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Formula 1's Unsung Pioneers: The story of the British Racing Partnership and how it launched motorsport into the modern era by Ian Wagstaff 9781910505724
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £67.45This is the previously untold story of a very special British racing team. The British Racing Partnership (BRP), which operated from 1958 to 1964, is best known for its association with Stirling... -
Plautus: The Comedies: Volume 1 by Titus Maccius Plautus
Booksplease Price: £27.41"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals,... -
Xenia, etc. by Anthony Caleshu 9781848618671
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62In his new book of poems, Anthony Caleshu writes after the visual art of Julie Curtiss, Jadé Fadojutimi, Shara Hughes, Shio Kusaka, Henry Taylor, Emma Webster, and Jonas Wood (also included, a... -
Happy Hour by Alan Shapiro 9780226750293
Booksplease Price: £21.99"Within his deliberately narrowed range Mr. Shapiro has cultivated a new generosity of detail and insight. This is especially important in the longer poems here, narratives of considerable power... -
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection Alex Gartenfeld 9781636810836
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A thematic introduction to the thriving Miami museum's permanent collection Since its founding in 2014, ICA Miami has established itself as a singular voice in artistic stewardship with a... -
The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry by Leon Stokesbury 9781557285782
Booksplease Price: £43.08The second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones, and others... -
The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius 9780674048355
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51In this highly praised new translation of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great... -
The Children of Herakles by Euripides 9780195072884
Booksplease Price: £15.39One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive,... -
Julia Margaret Cameron: A Poetry of Photography by Nichole J. Fazio 9781851245840
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.97Renowned photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is famous for her evocative portraits of eminent Victorians, including John Herschel, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, George Frederic Watts, Ellen Terry... -
Freedom Over Servitude: Montaigne, La Boetie, and On Voluntary Servitude by David Lewis Schaefer 9780313305276
Booksplease Price: £76.51This volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French... -
Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade Angela N. Carroll 9780847874408
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.45This book captures a prolific period of self-examination and observation for contemporary artist Jerrell Gibbs (b. 1988). Known for his luminously rendered, expressionistic oil paintings, Gibbs uses... -
The Metabolism of Desire: The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti by Guido Cavalcanti 9781926836843
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58all pale beside my lady whose lovelyface cio passa la beltate e la valenza and gentle heart show theunworthiness de la mia donna e 'l su' gentil coraggio, of him who catches a glimpse of... -
The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388770
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £12.86Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New... -
Conversations with Billy Collins by John Cusatis 9781496840660
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Billy Collins "puts the 'fun' back in profundity," says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called "hospitable" poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly... -
Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers by Fred Chappell 9780807128640
Booksplease Price: £18.45The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Membership is... -
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Christine Kim
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80A celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black... -
Reframing the Black Figure: An Introduction to Contemporary Black Figuration by Ekow Eshun 9781855145481
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.21'What happens when Black artists depict Black figures? What art does this produce, and what worlds of possibility does this reveal?' - Ekow Eshun ... -
Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems, 1964-1999 by George Garrett 9780807124512
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Since 1964, when Louisiana State University Press published its inaugural book of verse (Miller Williams's A Circle of Stone), its poetry list has grown exponentially- 191 books by 93 poets- into a... -
Conversations with Billy Collins by John Cusatis 9781496840677
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Billy Collins "puts the 'fun' back in profundity," says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called "hospitable" poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly... -
Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction John Heil 9781041053637
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This popular coursebook offers an accessible introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, causal interactions between the mental and the physical, computational... -
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto 9780674060128
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.58The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new... -
La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28La Vita Nuova (1292-94) has many aspects. Dante's libello, or "little book," is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his... -
The Photographs of Lewis Carroll: A Catalogue Raisonne by Edward Wakeling 9780292767430
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.20Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest... -
Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action by Wayne Wu 9780192866899
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Movements of the Mind is about what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, it integrates multiple approaches, from philosophical analysis of the metaphysics of agency to the activity of... -
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction by Douglas Walrath 9780231151061
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's... -
The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy by David Leblang 9781009233279
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Migration is among the central domestic and global political issues of today. Yet the causes and consequences - and the relationship between migration and global markets - are poorly understood... -
Consciousness and Meaning: Selected Essays by Brian Loar 9780199673360
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £30.44One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind - and in particular, of consciousness and intentionality - in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major... -
Future-Proof Science by Vickers 9780192862730
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £89.40Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through... -
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry by Anthony Hecht
Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the... -
Identifying Future-Proof Science by Peter Vickers 9780198966227
Booksplease Price: £27.52Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics-those who spread doubt about science-often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through... -
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure by Ekow Eshun 9781855145580
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.78The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure edited by Ekow Eshun celebrates flourishing Black artists whose work illuminates the richness, beauty and complexity of Black life. "There is... -
Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects': Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire by Jeffrey Rosen 9781784993177
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £62.41Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connections of this imagery to British culture and politics... -
All Occasions by Walt McDonald 9780268020057
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £58.13Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar... -
All Occasions by Walt McDonald 9780268020064
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.69Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar... -
Some Jazz a While: COLLECTED POEMS by Miller Williams 9780252067747
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Some Jazz a While, the eagerly anticipated collected poems of one of America's best-loved poets, gathers Miller Williams's most representative work and adds some new pieces as well. This generous...