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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts by Philip Kitcher 9781631492839
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
The River in the Sky: A Poem by Clive James
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic... -
The Animals: A Novel Christian Kiefer 9781631491498
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals unable to survive in the wild-raptors, a wolf and his beloved bear, Majer, among them. He hopes to marry the local... -
The Bridge by Hart Crane 9780871402257
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.53Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics William J. Cooper (Louisiana State University) 9780871404350
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.33Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs... -
Hollywood Now by William Fadiman 9780871403063
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403063Author William FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Much Loved Books: 60 Bestsellers of the Ages by James O'Donnell Bennett 9780871401953
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871401953Author James O'Donnell BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts Davis Miller 9781631491153
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever... -
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry 9781631493515
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon... -
Words Without Music: A Memoir by Philip Glass 9781631491436
Booksplease Price: £10.80Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new... -
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry 9781631493553
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.77A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the "full-blooded Western genius" (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMurtry's incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north... -
Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac 9780871401861
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.85This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the... -
Italian Casserole Cooking by Angela Catanzaro 9780871401915
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871401915Author Angela CatanzaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Island Voices: Stories from the West Indies by Andrew Salkey 9780871402295
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.92The Caribbean area--a scattering of ethnic and racial groups with a history of colonialism and bloody attempts to assert nationhood--provides an exciting background for these tales of wit,... -
The Last Days of California: A Novel Mary Miller 9780871405883
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22Fifteen-year-old Jess is on a road trip to the end of the world. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery, Alabama, home behind to drive west in anticipation of the... -
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies by Josef Joffe 9780871404497
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.33Once every decade, it is "decline time" in America. In recent years, it has been the unstoppable rise of China that has spelled "finis America." What the Chinese juggernaut is today, the Soviet Union... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang (University of California, Santa Barbara) 9780871404473
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.53Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins,... -
Italianissimo: Italian Cooking at Its Best by Pellegrino Artusi 9780871401892
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Unless you aspire to perfection-to be, in short, a Cordon Bleu-you do not have to be born with a chef's hat on your head to become a good cook. All you need is to love to cook, pay close attention to... -
Marriage and Morals (Liveright Paperbound) by Bertrand Russell 9780871402110
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.03Russell's approach to sex and love is based on the realities of need and desire, rather than on ancient tribal and religious taboos. Marriage and Morals is a clear, unbiased look at morality, a... -
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse by Eric Jay Dolin 9781631492501
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.63In this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history... -
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge 9781631498756
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.57Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) as a seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic—and all too often forgotten—life offers a link from Frederick Douglass to Black... -
The Mentality of Apes by Wolfgang Kohler 9780871401083
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.33Koehler's classic analysis of the intelligence of apes marks a turning point in the psychology of thinking. Through meticulously described experiments, his two-fold aim is to ascertain the degree of... -
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail Eric Jay Dolin 9780871404336
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.73Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.61One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her... -
The Essential Kropotkin the Essential Kropotkin by Emile Capouya 9780871404008
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.17This book is a definitive general selection from all his works, including Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, The Wage System, and Anarchism. The major works represented include Memoirs of a... -
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson 9781631490828
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.10History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a... -
Revolution as Theatre by Robert Brustein 9780871402387
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.17Using his extraordinary grasp of the theatre, Robert Brustein, Dean of the Yale Drama School and prize-winning critic, examines campus turmoil, radicalism versus liberalism, the fate of the free... -
Hold Still: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong 9781631491689
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.55Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But... -
American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Paul Freedman 9781631498169
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.39Hailed as a “grand theory of the American appetite” (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman’s American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant, diverse, if not always... -
Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff 9781631494321
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.68Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries... -
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville by Herman Melville 9780871401229
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.About the AuthorHerman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third child... -
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780871401731
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.07Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the... -
Shula: The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation by Mark Ribowsky 9781631494604
Booksplease Price: £20.70Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect... -
Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count by David Daley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.97With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began... -
Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas by Alice B. Toklas 9780871401311
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.95On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sevigne. Here are shrewd, witty observations... -
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell 9781631494932
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.12The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteries. In a groundbreaking feat of detection hailed... -
Interviews with Black Writers by John O'Brien 9780871402813
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871402813Author John O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Schools Where Children Learn by Joseph Featherstone 9780871402516
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £14.69He was the first critic of American educational practices to champion the British primary system as a model of reform. This book contains all of Featherstone's ideas on sound educational procedures... -
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby 9781324096788
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324096788Author Taylor BrorbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Liveright Publishing...