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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a...

After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912060Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345297204Author Cleveland AmoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 291g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432745646Author Casiano P Mayor, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 222g

What is the etiquette of greeting an opposite-sex colleague in a social situation? Should you shake hands or air-kiss?Are you surrounded by people who continually complain about being broke but manage to pop over to Bali for a holiday?Do you like saying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334376Author Vincent Arthur SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

First Published in 1999. Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) was born in Crete, and published his first poems in 1935. He established himself as one of the leading figures in the 'Generation of the Thirties'. As well as publishing seventeen collection of poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334475Author Dev PrasadFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others—homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388292870Author Kalpana MohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353333997Author Shireen StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334529Author Ram Kamal MukherjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219066Author Washington IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies 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

G.K. Chesterton delivers insightful commentary on modern behavior and social practices influenced by big business, gender roles, government and other notable figures throughout his lifetime. The book is inspired by his own personal beliefs regarding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770027726Author Setouchi JakuchoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, Inc

As a young man, George Washington admired and copied into a notebook 110 rules for civil behaviour originating in a Jesuit textbook. This list remained with him throughout his life, offering guidance and inspiration. It is presented here, along with...

The average person spends 100,000 hours of their life at work, but how much do we really know about what we do with it? What is it really like to work in advertising, to be a train driver, a sex worker or an orthodox rabbi? What do we do in our working...

Kids Company, a leading London charity supported by Prince Charles, Helen Mirren and Stephen Fry, presents the voices of some of London's children, in partnership with the charity's founder Camila Batmanghelidjh - part of a series of twelve books tied to...

Shortlisted for the 2012 Orwell Prize 'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell, 'and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.' For over forty years, Christopher Hitchens has proclaimed truth where others...

A passionate advocate of scientific endeavour, Medwar wrote, lectured and reviewed widely, describing the glories of scientific achievement and warning of the dangers of pseudo-scientific deception. In his view the greatest threat is posed not by science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140086010Author Bill BufordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 332g

"A New World Order" ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his award winning novels and non-fiction. He argues that there is a new world order of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977236692Author Forest RiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

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To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one...

This selection of key extracts from novels, short stories and poems aims to chart Lawrence's "savage pilgrimage" to that last uncharted territory, "the heart of man". The illustrations include paintings and drawings by Lawrence...

This companion to "Complete Short Stories" is a collection of Sir Victor Pritchett's literary criticism. The essays range from Rabelais to Salman Rushdie and from Voltaire to Molly Keane. The author wrote "A Cab at the Door",...

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather - another Thomas Lynch - had left...

The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also hired to bury the dead, to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open and his ears tuned...

Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music and changing times - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube...

More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister Mary in a fit of insanity killed their mother and...

Hugh McIlvanney is a living legend in sports journalism. A regular winner of the UK Sports Writer of the Year Award, he is the only sportswriter to have been voted Journalist of the Year and in 2005 he was named as one of the top British journalists of...

When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's arousal and desire inside out. Drawing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374251291Author Czesaw MioszFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 290g

Jilly Cooper's user's guide to wedlock.Book InformationISBN 9780749303938Author Jilly CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint MandarinPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977217745Author Bayard H BrattstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 676g

Though he'd lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price - until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his surroundings home to him. "Not Just Any Land" is a...