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Dreamer in the Dream, The Jane Adams 9781846949821
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is... -
Spiritual Reading: A Study of the Christian Practice of Reading Scripture by Angela Lou Harvey 9780227176122
Booksplease Price: £25.72Spiritual Reading explores how God, the Bible and the practices of reading are all connected. Angela Lou Harvey investigates how the spiritual reading of the Bible takes place in our modern,... -
Why Souls?: A Mirror to the Universe Joshua R. Farris 9781903816417
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In Why Souls? A Mirror to the Universe, author Joshua R. Farris carefully examines some of the best-laid arguments for the soul, ultimately advancing his own, claiming that embracing the concept of... -
Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment by Alan M. Jacobs 9780521171779
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78In Governing for the Long Term, Alan M. Jacobs investigates the conditions under which elected governments invest in long-term social benefits at short-term social cost. Jacobs contends that, along... -
Governing for the Long Term: Democracy and the Politics of Investment by Alan M. Jacobs 9780521195850
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93In Governing for the Long Term, Alan M. Jacobs investigates the conditions under which elected governments invest in long-term social benefits at short-term social cost. Jacobs contends that, along... -
The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.39The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has... -
Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere by Mark D. Walhout 9780312226725
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection examines the ways in which religion and literature are capable of renewing what the eminent German philosopher Jurgen Habermas refers to as 'the public sphere'. The essays range from... -
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he... -
Watkins Masters of Wisdom: Osho: Living Dangerously: Ordinary Enlightenment for Extraordinary Times Osho 9781780280073
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Nearly three decades after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers around the world. This inspiring compendium of spiritual wisdom and insight offers a... -
The Wondrous Journey: Into the Depth of Our Being by Ilie Cioara 9781846949517
Booksplease Price: £12.60The Wondrous Journey is Ilie Cioaras follow up to The Silence of the Mind. A practical book on meditation and enlightenment, a must read for any spiritual seeker. A less rational and more poetic... -
Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions: Incarnation, Narrative, and Ethics--Essays in Honor of David Lyle Jeffrey by D.H. Williams 9780268044282
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.67For more than four decades, David Lyle Jeffrey has enriched the world of Christian scholarship. Throughout his work, Jeffrey has drawn attention to the ways in which imaginative engagements with... -
Book of One, The Dennis Waite 9781846943478
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18A comprehensive, yet entertaining introduction to Advaita, the non-dual philosophy which provides a completely reasonable explanation for who we are and the nature of the universe. There are many... -
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden 9780691218656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.26Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles,... -
Enlightenment: The Path Through the Jungle by Waite Dennis 9781846941184
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.45What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all. Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? This book explains... -
Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age Joel Halldorf 9781479840731
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Traces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital ageConsidered one of the greatest inventions of human civilization, writing has served as a pathway to culture... -
Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times by Andrew Piper 9780226669786
Booksplease Price: £21.05Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual... -
Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation - Revised Edition: Korzybski Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Enlightenment by Ted Falconar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64In this revised edition of Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation: Korzybski, Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Enlightenment Ted Falconar has written a comprehensive new introduction and provided... -
Words for Readers and Writers: Spirit-Pooled Dialogues by Larry Woiwode
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Writing is foundational, allowing us to communicate and construct meaning. This collection of 21 essays invites us to explore the significance of writing as well as to believe in the transforming... -
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community by Richard Hughes Gibson 9781780937113
Booksplease Price: £113.11Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period, bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary... -
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas 9780231148153
Booksplease Price: £27.36Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from... -
Theology and Literature after Postmodernity by Peter Hampson 9780567672056
Booksplease Price: £40.79This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a... -
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas 9780231148146
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from... -
Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research by Tasha Fairfield
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.41Fairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. The book... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume IV: Prose: 1956-1962 by W. H. Auden 9780691147550
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £76.31This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when... -
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life by Rod Dreher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.52THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When... -
In Defense of Charisma by Vincent W. Lloyd
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Martin Luther King Jr. has charisma-as does Adolf Hitler. So do Brad Pitt, Mother Teresa, and many a high school teacher. Charisma marks, or masks, power; it legitimates but also attracts suspicion... -
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen 9781324116776
Booksplease Price: £11.84We embraced the mediated life-from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse-because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp... -
The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's by Jeanne Murray Walker
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.14Tens of millions of Americans either suffer from Alzheimer's or care for someone who does. In a single generation, that number will triple. Jeanne Murray Walker's memoir speaks with compassionate... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940-1973 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.85The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets... -
The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America by Susan Wise Bauer 9780691138107
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins... -
The Work of Revision by Hannah Sullivan 9780674073128
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £29.04Revision might seem to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in the virtues of redrafting from early-twentieth-century modernism. Closely... -
The Riddles of The Hobbit by Adam Roberts 9781137373632
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.63Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit , and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume III: Prose: 1949-1955 by W. H. Auden 9780691133263
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.51This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939 by W. H. Auden
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.05The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of... -
Back to the Truth - 5000 years of Advaita Dennis Waite 9781905047611
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Advaita is a spiritual philosophy based on the Upanishads, older than most other religious systems we know about but also the most logical and scientific in its approach. The literal meaning is "Not... -
Talking about Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations by Isaac Adams
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.31Conversations about racism are as important as they are hard for American Christians.Yet the conversation often gets so ugly, even among the faithful who claim unity in Jesus. Why is that the case?... -
Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays 9781481305242
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £21.98The claim that the events of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection took place ""according to the Scriptures"" stands at the heart of the New Testament's message. All four canonical Gospels declare... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691159546
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691114170
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why...