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BLACK Volume 1 by Kwanza Osajyefo 9781628751864
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628751864Author Kwanza OsajyefoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Last Born: Volume 1 by Patrick Meaney 9781628751123
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628751123Author Patrick MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life by Mark Walker 9780752458984
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Everyone remembers the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis', but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do families, towns, countries and even football teams have... -
Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics IV by E. Lipinski 9789042933521
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $151.13A large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studiees. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of... -
Studies in Silk in Byzantium by Anna Muthesius 9781899828241
Booksplease Price: $163.84This book brings together seventeen important new papers published by Anna Muthesius since 1995. Many of the articles, plates and specially prepared figures are available only in this book. The...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: $163.84Subtotal: -
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry by Unn Falkeid 9781032926100
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $52.03Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been... -
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler 9780241606186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.35'The man who lit the way for us all' Len DeightonAn Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If... -
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781631495328
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $23.73"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of... -
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick ForsythSmall-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes... -
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville 9781419754869
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.04An "astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful" (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior... -
EC Catacomb of Torment Vol. 1 by Matt Kindt 9798894880860
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42Out of the ashes of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS, the immortal EC Comics ushers THE TORMENTOR-a new horror host with an unhealthy interest in human anatomy-into a bloody new horror anthology! Hold onto... -
A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carre
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New StatesmanWest Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British... -
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden 9780691260921
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.71Back 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,... -
The Unburied: The Social Lives of Corpses in Qing China by Joohee Suh 9780295754925
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $43.12When coffins lingered above ground, Qing China reimagined care, kinship, and the meaning of deathIn late imperial China, death did not always lead swiftly to burial. Across the Qing empire, coffins... -
Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy by Terry G. Jordan 9780292780705
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden... -
Edith Cavell: Brussels via Yorc by Anthony J. Randall 9781909465381
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.94Anthony J Randall examines the resistance movement along the French and Belgian border during the first year of the Great War, culminating with the execution of Edith Cavell and Philippe Baucq in... -
The Story of Music Mick Manning 9781445163673
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A friendly and inspiring introduction to music history, telling the stories of the world's greatest musicians from Bach to Beyonce.The Story of Music begins with the early drums and flutes of our... -
Malkin: Poems About the Pendle Witch Trials by Camille Ralphs 9781910139301
Booksplease Price: $9.29Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the... -
Ghosts In The Graveyard: Texas Cemetery Tales by Olyve Abbott 9781556228421
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he... -
The Political Economy of China's Imperial Examination System by Erik H. Wang 9781009347617
Booksplease Price: $24.37Just as councils and assemblies were central to European polities for centuries, the Imperial Examination System (Keju) constituted the cornerstone of state institutions in China. This Element argues... -
The Culture of Ancient Egypt by John A Wilson 9780226901527
Booksplease Price: $22.45The story of Egypt is the story of history itself-the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe... -
Mandela: A Biography by Martin Meredith 9781847399328
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Fully revised and updated, in a biography the Sunday Timesdescribed as 'a fitting epitaph to an extraordinary career', Martin Meredith details the life of Nelson Mandela, one of the most admired... -
Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones by Nicholas Evans 9781474473798
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $28.11As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th... -
Ec: Cruel Kingdom Vol. 1 by Corinna Bechko 9798894889009
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.15WHERE ONCE A CRUEL UNIVERSE BECKONED . . . NOW A CRUEL KINGDOM SHALL REIGN! Oni Press is proud to unveil a spellbinding new chapter in the distinguished lineage of EC history! Enter Cruel... -
Home to My Valley by Paul Green 9780807878576
Booksplease Price: $53.53For many years Green traveled up and down his native Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina, collecting the folklore of the people of the valley--noting down their speech, beliefs, customs,... -
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay 9780140432206
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.In THE... -
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Never before available in hardback, this is a lavish edition of one of the greatest love stories of our time. The perfect gift for anyone captivated by Elio and Oliver.A sudden and powerful romance... -
Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib 9781911545446
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group's history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like... -
Twentieth-Century War Poetry by Philippa Lyon 9781403913166
Booksplease Price: $40.92Poets have written about wars throughout the twentieth century - questioning, protesting and, sometimes, celebrating the nature and purpose of conflict. Attracting an enthusiastic popular... -
Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in... -
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Unbecoming by Eric Michaels 9780822320050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $111.22Booksplease Price: $11.12In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a... -
Finish Line: Dispelling Fear, Finding Peace, and Preparing for the End of Your Life by Robert Wolgemuth 9780310364894
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.75Facing your ultimate death can be scary, but in light of God's promises, it doesn't have to be. Finish Line provides practical and biblical help on topics such as finances, blessing others,... -
Keep It Down Up There!: The Everyday Shenanigans of Noisy Neighbors by Luke McGarry 9781797224411
Booksplease Price: $15.72Following a full day in the life of particularly cacophonous upstairs neighbors, Keep It Down Up There! lightheartedly commiserates about the trials and tribulations of apartment living. Often,... -
The Book of Tradition: Sefer Ha-Qabbalah by Abraham Ibn Daud 9780827609167
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.50An epitaph to the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry Hundreds of years before the Inquisition, the Almohade invasion of Spain wiped out many of the Spanish Jewish communities in Muslim Andalusia ending the... -
Children's Lives and Deaths in 1 Thessalonians: Impacts on Interpreting Context and Text by Dr David E. Bell 9780567723666
Booksplease Price: $121.36This volume offers new insights into 1 Thessalonians by demonstrating how children and childhood are a key part of its social setting. Around one third of this first-century Macedonian society and... -
Selected Poems by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant... -
Churchyards by Roger Bowdler 9781445691114
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86Churchyards are everywhere, numbered in their thousands. Some have ancient yew trees while others have intriguing structures like parish stocks, charnel houses and medieval crosses. And beneath the... -
Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip by Remco E. Breuker 9798880701902
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $65.39Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection... -
The Horse Lover's Miscellany: Wit, Wisdom and Wonders J. C. Jeremy Hobson 9781846894107
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.44All manner of equines helped build our roads, our villages, towns and cities. They were, for centuries, virtually the only means of getting ourselves and our goods from A to B. They became a part of... -
God's Pauper by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780571204939
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNikos Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Herakleion on the island of Crete. During the Cretan revolt of 1897...