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Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein
RRP: £14.95£10.98The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 9781509826704
RRP: £10.99£7.51Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold... -
The Poetry Toolkit by Rhian Williams
RRP: £19.99£17.73Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key terms, genres and concepts that help them to develop a... -
The Harz Journey and Selected Prose by Heinrich Heine
RRP: £12.99£11.31A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection charts the development of that prose, beginning with three meditative... -
The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord... -
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn 9781907903816
RRP: £14.99£13.64A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: "These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several... -
Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of Men by Lynda Cheldelin Fell 9781944328481
RRP: £15.95£11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944328481Author Lynda Cheldelin FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Alyblue MediaPublisher Alyblue MediaWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over... -
The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain's best-selling living author, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00£14.29A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as... -
As You Like it by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the... -
The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham by Bernard Ingham 9781785904783
RRP: £20.00£12.63Branded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus 9780199540709
RRP: £10.99£7.77`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718075606
RRP: £18.99£14.01A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at... -
Letters on England by Francois Voltaire
RRP: £12.99£9.09Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French... -
Black Punk Now by Chris L. Terry 9781593767457
RRP: £17.99£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767457Author Chris L. TerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism by Suzanne Schneider
RRP: £16.99£14.10In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS). Schneider argues that today's jihad is not the residue from a less enlightened time, nor does it have... -
Spanish Short Stories by Gudie Lawaetz
RRP: £10.99£7.77This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.09In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos.In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the... -
Annihilation Of Caste: With A Reply To Mahatma Gandhi by Dr Ambedkar 9789354206337
RRP: £9.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354206337Author Dr AmbedkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm -
The Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.77First assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, the eleven stories in The Mabinogion reach far back into the oral traditions of Welsh poetry. Closely linked to the Arthurian legends - King Arthur himself appears in one of the stories - they summon up... -
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq 9781804270653
RRP: £12.99£8.56Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. In Sleepless, she recounts her own... -
GIRL: Essays on Black womanhood by Kenya Hunt
RRP: £9.99£5.82'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and... -
Miranda's Daily Dose of Such Fun!: 365 joy-filled tasks to make your life more engaging, fun, caring and jolly by Miranda Hart
RRP: £8.99£6.20*** 365 JOY-FILLED TASKS TO MAKE LIFE MORE ENGAGING, FUN, CARING AND JOLLY! ***There are little things we can all do that can make a huge difference to our lives and to the lives of those around us. Doing something jolly every day that you can look back... -
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781857157307
RRP: £12.00£8.44Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major figure in the modernist movement,... -
Geometry: A Very Short Introduction by Maciej Dunajski 9780199683680
RRP: £8.99£6.45The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof - deductive reasoning from a set of axioms - first arose. To this day geometry remains a very active area of research in mathematics. ... -
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables That Illumine, Delight, and Inform by Rumi 9781571747464
RRP: £15.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747464Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
Escape from St-Valery-en-Caux: The Adventures of Captain B.C. Bradford by Andrew Bradford 9781803995922
RRP: £15.99£12.25The dramatic story of Captain Bill Bradford, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, compiled using diaries and letters, coded messages and correspondence between his family and the War Office in their desperate effort to hear news of his safety... -
Bodies Under Siege: How the Far–Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global by Sian Norris
RRP: £18.99£15.65Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white... -
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Edward W. Said
RRP: £12.99£9.09______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange... -
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature by Alison Donnell 9780415120494
RRP: £36.99£32.93The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, the editors Alison Donnell and Sarah... -
Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia by Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Spectacular verse drama.Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that... -
The Minor Latin Poets: v. 2 by J.W. Duff
RRP: £24.95£23.39A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of ... -
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko
RRP: £8.99£6.13Oksana Zabuzhko, author of "the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence," Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: £24.99£17.31This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.26Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the... -
Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno by Plato
RRP: £8.99£6.45Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...' In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship;... -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: £14.99£11.35This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a...