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Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment by George Anastaplo 9780813191737
Booksplease Price: $40.30Governments throughout history have struggled to define the boundaries of the right to freedom of speech. Even though the United States explicitly articulates freedom of speech in the First Amendment... -
Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text by James Purkis 9781107119680
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $172.24How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often overlooked evidence provided... -
Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood by Dr Sebastian Mitchell 9781441109637
Booksplease Price: $71.06Utopia and its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate... -
Holbein: Masters of Art Florian Heine 9783791387383
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.2316th-century Europe was a time of unprecedented economic expansion, cross-cultural trade, religious upheaval, warring empires, and scientific advancement. With unfettered access to the court of Henry... -
Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text by James Purkis 9781107552104
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.74How did Shakespeare write his plays and how were they revised during their passage to the stage? James Purkis answers these questions through a fresh examination of often overlooked evidence provided... -
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Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: Volume 36 by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773523081 [USED COPY]
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $6.72Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian... -
Mark by Mary Ann Beavis
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $44.31In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, Mary Ann Beavis examines cultural context and theological meaning in Mark. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian... -
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Described by a later Greek historian as "a man seriously committed to raising a laugh", Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a... -
The Book of Christian Martyrs by Bruno Chenu 9780334024484
Booksplease Price: $50.69This book brings together accounts of martyrdoms from many periods of the church, many cultures and many confessions. After an extended introductory section on the nature of martyrdom, the diversity... -
The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology by A.N. Williams 9780521126892
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $82.34A. N. Williams examines the conception of the intellect in patristic theology from its beginnings in the work of the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine and Cassian in the early fifth century. The... -
Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore: Harlot and Heroine by Maria M. Scott 9781138622494
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $60.80Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore analyzes the representation of the mistress of Edward IV of England, known to us as 'Jane' Shore (c. 1445-c. 1527). The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she left her... -
Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood by Dr Sebastian Mitchell 9781441195258
Booksplease Price: $238.16Utopia and Its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate... -
Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries by Timothy Simpson 9789089648471
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $92.00Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The... -
Reimagining Diversity, Equity, and Justice in Early Childhood by Haeny Yoon 9781032120812
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics-COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest-this timely and critical volume... -
Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources David Englander (Open University) 9780631169918
RRP: $104.90Booksplease Price: $94.63This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It... -
A History of the County of Middlesex - Volume XII - Chelsea by Patricia E.C. Croot
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $195.24Like so much of Middlesex, Chelsea was swallowed up by Greater London. Here its history restores its lost identity. Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn Stephen Porter 9781398122529
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and... -
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century by Ruth Ahnert 9781108438797
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.74Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison... -
Introduction to the Devout Life by Piers Paul Read
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05What was revolutionary, in Francis, was his belief that one could remain in the world and yet be holy.' Piers Paul Read, from the Introduction Francis de Sales was born in France and became... -
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life by Frederic Brussat 9780684835341
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $40.97Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat believe that spiritual literacy is within everyone's grasp, and their inspiring book is the ideal place for readers to start discovering the true value of people,... -
The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin by John J Liptay
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $72.30Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading... -
Locke: Political Writings by John Locke 9780872206762
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.97John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of... -
Time and Myth: A Meditation on Storytelling as an Exploration of Life and Death by John S. Dunne 9780268018283
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Based on the Thomas More Lectures John Dunne delivered at Yale University in 1971, Time and Myth analyzes man's confrontation with the inevitability of death in the cultural, personal, and religious... -
Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 9780816648634
Booksplease Price: $60.65Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues... -
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 4: Papers and Reviews 1982-1990 by G. R. Elton 9780521533171
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.74This collection features the publication of Sir Geoffrey Elton's articles and reviews, published between 1982 and 1990, in continuation of three previous volumes. Volume IV contains a group of pieces... -
The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Socio-linguistic Study by Jonathan Hope 9780521033862
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $80.47This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centuries,... -
Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries Timothy Simpson 9781041189640
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The... -
History of Political Ideas (CW22): Renaissance and Reformation by Eric Voegelin 9780826211552
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $111.17By closely examining the sources, movements and persons of the Renaissance and Reformation, Eric Voegelin reveals the roots of today's political ideologies in this fourth volume of his ""History of... -
Faith and Reason in the Reformations by Terence J. Kleven 9781793606884
Booksplease Price: $191.92The five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation reawakened a long-standing and spirited conversation between philosophic science and religious faith, a conversation which continues to... -
The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin by John J. Liptay 9780802092175
RRP: $128.10Booksplease Price: $104.12Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading... -
Experts, Networks and International Law by Holly Cullen 9781107184428
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $132.01Highlighting how the challenges raised by globalization - from environmental management to financial sector meltdowns - have encouraged the emergence of experts and networks as powerful actors in... -
The Secret Diary Of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell 9780752848549
Booksplease Price: $35.87A dramatic recreation of the lives of two of the most famous women in history, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I.It is 1560, and the newly crowned Elizabeth I is about to become romantically involved with... -
Sacred Science: Ritual and Miracle in Modern Medicine by Gregory Loewen 9781433143281
RRP: $217.04Booksplease Price: $191.10Sacred Science is an analysis of post-war discourses concerning health and illness. These discourses are an attempt to grasp the meaning of health in our modern human condition, and as such they... -
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $97.40This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek... -
Privatizing War: A Moral Theory by William Feldman 9780367787288
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $57.18This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors... -
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel As Artificial Life by Peter Boxall
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $71.80In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions... -
The Third Sword: On The Political Role of Prophets by James Bernard Murphy 9781009372268
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.23Prophets are wild cards in the game of politics, James Bernard Murphy writes in this startling new book. They risk their lives by calling out the abuses of political and religious leaders, forcing us... -
Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $53.47The most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century.Portraits of Learned Men provides a... -
Machiavelliana: The Living Machiavelli in Modern Mythologies by Michael Jackson 9789004365476
Booksplease Price: $142.07In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolo Machiavelli's name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his... -
Gazing in Useless Wonder: English Utopian Fictions, 1516-1800 by Artur Blaim 9783034308991
RRP: $127.05Booksplease Price: $113.61Gazing in Useless Wonder focuses on utopias as self-referential texts that literally have to constitute themselves as imaginary or intentional entities before they can work as vehicles for...