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Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem 9780156849050
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $29.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156849050Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Between an Animal and a Machine: Stanislaw Lem's Technological Utopia by Pawel Majewski 9783631672631
RRP: $113.98Booksplease Price: $102.06The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the... -
Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanislaw Lem Agnieszka Gajewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.) 9780367428730
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $87.83This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors... -
Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science by Kate Clanchy 9781905583331
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $27.34Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. In this anthology, authors have worked together with scientists and... -
Welcome to Forever by Nathan Tavares 9781803360409
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.14Fox is a memory editor - one of the best - gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Centre for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got... -
The Playful Lem: A Short Story Sampler Stanisław Lem 9781603297578
Booksplease Price: $44.66Classic speculative fiction with a comedic approachConjuring worlds in which robots are kings and Earthlings exist on the fringes of the universe, Stanislaw Lem's anachronistic fairy tales and... -
Philosophy and Science Fiction by Michael Phillips 9780879752484
Booksplease Price: $43.35An examination of philosophical themes in science fiction, with seventeen stories, by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, and others.Book... -
The Peasants Wladyslaw Reymont 9780241524244
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.56One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a... -
Textualization of Experience: Studies on Ancient Greek Literature by Pawel Majewski 9783631832820
RRP: $90.38Booksplease Price: $81.76The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek... -
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles
Booksplease Price: $48.36We live in a world, according to N Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming... -
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226321448
Booksplease Price: $55.67The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the... -
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories by H. G. Wells
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.07'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's'Exploring the primordial nightmares... -
Summa Technologiae by Stanis aw Lem 9780816675777
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.70The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and... -
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 9780241563403
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.50A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukWitty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential... -
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory signals... -
The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged... -
The Custard Heart Dorothy Parker 9780241339589
RRP: $5.85Booksplease Price: $5.56'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.'Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath... -
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $7.41'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary... -
Transgressive Humanism in Mid-Socialist Poland by Nina Seiler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 9781032123783
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.01This book focuses on the often-overlooked middle period of socialism in 20th-century Poland, tracing the transgressive variations of humanist thought that emerged as forms of resistance amid the... -
The Vigilante Mr John Steinbeck 9780241338957
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of... -
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by... -
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino 9780241339107
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $7.53'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering... -
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied... -
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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada 9780241339244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.85Booksplease Price: $3.74'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and... -
The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin
Booksplease Price: $6.77'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?'Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of... -
The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $6.77'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the... -
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
Booksplease Price: $6.77'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon... -
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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg 9780241337622 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.85Booksplease Price: $3.92'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon... -
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Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King 9780241339466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $4.78'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and... -
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Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams 9780241339824 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.70'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves'Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made... -
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
Booksplease Price: $6.77'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.Penguin Modern: fifty... -
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
Booksplease Price: $6.77'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern:... -
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots Javier Marias 9780241339480
Booksplease Price: $4.99'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues)... -
Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction Carlos Gutierrez-Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara) 9781107100404
Booksplease Price: $215.46Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction examines the fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction. Carlos Gutierrez-Jones argues that the theme of creative self-destruction... -
Solaris by Mark Bould
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick... -
Lance Vladimir Nabokov 9780241339527
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real... -
Fame by Andy Warhol
Booksplease Price: $6.77'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love,... -
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
Booksplease Price: $6.32Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.This mesmerizing...