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A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: $25.33$19.68In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship,... -
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World by Kamo no Chomei
RRP: $19.48$14.78Japan's capital city of Kyoto was devastated by earthquake, storm, and fire in the late 12th century. Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital for the forested mountains, where he eventually... -
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
RRP: $25.33$17.73'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring... -
Inciting Joy: Essays Ross Gay 9781399716291
RRP: $33.13$22.50A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially... -
Tristia: Vol 6 by Ovid
RRP: $48.65$45.30The poet in exile.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor... -
NB by J.C.: A walk through the Times Literary Supplement by James Campbell
RRP: $48.75$33.77A The Spectator and Observer Book of the Year. The NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, signed at the foot by J.C., occupied the back page of the paper for thirteen years. For a decade before that, it was in the middle pages. That's roughly... -
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: $29.23$24.47Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. 'Armenia brought him back to his true self, a... -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: $25.33$17.02Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and... -
Flush by Virginia Woolf 9781784875138
RRP: $19.48$13.86Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found 'the figure of... -
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper 9781398510586
RRP: $42.90$27.40From the bestselling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker.'A striking voyage of discovery.' Observer Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's... -
Thrasymachus by C.W.E. Peckett 9780862921392
$57.23This is one of the classic course books for those beginning ancient Greek. Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: $21.43$14.14A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
Michael Frayn Collected Columns by Michael Frayn 9780413776488
RRP: $19.48$15.93One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal,... -
The Great Movies II by Robert Ebert
RRP: $38.98$30.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $25.33$17.73Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short... -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: $29.23$27.38Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays show him to have been a brilliant exponent of the art of the essayist. Moreover, as the... -
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: $23.40$16.46Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her... -
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times by John Darnton 9780805070859
RRP: $27.28$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070859Author John DarntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Grumbling at Large J. B. Priestley 9781910749180
RRP: $29.23$24.47Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and understood that to perfect the form, the essayist had to stand 'naked and shivering' in the very first sentence. A prodigious essayist, Priestley expressed his unique thoughts on a... -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $31.20$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
The Game: A Lifetime Inside and Outside the White Lines by Tadhg Coakley
RRP: $29.23$24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Sports Book of the Year 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785372971Author Tadhg CoakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher... -
Amores: Bk. 1 by Ovid 9780906515457
$51.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
RRP: $25.33$17.73A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' 'Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is... -
In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: $31.18$21.53Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a... -
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Shumon Basar
RRP: $29.23$21.35Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is itThe future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains whyFifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture The Medium... -
How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: $33.13$23.95'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
RRP: $31.20$18.33What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death... -
Pro Caecina, etc. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius... -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront James Patterson 9781787465916
RRP: $15.58$11.29'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: $25.33$17.73One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: $21.43$14.27**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara... -
True Stories: And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
RRP: $33.13$24.12An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: $25.25$16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Epigrams: v. 1 by Martial
RRP: $48.65$45.61Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: $27.28$19.79Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness 9781398500501
RRP: $19.48$12.50Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from... -
Maybe The People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
RRP: $42.88$28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications