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An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the...

Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be a Black woman in today's turbulent times. Writing with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717476Author Zeina SaabFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 212g

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944328641Author Lynda Cheldelin FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Alyblue MediaPublisher Alyblue MediaWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156001250Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service...

The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928 is the second installment of Harvard's five-volume edition of the poet's correspondence. Nearly three hundred letters in the critically-acclaimed first volume had never before been collected; here, close...

For nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found.Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics,...

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten...

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

Charles Baxter's new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext. In the mold of those books, Baxter shares years of wisdom and reflection on what makes fiction work, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764173Author Rebecca WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379957Author Ofelia AlayetoFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006 Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol's heyday but before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995566132Author Emile ZolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lansdown BooksPublisher Lansdown Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780385685672Author Tom WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228814306Author Robert Eighteen-BisangFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 685g

Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation's perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399511131Author Kenneth WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 728Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 1002g

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John...

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436125Author Karen StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

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...

Our unique Passcards make the best use of your revision time. They summarise key topics in your module to jog your memory when it matters, and are packed with rapid bites of exam-relevant guidance. Revise at a glance and accelerate revision with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996003391Author Sylvestre NtabajyanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Full Media ServicesPublisher Full Media ServicesWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston . The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's...

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980599Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackImprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 626g

A mighty warrior interrupts King Arthur's banquet to challenge the astonished revellers to a binding act of combat. Out of sheer bravado Gawain leaps to the fray and his actions lead to a series of strange and incredible adventures. The perfect companion...

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907,...

It's no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliche that "the book was better than the movie" holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book...

Issue 2 of Backstory, the magazine by an independent bookshop for readers who love good books and great bookshops. Backstory is the antidote to weighty literary journals for serious readers. With 68 pages of original features by the biggest and most...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771333535Author Jane CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476716411Author Ernest HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)...