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Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective by Edward L. Gibson
RRP: €30.35Booksplease Price: €23.61What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties in Latin America? What does this augur for the stable representation of the propertied and socially privileged in political parties?... -
The Islamic Law of Nations: Shaybani's<I> Siyar</I> by Majid Khadduri
Booksplease Price: €34.59From its origins Islam has been an expansionist religion, understanding itself as a matter of faith to be in a permanent state of war with the non-Muslim world. After the initial consolidation of the... -
The Truth about College Admission Workbook: A Family Organizer for Your College Search by Brennan Barnard
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €15.99College admission has always been complicated-and COVID-19 has changed the college search and selection process in profound and challenging ways. But the authors behind the best-selling The Truth... -
What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference by Shoshana Felman
Booksplease Price: €28.74'What does a woman want?'-the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte-is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal... -
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function by Robert Weimann
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large... -
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile by Arturo Valenzuela
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtergreifung by Hitler through the downfall of democracies. In a... -
Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottman by Jean Gottmann
Booksplease Price: €32.25In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for... -
Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning by Timothy Beatley
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €25.24"That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology", wrote Aldo Leopold in 1933, "but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics". Since then, every generation has taken... -
Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
RRP: €33.92Booksplease Price: €26.42The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions... -
The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History by James Kugel
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €25.19Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of ... -
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson
Booksplease Price: €32.25Lionel Casson offers a comprehensive introduction to the people of ancient Egypt. He describes the structure of Egyptian society-the levels from peasant to pharaoh, the nature of the family, and the... -
Basil Bunting on Poetry by Basil Bunting
Booksplease Price: €34.59"All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what... -
The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity among Black Women in College by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
RRP: €57.72Booksplease Price: €42.42Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as... -
Ovid's Poetry of Exile Ovid 9780801839160
Booksplease Price: €32.84"Someone clever, passionate, and heartbroken comes very near us, and I think it is Ovid. I found it impossible to stop reading these poems. And poems they are."--Richard Wilbur.Someone clever,... -
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by Alexandre Koyre
RRP: €33.92Booksplease Price: €26.06During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the... -
Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 by Bentley Glass
RRP: €37.49Booksplease Price: €28.88Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are... -
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks
Booksplease Price: €36.35In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. "The English Elegy" is an... -
The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II by Louis Galambos
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €19.27'About the AuthorLouis Galambos is a research professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and an editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.ReviewsA timely and well-conceived collection of... -
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency by Larry Berman
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.84Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the Reagan legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? "Looking Back on the... -
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature by Susan Stewart
Booksplease Price: €34.01From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional... -
Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management by JoAnne Yates
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.84A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.About the AuthorJoAnne... -
A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder by J. R. Partington
Booksplease Price: €34.95For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful... -
Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution by Roger H. Brown
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.84Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia convention -- ostensibly called to revise the Articles of Confederation -- so intent on scrapping the old system and drawing up a completely new frame of... -
The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education by D. G. Hart
RRP: €29.16Booksplease Price: €22.13In The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education, historian D. G. Hart examines the rise of religion to its current place as one of the largest academic disciplines in... -
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the Fifth Century by Bruno Gentili
Booksplease Price: €32.97Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner... -
Spring in Washington by Louis J. Halle
Booksplease Price: €32.62Since first published in 1947, Spring in Washington has become a beloved classic of nature writing. It is now brought back into print, complete with the original drawings by Francis L. Jaques. "As I... -
Shelley: A Critical Reading by Betty T. Bennett
Booksplease Price: €39.64Concentrating on the major poems, Earl R. Wasserman provides a comprehensive critical reading that is organized in terms of conceptual structure of Shelley's work. This achronological structure... -
Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas Bender
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.01'About the AuthorThomas Bender is Dean for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, University Professor of the Humanities, and professor of history at New York University. He is the author of ... -
Structural Equation Modeling with LISREL: Essentials and Advances by Leslie Alec Hayduk
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €52.69Hayduk is equally at ease explaining the simplest and most advanced applications of the program ...Hayduk has written more than just a solid text for use in advanced graduate courses on statistical... -
Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs by Larry R. Ford
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €25.24In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America. From... -
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions by Edward L. Ayers
Booksplease Price: €34.39Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places-these regions-come from? What makes them... -
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas by Richard Price
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.84Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These... -
Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
Booksplease Price: €34.75Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of... -
14 Stories by Stephen Dixon
Booksplease Price: €31.08Stephen Dixon's stories and novels have an original, immediately recognizable sound and feel -a weird blend of Franz Kafka and Frank Capra. Readers of his previous work will find in 14 Stories that... -
Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History by Tim G. Parkin
Booksplease Price: €34.95Classical authors such as Cicero and Plutarch would have us believe that the elderly were revered, active citizens of ancient Rome. But upon closer inspection, it appears that older people may not... -
General Psychopathology: Volume 2 by Karl Jaspers
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €33.37In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that through his work and the work of Hans Gruhle and Kurt... -
The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche by Ralph Harper
RRP: €29.16Booksplease Price: €22.13In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, the author finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude... -
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Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
Booksplease Price: €31.08Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to... -
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition: Volume 8 by Edmund Spenser
Booksplease Price: €46.67Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life...