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The Odyssey: Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell by Barry B. Powell 9780199925889
Booksplease Price: £37.72The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now... -
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction by Richard Janko 9780521035651
Booksplease Price: £35.47This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were... -
Crete: Discovering the 'Great Island' by John Freely 9781845116927
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.26Crete, the 'Great Island' of Greece, has been home to such figures as the legendary King Minos, El Greco and Nikos Kazantzakis. In myth, it is associated with Daedalus and Icarus and the story of... -
Gods' Wine by Dingo Marhax 9780244366940
Booksplease Price: £11.34A rich Cypriot gangster hires flying winemaker Richard Green to find a mysterious vineyard somewhere in Eastern Europe. A vicious new Capitalism is devouring the post-Communist Balkan states, where... -
Beginning Greek with Homer by Frank Beetham 9781853994807
Booksplease Price: £31.86This is a course for those who wish to read Homer in the original tongue but know no Greek, or are only just beginning to work through a course in Classical Greek and wish to read Homer from a very... -
Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.80'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.Introducing Little Black... -
Kubrick's Monolith: The Art and Mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Joe Frinzi 9781476664422
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Reconsidering Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in a post-millennial context, this informative study examines the making of the landmark film with a focus on its artistic and mythic pedigree... -
The Biblical Tour of Hell by Matthew Ryan Hauge 9780567662569
Booksplease Price: £40.79It is difficult to underestimate the significance of the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 within the biblical tradition. Although hell occupies a prominent position in popular... -
Dare to Grow Up: Learn to Become Who You Are Meant to Be by Paul Dunion 9780910155878
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.57People often think that maturity is something that you gain over the years, that by simply living long enough, you'll end up a mature person. But it's an achievement, one that not only takes time, of... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2027-2028 Christopher Burnand 9781350384538
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Classical Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2027 to 2028. The texts covered are:HerodotusSections VI (How Arion was Saved by a Dolphin),... -
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Simply the Quest by Maz Evans 9781910655511 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.68The second book in the hilarious bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT series; perfect for fans of David Solomons! 'I totally fell in love with Elliot and the gods, and I... -
Odyssey & Illiad by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
Booksplease Price: £25.08Two great epics of Western Culture are combined here into one volume. The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War of the Ancient Greeks, focusing on the struggles of Achilles. The Odyssey covers the... -
Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone Jeffrey Richmond-Moll 9780226847245
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £36.05A richly illustrated volume accompanying the first retrospective of Black and Indigenous American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) broke international, racial, and gender barriers... -
Simply the Quest by Maz Evans 9781910655511
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.43The second book in the hilarious bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT series; perfect for fans of David Solomons! 'I totally fell in love with Elliot and the gods, and I... -
Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War: The Tale of Achilles and the Tale of Troy Adam J. Goldwyn 9781032980775
Booksplease Price: £60.08This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives... -
Bird on a Wire by Kate Gordon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A seagull above Said, "See, look here, loves, I've winged my way further than you!" A soaring brown hawk Said, "Hey, you two dorks, See me stick to the clouds here like glue!" From the illustrator... -
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, Comic Edition Gloria Ladson-Billings 9780807783566
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.41This graphic novel is a beautiful reimagining of the classic text about reaching and teaching African American children. The Dreamkeepers has been a perennial favorite with teachers and programs of... -
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition by Lynn Gamwell 9780691191058
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.49How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded,... -
Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries by R. Drew Griffith 9780761842989
Booksplease Price: £56.12Homer presents a world-view in which death represents the end of consciousness and total annihilation of personhood. Yet in Odyssey, Book Four, he contradicts this by saying that one man at least... -
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: My Untold Story of the Struggle for Tibet by Anne F. Thurston
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo... -
Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 5: Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices by James Henry Breasted 9780252069918
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46An indispensable companion to any of the other volumes of Ancient Records of Egypt, the Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices facilitates direct access to specific information on the people,... -
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education by Orville Vernon Burton 9780252076657
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary, this collection addresses the significance of Brown in the contributors'... -
A French Christmas: Festive Tales for a Joyeux Noël Various 9781784879914
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Joyeux Noel! Merry Christmas! These festive stories welcome Christmas a la francaise - delicious, chic and unexpected. Sparkling Parisian streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks,... -
Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities D. E. Osto 9780231216555
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and... -
Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods
Booksplease Price: £27.56How could the Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most prolific cultural centres, be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This revised edition of Clyde Woods's classic book examines... -
A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser 9780253211217
Booksplease Price: £27.37"Though far from the author's usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac . . . this is a fine... -
Ancient Records of Egypt: VOL. 3: THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY by James Henry Breasted 9780252069758
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Volume 3 of Ancient Records of Egypt opens on the chaotic aftermath of King Akhenaten's religious revolution. Breasted chronicles the precarious reigns of Akhenaten's successors and the political and... -
Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 4: The Twentieth through the Twenty-sixth Dynasties by James Henry Breasted 9780252069765
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70With volume 4 of Ancient Records of Egypt, James Henry Breasted brings us to the end of the self-governed era of ancient Egyptian civilization. Chief among the documents contained in this volume are... -
The Art of NASA: The Illustrations That Sold the Missions, Expanded Collector's Edition Piers Bizony 9780760382578
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £53.19In this expanded collector's edition of The Art of NASA, complete with a paper model Lunar Module and a poster, explore over 200 stunning artworks commissioned by NASA to sell its missions. Formed in... -
Ancient Records of Egypt: VOL. 2: THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY by James Henry Breasted 9780252069741
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.96This volume extends Breasted's remarkable documentary history through the reign of King Tutankhamun. By providing the first definitive transcription and the first English version of hundreds of... -
The Prince's Boy by Paul Bailey
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to... -
The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery Lindsay O'Neill 9781512827200
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slavery In 1716 two princes from Mpfumo-what is today... -
A Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space by Grace George Corrigan 9780803264113
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Most people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, just as they remember how they felt when humans first set foot on the moon. Elements of both reactions are present in the... -
Tides of Fire: A Thriller by James Rollins 9780062893079
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.86In the latest riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive... -
Ancient Records of Egypt: vol. 1: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties by James Henry Breasted 9780252069901
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Around the turn of the last century, James Henry Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This... -
Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities D. E. Osto 9780231216548
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and...