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Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929aEURO"1956 by Glenn D. Smith 9780815608875
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In 1929, ""The Goldbergs"" debuted on the air, introducing Gertrude Berg - and her radio alter ego, Bronx housewife Molly Goldberg - to the nation. The show would become one of the most beloved and... -
Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric by James Garrison 9780520361515
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric explores the intriguing relationship between two distinct literary forms: the epic and panegyric. The study begins with a question inspired by a remark made by... -
Philosophical Orations, Volume I by Maximus of Tyre 9780674997561
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Spring 1884-Winter 1884/85): Volume 15 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503629707
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of 1884-85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and final... -
Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage: Form, Meaning, and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes by Brenda Longfellow 9781107415249
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this book, Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third... -
Works: v. 2 by Prudentius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His... -
The Contents of Visual Experience by Susanna Siegel 9780195305296
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.22What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a... -
Genome Editing by Kursad Turksen 9783319816876
Booksplease Price: £90.56This timely volume explores the use of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome editing, presenting cutting-edge techniques and their applications in treatment of disease. The chapters describe latest methods such as... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Spring 1884-Winter 1884/85): Volume 15 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from the spring of 1884 through the winter of 1884-85, the period in which he was composing the fourth and final... -
Nine Suitcases Bela Zsolt 9780712606899
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine... -
Works: On the Universe by Heraclitus. On the Universe
Booksplease Price: £25.31The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC, learned medicine and philosophy; traveled widely as a medical doctor and... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery... -
Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia by Seneca
Booksplease Price: £25.31Spectacular verse drama.Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific... -
A History of the Middle East: 5th Edition by Peter Mansfield
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington... -
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Booksplease Price: £25.31First things.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there... -
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Arabic Edition] by Mariam D. Ekhtiar 9789774168154
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.39This expansive book reveals the great diversity and range of art of the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and later South Asia. Published to coincide with the historic reopening of the... -
Healing Garden by David Kamp 9781864706444
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.03The idea of a 'healing garden' is well established in many developed countries as a specific form of landscape design method; it meets the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of the... -
Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece by Judith M. Barringer 9780521641340
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93What do Greek myths mean and how was meaning created for the ancient viewer? In Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece, Judith Barringer considers the use of myth on monuments at several key sites... -
On Reading the Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe 9780674636262
Booksplease Price: £33.25Our Constitution speaks in general terms of "liberty" and "property," of the "privileges and immunities" of citizens, and of the "equal protection of the laws"-open-ended phrases that seem to invite... -
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer
Booksplease Price: £32.12Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science... -
The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture: Technology and Society in Republican Italy by Marcello Mogetta
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93In this study, Marcello Mogetta examines the origins and early dissemination of concrete technology in Roman Republican architecture. Framing the genesis of innovative building processes and... -
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer 9781108474177
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science... -
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Andre Laks 9780691175454
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy"... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674268999
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92This volume includes: Daniel Koelligen, " , The Watchdog"; Richard L. Phillips, "Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"; Antonio Tibiletti, "Pondering Pindaric... -
Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4 by Chris Emlyn-Jones 9780856687570
RRP: £30.29Booksplease Price: £28.80Republic, Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments by Quintus Ennius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments... -
Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations Christopher Lillington-Martin 9780367880767
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume aims to encourage dialogue and collaboration between international scholars by presenting new literary and historical interpretations of the sixth-century writer Procopius of Caesarea,... -
Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy by P. J. E. Kail 9780199229505
Booksplease Price: £68.04In his writings, Hume talks of our 'gilding and staining' natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to 'spread itself' on the world. This has led commentators to use the metaphor of 'projection'... -
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey 9780393330533
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.62Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages... -
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis by Todd Dufresne 9780826485816
Booksplease Price: £28.57"Killing Freud" takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, "Killing Freud" ranges... -
Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4 by Chris Emlyn-Jones 9780856687624
Booksplease Price: £119.73Republic, Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of... -
Works: v. 1 by Claudian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique court poetry.Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (AD 394-5 onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume II: Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works by Ennius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major... -
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours Peter S. Onuf 9781324098072
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.85Fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reassured the nation from his deathbed, "Thomas Jefferson survives". Unaware that Jefferson had died hours earlier, Adams was in... -
History of Rome, Volume VI: Books 23-25 by Livy
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as ... -
The Google Story by David A. Vise
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running... -
Works: v. 2 by Claudian 9780674991514
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique court poetry.Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (AD 394-5 onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in... -
Cratylus by Plato 9780872204164
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb edition of 1926. Fortunately, Reeve has done an excellent job. His version is not slavishly literal but is... -
Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam Memoir by James A. Daly 9780700610600
Booksplease Price: £24.14Black Prisoner of War chronicles the story of James Daly, a young black soldier held captive for more than five years by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese and subsequently accused (and acquitted) of... -
Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine by Kursad Turksen 9783319213859
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume presents the current state of laser-assisted bioprinting, a cutting edge tissue engineering technology. Nineteen chapters discuss the most recent developments in using this technology for...