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Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul Mark Ribowsky 9781631491931
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.62When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy built the first black-owned music empire at Motown but Redding was... -
Running Wild by J. G. Ballard 9781631493478
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.00A massacre rocks a suburban utopia-thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing-in Running Wild, one of Ballard's most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction. "To Ballard, lack of choice . ... -
Unbind Your Sons by Alex Campbell 9780871402271
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871402271Author Alex CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.12From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation... -
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon 9780871407153
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.37Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity, and wisdom. Rather than the dry... -
Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World by Philip Mudd
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.75On 9/11 the CIA changed. Once a organisation focused on information gathering, it became a militarised force. As Philip Mudd explains, at that time, came a different breed of prisoner, one who wanted... -
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan 9781631490583
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, Machiavelli's influence on the modern state is... -
Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly 9781631492808
Booksplease Price: £20.58Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this... -
Dostoevsky: Reminiscences by Anna Dostoevsky 9780871401175
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.98The present translation of the Reminiscences is based on the second Russian edition, published in Moscow in 1971 and edited by the Dostoevsky scholars S. V. Belov and V. A. Tunimanov. They have... -
Common Credo: The Path Back to American Success by John E. Schwarz 9780871403391
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.20Today, bitter partisanship has sunk our politics into unending stalemate, millions of Americans are struggling to get ahead financially, and cynicism about the effectiveness and fairness of our... -
Pearl: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage 9781631492549
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.58One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his "compulsively readable" translations (New York Times Book Review)... -
In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty by Mark Ribowsky 9781631493096
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.33For generations, American athletes have enjoyed the ever-escalating celebrity lavished upon them when they combine on-the-field talent with off-the field charisma, but never before have we seen as... -
Black Anima by N. J. Loftis 9780871405623
Booksplease Price: £4.76A remarkable and delightful variety of poetic languages is displayed throughout the work: songs, hymns, invective, elegy, sermons, polemic, and prose poetry. It is rich in historical and literary... -
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified-long before Freud-anxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human existence largely as a constant struggle with our... -
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9781631495977
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.01Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self,... -
Prison Letters Nelson Mandela 9781631495960
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.68First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe. Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871406736Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen 9781631490446
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a... -
Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn 9781631492945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871404084
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and... -
No Vacancies in Hell: Poems by Daniel M. Epstein 9780871402868
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.88Several long poems of absorbing skill stand out in the book: "Requiem for Christine Latrobe," "Letter Concerning the Yellow Fever," and "The Assassins," an imagined address after the deed from John... -
The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard 9780871404190
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404190Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Live Cinema and Its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola 9781631493669
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.25So convinced is Francis Ford Coppola that "live cinema" will become a powerful medium within the larger film industry that he has crafted this instructional book, filled with lively anecdotes and... -
The Last Days of California: A Novel by Mary Miller 9780871408419
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.78Fifteen year old Jess is waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With... -
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy 9780871402998
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.41In the last two days of his life, Peter Carson completed these translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer. Carson, the eminent publisher, editor and... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb 9781631492969
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.09Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9780871404237
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.10Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.44In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine Di Giovanni 9781631492952
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.62A masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for... -
Sweetland: A Novel by Michael Crummey 9781631491108
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.94The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mainland government offering each islander a generous... -
The Handbook of Dream Analysis by Emil A. Gutheil 9780871402196
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871402196Author Emil A. GutheilFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side by Trish Hall 9781631497872
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92Trish Hall's essential new work on writing well is a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. Hall has spent years immersed in argument, passion and... -
Is 5 by E. E. Cummings 9780871401649
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.50Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the... -
Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm 9781631494185
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99"A work of courage and ferocious honesty" (Diana Abu-Jaber), Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures from Gloria Steinem to Beyonce embrace the word... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
Booksplease Price: £10.81In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral... -
Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader Peter Catapano 9781631492983
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.28Since 2010, The Stone-the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in The New York Times-has revived and re-interpreted age-old inquiries to speak to our contemporary condition. Now, doing... -
Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams Mark Ribowsky 9781631493379
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr... -
A Miscellany E. E. Cummings 9780871406538
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E.E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in... -
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot 9780871407177
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.82The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back... -
Education and the Good Life by Bertrand Russell 9780871402127
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.27One of the Great Classic Books on Education by Nobel Prize Winner Bertrand Russell.About the AuthorBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was born in England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His...