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Harvard University Press: A History by Max Hall 9780674380813
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of... -
A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader by Ring T. Carde 9780674046191
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.94As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects' experience of the world... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Volume 33 by Harvard University Press 9780461428476
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461428476Author Harvard University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 216 -
Cairo by Andre Raymond
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of rich history. The... -
Works: v. 1 by Claudian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique court poetry.Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (AD 394-5 onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the... -
Legal Scholars and Scholarship in the People's Republic of China: The First Generation, 1949-1992 by Nongji Zhang
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.70Law is a moving system of rules that changes according to a nation's political and socioeconomic development. To understand the law of the People's Republic of China today, it is imperative to learn... -
Stratagems by Frontinus
Booksplease Price: £25.03Ancient expertise on water and warfare.Frontinus, Sextus Iulius, ca. AD 35-103, was a capable Roman civil officer and military commander. Praetor of the city in 70 and consul in 73 or 74, 98 and 100,... -
Fiammetta. Paradise by Ugolino Verino
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Ugolino Verino (1438-1516) was among the principal Latin poets in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici. A student of Cristoforo Landino, whose youthful love poems Verino imitated, Verino was a leading... -
A View of the River by Luna Bergere Leopold
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38With the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had "improved" its rivers. We've straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive efforts to... -
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s by Barbara J. Keys
RRP: £66.95Booksplease Price: £54.62In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. She examines... -
The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany by Michael C. Carhart
RRP: £66.95Booksplease Price: £54.62In the late 1770s, as a wave of revolution and republican unrest swept across Europe, scholars looked with urgency on the progress of European civilization. The question of social development was... -
The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation by Amy Gajda
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.76Once upon a time, virtually no one in the academy thought to sue over campus disputes, and, if they dared, judges bounced the case on grounds that it was no business of the courts. Tenure decisions,... -
Saints' Lives, Volume I by Henry of Avranches
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The artistry, wit, and erudition of medieval Latin narrative poetry continued to thrive well into the middle of the thirteenth century. No better evidence of this survives than in the long and... -
One Hundred Latin Hymns: Ambrose to Aquinas by Peter G. Walsh
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90"How I wept at your hymns and songs, keenly moved by the sweet-sounding voices of your church!" wrote the recently converted Augustine in his Confessions. Christians from the earliest period... -
Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species by James T. Costa
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22Charles Darwin is often credited with discovering evolution through natural selection, but the idea was not his alone. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, working independently, saw the same... -
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu Nagahara
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26In this first English-language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment, epitomized by ryukoka ("popular songs"),... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
Booksplease Price: £25.31The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and ... -
Works: v. 3 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father... -
Works: v. 2 by Prudentius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 2 by Athenaeus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration Richard Alba 9780674018136
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems... -
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights Risa L. Goluboff 9780674034693
Booksplease Price: £29.25Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneIn this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American... -
Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy by Roisin Cossar
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £39.56Roisin Cossar brings a new perspective to the history of the Christian church in fourteenth century Italy by examining how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after... -
The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America by Lincoln A. Mullen
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.59The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people's faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions... -
How to Democratize Europe by Stephanie Hennette
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis... -
Letters by M. R. P. McGuire
Booksplease Price: £25.31Correspondence of a Cappadocian Father.Basil the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a... -
Papyri: Selections: v. 2 by A.S. Hunt
Booksplease Price: £25.31Official records from the sands of Egypt.This volume presents papyri relating to public business of various kinds in Egypt from the middle of the 3rd century BC to AD 710, thus including affairs in... -
Roman History, Volume II by Appian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume II: Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works by Ennius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major... -
The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building by Barry Rubin
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38This book is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Palestinians' travail as they move from revolutionary movement to state. Barry Rubin outlines the difficulties in the transition now underway... -
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.45Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be... -
Commentaries: Vol 1: Books I-II by Pius II
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought... -
A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe by Michael H. Creswell
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £55.86Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. In the... -
Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History by Peter Fritzsche
Booksplease Price: £27.76In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they... -
Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper... -
Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons Wei-ming Tu 9780674160873
Booksplease Price: £39.25How Confucian traditions have shaped styles of being modern in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore presents a particular challenge to the intellectual community. Explorations of... -
The Founding of Harvard College: With a New Foreword by Hugh Hawkins by Samuel Eliot Morison
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.45Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities back to Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the... -
Old English Lives of Saints, Volume I by Aelfric
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married... -
Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication by Brian Lennon
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.59Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typically understood as separate domains of activity...