrophic immediate-future," Artaud abruptly left Paris...

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974432Author Joseph AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 508g

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Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer...

A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic...

Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea,...

On virtue in education and argumentation.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780006280682Author Thora HirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm * 16mm