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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486831855Author Rainermaria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Scheherazade's Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines,...

After his mom dies, PJ reluctantly leaves his New York home and everyone he loves, to live with his Aunt Katie in Edinburgh. A series of strange events begin when his aunt's elderly neighbour and her cat Azrael convince him that his mom, weirdly, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916011441Author Amina ChitemboFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Diverse Cultures PublishingPublisher Diverse Cultures PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538262Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

The once-dreaded scourge of smallpox has been eradicated through barrier immunization. The eminent scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a pioneer in demonstrating that vaccination was an effective means of preventing smallpox. In the three...

A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530464Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977214Author Sven BirkertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

From the cultural critic Wired called "provocative and cuttingly humorous" comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national...

Charts the governments frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long campaigns by many southern chiefs to resist being marginalized. A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows...

Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged into four...

In Africa Dances Gorer takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of Feral Benga, one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris. It is a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987008961Author Ivor W. HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint StorytimePublisher StorytimeWeight(grams) 440g

The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders in which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped, and inspired him."How are they doing it?" is the key question that Wenders asks...

In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618833757Author Philip ZaleskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368136Author Morgan LlwydFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of...

Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela...

A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our lives In an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler...

The Book of Black Magic is Arthur Edward Waite's magnum opus of occult lore; this edition contains the author's original icons, symbols, seals and illustrations. The first part is entitled ""The Literature of Ceremonial Magic."" Here,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254523Author Kenneth F Kitchell JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 904Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982913Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795041Author Andrew SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

Inspired by Jack Kerouac s On the Road, Andrzej Stasiuk, Poland s most accomplished living prose writer, takes readers into the forgotten Europe.About the AuthorBorn in Warsaw in 1960, ANDRZEJ STASIUK is the author of five novels and a collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916825Author Alfred DoblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 51mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602060784Author Harry HoudiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540248Author John SinkankasFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Churchill & Dunn, LtdPublisher Churchill & Dunn, Ltd

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the...

At the end of the nineteenth century, a homeless runaway teenager in New York found a job in a bar and discovered Malory. So began the lifelong interest of the future Poet Laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967), in the story of King Arthur. After becoming...