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Harvard University Press: A History by Max Hall 9780674380813
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.10A 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... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Volume 33 by Harvard University Press 9780461428476
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461428476Author Harvard University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint HardPress... -
A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader by Ring T. Carde 9780674046191
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $51.97As 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... -
Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens by David Stuttard
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $51.75A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and... -
A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company by Rupali Mishra
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $55.71At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world's trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of... -
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication by Michael Friendly
RRP: $66.20Booksplease Price: $56.30A comprehensive history of data visualization-its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to... -
Golden Ass: v. 2 by Apuleius
Booksplease Price: $49.10A beguiling tale of mistaken transformation.In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful... -
Parisiana poetria by John of Garland
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.65The Parisiana poetria, first published around 1220, expounds the medieval theory of poetry (ars poetica) and summarizes early thirteenth-century thought about writing. While the text draws on... -
Prague: Belonging in the Modern City by Chad Bryant
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $32.86A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning cities.What does... -
Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922 by Katrin Schultheiss
RRP: $150.05Booksplease Price: $121.66In the French Third Republic, nursing was an occupation caught in the crosscurrents of conflicting notions about the role of women. This deft political history shows how the turmoil and... -
Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture by W. T. Lhamon
RRP: $136.40Booksplease Price: $111.01Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered-and forever transformed-American popular... -
Writings on Church and Reform by Nicholas
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.23Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a... -
The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another by Rebecca D. Cox
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $34.91They're not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students-children of immigrants and blue-collar... -
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta R. Krippner
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $41.30In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In Capitalizing on Crisis, Greta... -
The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan by Monica Azzolini
RRP: $105.20Booksplease Price: $86.70This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective... -
Lives and Miracles by Gregory of Tours
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $51.21Gregory of Tours served as bishop of Tours, then a city in the Frankish kingdom, from 573 to 594. Acclaimed by the French as "the father of our history" on account of his History of the Franks, he... -
Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan by Takeshi Watanabe
RRP: $107.15Booksplease Price: $88.24Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn... -
Plato as Critical Theorist by Jonny Thakkar
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $63.34What is the best possible society? How would its rulers govern and its citizens behave? Such questions are sometimes dismissed as distractions from genuine political problems, but in an era when... -
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 2: Books vi X by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.23Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive... -
Works by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius... -
On Architecture: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Vitruvius
Booksplease Price: $49.10The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He... -
Ennead: Bk. 4 by Plotinus
Booksplease Price: $49.10Plato's most influential disciple and proponent.Plotinus (AD 204/5-270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic ... -
The Learned Banqueters: v. 1 by Athenaeus
Booksplease Price: $49.10Scholars 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 the... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $49.10Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the... -
History of Rome, Volume IX: Books 31-34 by Livy
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17.Livy's history, composed as the... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
Booksplease Price: $49.10A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for ... -
History of Rome, Volume VI: Books 23-25 by Livy
Booksplease Price: $49.10Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as ... -
The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope: Volume IV by Titus Maccius Plautus
Booksplease Price: $48.81Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of... -
Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: $93.50Booksplease Price: $77.01Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of the... -
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America by Walter A. Friedman
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.10In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century... -
Lives of the Popes: v. 1: Antiquity by Bartolomeo Platina
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.65Bartolomeo Platina (1421-1481), historian, political theorist, and author of a best-selling cookbook, began life as a mercenary soldier and ended it as the head of the Vatican Library. A papal... -
Christianity and American Democracy by Hugh Heclo
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.10Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other... -
Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age by Susan K. Cahn
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.69Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals... -
On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching by James M. Lang
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $34.91You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the... -
Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918 by Andrew Donson
RRP: $109.10Booksplease Price: $89.76The first comprehensive history of German youth in the First World War, this book investigates the dawn of the great era of mobilizing teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments in state-building... -
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag by Senior Research Associate Oksana Kis
RRP: $153.95Booksplease Price: $125.68Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study... -
On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition by Charles Darwin
RRP: $50.60Booksplease Price: $43.54It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence... -
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.65Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for... -
The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts by Amber D. Moulton
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $74.53Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway,... -
Working Space by Frank Stella
RRP: $50.60Booksplease Price: $41.77Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world's most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other...