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Mysteries Uncovered: True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained by Emily G. Thompson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The mysterious is all around us...UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances-Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, some of the most notorious, disturbing and enduring... -
The Gospel of Luke: A Hypertextual Commentary by Bartosz Adamczewski 9783631667200
RRP: £60.70Booksplease Price: £54.28This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of Paul's Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were sequentially... -
The Preface to Luke's Gospel by Loveday Alexander 9780521018814
Booksplease Price: £32.12Luke's two-volume work begins with a formal preface unlike anything else in the New Testament, and it has long been academic orthodoxy that Luke's choice of style, vocabulary, and content in this... -
Luke's Portrait of Paul by John Clayton Lentz, Jr. 9780521433167
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The purpose of this book is to seek a fuller understanding of how the characterisation of Paul in Acts would have been perceived by those who first read or heard the Lucan narrative. As the author... -
Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War by John Henderson 9780521580267
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in valour, conquest and triumph, and the domination of... -
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith 9780140012781
Booksplease Price: £18.84This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the... -
The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition by D.C. Feeney 9780198149385
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.52The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has been the subject of controversy since ancient times, and many modern readers continue to find their presence a source of frustration... -
Where's Larry? Philip Barrett 9781847172761
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Follow Larry the Leprechaun around Ireland, and see if you can find him in Newgrange, at the Rock of Cashel and in Dublin's St Patrick's Day Parade! But it won't be easy: he is hiding in the middle... -
Statius: Silvae Book II by P. Papinius Statius
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £70.03With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its... -
Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War by John Henderson 9780521028660
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.64The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in valour, conquest and triumph, and the domination of... -
The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name... -
Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature by Konstantinos Arampapaslis 9783111061580
RRP: £92.50Booksplease Price: £60.12This volume explores the theme of marginality in the literature and history of the Neronian and Flavian periods. As a concept of modern criticism, the term marginality has been applied to the... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 4, The Early Principate by E. J. Kenney 9780521273725
Booksplease Price: £48.26'Perfection is finality; finality is death'. The poets and prose writers of the first and early second centuries AD were not deterred by the towering stature of their Augustan predecessors from... -
Q6: 20-21. The Beatitudes for the Poor, Hungry, and Mourning by Thomas Hieke 9789042910430
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £77.99The sixth volume in the series Documenta Q is concerned with the reconstruction of the Q text behind Luke 6:20-21 par. Matt 5:2-3,6. The International Q Project's presentation of the critical text of... -
Q12: 8-12. Confessing or Denying - Speaking Against the Holy Spirit - Hearings Before Synagogues - Fleeing Among the Towns of Israel by Christopher Heil 9789068319903
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £82.67This fourth volume in the series Documenta Q is concerned with the reconstruction of the Q text behind Luke 12:8-9 par. Matt 10:32-33 ("Confessing or Denying"), Luke 12:10 par. Matt 12:32 ("Speaking... -
Dynamics Of Marginality: Liminal Characters and Marginal Groups in Neronian and Flavian Literature by Konstantinos Arampapaslis 9783111628486
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88This volume explores the theme of marginality in the literature and history of the Neronian and Flavian periods. As a concept of modern criticism, the term marginality has been applied to the... -
The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets by Winthrop Wetherbee 9780268044121
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61While the structure and themes of the Divine Comedy are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, Winthrop Wetherbee's remarkable new study reveals that Dante's... -
The Hustlers: Gambling, Greed and the Perfect Con by Douglas Thompson 9780330449519
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.41Invitations to John Aspinall and John Burke's illegal gambling parties were the most sought after in 1950s London - only the wealthy and well-connected were allowed past their door. When the police... -
Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World by Paul Roche 9781107526501
Booksplease Price: £32.12Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of... -
The Who's Who of British Crime: In the Twentieth Century by Jim Morris 9781445639246
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.12The Who's Who of British Crime spans the whole twentieth century, and covers an enormous range of crimes and misdemeanours - by turns appalling, brilliant, gruesome and audacious. All the nation's... -
Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics by Charles Martindale 9780199240401
Booksplease Price: £79.38This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 by Kathleen M. Coleman 9780674072015
Booksplease Price: £34.92This volume includes Natasha Bershadsky, "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; Alexander Dale, "Sapphica"; Andrew Faulkner, "Fast, Famine, and Feast: Food for Thought... -
Drakenfeld by Mark Charan Newton 9781447219293
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Inspired by the classical world of Ancient Rome and authors such as C J Sansom, Drakenfeld marks the start of the thrilling fantasy crime series by Mark Charan Newton.They'll kill to hide the truth... -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry by Nora Goldschmidt 9781316632086
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.69Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of... -
The Charge: The Light Brigade, the Crimean War and a Military Disaster by John Harris
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them... The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to lifeThe cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the... -
Democratisation in the Maghreb by J.N.C. Hill
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Compares the political development of four Maghreb countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and MauritaniaThe past few years have been a period of unprecedented political upheaval for the Maghreb. A... -
Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled by Andrew Shifflett 9780521592031
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14This 1998 book offers an examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical... -
The Mirror of the Self - Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire Shadi Bartsch 9780226211725
Booksplease Price: £24.80People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but... -
Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Charles Martindale
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher... -
The Life of William Shakespeare Nicholas Rowe 9781843682455
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.46This rare text is the first ever biography of Shakespeare, written by one of the liveliest dramatists and poets of the early 18th century. This landmark in our understanding of the man and his work... -
Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire by Andy Merrills
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by the unique status of the river, explorers were sent... -
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton by David Quint
Booksplease Price: £46.84Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an... -
General Sir James Scarlett: The Life and Letters of the Commander of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava by Sheppard, Martin 9781399089982
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The morning of the Battle of Balaklava, on 25 October 1854, saw a desperate charge against a greatly superior Russian force. Epitomised by the reckless courage of the British cavalry in the face of... -
Exemplary Traits: Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry by J. Mira Seo 9780199734283
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £73.97How did Roman poets create character? Mythological figures entail their own predetermined plotlines and received characteristics: a soft, maternal Medea is as absurd as a spineless Achilles. For the... -
Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled by Andrew Shifflett 9780521101141
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09This 1998 book offers an examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the republican, libertarian and oppositional potential of the philosophical... -
Winning Against the Odds: My Life in Gambling and Politics by Stuart Wheeler 9781846892950
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.06Winning Against the Odds tells the captivating story of one of England's most fascinating and eccentric men. Stuart Wheeler went to Eton and Oxford. He was an officer in the Welsh Guards, a... -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry by Nora Goldschmidt 9781107180253
Booksplease Price: £112.11Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of... -
The Idea of Epic by J. B. Hainsworth 9780520368590
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The Idea of Epic by J. B. Hainsworth is a sweeping exploration of one of literature's most enduring and contested forms. Moving from Homer and Virgil to Lucan, Milton, and beyond, Hainsworth examines... -
Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife by Miryana Dimitrova
Booksplease Price: £35.83The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization have been appropriated or contested across the... -
The Satires of Horace and Persius by Horace
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory...