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Rome Robert Hughes 9780753823057
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20A dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD.For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and... -
The Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability by Todd May
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $26.03It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the... -
Stoic at Work: Ancient Wisdom to Make Your Job a Bit Less Annoying by Annie Lawson 9781922616739
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.83Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we can control and worry less... -
LVOE II by Atticus 9781472293862
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20In the highly anticipated follow-up to LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a deeper look behind the mask as he... -
The Stoic Leader: Ancient Lessons to Succeed in Business Justin Stead 9781789298307
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A lucid and practical guide that brings Stoic philosophy to life for modern leaders.' Donald RoberstonLearn how to succeed in business with the millennia-old Stoic mindset. A clear and concise... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141442259
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.00A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization... -
Barbarian Warrior vs Roman Legionary: Marcomannic Wars AD 165–180 by Dr Murray Dahm 9781472858061
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.45This engrossing book pits the legionaries of Imperial Rome against their Germanic and Sarmatian opponents in the 2nd century AD. Shortly after Marcus Aurelius came to power in AD 161, the Roman... -
The Stoic Leader: Ancient Lessons to Succeed in Business by Justin Stead 9781789298918
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789298918Author Justin SteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Michael O'Mara Books... -
The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson by Robin C Dix
Booksplease Price: $66.80This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.About the Author0Book InformationISBN 9780367876166Author Robin C DixFormat... -
On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9781907312540
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.58Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman... -
Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.42'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom___For the millions of people who want... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and... -
A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability Todd May 9780226840109
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.12Offering a guide on how to positively engage suffering, Todd May ultimately lays out a new way of thinking about how we exist in the world, one that reassures us that our suffering, rather than a... -
The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of... -
The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live by Arthur W. Frank 9780226260174
Booksplease Price: $30.79Through engaging narratives of illness, medical work, and nursing in which people choose to act in ways that affirm their humanity, "The Renewal of Generosity" depicts the transformation of... -
Caesar's Soldier Alex Gough 9781804362075
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.18Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy?When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark... -
The Roman World by V. Chapot 9780415850438
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $53.20Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a... -
Caesar's Avenger Alex Gough 9781804365786
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The greatest moment in Roman history, from the perspective of the man who could have had it all.Julius Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, his second in command, is surely also in the sights of the... -
The 50th Law by 50 Cent
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first... -
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by Rupert Smith 9780141991603
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS'One of the most provocative and startling books ever written by a British commander ... an update of the two great thinkers on war and peace, Clausewitz and Sun Tsu, for... -
The Wall: The pulse-pounding epic about the end times of an empire by Douglas Jackson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . .Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian's Wall.Through a... -
The Pocket Stoic by John Sellars 9780226682969
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $12.49To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very... -
Why We Believe: Understanding Ourselves in a Complex World Prof. Alister McGrath 9780861549214
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.25Belief: surely it's a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today's rational, science-led culture. The dominant narratives of our age dismiss any... -
Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World by Will Buckingham
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.10What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside our fear of outsiders? When Will Buckingham's partner died, the shock of his grief told... -
Caesar's Soldier by Alex Gough 9781804365762
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy?When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark... -
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott 9780691219158
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.03A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and... -
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott 9780691220703
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.09A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacleIn the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and... -
The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire by Graham Anderson
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.46Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson... -
Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times Prof. Alister McGrath 9780861549221
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.80Belief: surely it's a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today's rational, science-led culture? 'A timely, often bracing and always highly... -
The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire by Graham Anderson 9780415555012
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $45.09Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson... -
A Short History of Greek Literature Suzanne Said 9780415122726
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.29A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature - from Christian authors - over twelve centuries, from Homer's epics to the rich range of authors... -
A History of the Early Church to AD 500 by John William Charles Wand
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50Dr Wand's classic treatment of the early church is concise, comprehensive and makes use of specialist treatises. The organisation of material and lucid style make accessible what is at times a... -
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Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest by Frank McLynn 9780712694179 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $3.52Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King... -
Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel by Huntington Cairns
RRP: $62.57Booksplease Price: $46.38Originally published in 1949. Huntington Cairns identifies the views that major Western philosophers took on law, the problems they considered significant about law, and the nature of the solutions... -
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of... -
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then... -
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.50A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five great thinkers who confronted their own plagues. In any... -
The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad: A New History Greg Fisher (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 9780415842877
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD... -
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the BibleIn our increasingly secular world, holy texts are...