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Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book) by Keith Gessen 9781837730223
RRP: $21.43$14.27'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - Dwight Garner, New York Times 'Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt' - Daniel Engber, Atlantic'Tender and generous' - New York magazineKeith Gessen had always assumed that... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 2: From Aristarchus to Pappus by I. Thomas 9780674993990
RRP: $48.65$45.61Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: $19.48$13.86Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in... -
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life Charles Bukowski 9781786894434
RRP: $19.48$13.07In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds... -
From the Body by Charley Barnes 9781915606099
RRP: $21.43$14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606099Author Charley BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
RRP: $33.15$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138161Author Mindy KalingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici 9781784108908
RRP: $21.43$14.90We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance... -
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
RRP: $21.43$5.67WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCKAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers... -
Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer 9780241340455
RRP: $25.33$17.73Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty,... -
Essays by George Orwell 9780375415036
RRP: $87.75$59.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375415036Author George OrwellFormat HardbackPage Count 1416Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1213gDimensions(mm)... -
Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival by Ajay and Soz, Salman Anees Chhibber
RRP: $41.93$34.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893346Author Ajay ChhibberFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 250mm... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX by Columella
RRP: $48.65$45.61A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe 9781250321886
RRP: $33.15$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250321886Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats by Walter Jackson Bate 9780983697237
RRP: $27.30$18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697237Author Walter Jackson BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)... -
In Praise of Listening: On Creativity and Slowing Down by Christian McEwen 9780872333741
RRP: $39.00$28.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333741Author Christian McEwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan Pub -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
$33.40Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their... -
The Annals: Bk. 13-16, v. 5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $48.65$45.61The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Sacred Wood & Major Early Essays by T S Eliot 9780486299365
RRP: $15.50$13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486299365Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 159g -
Rationalists by Rene Descartes
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Traffic by John Ruskin 9780141398143 [USED COPY]
RRP: $3.90$3.63'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?'Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for... -
Letters To Lily: On how the world works by Alan MacFarlane
RRP: $21.43$15.76In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers... -
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides by James Sallis 9780857302564
RRP: $19.48$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302564Author James SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd -
My 1980s & Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780374533779
RRP: $48.75$29.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533779Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Land of Ulro by Czeslaw Milosz 9780374519377
RRP: $40.95$27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519377Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: $48.75$41.50Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais by Francois Rabelais
RRP: $58.50$47.37Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the... -
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner
RRP: $33.13$23.95Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections. This resonant... -
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James 9780330457392
RRP: $33.13$29.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prose by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $58.50$40.95Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: $29.23$18.58When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd... -
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
RRP: $19.48$13.07Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time. Whether writing on Titanic, Margaret Atwood or The Wire, her pieces... -
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
RRP: $33.13$29.27From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It has been a... -
Not-knowing: The Essays and Interviews by Donald Barthelme 9781593761738
RRP: $25.33$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761738Author Donald BarthelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
$25.29Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela... -
On the Sofa with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
RRP: $29.23$24.47On the Sofa with Jane Austen is a collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. They celebrate the quirkiest corners and cleverest contrivances of Jane Austen's art. The twenty-one topics range from coiffure to crime, from... -
Persons and Polemics: Historical Essays by Edward Thompson 9780850364392
RRP: $29.15$26.52Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850364392Author Edward ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low 9781566895514
RRP: $25.33$16.83When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"-someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose... -
Parmenides of Elea: A text and translation with an introduction by David Gallop
RRP: $54.58$47.07David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to... -
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanais
RRP: $52.63$39.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381709Author TanaisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod 9780872201798
RRP: $25.33$22.97"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its...