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Prison Meditations on Psalms 51 and 31 by Girolamo Savonarola 9780874627008
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Savonarola s exposition or meditation on Psalm 51 (the Miserere) and Psalm 31 (In te, Domini, speravi) have not been printed in English during the twentieth century. This book makes that text... -
Juvenal and Persius by Juvenal
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $26.73Mordant verse satire.The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured in this Loeb Classical Library edition. Persius (AD 34-62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later) were... -
The Apostolic Fathers: v. 1 by Bart D. Ehrman 9780674996076
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $26.73Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times... -
The Apostolic Fathers: v. 2 by Bart D. Ehrman 9780674996083
Booksplease Price: $33.92Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691135656
RRP: $195.64Booksplease Price: $159.86Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. Between these two dates,... -
Huckleberry by Zoe Nathan 9781452123523
Booksplease Price: $40.41Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out. Their book is filled with wonderful tips about life and baking but what inspires me most is that I want to make every single... -
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, The FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.84THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history.Boston,... -
Laches by Rosamond Kent Sprague 9780872201347
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. This edition includes notes by Sprague and an updated... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
Booksplease Price: $33.92Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean... -
Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter 9781609388539
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $17.58A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her... -
Description of Greece: v. 3: Bks.VI-VIII, xxi by Pausanias
Booksplease Price: $33.92Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine,... -
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal (Media tie-in) Dick Lehr 9781610395533
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.37Now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp A New York Times Bestseller A Boston Globe Bestseller An ABA Indie Bestseller James Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: $33.92Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
Library of History: v. 7 by Siculus Diodorus 9780674994287
Booksplease Price: $33.92Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
Library of History: v. 12 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: $33.92Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
The Attic Nights: v. 2: Bks.VI-XIII by Aulus Gellius 9780674992207
Booksplease Price: $34.41Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work... -
Josephus by William Whiston 9780785250500
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.29Flavius Josephus was a first-century Pharisee, soldier, informant to the Romans, and writer. He left behind the most extensive writings on ancient Jewish history still in existence. These are his... -
Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus
Booksplease Price: $33.46A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC)... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 2 by Livy
Booksplease Price: $33.92Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. ... -
Lives: v. 9 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: $33.94Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45Our worldwide storytelling heritage is vast and varied and yet contains common threads, themes and motifs running throughout the many legends, whether they hail from the dusty plains of Africa or the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
Booksplease Price: $36.98Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative... -
Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel 9781804090633
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.95When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?" But forecasting is hard. The important events that... -
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo by Plato 9780674996878
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $26.73The fundamental tetralogy on Socrates' final days.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was... -
City Of Joy by Dominique Lapierre 9780099140917 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.94Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen Kovalski, an unkown Polish... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
Booksplease Price: $33.92From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: $33.92Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn 9781541724426
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The Cult of the Dead Cow is the story of the oldest, most respected and most famous hacking group of all time. Its members invented the the concept of hacktivism, released both the top tool for... -
On Buildings by Procopius 9780674993785
Booksplease Price: $33.92Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against... -
American Slavery, American Freedom Edmund S Morgan 9781324105206
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them... -
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era by Harvey E. Goldberg
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35"Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new... -
Trumpnation: The Art of Being The Donald by Timothy L. O'Brien
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.76Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania. This... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780674992801
Booksplease Price: $33.92Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in... -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $26.73The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan,... -
Confessions, Volume II: Books 9-13 by Augustine
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $26.73The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan,... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780674992009
Booksplease Price: $34.41Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum... -
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939 by Charles Morris
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred... -
Posterior Analytics: v. 2: Topica by Aristotle 9780674994300
Booksplease Price: $34.41The philosopher's toolkit.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 ... -
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Classic Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9781839641657
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45The author Hans Christian Andersen is regarded as a national treasure by his homeland Denmark, but his popularity extends far beyond his native shores. As one of the most translated authors in the... -
Save Send Delete by Danusha V. Goska 9781846949869
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Blurb by Robin Richman Schaffer: 'Save Send Delete' is a debate about God between polar opposites: Mira, a poor, Catholic professor and Rand, an atheist author and celebrity. Its based on a true...