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Encomium of Helen by Gorgias 9780862920531
RRP: $28.37$28.24The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. In this edition Malcolm MacDowell provides a useful introduction, the Greek text, his own English... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $16.76$14.55In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
On Sophistical Refutations. On Coming-to-be and Passing Away. On the Cosmos Aristotle 9780674994416
RRP: $32.19$30.81Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three... -
Journeying by Claudio Magris
RRP: $24.50$23.84A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $24.50$17.56'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty,... -
Works: v. 1 by Philo
RRP: $32.19$30.17Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In... -
Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $16.76$14.78The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a... -
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $27.09$22.76Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11... -
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
RRP: $37.40$26.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063079656Author Jenifer LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth
RRP: $43.85$28.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: $32.19$30.17A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor... -
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips 9780375707049
RRP: $20.64$14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707049Author Caryl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
microbursts by Elizabeth Reeder
RRP: $15.48$10.71microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the... -
Karmic Traces: Essays by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $16.76$14.78For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his... -
Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney
RRP: $16.76$11.09Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, and... -
Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson by Lindsay Anderson
RRP: $25.79$8.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653176Author Lindsay AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
William Morris: Master of Modern Design PIE Books 9784756243362
RRP: $38.69$25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243362Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
Proud To Be A Mammal by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $16.76$11.73Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy... -
The Art of Poetry: OCR Conflict by Johanna Harrison 9780995467170
RRP: $23.21$18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467170Author Johanna HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan by A. K. Ramanujan 9780195668964
$29.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky 9788086264387
RRP: $25.16$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264387Author Jindrich StyrskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)... -
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So
RRP: $24.50$16.40By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony... -
Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt
$18.60As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First... -
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
RRP: $21.92$15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 5 - Practice by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: $23.21$15.66*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong... -
Why Friendship Matters: Selected Writings by Michèle Mendelssohn
RRP: $14.18$9.69Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: $15.47$11.61The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this... -
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 9781476753614
RRP: $30.96$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $16.76$11.04Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of... -
Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence by Anne D LeClaire 9780061353369
RRP: $20.63$12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061353369Author Anne D LeClaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories by Thomas Suarez
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719227Author Thomas SuarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by Gary Snyder
RRP: $37.40$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430799Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 766g -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: $14.18$9.44The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement... -
The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings by Denis Sampson 9780198752998
RRP: $49.01$48.87The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist. The essays which explore this hidden... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $24.50$17.56Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $16.43$12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105695Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
The Faith of a Felon and Other Writings by James Fintan Lalor 9781906359263
RRP: $21.93$21.30James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self-proclaimed disciples... -
Travels in Hyper Reality by Umberto Eco 9780156913218
RRP: $24.45$17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia -
Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9780156849098
RRP: $23.21$16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156849098Author Loren EiseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial -
Eyrbyggja Saga by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $16.76$12.64An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity...