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The Concept of Community: Readings with Interpretations by Scott Greer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, yet it is pre-eminent in discussions of man and his world. The... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander 9781780222295
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to... -
Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It by Jason Finch
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities'... -
Olga Tokarczuk: Comparative Perspectives Lidia Wiśniewska 9781032439280
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative... -
Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons (Grade 4) by Lindsay Kasten
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English... -
When Marx Mattered: An Intellectual Odyssey by Harold J. Bershady
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04A beautifully written, trenchant, and moving memoir, When Marx Mattered follows Harold J. Bershady's odyssey from childhood through his coming of intellectual age. The wounds and pleasures of his... -
The Holocaust Novel Efraim Sicher 9780415967976
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to... -
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition by Edward Alexander 9781138508200
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14The 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... -
Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch Raimond Gaita 9780415865333
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The voices in this volume, those of philosophers from Britain, Europe, America and Australia, speak in different tones of sumpathy and criticism of Winch and his conception of human conditioning.Book... -
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature by Joseph Sherman
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £61.79To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? How far did this culture shape the self-perception of Yiddish-speaking Jews of... -
Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner 9780367347994
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be... -
A Short Literary History of the United States Mario Klarer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 9780415742177
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66A Short Literary History of the United States offers an introduction to American Literature for students who want to acquaint themselves with the most important periods, authors, and works of... -
Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central Europe by Carl Tighe
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Milan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse... -
Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £91.09Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be... -
Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapter in Organizational Ethnography by Michael Rosen
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and... -
Classical Liberalism and the Jewish Tradition by Edward Alexander 9780765801531
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78The 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... -
How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans 9781632062628
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.97Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how... -
Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit by Elizabeth Dipple
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers, published in 1980. The Fire... -
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Ufos Are Coming Wednesday by Eric Sykes 9780863699245 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.50The universe is at risk and a message is sent to Earth - "UFOs are coming Wednesday". Is this a hoax, and if so who is the mysterious visitor to Norman Waterhouse's barber shop in Grapplewick,... -
Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers by Barbara Levy 9789056995430
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control",... -
Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular culture and environmental discourse by Elena dell'Agnese
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a... -
The Trick: A Novel by Emanuel Bergmann 9781501155833
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern-day Los Angeles, "The Trick is a lyrical, uplifting, and funny story that will tug at all of your heartstrings" (Armando Lucas Correa,... -
Children's books, brain development, and language acquisition by Ralf Thiede
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book correlates English-speaking children's brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from children's books. Drawing from the most current research on... -
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 9780691168517
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience... -
Walking Four Ways in the Wind by John Allman 9780691627915
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering,... -
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 9780691160740
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.48The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691149462
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse 9780691165813
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.71Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks... -
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image by Daniel B. Schwartz
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in... -
Candide the Tenth and Other Agitations: Prose and Poetry by Leon Sharpe
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80In the stories and poetry that comprise 'Other Agitations, ' Mike Sharpe's ingathering of history, economics, literature, and philosophy richly informs his satire. Franz Kafka, Jane Austen and Ernest... -
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America by Nancy Foner 9780691255354
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern AmericaThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we... -
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival by Genevieve Zubrzycki 9780691237220
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by... -
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America by Nancy Foner
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.64An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern AmericaThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we... -
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival by Genevieve Zubrzycki
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by... -
Rivers Last Longer: A Novel by Richard Burgin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12As teenagers in Brookline, Massachusetts, Barry and Elliot were best friends, sharing their passions for sports, music, movies, and girls, as well as their dreams of literary fame. Years later, when... -
Luck! A New Musical by Mark Waldrop 9780573697043
Booksplease Price: £14.79Comedy / 6m, 6f, a larger ensemble may be used In this fractured folk tale based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mazel and Shlimazel, the spirits of Good Luck and Bad Luck, make a bet to... -
The Lost Shtetl: A Novel by Max Gross
Booksplease Price: £13.26WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIESGOOD MORNING AMERICA MUST READ NEW BOOKS * NEW YORK POST BUZZ BOOKS * THE MILLIONS MOST... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.58Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment... -
Small Worlds Allen Hoffman 9780789205827
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The first volume in Allen Hoffman's critically acclaimed series, Small Worlds takes place in 1903 and introduces the wondrous rebbe of Krimsk-a small Hasidic settlement in Eastern Europe. Secluded in... -
Kagan's Superfecta and Other Stories by Allen Hoffman 9780789206862
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The art of Jewish storytelling thrives in this captivating collection of tales by Allen Hoffman, filled with memorable characters. This captivating collection of stories by Allen Hoffman, award...