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Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9780811200684
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.18Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty,... -
Christian Rosenkreutz: The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840843
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.14The wisdom contained in this book is not derived via the usual methods of scholarly and historical research, and neither is it based on theory or speculation. Rudolf Steiner acquired his original... -
The Arts of Cinema by Martin Seel 9781501726170
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the... -
Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism by Terence Cave 9780198824640
Booksplease Price: $63.33To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of... -
The Magic Mountain Editor 9780198889175
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.75'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The... -
Ananda (Buddha, Book 6) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224562
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $26.32The sixth book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series retelling the story of Buddha, from the godfather of the genre. In book six, as Kapiluvastu burns and it's people are hunted... -
Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 by Richard T. Gray 9780295988368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $256.92Booksplease Price: $2.83In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of... -
The Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 9780198843238
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $19.59'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was... -
Devadatta (Buddha, Book 3) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224531
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $26.32The third book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series retelling the story of Buddha, from the godfather of the genre. In the third of the Buddha series, as Siddhartha embarks on... -
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz 9780099521020 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.14An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets... -
Sexuality, Love and Partnership: From the Perspective of Spiritual Science by Rudolf Steiner 9781855842601
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.70'Rudolf Steiner presents the human soul dilemma, split into male and female attributes...but offers a path of development which will eventually lead to overcoming these - what Jung called... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson 9780140445534
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz 9780099450030 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.74Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES... -
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey 9780006384205 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.74A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom Klaus Vieweg 9781503644052
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.99A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed... -
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $38.87Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the... -
The Christian Idea of Man by Josef Pieper 9781587311123
RRP: $19.04Booksplease Price: $18.56In The Christian Idea of Man Josef Pieper brings off an extraordinary feat. He acknowledges that whoever introduces the theme of "virtue" and "the virtues" can expect to be met with a smile - of... -
The Mysteries of Initiation: From Isis to the Holy Grail by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845916
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.99In a concise study, Rudolf Steiner presents an inspirational sketch of the evolution of the Mysteries - from ancient Persia through Egypt and Greece, to the Christian era and the present day. He... -
Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz 9780099541363
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his... -
That Summer by Inger Hagerup 9781592702770
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.66Following last season's Little Parsley, this new Hagerup volume was first published in Norway in 1971. At the time, it was a literary scandal for offering free verse to children, who were best... -
Cake: A Slice of British Life by Andrew Baker
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.82'A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.' PRUE LEITH The British take cakes seriously. We hold strong opinions... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES... -
The Christian Idea of Man by Josef Pieper 9781587311116
Booksplease Price: $37.03In The Christian Idea of Man Josef Pieper brings off an extraordinary feat. He acknowledges that whoever introduces the theme of "virtue" and "the virtues" can expect to be met with a smile - of... -
Dogs: Stories and Poems by Mark Bryant 9781408710234
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $15.47'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.'Jeremy NicholasA wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from... -
New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943 Peter Walther 9783836537117
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $41.91"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm... -
Harboring Data: Information Security, Law, and the Corporation by Andrea M. Matwyshyn 9780804760089 [USED COPY]
RRP: $104.72Booksplease Price: $10.47As identity theft and corporate data vulnerability continue to escalate, corporations must protect both the valuable consumer data they collect and their own intangible assets. Both Congress and the... -
Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization by Gunther Teubner 9780198713951
Booksplease Price: $157.60In recent years a series of scandals have challenged the traditional political reliance on public constitutional law and human rights as a safeguard of human well-being. Multinational corporations... -
Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia by Katherine Wilson 9780349006321 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $5.81'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets... -
Imagination: Enhancing the Powers of Thinking by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845565
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.18Rudolf Steiner differentiated clearly between the spiritual concept of Imagination and our everyday understanding of the word. As living, pictorial thinking, Imagination is a primary aspect of the... -
Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her new sidekick Ivo investigate the case of newspaper executives who have been caged and tortured outside their offices ... on a trail that leads them to... -
Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia by Katherine Wilson
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets... -
Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 9780816679980
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $43.41Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive?... -
Astrology. The Library of Esoterica by Andrea Richards
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $65.97From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been... -
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse's... -
Wittgenstein and Marx: Language, Mind and Society Felice Cimatti 9788869773808
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.51The volume tries to offer a comparison between two philosophers who belong to two different philosophical traditions and who have thus been rarely discussed together: Karl Marx and Ludwig... -
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey 9780006384205
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.85A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40From the winner of the International Booker Prize 'Bracing, unflinching and alive' Nicole Krauss 'Intense and beautifully written' Time Out A child is found standing on the street, with an...