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Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death,... -
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by David Vital 9780198219804
Booksplease Price: £117.72The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People... -
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos 9780241954300 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.31Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news... -
The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe by Paul Reitter
Booksplease Price: £34.18In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques... -
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds 9780691211961
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher... -
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"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age by Anthony Slide 9780231167086
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.15Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the... -
The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt 9780674724730
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.30The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia,... -
The Richard Burton Diaries by Chris Williams 9780300197280
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety"Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a...