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The Life of God (as Told by Himself) by Franco Ferrucci 9780226244969
Booksplease Price: £24.06At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges... -
The Pocket Stoic by John Sellars 9780226682969
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.78To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very... -
Border War: A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri Marilyn Ferris Motz 9781496860057
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36When fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missouri in 1858, they considered themselves part of a Yankee cultural community whose taste and aspirations... -
The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science by Daniel M. Gross
Booksplease Price: £27.62Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel Gross' "The Secret History of Emotion" reveals a persistent intellectual... -
John Calvin by Michael Mullett 9780415476980
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting on the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the Reformation. In this new... -
The Life and Times of Captain N. by Douglas Glover 9780864922977
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most... -
The Tudor Play of Mind: Rhetorical Inquiry and the Development of Elizabethan Drama by Joel B. Altman 9780520303157
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17Contrary to the widespread assumption that Elizabethan drama grows out of an essentially homiletic tradition, The Tudor Play of Mind proposes that many important plays-including such diverse works as... -
The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America Thomas E. Strunk 9780472133642
Booksplease Price: £75.94The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America traces the reception and influence of Cato from his suicide at the fall of the Roman Republic to the twenty-first century. In... -
Oedipus by Lowell Edmunds
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that... -
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale by Anselm Haverkamp
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal... -
The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity Andrew Cain 9781138382756
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era... -
Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture Eleanor Betts 9781032242255
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour,... -
Reading Drama in Tudor England by Tamara Atkin 9780367666828
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that... -
What did the Romans know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking by Daryn Lehoux
Booksplease Price: £26.68What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends... -
Border War: A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri Marilyn Ferris Motz 9781496860033
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12When fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missouri in 1858, they considered themselves part of a Yankee cultural community whose taste and aspirations... -
The Life of God (as Told by Himself) by Franco Ferrucci 9780226244952
Booksplease Price: £24.64At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges... -
Terra Incognita Simon Turney 9781804540381
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49PREORDER SIMON TURNEY'S THRILLING NEW ROMAN EMPIRE NOVEL, AGRICOLA: COMMANDER, NOW!An empire on the edge. A scheme for glory. A plan to control the greatest river in the world. 61 AD. Emperor Nero... -
Ancient Ethics Susan Sauve Meyer 9780415940276
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics.It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature by Larry J. Reynolds 9781138806559
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson,... -
Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment: A Reference Guide by Marion W. Roydhouse 9781440836701
Booksplease Price: £61.93This contextual narrative of the 70-year history of the woman suffrage movement in the United States demonstrates how an important mass political and social movement coalesced into a political force... -
Nero: The End of a Dynasty by Miriam Griffin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.79Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an... -
A Critical Edition of Richard Brathwait's Whimzies by Allen H. Lanner 9780367254797
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Originaly published in 1991, this volume contains the full text of Richard Brathwait's 'Whimzies,' alongside textual notes including chapters on the character as a literary genre, the overburian... -
John Calvin Michael Mullett 9780415476997
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting on the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the Reformation. In this new... -
Oedipus by Lowell Edmunds 9780415329347
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that... -
Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison by James E. Seaver 9780815624912
Booksplease Price: £17.21The film Dance with Wolves shows how some whites, at the time of the first European contacts with American Indians, chose not to return to their own culture. Mary Jemison was perhaps the most famous... -
The Mirror of the Self - Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire Shadi Bartsch 9780226211725
Booksplease Price: £24.80People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but... -
The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch 9780226038353
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but... -
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison by Mary Jemison 9780806127170
Booksplease Price: £27.46The film Dance with Wolves shows how some whites, at the time of the first European contacts with American Indians, chose not to return to their own culture. Mary Jemison was perhaps the most famous... -
Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject by Edward S. Casey
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Turning Emotion Inside Out, Edward S. Casey challenges the commonplace assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, hearts, or bodies. Instead, he invites us to rethink... -
The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science by Daniel M. Gross 9780226309798
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £91.94Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution... -
It Happened in New York by Fran Capo 9780762742493
Booksplease Price: £10.29True Tales from New York's Past From Beatlemania at Shea Stadium to the hoax of the Cardiff Giant, It Happened in New York gives readers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the... -
The Four Vision Quests of Jesus by Steven Charleston 9780819231734
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition. This book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as portrayed in the synoptic... -
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy Donald Robertson 9781473674783
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium... -
Distraction Damon Young 9781844652549
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Most of us struggle with distraction every day: the familiar feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. We feel it at work and at home and it can be frustrating and uncomfortable... -
Glasses: Eureka! the Biography of an Idea by Lori Haskins Houran
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.91EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STEM series that takes readers on a journey through... -
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859 by Christian Michael Gonzales
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early... -
Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America Alison Stone 9781032521732
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book advances the rediscovery of forgotten women philosophers in the nineteenth century who have been unjustly left out of the philosophical canon and omitted from narratives about the history... -
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland: Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included... -
The Everyday Stoic: Simple Rules for a Good Life by William Mulligan 9780241643297
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Follow the founder of the Everyday Stoic and discover the practical wisdom of Stoicism and find contentment and happiness in your everyday life.__________Follow in the footsteps of the classical... -
The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity by Maia Kotrosits
Booksplease Price: £26.68Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or...