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Complete Word-Indexes to J. Van Den Vondel's Bespiegelingen van Godt en Godtsdienst and Lucifer: With Ranking Lists of Frequencies Reverse Indexes and Rhyming Indexes by P. K. King 9780521155588
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $95.99The Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre was established in the University of Cambridge in 1964. The work of the Centre was concentrated on the production of word-indexed, concordances and... -
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $37.82Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men... -
Narrative Truthiness: The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction by Annjeanette Wiese
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.34Narrative Truthiness explores the complex nature of truth by adapting Stephen Colbert's concept of truthiness (which on its own repudiates complexity) into something nuanced and positive, what... -
Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text by Hertha D. Sweet Wong 9781469640693
Booksplease Price: $208.40In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth and -twenty-first century American writers and artists each of whom... -
Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text by Hertha D. Sweet Wong 9781469640709
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.58In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth and -twenty-first century American writers and artists each of whom... -
Football Leaks: Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game by Rafael Buschmann 9781783351404 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.40One anonymous football fan. 18.6 million confidential documents. This is the explosive story of the biggest leak in sporting history - and the shady underworld of modern football. In 2016, a... -
American Gods: Shadows: Adapted for the first time in stunning comic book form by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.45AMERICAN GODS by international bestseller, and creator of Sandman, Neil Gaiman is an award-winning epic novel, highly acclaimed major TV series starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane and Gillian... -
The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince In 1983, the reasoning of one unsung Russian narrowly averted nuclear war, proving that... -
Activity-Based Teaching in the Art Museum: Movement, Embodiment, Emotion Elliott Kai-Kee 9781606066171
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.83An essential resource for museum professionals, teachers, and students, the award-winning Teaching in the Art Museum (Getty Publications, 2011) set a new standard in the field of gallery education... -
Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.76Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. 'The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started... -
Twilight by Elie Wiesel 9780241963678
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Twilight is a haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel.Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric... -
Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists Hillary L. Chute 9780226099446
Booksplease Price: $62.03We are living in a golden age of cartoon art. Never before has graphic storytelling been so prominent or garnered such respect: critics and readers alike agree that contemporary cartoonists are... -
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen 9781529114188
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*From the author of Spillover, the book that... -
Preventable: The Politics of Pandemics and How to Stop the Next One by Devi Sridhar
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.44**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**Preventable tells the extraordinary story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9780141042701
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $11.59The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's personal account of life on the streets beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyTo be poor and... -
Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art by Jane Tolmie 9781617039058
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $150.02Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of... -
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans 9780241630167
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, Editor-at-Large, Financial Times'Not only brilliantly... -
Palestine by Joe Sacco
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.91A powerful graphic novel, capturing the heart of day-to-day life in occupied Palestine.In late 1991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians... -
Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One by Devi Sridhar
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled... -
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: Discover the immersive novel longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020 by Deepa Anappara
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer 'I love this book...I just fell into it' Tayari Jones We children... -
Literature after 9/11 Ann Keniston 9780415883986
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be... -
Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark by James Campbell 9780520252370
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94This compulsively readable collection of profiles and essays by James Campbell, tied together by a beguiling autobiographical thread, proffers unique observations on writers and writing in the... -
Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life: Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization Mike W. Martin 9781138265493
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, Nobel Peace Laureate, theologian, and musician, developed a character-oriented ethics focused on self-realization, nature-centered spirituality, and moral... -
The Trauma Graphic Novel by Andres Romero-Jodar 9780367886035
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $105.84The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels,... -
Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One by Devi Sridhar 9780241510544
Booksplease Price: $38.87Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health.Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating... -
Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 9780241681183
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a... -
My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London by Gilda O'Neill 9780140259506 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $4.14Gilda O'Neill's The East End traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels. London's East End it is a place at once appealing and... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.47___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this... -
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $37.76Internationally acclaimed graphic artist: Drnaso's previous title SABRINA was the first ever graphic novel nominated for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize --- Every single person has... -
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.70The international bestseller'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow_________________________What if we could improve our... -
Untitled Memoir Miriam Gold 9781787335226
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.93A heartfelt graphic memoir of love, family and fearless womenLives were bent in the furnaces of the twentieth century, but Granny was unbroken. With a stethoscope, a jar of herring and a hearing aid... -
The Story of a Life Aharon Appelfeld 9780241681220
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $36.81In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction,... -
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life? For making... -
Ness by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.30Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond... -
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. ... -
Airbnb, Short-Term Rentals and the Future of Housing by Lily M. Hoffman
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $66.13How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a... -
Making Numbers Count: The art and science of communicating numbers Chip Heath 9781804996218
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Concise, breezy and pragmatic' Wall Street Journal'Remarkably practical techniques for comprehending and communicating the maths that really matters' Adam GrantUntil very recently, most languages... -
Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Adam Kucharski 9781788169080
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.75'Profound and utterly absorbing. Kucharski elegantly explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN How do you...