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John Simons/Since 1955 Paul Simons 9781909526990
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Preface to Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon 9780461664706
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461664706Author John SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life by Professor John Simons 9781743328729
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The Man You're Meant to Be: A Call of Self-Examination for Every Believer, Hypocrite, and Outsider by John Simons 9798384522010
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The Road to Delano by John DeSimone 9781644280317
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98With a foreword by Cesar Chavez's spokesman and speechwriter Marc GrossmanA high school senior, Jack Duncan dreams of playing college baseball and leaving the political turmoil of the agricultural... -
The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson Simon Walters 9781785905698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Do you know your Boosterism from your Backstopectomy? Can you tell Prometheus from Cincinnatus, and if so, do you know what Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to say when he namechecks esoteric... -
Paris of the Plains: Kansas City from Doughboys to Expressways by John Simonson 9781540205179
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Sid Vicious: No One is Innocent by Alan Parker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The last word on Sid Vicious - the world's most iconic punk figure.The old school register for Soho Parish Primary school has a note in the margin recording that five-year-old John Simon Ritchie... -
Salute: The Inside Story of England's Own Goal at Berlin's Olympiastadion by John Leonard 9781801507103
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54One sporting image stands out as the most divisive and controversial in English football history: the sight of the England team making the Nazi salute in Berlin on 14 May 1938. This book examines how... -
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov 9780691131214
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace... -
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace... -
Northfield Poems by A. R. Ammons 9780393044621
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.09Ommateum, his first book, was published in 1955, and was followed in 1964 by Expressions of Sea Level. Corsons Inlet and Tape for the Turn of the Year were published in 1965 by Cornell University... -
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur by Richard Tillinghast 9780472065707
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest American poet of his generation. "Somehow or other...in the middle of our worst century so far," his contemporary and friend Elizabeth Bishop wrote,... -
Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular by Wyatt MacGaffey
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29This book is a brilliant commentary on the political culture of the BaKongo of Lower Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). MacGaffey analyzes texts written by young Kongo men between 1914... -
Total Eclipse Annie Dillard 9781068591884
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning... -
Smile of a Midsummer Night: A Picture of Sweden by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist have written a personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the south their journey leads them all the way up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania... -
The Blues of Heaven: Poems by Barbara Ras 9780822966548
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.30In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother's death; doors to an idiosyncratic... -
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by James E. G. Zetzel
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.82Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's... -
Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974–2024 John Yau 9781632431752
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and... -
50 Drawings to Murder Magic by Antonin Artaud 9780857423504
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.63A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his... -
The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions by Thomas McNamee 9780316262903
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta while simultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychological development. As the... -
Flamingo Court by Luigi Creatore 9780573696114
Booksplease Price: £14.74Comedy This three part "slice of life" takes place in three different condos and has audiences laughing at the truth they see in what might be their own neighbors - only zanier. Flamingo Court has... -
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The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems by Nigel of Canterbury 9789004088658 [USED COPY]
RRP: £295.00Booksplease Price: £32.45Nigel of Canterbury is known for his Speculum Stultorum and Tractatus. This edition brings into print the Passio Sancti Laurentii martiris; epigrams; and marginal poems. It opens with a general... -
Soul Keeping Company: Selected Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido 9781857548402
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. The familiar world becomes richly disquieting, edged with danger: mute... -
All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color by Jina Ortiz 9780299301941
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library... -
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance by Phillipa Hardman
Booksplease Price: £96.11Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin and... -
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780393326659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects... -
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard 9780316497220
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.60A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace... -
America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955 by Lisa Volpe 9780300270891
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.04Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants... -
Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi 9781784108229
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Gathered from over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance - in Gizzi's work, poetry... -
History of My Life: Volumes 7 and 8 by Giacomo Casanova
Booksplease Price: £42.66In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In... -
In Zanesville: A Novel by Jo Ann Beard
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar--a sidekick, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the... -
Composite Fermions by Jainendra K. Jain 9780521862325
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £94.91This book was first published in 2007. When electrons are confined to two dimensions, cooled to near absolute zero temperature, and subjected to a strong magnetic field, they form an exotic new... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780393929744
Booksplease Price: £13.99Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and... -
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what... -
Continuum Mechanics in the Earth Sciences by William I. Newman 9780521562898
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.81Continuum mechanics underlies many geological and geophysical phenomena, from earthquakes and faults to the fluid dynamics of the Earth. This interdisciplinary book provides geoscientists, physicists... -
Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti 9780197637869
Booksplease Price: £32.53In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although... -
Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution by Roberto Gargarella 9780199937967
Booksplease Price: £112.65Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, but this legal history has only recently begun to be subjected to scholarly inquiry. As Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary... -
Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems by Jared Carter 9780803248571
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the... -
The Poetry Life by Baron Wormser 9781933880051
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.95Baron Wormser brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives. In stories funny, tender, sad, and edgy, the narrators register how poetry has changed how they see themselves, how...