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The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.75Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures... -
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96'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... -
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74The 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: $37.80Booksplease Price: $35.01A 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... -
Noricum by Geza Alfoldy 9781138018167
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.61The Roman province of Noricum occupied most of Austria as well as parts of Italy, Germany and the Balkans. Noricum, first published in 1974, presents a comprehensive history of Noricum, from 400 BC... -
Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism Mia Fuller (University of California at Berkeley, California, USA) 9780415779852
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $101.01This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller... -
The Lives of the Caesars Suetonius 9780241186893
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme... -
Simone Weil as we knew her by Joseph-Marie Perrin
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $66.19Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth century; a philosopher, Christian (although never baptised), resistance fighter, Labour activist and teacher, described by Albert Camus... -
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.62The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent... -
Beethoven and Greco-Roman Antiquity Jos van der Zanden 9781032047102
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Ludwig van Beethoven had a life beyond music. He considered it his duty to spend leisure-time improving his Bildung (sophistication). To this end he familiarised himself with tangible manifestations... -
Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance by Kelley Helmstutler di Dio 9781138247017
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $111.91The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight. His remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a stonemason's family, to... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over... -
Wellbeing Mark Vernon 9781844651535
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78The politics of wellbeing and the new science of happiness have shot up the agenda since Martin Seligman coined the phrase "positive psychology". After all, who does not want to live the good life?... -
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville 9780140445411
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration... -
Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, C. 31 BC-AD 280 by Brian Campbell
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $91.37This well-documented study of the Roman army provides a crucial aid to understanding the Roman Empire in economic, social and political terms. Employing numerous examples, Brian Campbell explores the... -
A History of Autobiography in Antiquity by Georg Misch
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18This is Volume V of nine historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part two of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do,... -
Walter Pater: The Critical Heritage by R. M. Seiler
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and... -
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories... -
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation by SarahGlendon Lyons
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the... -
Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Matthew Dennis 9780367666965
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new 'cultivation of the self' strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped... -
Letter to a Priest Simone Weil 9780415854689
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.20Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times', Simone Weil was one of great essayists and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith and... -
Seneca: The Life of a Stoic Paul Veyne 9780415762250
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.77The great stoic philosopher, playwright and Roman statesman of the first century, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, exercised enormous influence for nearly fifteen years as tutor and political advisor to the... -
The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era Judith Perkins 9780415127066
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire... -
The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by Barbara Levick
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.30Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so... -
Animals in Celtic Life and Myth Miranda Green 9780415050302
RRP: $283.50Booksplease Price: $250.47Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life: in the economy, hunting, warfare, art, literature and religion. Such was their importance to this society, that an intimate relationship... -
The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama by Donovan Sherman 9780810144149
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.00The Philosopher's Toothache proposes that early modern Stoicism constituted a radical mode of performance. Stoicism-with its focus on bodily sensation, imagined spectatorship, and daily mental and... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrificeIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his... -
Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W. Watts
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87A classic look at man's search for certainty from the acclaimed expert on Eastern philosophyIn this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our... -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected... -
Life: A User's Manual: Philosophy for (Almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96How should I live?What is my purpose? Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life... -
Constantine by Ramsay MacMullen
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $231.84This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th... -
On the Good Life by Cicero
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a... -
Poems And Prophecies by William Blake 9781857150346
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how... -
Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315 by John R. Clarke 9780520248151
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $67.18This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Though they had no access... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9781857150209
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87This is the story of fatal attraction and its consequences. The American narrator's highly-strung wife falls for his bluff, inarticulate English friend. Retrospectively piecing the story together,... -
Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World by Jon Stewart
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $104.77While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly... -
Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from... -
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy Donald Robertson 9781473674783
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium...