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The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson 9781526607546
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23_______________ 'Beguiling ... I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' - New York Times 'A wonderful book .... -
Selfies by Sylvie Weil
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, the niece of French philosopher Simone Weil, also daughter of one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th c., gives a... -
Prayers And Meditations by Peter Washington 9781857157253
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical... -
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most... -
Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.68The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like... -
The World Saved by Kids – And Other Epics by Elsa Morante 9781803091921
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.90A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath... -
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are... -
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime England Ken Worpole 9781908213860
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76On 'Lady Day', March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community, inspired by... -
The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life by Fanny Howe
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $41.75In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and... -
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag 9781598532555
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $57.94With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is... -
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39Passionate and affirming, the poems in 'Love Leans over the Table' have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they... -
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality by Belden C. Lane 9780195315851
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $33.35In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and... -
Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present Dominic Pettman 9781915672674
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.41A book depicting the intimate complicity between attention and identity. . . "You are what you pay attention to."Simone Weil famously stated: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."... -
Alkibiades' Love: Essays in Philosophy by Jan Zwicky 9780773544642
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.37Alkibiades, a central character in Plato's Symposium, claims that philosophy touches him to the quick. When Socrates speaks, he's often moved to tears and realizes he must change his life. In... -
Journal by Helene Berr 9781906694197
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing... -
Dare To Be True: George Herbert: Verse and Prose Wendy Cope 9780281092093
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00When celebrated poet Wendy Cope first encountered the work of George Herbert, she was captivated by his wit, craftsmanship and depth of thought. She took to him immediately. Herbert's verse,... -
Secular Days, Sacred Moments: The America Columns of Robert Coles by Robert Coles 9781611860733
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $34.34No writer or public intellectual of our era has been as sensitive to the role of faith in the lives of ordinary Americans as Robert Coles. Though not religious in the conventional sense, Coles is... -
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's... -
A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation by Martin Laird
Booksplease Price: $45.68"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the... -
Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt Benjamin P. Davis 9781399548618
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23Is there a way of being human that could invite people away from today's models of violence and consumerism? Looking forward to a new, increasingly creolized century, in 1997 the Martinican poet and... -
Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages by Ann W. Astell 9781501704345
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $60.82"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten,... -
Devotion by Patti Smith
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.31The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable... -
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The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology by Vincent W. Lloyd 9780804768832 [USED COPY]
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $17.64This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political... -
Soft Keys by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780224090018
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.75When Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making... -
Riverwork by Lisa Robertson 9781552455173
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.28A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.Some ruins are invisible.Under... -
A Book of Days by Ms Patti Smith 9781526650993
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.59A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Costica Bradatan 9780674297203
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $25.47A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." -Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read." Tom Holland... -
On Violence: A Reader by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780822337690
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $58.17This anthology brings together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of well-known theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G. W. F... -
A Book of Days by Patti Smith
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart... -
Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.28Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics-its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish... -
Be Still, Life by Ohara Hale 9781592702572
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of 2018 "The rambunctiously designed illustrations of bugs, plants, fruit, snails, and other aspects of the natural world are done in simple, warm, unshaded... -
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague by Robert Zaretsky 9780226803494
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $35.49A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five great thinkers who confronted their own plagues. In any...