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Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander by Edward Porter Alexander 9780807847220
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.27Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of... -
The Other New York Jewish Intellectuals by Carole S. Kessner 9780814746608
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York... -
Kim: A Norton Critical Edition by Rudyard Kipling 9780393966503
Booksplease Price: €19.67The text-that of the 1901 Sussex Edition-is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts. "Backgrounds" explores the... -
George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century Thomas Cushman 9781594510038
RRP: €90.43Booksplease Price: €83.65The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms... -
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim by Mark Cohen 9780815609483
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.75In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called... -
Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition by John Rodden 9780292702110
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books-City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende... -
American Fiction in the Cold War by Thomas Hill Schaub 9780299128449
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.39We tried as hard as we could to believe that politics might be idyl, only to discover that what we took to be a political pastoral was really a grim military campaign or a murderous betrayal of... -
Stories by Meir Blinkin by Meir Blinkin
Booksplease Price: €38.28Now available for the first time to the English-speaking public, the captivating short stories of master storyteller Meir Blinkin are the charming prose equivalents of the film Hester Street. These... -
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America by Nicolaus Mills 9780929587714
Booksplease Price: €19.29As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House-at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As the Reagans made wealth seem glamorous, what... -
The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War by Robert Kuttner 9780812214017
Booksplease Price: €38.98Here is a book that explores what American economic policy should and can be-a superb yet controversial interpretation of the relation between domestic economic health and international politics, and... -
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears... -
The Meaning of Yiddish by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it... -
The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys by Daniel Bell 9780887388996
Booksplease Price: €71.23This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies,... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.63The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders Paul Bogdanor 9781412808040
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Before 1967, Israel had the overwhelming support of world opinion. So long as Israel's existence was in harmony with politically correct assumptions, it was supported, or at least accepted, by the... -
Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America by Neil Jumonville 9780520371873
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.36The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual... -
The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Booksplease Price: €27.97This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by... -
Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson 9780253350817
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.44How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture-in particular the... -
Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" by Gerald Sorin 9780253069436
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €78.17Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sorin... -
Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America by Neil Jumonville 9780520335103
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €45.42The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual... -
The Great Chicago Fire by Ross Miller 9780252069147
Booksplease Price: €31.23On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten "with a pen of fire." In this imaginative and penetrating study, Ross Miller considers the mythic proportions of... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.76Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF... -
The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders by C. Wright Mills 9780252069482
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to "stopping the main... -
We: Introduction by Will Self by Yevgeny Zamyatin
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.51As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. The citizens of the One State live in a... -
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9780099511625 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €3.06Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her... -
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition by Edward Alexander 9780765801531
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91The incongruence if not antagonism between modern liberalism and the Jewish sense of the world has been most notably articulated by Lionel Trilling. Certainly the imaginative limitations and... -
Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives by Elaine Hoffman Baruch 9780814711996
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the... -
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox 9780393351101
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.74Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while... -
Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
Booksplease Price: €52.74Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important - Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly... -
Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane by Gerald Sorin 9780253007278
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €33.56Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom... -
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World by Alexander Bloom 9780195036626
Booksplease Price: €53.94"A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel... -
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €25.13Although almost a half-century has passed since the jury at Alger Hiss's second trial pronounced him guilty of perjury, the case remains controversial and the verdict leaves questions unanswered. The... -
C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings by C. Wright Mills 9780520232099
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €34.51One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work... -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9780099560692
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34'Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal' The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her... -
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World by Alexander Bloom 9780195051773
Booksplease Price: €37.43"A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel... -
Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman 9781859843093
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.19A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The... -
Jews Against Themselves Edward Alexander 9781412856829
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This volume features powerful essays by Edward Alexander on the phenomenon of anti-Zionism on the part of the Jewish intelligentsia. It also analyzes the explosive growth of traditional... -
Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780811224321
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.90With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in... -
The Intellectuals and the Flag by Todd Gitlin 9780231124928
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94"The tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide." So writes Todd Gitlin about the aftermath of the... -
Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America by Nicolaus Mills 9781566630269
Booksplease Price: €19.29The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come...