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Thoracic Surgery: 50 Challenging cases Wickii Vigneswaran (Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Health System, IL, USA) 9781138035652
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £81.51In Thoracic Surgery: 50 Challenging Cases, editor Wickii T. Vigneswaran has selected 50 challenging cases presented by leading thoracic surgeons. Each case highlights a unique situation from which... -
The Bee: A Natural History by Noah Wilson-Rich 9780691182476
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.66An incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planetBees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. Bees are also... -
Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England by Professor Mary Thomas Crane 9780691605098
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the... -
The Royal Leap-Frog by Peter Bently 9781408860113
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13**A triumph - Daily Mail** **Laughter, action, colour, rhyme, silliness, chaos, a king, a feast and a fairytale setting - The Royal Leap-Frog has all these - Sunday Times** ----------------- ... -
Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science by Pierre Gilles De Gennes
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most... -
The Way of Nature by Zhuangzi 9780691179742
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.29A delightfully illustrated selection of the great Daoist writings of Zhuangzi by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese... -
A Toni Morrison Treasury: The Big Box; The Ant or the Grasshopper?; The Lion or the Mouse?; Poppy or the Snake?; Peeny Butter Fudge; The Tortoise or the Hare; Little Cloud and Lady Wind; Please, Louise by Toni Morrison 9781665915540
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.33Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's books, cowritten with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first time in... -
Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after Utopia by Edith W. Clowes 9780691608105
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.58In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian... -
Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica by Homer
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their... -
The Late King of Thebes by Carlo Gebler
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46After her father's death in exile, Antigone returns to Thebes determined to set the record straight and restore her father's reputation. Tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and... -
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading Sam Leith 9781836430407
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99*A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024* Can you remember the first time you fell... -
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature Graham Anderson 9781032091877
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a... -
DARION: The Blue Hare: 2025 by Carlos Gelbert 9791256972029
Booksplease Price: £17.11The amazing and delightful stories that this collection includes seem apparently disconnected, in reality they are linked by situations where some earthlings, including plants, living animals,... -
Funny Thing Getting Older: And Other Reflections by Michael Morpurgo 9781399739719
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45From beloved writer Michael Morpurgo, comes a new collection of reflections, memoir, stories and wonder.'A beautiful, thoughtful book that brims with joy' KATE MOSSE'Suffused with gentle optimism and... -
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800 by Gary Marker 9780691611624
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian... -
The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories by Clifford D. Simak 9781504073943
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £17.52A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre's most revered Grand Masters. Legendary author Robert A. Heinlein proclaimed, "To read science fiction is to read Simak. A... -
The Emperor's Nightingale and Other Feathery Tales Jane Ray 9781910716540
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56This wonderful anthology includes some of the best -loved stories of all time: a striking variation on Aesop's `The Goose that Laid the Golden egg ', Oscar Wilde's `The Happy Prince ' and the... -
A Miscellany of Disputes by Derek Roebuck 9780953773008
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.46While there have been innumerable collections of humour in the courts, this is the first anthology of over 80 stories about disputes resolved without the aid of litigation. It reveals rich sources... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to... -
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Katie Daynes 9781835404072
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.95Aesop's charming fable retold for beginner readers to tackle with very light support. Ant and Grasshopper can't agree over how to spend the summer. Who will be right when winter comes?A charming... -
The Ants and the Grasshoppers by Ross Mihalko 9780573701115
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.45The Ants and The Grasshoppers - A Greek Comedy is a hilarious twist on the classic Aesop's fable! When those goof-off grasshoppers arrive in Ancient Greece, the ants discover all the forbidden fun... -
The Fable as Literature by Harold John Blackham 9781472509192
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £122.05This is a study of a curious and neglected facet of literature, in which the author traces the development and the uses of fable in Euopean literature, from Aesop and the Greeks to the revival of... -
Meg, Mum and the Donkey: Band 02B/Red B (Collins Big Cat) by Simon Puttock
Booksplease Price: £5.49Meg and her mum go to the market with their donkey, but find that listening to everyone else's advice along the way doesn't always make for a smooth journey. This humorous fiction story is based on... -
The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance by John L. Lepage 9781349448326
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise... -
The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance by John L. Lepage 9781137281814
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise... -
The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action by Willem Salet
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the... -
Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus by Phaedrus 9780199240951
Booksplease Price: £78.33This book contains a dozen entertaining stories written in colloquial Latin verse newly translated and commented on by John Henderson. The author, Phaedrus, was a freeman of Augustus who put Aesop's... -
What to Say to a Porcupine: 20 Humorous Tales That Get to the Heart of Great Customer Service by Richard Gallagher 9780814416792
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £6.76What to Say to a Porcupine uses the format of Aesop's fables to illustrate fundamental principles of customer service in a quick and lighthearted way.What do a demanding colony of porcupines, an... -
Reading Champion: The Tiger and the Monkey: Independent Reading Green 5 Sheryl Webster 9781445189291
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education... -
The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece by Daniel Ogden 9780715627167
Booksplease Price: £96.35By comparing traditional narratives concerning archaic colonists and tyrants, Ogden shows that monarchic rulers in archaic Greece were often paradoxically conceptualized as deformed scapegoats or as... -
A Mouse Called Julian Joe Todd-Stanton 9781838742140
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Rising star Joe Todd-Stanton brings his unique, modern illustration style to an inversion of the classic Aesop Fable of The Lion and the Mouse, as Julian the Mouse learns that sometimes, having a... -
International Planning Studies: An Introduction by Olivier Sykes 9789811954061
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.44This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice... -
The Senses in Interior Design: Sensorial Expressions and Experiences by John Potvin 9781526190772
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the... -
Rethinking European Spatial Policy as a Hologram: Actions, Institutions, Discourses by Valeria Fedeli 9781138266896
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.81Bringing together case studies from several European countries, this book provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of European spatial policy. Contributors focus on changes to the design and... -
A World Full of Animal Stories: 50 favourite animal folk tales, myths and legends by Angela McAllister
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.07This beautiful book of stories takes readers on a journey around the world with 50 best-loved tales, featuring creatures big and small. Prepare for a story time like no other as you delve into this... -
Read to Your Toddler Every Day by Chloe Giordano 9780711247413
Booksplease Price: £13.79Science tells us that young children develop best when they are read to. In this follow-up to Read to Your Baby Every Day, soothe your toddler with retellings of traditional folk tales, fairy tales... -
A World Full of Animal Stories: 50 Folk Tales and Legends by Angela McAllister 9781786030450
Booksplease Price: £19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786030450Author Angela McAllisterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Frances Lincoln Children's... -
The Shepherd's Songbook: For Waldorf Schools Grades 1, 2 and 3 by Elisabeth Lebret 9781943582600
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £13.52Shepherds' Songbook is a collection of songs and music for use in Steiner-Waldorf classrooms for Classes 1, 2 and 3 (ages 6-9).The book contains instruction for teachers and parents along with... -
Reading Champion: The Bear who Cried Wolf: Independent Reading Green 5 by Damian Harvey 9781445189208
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education... -
Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History by Todd Merlin Compton 9780674019584
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.86This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos-the wretched human scapegoat who is...