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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183441Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156186230Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290544Author Geshe Thupten JinpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), the poet Hmedan al-Shwe'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the...

Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602068940Author Elias AshmoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1148gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869242Author Ross BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Qian Zhongshu was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the...

First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical...

Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635187Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529444Author Danilo KisFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525556534Author John GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998994680Author Zoie Zane McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Sanctuary PublishersPublisher Sanctuary PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578360133Author John Clellon HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Limberlost PressPublisher Limberlost PressWeight(grams) 200g

"Bhishma," the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Maha*bharata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419114Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing...

"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of...

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiivka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065315Author James Edward AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 231g

This is an enchanting selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. The vitality of Popa's chosen material is wonderfully conveyed in this adaptation by Andrew Harvey and Anne Pennington.About the AuthorVasko Popa (1922-91),...

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, The...

Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa...

With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645021714Author Cathryn MoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Change Empire BooksPublisher Change Empire BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides...

First comprehensive account of Africa's economic history. This book spans two thousand years from the origins of domesticated food production to the third decade of the independence era. The author applies various theoretical perspectives to the two...

The author of the classic Oral Tradition as History bases his account on hundreds of grass-roots narratives. It shows the historical roots of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 through an investigation of Rwanda's Nyiginya Dynasty of the 18th and 19th...

A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this anthology cuts...

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142391Author Elissa WashutaFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156901772Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795058Author Andrew SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783414408662Author Chancellor WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498047722Author J W MollettFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648870654Author Nikki TeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint The Kind PressPublisher The Kind PressWeight(grams) 140g