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Poems Of Wine & Revelry by Jim Colville
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani... -
Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan 9780316078672
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.58Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general...Before he was Darren Shan's master...Before the War of Scars...Larten Crepsley was a teenager. And he was sick of the pomp and circumstance of fusty old... -
Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture by Helaine Silverman 9783319351933
Booksplease Price: $90.25This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic... -
Alexander's Relations: Five Friends... Five Decades by Roger Stokes 9781803130903
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.09Where would we be without our memories? And what memories would we have without our relationships? From the swinging 60s to the early 2000s, five friends explore life and love to the full. Once... -
Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture by Mike Robinson 9783319131825
Booksplease Price: $90.25This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic... -
Occupy Tokyo: SEALDs, the Forgotten Movement by Anne Gonon 9789004545922
Booksplease Price: $135.93Japanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build their future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more... -
Present Laughter by Noël Coward 9781350354029
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.71"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee... -
The Passion for Liberty by Tibor R. Machan 9780742531031
Booksplease Price: $86.40In The Passion for Liberty, Tibor R. Machan defends a libertarian conception of a free society, one in which individuals are sovereign, self-governing beings, not subject to others' will without... -
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 9781784876760
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph'He is... -
Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach by Giles MacDonogh 9781566637176
Booksplease Price: $40.37The first full and authoritative biography of the father of gastronomy. MacDonogh not only chronicles Brillat's many pursuits, he also presents a fascinating picture of provincial France under the... -
Tacitus: Annals Book XV by Rhiannon Ash 9781107009783
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $138.82Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the... -
Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism by Jiwei Ci
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $71.08Behind the profound social and economic changes now taking place in China is a complex history of communism's invention and loss of meaning. This history, from 1949 to the present, has been... -
Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism by Jiwei Ci 9780804723732
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Behind the profound social and economic changes now taking place in China is a complex history of communism's invention and loss of meaning. This history, from 1949 to the present, has been... -
Little Book of Berlin Style: The fashion story of the iconic city by Amelie Stanescu 9781035425242
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06With an international population bringing culture from all over the world, a reputation for cool minimal style (read: black), and a party scene where what you wear is everything, Berlin has a... -
Diaghilev and Friends by Joy Melville 9781905791910
Booksplease Price: $43.25Melville's major biography of the Russian impresario brings to life an age of daring sophistication and hedonistic pleasure set against the backdrop of a swiftly changing world. In Paris and London,... -
Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab by Robert Hessen 9780822959069
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $55.11Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later became the first... -
Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men M.V. Lee Badgett 9780226034010
Booksplease Price: $55.67This work explores the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. It debunks common stereotypical ideas about gay privilege, income and consumer behaviour. By studying the ends and... -
Granta 11: Greetings From Prague by William Boyd 9780140073836
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $31.51What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a... -
Moore's Ethics by William H. Shaw
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $32.21This Element critically surveys the full range of G. E. Moore's ethical thought, including: (1) his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that 'good' designates a simple, indefinable property,... -
Hunger Raymond Tallis 9781844651559
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique... -
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics by Patrick Lee 9780521124195
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $47.97Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. Lee and George... -
Drunk Dogs: Hilarious Pics of Plastered Pups Charlie Ellis 9781800070219
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01WTF? THAT POOCH IS ON THE HOOCH!Dogs love a drink! When you're not looking, your four-legged friend is busy knocking them back. This book gathers the best photos of dogs getting buzzed off booze and... -
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics by Patrick Lee 9780521882484
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. Lee and George... -
Creations Of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History From Alchemy To The Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb 9780738205946
Booksplease Price: $45.49In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing... -
Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought by M. Andrew Holowchak 9781441112378
Booksplease Price: $78.74This book presents a fresh exploration of happiness through the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers. It introduces readers to the main currents of Greek ethical thought (Socratic living,... -
You Know The Sun Bothers Me by Ryan Falzon 9781917544085
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.07School’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming... -
Moore on Right and Wrong: The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore by W.H. Shaw 9780792332237
Booksplease Price: $176.59G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh ... -
The Private Life of an Eastern King: By a Member of the Household of His Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude by William Knighton 9781108046701
Booksplease Price: $69.17The writer William Knighton (c.1824-1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803-37),... -
Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective by Luigino Bruni
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal utility. This impressive volume presents an... -
Outlier by Malaika Kegode 9781914228339
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.63"The sky was painfully big, but our worlds were small, our lives little. So when we found each other in the muddle of it all, that feeling of belonging was addictive." Mal, Ama, Lewis and Oskar... -
Giants by Russell Hatler 9780359838813
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $34.75Russ Hatler's tenth novel, Giants, is set in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. It tells the story of a brave, resilient people reeling from the wrath of Mother Nature while struggling... -
The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s by Brett L. Shadle 9781526106810
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.29Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as... -
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes Loren Estleman 9781848567474
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.03Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until Queen Victoria... -
Ethical Studies by F. H. Bradley 9781108040259
Booksplease Price: $59.57British Idealist F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was one of the most distinguished and influential philosophers of his time. He made contributions to metaphysics, moral philosophy and the philosophy of... -
Sing for Your Supper! by Ian Bloomfield 9781836281443
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42From the age of ten Ian Bloomfield worked as a professional musician, as a pianist, as a French Horn player, and later as an opera singer. From performing with the English National Opera, the Royal... -
Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men by M.V. Lee Badgett
Booksplease Price: $179.38This work explores the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. It debunks common stereotypical ideas about gay privilege, income and consumer behaviour. By studying the ends and... -
Five Guys Chillin' by Peter Darney 9781786820037
Booksplease Price: $26.15A graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the chill-out chem-sex scene. "Wanna pair of shorts? Shot of G? Line of Meth?" From surgeons to students, couples to kink; guys that love... -
Mothers by Chris Power
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019Mothers is peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - characters who... -
Moore on Right and Wrong: The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore by W.H. Shaw 9789048144891
Booksplease Price: $179.42G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh ... -
What Foreign Shore: Poems Based on the Odes of Horace by Sean Taylor 9781781329344
Booksplease Price: $23.93Why has a reclusive poet from the first-century Roman countryside exerted such compelling influence over two thousand years, over poets as diverse as Jonson, Keats, and Auden? Most widely known for...