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Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique 9781848617728
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the poet's death, it is a dignified elegy that speaks... -
Near-field Microscopy And Near-field Optics by Daniel Courjon 9781860942587
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.41Near-field optics studies the behaviour of light fields in the vicinity of matter, where light is structured in propagating and evanescent fields. Near-field optical microscopy is the straightforward... -
Elegy On Toy Piano by Dean Young
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.19In Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to... -
Afterworld by Christine Garren 9780226284088
Booksplease Price: £90.55Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with... -
Active Plasmonic Devices: Based on Magnetoplasmonic Nanostructures by Diana Martin Becerra 9783319484105
Booksplease Price: £90.56This thesis investigates the effect of the magnetic field on propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), or surface plasmons for short. Above all, it focuses on using the magnetic field as an... -
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.75A new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is... -
A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali 9780393309249
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.20Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled,... -
Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore by M. Rahim Shayegan
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.90The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus's foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond... -
The End of Representative Politics by Simon Tormey 9780745681962
Booksplease Price: £18.18Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast... -
The End of Representative Politics by Simon Tormey 9780745681955
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast. ... -
Pharaoh, Pharaoh: Poems by Claudia Emerson 9780807121597
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.89Written by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pharaoh, Pharaoh is a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of loss, loss of one's land, of one's past, of love itself... -
Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Six critics consider what is significantly not present-- or at least significantly well hidden-- in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates... -
Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 by Nicolas Barker
Booksplease Price: £17.72In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from... -
Scattering And Diffraction In Physical Optics (2nd Edition) by Manuel Nieto Vesperinas 9789812563408
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.47This book presents a comprehensive tutorial on propagation, diffraction and scattering problems from the basic principles of physical optics. Beginning with the fundamental differential and integral... -
Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale: Theory and Applications by Aleksandr I. Volokitin 9783662586204
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book provides a general formalism for the calculation of the spectral correlation function for the fluctuating electromagnetic field. The procedure is applied to the radiative heat transfer and... -
Italian Thought Today: Bio-economy, Human Nature, Christianity by Lorenzo Chiesa 9781138377639
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £42.81This collection provides English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publication of seminal books such as... -
Afterworld by Christine Garren 9780226284095
Booksplease Price: £25.54Lyrical and highly charged, these poems examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality. As the poet struggles with... -
Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s by Iris Smith Fischer 9780472035182
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The theater company Mabou Mines has for the past forty years created pathbreaking new theater by combining the latest concepts in music, visual arts, and technology with traditional forms of creative... -
Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale: Theory and Applications by Alexander I. Volokitin 9783662534731
Booksplease Price: £112.92This book provides a general formalism for the calculation of the spectral correlation function for the fluctuating electromagnetic field. The procedure is applied to the radiative heat transfer and... -
Psychology of Religion by Heije Faber 9780334049258
Booksplease Price: £26.97This book is written by a theologian, or to be more precise, by a theologian who is concerned professionally with religion and with pastoral psychology. The coming to terms with developments in the... -
Conceiving of Personality by Michael Robbins 9780300064223
Booksplease Price: £51.83The quest to comprehend the essence of human nature is as old as the capacity for reflective thought. In this provocative book, Dr. Michael Robbins proposes a new approach that draws upon... -
Active Plasmonic Devices: Based on Magnetoplasmonic Nanostructures by Diana Martin Becerra 9783319839363
Booksplease Price: £91.38This thesis investigates the effect of the magnetic field on propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), or surface plasmons for short. Above all, it focuses on using the magnetic field as an... -
The Four Seasons: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing Amélie Balcou 9780847845705
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £19.88Embracing seasonal change is an important part of Japan s native belief system and an enduring theme of its creative expression. Japanese artists have long celebrated the endless cycle and rhythm of... -
A Full Cone by Miles Champion 9781784104405
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A Full Cone is Miles Champion's second Carcanet volume. It features a substantial body of new work as well as a selection of earlier writing hitherto unavailable in the UK. 'It has often been... -
Map of the Territory by Nigel Forde 9781903039694
Booksplease Price: £13.88Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years,... -
W. S. Graham: The Poem as Art Object by David Nowell Smith 9780192842909
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £84.05On the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a... -
An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists': Ratnakirti's Ksanabhangasiddhih Vyatirekatmika by A. C. S. McDermott 9789401033893
Booksplease Price: £46.28I. RATNAKIRTI. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL CONGENERS AND ADVERSARIES Ratnakirti flourished early in the 11th century A. D. at the University of Vi- kramasila, a member of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school oflate... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9780230355446
Booksplease Price: £48.40Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
Whole Organ Approaches to Cellular Metabolism: Permeation, Cellular Uptake, and Product Formation by James Bassingthwaighte 9781461274490
Booksplease Price: £91.68The field of capillary-tissue exchange physiology has been galvanized twice in the past 25 years. A 1969 conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen resulted in the book Capillary... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods by M. Williams 9781349347155
Booksplease Price: £48.40Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists': Ratnakirti's Ksanabhangasiddhih Vyatirekatmika by A. C. S. McDermott 9789027700810
Booksplease Price: £46.74I. RATNAKIRTI. HIS PHILOSOPHICAL CONGENERS AND ADVERSARIES Ratnakirti flourished early in the 11th century A. D. at the University of Vi- kramasila, a member of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school oflate... -
D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Meditation, and Enlightenment by Steve Odin 9798855803037
Booksplease Price: £31.53A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious."This book explores how the Japanese... -
The Vegetation and Physiography of Sumatra by Yves Laumonier 9789401065023
Booksplease Price: £90.86Fifteen years ago, approximately half the world population was estimated to live in continental and insular South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines). Then... -
Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics I: Basics and Theory of Near-Field Optics by Motoichi Ohtsu 9783642078019
Booksplease Price: £92.09This volume focuses on fundamental aspects of nano-electro-optics. Starting with fiber probes and related devices for generating and detecting the optical near-field with high efficiency and... -
Carnet by Michelle Ong by Vivienne Becker
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.75Michelle Ong established Carnet, her Hong Kong-based boutique jewelry house, over twenty-five years ago, and her unique one-off creations draw on Chinese motifs and her love of European culture and... -
Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107274
Booksplease Price: £113.41In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological... -
Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107281
Booksplease Price: £45.06In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological... -
The Quarry by Dan Lechay 9780821415337
Booksplease Price: £29.68Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there. Like James Wright, Robert Bly,... -
Leadership and the Job of the Executive by Jeffrey A. Barach 9780899309910
Booksplease Price: £76.81Good management skills alone won't get executives and their organizations far enough. What is also needed is the seemingly indefinable, evanescent, quirky, and paradoxical quality called leadership... -
Cancer in Childhood by John O. Godden 9781468420722
Booksplease Price: £90.56Viewed as contributions to continuing medical education, many scientific meetings disappoint because, although program committees plan with care, bring together excellent faculty and expose them to...