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I Am Fighting for the Union: The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells by Henry Willis Wells 9780817321529
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, "I am fighting for the... -
Demon Possession in Elizabethan England by Kathleen R. Sands 9780275981693
Booksplease Price: £51.21In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness,... -
Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence by Bette Bonder 9781617110405
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.49Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual's experience in... -
Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home Susan Hill 9781846682667
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time... -
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts 9781848315174
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names.He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the... -
I Am Fighting for the Union: The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells by Henry Willis Wells
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, "I am fighting for the... -
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West by Katie Hickman 9780349008295
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west'Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be... -
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West by Katie Hickman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there'This book is a triumph' AMANDA FOREMAN'Absolutely compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB'A blazing... -
Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist by Gareth D. Williams
Booksplease Price: £38.86This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary... -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun,... -
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the... -
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.99What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that... -
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness by Carl Ruck 9781579511418
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most... -
André Butzer. Hölderlin André Butzer 9783754400159
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.05Friedrich Hoelderlin is probably Andre Butzer's favorite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his "favorite people ever." His identification with the poet goes even further,... -
Alexander the Great Lewis V. Cummings 9780802141491
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The facts of Alexander's life are extraordinary, and it's no surprise that two major Hollywood films on his life are in production. Born Alexander III, king of Macedonia, and the first king to be... -
Greek Mythologies - Antiquity and Surrealism by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis 9780983532217
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £45.30The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only one ideological dimension of the extraordinarily... -
Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes by James Gifford 9781772120011
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.30Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of... -
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which... -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick 9781847081414
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and... -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick 9781803510064
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and... -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick 9781847081414 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and...