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Divagations by Stephane Mallarme 9780674032408
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the... -
Laughter Is the Spice of Life by Women of Faith 9780849944727
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Producing everything from gentle chuckles to roll-in-the-aisle laughter, these stories, jokes, and quips will entertain and uplift you, no matter what your circumstances might be! This "spice-rack"... -
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida 9781474243711
Booksplease Price: £28.85First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of... -
Humor for the Heart: Stories, Quips, and Quotes to Lift the Heart by Various 9781416533436
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Humor has the power to transform a down day into a wonderful adventure or a good day into an even brighter one. That's why you and those you care for are sure to enjoy the humorous messages and... -
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies... -
Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change Robbie Davis-Floyd (University of Texas, Austin, United States of America) 9780415931519
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry... -
Boundless Love: A Women of Faith Interactive and Application Guide by Women of Faith Conferences 9780849943799
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76Over 345,000 women attended the 2001 Women of Faith conferences and experienced the fun, fellowship, and excitement for which the conference is widely known. Now, Women of Faith is offering the core... -
Literary Theories in Praxis by Shirley F. Staton 9780812212341
Booksplease Price: £34.10Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of... -
As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference by Chase Gregory 9781478028895
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In As If!, Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Gregory calls this form of AIDS-era criticism as... -
Language in Primates: Perspectives and Implications by J. De Luce 9780387907994
Booksplease Price: £92.01This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio... -
Infinite Grace: The Devotional by Patsy Clairmont 9781400278183
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.29From all of your favorite Women of Faith (R)! This lighthearted and inspirational collection of brand new devotions shares a message of grace with the warmth and wisdom fans have come to expect from... -
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project by Beatrice Hanssen 9780826463876
Booksplease Price: £44.31This is the first comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's unfinished "Arcades Project" - one of the most significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. Walter Benjamin's... -
Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism by Werner Hamacher 9780803272439
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.22This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of responses to the war-time writing of Paul de Man, responses rarely in agreement and often sharply contradictory, differing in... -
Help, I Can't Stop Laughing!: A Nonstop Collection of Life's Funniest Stories by Ann Spangler 9780310259541
Booksplease Price: £13.08But be forewarned, once you start, you may not be able to stop! Help, I Can't Stop Laughing! offers a collection of nonstop fun, foibles, and rib-tickling humor for those who know that laughter is... -
Don't Stop Laughing Now!: Stories to Tickle Your Funny Bone and Strengthen Your Faith by Ann Spangler 9780310239963
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64The best of the best-stories, one-liners, and jokes from some of today's funniest Christian speakers and best-selling writers This new book, like its best-selling predecessors, is packed with the... -
Rhetoric of Law by Austin Sarat 9780472083862
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.64Law is a profession of words. Simultaneously celebratory of great prose and dogmatically insistent on precise usage, law is a stage for verbal virtuosity, linguistic mastery, and persuasive argument... -
Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory by Tom Cohen 9780816636143
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Renowned contributors use the late work of this crucial figure to open new speculations on "materiality." A "material event," in one of Paul de Man's definitions, is a piece of writing that enters... -
Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels by Lee Clark Mitchell 9781501329654
Booksplease Price: £103.11Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by... -
Human, All Too Human Diana Fuss 9780415915007
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in... -
Through a Season of Grief: 365 Devotions for Your Journey from Mourning to Joy by Bill Dunn 9780785240181
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42If you've lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, you've discovered that few people understand the deep hurt you feel. Where do you turn for daily comfort and help? Where do you find the... -
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present by Dorothy J. Hale 9780804733564
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In recent decades, literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. The old school of novel theory has long been... -
The Seductions of Biography David Suchoff 9780415910903
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The Seductions of Biography is an important volume which sheds new light on a flourishing literary form, the biography. In postmodern culture, new methods and intentions emerge, as well as new... -
Literary Theory Today Peter Collier 9780745609720
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also... -
Foundations of Health Psychology by Howard S. Friedman 9780195139594
Booksplease Price: £110.12Health psychology is the scientific study of psychological processes related to health and health care. Although the field is only 25 years old, it has burgeoned into a major scientific and clinical... -
Signs of Cleopatra: Reading an Icon Historically by Mary Hamer 9780859898096
Booksplease Price: £28.55Cleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the status of a foundation myth. As such, artists of all periods have drawn on it in order to... -
The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe by Shawn Rosenheim
Booksplease Price: £27.10"The problem of Poe's place in American culture cannot be settled canonically, since, unlike the works of Melville or Hawthorne, Poe's texts have not been primarily transmitted through the schools... -
Praying Through Cancer: A 90-Day Devotional for Women Susan Sorensen 9780785241584
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.97Traumatized and terrified of cancer? Whether you or a family member is battling the disease, this beautiful, updated edition of the trusted, encouraging 90-day devotional will comfort and strengthen... -
The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable by Marc C. Conner 9781578062850
Booksplease Price: £31.89A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writing With essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine... -
The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic by Monique Roelofs 9781474242028
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.79Aesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into... -
Portraits of Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Feminist Icon, 1785 to 2020 by Eileen M. Hunt 9781350378711
Booksplease Price: £112.79One of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Portraits of Wollstonecraft collects and introduces 102 texts and artifacts that document Mary Wollstonecraft's public reception in art, literature,... -
Poetry's Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space by E. S. Burt 9780804738736
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Socrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what... -
Poetry's Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space by E. S. Burt
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £82.90Socrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what... -
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings by Henry D. Thoreau 9780393930900
Booksplease Price: £12.99As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings... -
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook by Cheryl A. Wall 9780195121742
Booksplease Price: £38.25The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American... -
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief by Anne Anlin Cheng 9780195134032
Booksplease Price: £119.95In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She... -
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.65'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable SpeechExcitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most... -
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £63.44Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay... -
Nature's Calendar: A Year in the Life of a Wildlife Sanctuary by Colin Rees 9781421427430
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21Take an enchanting journey through the shifting seasons in a wildlife sanctuary home to wetland, forest, and grassland and supporting an incredible diversity of plants and animals.Flocks of waterfowl... -
Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature by Emily J. Lordi 9780813562490
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.58Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics... -
Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels by Lee Clark Mitchell 9781501329647
Booksplease Price: £31.52Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated...