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Transforming the Soul: v. 1 by Rudolf Steiner 9781855841581
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.01'The spiritual-scientific investigator has...to transform the soul itself into an instrument; then - when his soul is awakened and he can see into a spiritual world - he experiences, on a higher... -
3 Days in Leipzig: Smart and Sustainable Travel by Dr Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen 9783967220469
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.31With the BKB travel guide, you can not only plan your trip to LEIPZIG carefully, you can also travel in the certainty that your travel guide was produced in an environmentally friendly way. Nothing... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For... -
Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series... -
Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters by Ronald Primeau 9780292729254
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35As the first full-length critical study of Edgar Lee Masters, Beyond Spoon River is important not only for its reevaluation of this American poet and his work but also for its valuable insights into... -
October Nights by Gerard de Nerval 9780241747247
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.3590 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also... -
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780141395913
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for... -
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson 9781609383473
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $14.53Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," Nature, "Goethe," and "Persian Poetry," less well known... -
Lions by Hans Blumenberg 9780857428264
Booksplease Price: $17.57For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the... -
Theo’s Voice by Peter Crawley 9781806342273
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Theo can neither talk nor read or write, because twenty-four years ago a shooting accident left him aphasic. But was it an accident or was the young man trying to take his own life? And if so, was... -
Facets of a Harmony: The Roma and Their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia by Jan Ort
Booksplease Price: $22.45A crucial contribution to Romani studies focuses on a single Slovak village to explore universal issues of belonging. In this important contribution to contemporary Romani studies, Jan Ort focuses... -
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they... -
Black Box by Amos Oz 9780099303831
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter... -
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they... -
Obscurity by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22The story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate them. After several years abroad, a young man returns to his... -
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71'he sat down and wept, to think that even the rams knew more about the deeds of love than he did' Daphnis is fifteen years old, Chloe thirteen. They are drawn to each other and long to make love... -
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836529075
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.22The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso... -
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Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" by Marc Redfield
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $13.74Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He... -
This is the Garden: An Anthology by 9780711231740
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.88From Homer to Tom Stoppard, writers whose direct concern with gardening may only be slight, find themselves deeply involved with particular, maybe imaginary gardens. Thus gardens turn up in the most... -
Teacher Hacks: Languages by Silvia Bastow 9781036010652
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $21.11Unlock the secrets to effective teaching with "Teacher Hacks," an essential book series for educators dedicated to mastering the art of instruction. In this book, Silvia Bastow and Sinead Moxham zoom... -
The Current of Romantic Passion by Jeffrey Robinson 9780299129644
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83Deftly probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of 'passion' and 'beauty,' Robinson shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western... -
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in Direct Perception to Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner 9781591430353
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.27All ancient and indigenous peoples insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves and not through trial-and-error experimentation. Less well known is that many Western... -
The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play In Seven Acts by Kalidasa
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.59KING Yes. I shall release you - SAKUNTALA When? KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar. Kalidasa's play about the love of... -
My Cyprus by Joachim Sartorius 9781909961784
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The history of the island of Cyprus is in many ways a world history. Its strategic position means it has been coveted by one foreign power after another. All came here: the Phoenicians, Greeks,... -
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Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor 9780241008331 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $5.09From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe... -
Greek Folk Songs (An Anthology) by Joshua Barley 9786185369620
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89The Greek folk songs "Dimotika Tragoudia in Greek" are songs of the Greek countryside, from island towns to mountain villages. They have been passed down from generation to generation in a... -
Where The Jackals Howl by Amos Oz 9780099982005
Booksplease Price: $17.63Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the... -
The Art of Diremption: On the Powerlessness of Art by Leonhard Emmerling
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.32An engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and... -
Phases of Childhood: Growing in Body, Soul and Spirit by Bernard C. J. Lievegoed
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.31-- How can education work in harmony with a child's developing relationship with the world around it?-- How can education take account of body, soul, and spirit?Bernard Lievegoed takes a child's full... -
Four Films Harauld Hughes 9780571393060
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.79WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY RICHARD AYOADEThe defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's last four... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
Mark Anchovy 2: War and Pizza by William Goldsmith
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.25Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective is off to Russia . . .'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese... -
Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism by Paul Fleming 9780804758901 [USED COPY]
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $8.04Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he... -
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced... -
The Models Trilogy Harauld Hughes 9780571393107
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY RICHARD AYOADEThe defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's first... -
Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Toepffer by David Kunzle 9781578069484
Booksplease Price: $26.21Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman,... -
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836559799
Booksplease Price: $20.33An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20...