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From The Personal To The Political: Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative by Andrea O'Reilly 9781575911298
RRP: $179.40$146.02From the "Personal to the Political" seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. The collection aims at evidentiating how autobiographical writing gives voice... -
Nostalgia For A Redeemed Future: Critical Theory by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi 9780874130720
RRP: $78.00$71.66The articles in this book stress the relevance to the present of the early stages of Critical Theory. On the one hand they aim at the recognition of the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical... -
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado 9780063238312
RRP: $25.33$16.54AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp... -
Revival: A Primer of Tennyson (1901): With a Critical essay by Macneile W Dixon 9781138563674
RRP: $97.48$84.83This book was the first sign of the gorgeous Indian summer which was to diffuse its golden splendours over the remainder of Alfred Tennyson's career, and to end only with his life.Book InformationISBN 9781138563674Author Macneile W DixonFormat... -
Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police by Doug Bandow 9781138539983
RRP: $169.63$147.30"A satirist in the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken, John Leo has been long entertaining his readers by pillorying the worst excesses of the Political Correctness movement while lifting high the standard of common sense. This collection of... -
Diversions and Animadversions: Essays from "The New Criterion" by Alexander Coleman 9781138509269
RRP: $85.78$74.96This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was also a superb essayist on music, and his wide... -
Cicero's Knowledge of the Peripatos by William Fortenbaugh 9781138508156
RRP: $77.98$68.37Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating... -
George Yeo: Musings - Series Three George Yong-boon Yeo (-) 9789811261305
RRP: $107.25$93.66George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap... -
George Yeo: Musings - Series Three George Yong-boon Yeo (-) 9789811259753
RRP: $156.00$135.80George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap... -
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande 9780063095786
$27.65""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" –Publishers Weekly"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will... -
Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction by Gabriel Zaid 9781589880382
RRP: $31.18$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880382Author Gabriel ZaidFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 244g -
Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real by Michael Crummey 9781772124576
RRP: $21.43$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772124576Author Michael CrummeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams)... -
The Francis Effect by Noah Simblist 9781646051700
RRP: $29.25$19.29"The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that... -
Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives by Roger Webster 9781571817907
RRP: $193.05$155.67During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume... -
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello 9781956046182
RRP: $29.23$19.27"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud." -Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in... -
Vade Mecum - Essays, Reviews & Interviews Richard Skinner 9781785350245
RRP: $19.48$16.75Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc... -
Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me And Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America by Kim McLarin 9781632461582
RRP: $33.13$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461582Author Kim McLarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
Soul and Substance: A Poet's Examination Papers by Jay Wright 9780691245959
RRP: $156.00$120.69A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of... -
Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically by Jennifer Cognard-Black 9781479821778
RRP: $144.30$125.68A 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... -
Politics, Literature and National Character by Madame De Stael 9781138530416
RRP: $263.25$229.48Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose... -
What Do You Think? Asif Ali 9781398439764
RRP: $21.43$15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398439764Author Asif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion by Sol T. Plaatje 9780821409862
RRP: $56.53$48.67First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of... -
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston S. Churchill, World and Miltary History by Sir Winston S Churchill 9780809595600
RRP: $62.30$46.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809595600Author Sir Winston S ChurchillFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 562g -
Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393350999
RRP: $25.33$19.99Brief Encounters expands the vibrant field of shorts-as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known-with nearly eighty new selections: representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities and forms. From the rant to the rave,... -
The Rumbling Island by Zai Whitaker 9780143330110
RRP: $17.45$16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143330110Author Zai WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd -
Waiting: An Anthology of Essays by Rona Altrows 9781772123838
RRP: $42.88$35.06The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.-"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Sire Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting-for birth, death,... -
Granta 4: Beyond The Crisis by William Boyd 9780140145786
RRP: $33.13$29.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145786Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 351gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 15mm -
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag 9780312426712
RRP: $37.05$23.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426712Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice by Erin Moure 9781897126455
RRP: $38.98$23.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126455Author Erin MoureFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 508g -
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud 9780349726557
RRP: $27.28$6.84Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years,... -
The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic by T.R. Hummer 9780820327976
$49.67Music, race, politics, and conscience - in these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible... -
Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land by John J. Kucich 9781625344175
$57.06The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau's 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and... -
The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: Blackbook Presents Dispatches from the New Counterculture by Aaron Hicklin 9780060847326
RRP: $27.20$18.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060847326Author Aaron HicklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g -
Belief in Ourselves Neil Gunn 9781849950220
RRP: $29.23$24.47Introduction by Dairmid Gunn Neil M Gunn (1892 - 1973), one of Scotland's most distinguished and highly regarded novelists of the 20th century, was a prolific writer. While he is best known for his fictional work Gunn was also a perceptive and... -
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South by Mr Rick Bragg 9780848746391
RRP: $54.58$36.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780848746391Author Mr Rick BraggFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxmoor House, IncorporatedPublisher Oxmoor House, Incorporated -
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon 9781681377261
RRP: $36.95$30.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377261Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Be with Me Always: Essays by Randon Billings Noble 9781496205049
RRP: $31.18$22.41"Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted-he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of... -
Companion Spider by Clayton Eshleman 9780819564832
RRP: $39.98$35.88Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most admired and controversial poets, the translator of such... -
Language of Passion: Selected Commentary by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780312422547
RRP: $39.00$24.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422547Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters 9781250619464
RRP: $35.10$29.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250619464Author John WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 28mm