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"A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir." -Bookforum Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation on five stimulants-tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco-by an author very conscious of the fact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733244121Author Todd DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Okay Donkey PressPublisher Okay Donkey PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019726Author Patricia PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Examines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast. Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a...

Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on...

Examines one society's reaction to a period of prolonged, rapid population decline, a trauma that seems likely to become ever more common in African in years to come. Colonial rule triggered rapid population growth in most of Africa. Why then did...

In 63 b.c., Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman aristocrat, formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. Cicero, who was consul that year, exposed the plot and documented his defeat of the conspiracy in his Orations against Catiline. The First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993572067Author Middle East Book Review MeborFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Middle East Book ReviewPublisher Middle East Book ReviewWeight(grams)...

Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is a collection of these, put together with an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093953Author Hilton HotemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 381g

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593319079Author Charles FinchFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This edition includes four plays and one libretto, covering more than twenty years of the dramatist's career: The Palace of Truth (1870), Sweethearts (1874), Princess Toto (1876), Engaged (1877) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891). The collection...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977363Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This important book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that in his novels and short stories James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and...

This book is a truthful, honest and fascinating account of being quarantined on the cruise ship Diamond Princess. It was the first cruise ship to be hit by Covid-19. This was the first major event of the coronavirus outbreak. The story draws...

This new volume examines the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution of 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, and then into the current period which has been marked by moves towards local democracy and political devolution. North...

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to...

This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity...

In the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously explore the tradition of historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 244g

This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Troades, with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that brings centuries of classical scholarship to bear on a wide variety of questions. These include the interpretation of the play as part...

This volume presents The Dybbuk, S. Ansky's well-known drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, along with little-known works of his autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction and an excerpt from his four-volume chronicle of the Eastern...

Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and to the outside world. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. At one time they could be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769601000Author Osbert Wilton McClean BjhFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Osbil ProductionsPublisher Osbil ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386236Author Orhan PamukFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

With What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this exceptional title was first introduced...

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ...

Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publication either of his journal or his conferences-the talks he gave to religious communities there. Although it was his nature to give his...

Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the Latin verse in rhymed quatrains. Stanley Lombardo, one of our preeminent translators of classical...

Available in paperback for the first time, Jenny Strauss Clay's landmark study of the Odyssey argues that Athena's wrath is central to both the structure and the theme of the epic poem. Clay demonstrates that an appreciation of the thematic role of...

The author of the phenomenal #1 national bestsellers The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend now presents a collection of his reflections on life, love, loss, and longing--a timely treatise on the emotions of the heart, the powers of...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick...

'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full - dogdugun yer degil, doydugun yer.'Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin's bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031245Author Colson WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679749073Author Philip RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627876988Author Kenneth RingFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895554444Author Professor Richard SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 1057gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

In North America, the Indigenous literature we know today reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales of emergence and creation, journey and quest, heroism and trickery. Sean Teuton...