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The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch 9781541609372
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541609372Author Adam KirschFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint -
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice Adam Kirsch 9781324105343
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.45Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last 7 October, the term “settler colonialism” has become a centre of political debate in the United States. Many progressives, academics and student organisations... -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from... -
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?: And Other Essays by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18From one of today's keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings... -
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam... -
The Wounded Surgeon: Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets by Adam Kirsch 9780393339352
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Best of it by Kay Ryan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780802145215Author Kay RyanFormat Pape -
We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters by Adam Kirsch 9781967190164
Booksplease Price: £13.14Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them? For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes,... -
Come and Hear - What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £22.05Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi-a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years-Adam... -
Jacob El Hanani by Acquavella Galleries
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £35.00Jacob El Hanani (b. 1947) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and was raised in Israel. He produces highly intricate works through the painstaking repetition of miniscule marks, often Hebrew letters... -
The Romans and Their World: A Short Introduction by Brian Campbell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Drawing on an array of ancient sources, and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization, Brian... -
Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers by Jane Shaw 9780300176155
Booksplease Price: £73.37In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new religion. At the heart of the Panacea Society was... -
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.62There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western... -
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute
Booksplease Price: £20.40Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and... -
Job: A New Translation by Edward L. Greenstein 9780300255249
Booksplease Price: £14.86This "bold new English translation" (Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal) of Job by one of the world's leading biblical scholars will reshape the way we read this canonical text "A work of erudition... -
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but... -
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Daphne Merkin has been hospitalised three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after... -
The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book by Timothy Beal 9780547737348
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.31"Personal and accessible . . . The Rise and Fall of the Bible is Beal's attempt to shatter this popular understanding of the Bible as a combination of divine instruction manual and self-help book... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.40In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There... -
The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems by William Carlos Williams 9780811227889
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.67Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader-The Red Wheelbarrow &... -
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn 9780674241398
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.74"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."-Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and... -
The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern 9780295746173
Booksplease Price: £33.19In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object-the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands-from its beginnings in the Ancient Near... -
Collected Poems Volume I: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams 9781784106713
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the... -
A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions Slavoj Zizek (Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana in Slovenia) 9781509541188
Booksplease Price: £15.29With irrepressible humor, Slavoj i ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim... -
A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions Slavoj Zizek (Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana in Slovenia) 9781509541171
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80With irrepressible humor, Slavoj i ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim... -
The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea by Remi Brague
Booksplease Price: £30.43The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much longer, and its scope so much broader,... -
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin 9780393331578
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.11The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville... -
This Shadowy Place by Dick Allen
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.51Dick Allen's earlier collections have always included poems written in traditional form.But This Shadowy Place is his only book in which every poem is rhymed and metered.Allen's "stand alone" new... -
Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World Slavoj Zizek (Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana in Slovenia) 9781509546114
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.22As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and... -
Pandemic! COVID–19 Shakes the World by S Zizek
Booksplease Price: £41.37As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes and... -
The Jewish Bible: A Material History by David Stern 9780295741482
Booksplease Price: £109.02In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the Jewish Bible as a material object-the Bibles that Jews have actually held in their hands-from its beginnings in the Ancient Near... -
Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism by Steven B. Smith
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.99Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith,... -
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780691258690
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an... -
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter 9780393337044
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.09A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011211
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011204
Booksplease Price: £49.95Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest by Hamid Dabashi 9780674064287
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi'ism as a...