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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915008155Author Larry GoodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Duende PressPublisher Duende PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839991233Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359055Author John D.M. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173343Author Robert B SilversFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787247185Author ConfuciusFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Big NestPublisher Big NestWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618364Author Jon M. SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974878980Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 529g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143440307Author Sabyasachi BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an...

Designed in response to a 1951 requirement, the C-130 Hercules is the most successful military airlifter ever built. Since it first flew in prototype form on 23 August 1954, more than 2,100 have been produced in over eighty different versions. Across its...

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804162453Author Alastair ChisholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rily Publications LtdPublisher Rily Publications LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 12mm *...

This work, first published in 1944, provides the most reliable texts of the Lives of Welsh Saints based upon the Cotton MS in the British Library from 1200. Out of print for over 50 years, this work is still the standard edition of these Lives and is...

A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one...

"We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity's imaginary." -- Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty Salon The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

First published in 1989. Mas'udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu'tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi'a dynasty of Iranian origin, had occupied Baghdad and taken...

Originally published in 1958, this book forms the second part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering the period from 1819 to 1821. Several letters and papers not previously contained in English editions of the correspondence are included,...

This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as: * Maria...

In the same manner of the New York Times bestseller What I Know Now comes a collection of letters to inspire and ignite the ambitions of women everywhere. Remarkable women write letters to their younger selves, telling the stories of familiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868600Author George W CareyFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633101Author John ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 884Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements...

A private printed, limited edition facsimile of Aldous Huxley's 1940 essay on the significance and power of words. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500310Author James G CowanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393094091Author Clifford GeertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876367Author Kenneth GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 155g

Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it...

Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare - whether they've attacked him or been inspired by him - and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of...

From the bliss of lingering in a warm bed on a winter morning, to a bracing springtime walk by the seaside, A Private History of Happiness offers the reader a wealth of delightfully fresh perceptions of where and how happiness may be found. These 99...

An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061964428Author Vanity FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982579Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788285490Author Richard BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685891053Author Octavia E ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs. This collection of essays...

The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once...