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![Prison Letters by Nelson Mandela 9781631495960 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6013507/6090518/9781631495960__23622.1731988331.jpg?c=1 "Prison Letters by Nelson Mandela 9781631495960 [USED COPY]")
Prison Letters by Nelson Mandela 9781631495960 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £5.89First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe. Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark... -
![Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy by Dennis Tedlock 9780871401465 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5984684/6061710/9780871401465__20045.1730087298.jpg?c=1 "Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy by Dennis Tedlock 9780871401465 [USED COPY]")
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy by Dennis Tedlock 9780871401465 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.41This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the... -
The Last Days of California: A Novel by Mary Miller 9780871408419
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.89Fifteen year old Jess is waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With... -
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Brian Matthew Jordan 9781631491467
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £20.29For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges... -
The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard 9780871404190
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404190Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot 9780871407177
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.49The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back... -
The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine Di Giovanni 9781631492952
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.23A masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan 9781631490576
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.60In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly... -
Prophets of Eternal Fjord: A Novel by Kim Leine 9780871406712
Booksplease Price: £23.21From the swarming streets of Copenhagen to the frozen villages of Greenland, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a grand, magisterial story of epic proportion. Earning rave reviews and scores of readers... -
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America Rebecca L. Davis 9781631496578
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining... -
The Drowned World by J G Ballard 9780871403629
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403629Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution Richard Slotkin 9780871406651
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy-one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out... -
Machado de Assis: 26 Stories by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Acclaimed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" by Susan Sontag, as well as "another Kafka" by Allen Ginsberg, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was famous in his time for his... -
Prison Letters Nelson Mandela 9781631495960
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.39First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe. Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark... -
A New Philosophy of Opera Yuval Sharon 9781631496868
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.54Visionary director Yuval Sharon has been celebrated as one of the world’s most innovative opera impresarios, yet he has never adhered to traditional form, observing that most operas “suffer the dull... -
Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams Mark Ribowsky 9781631493379
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr... -
Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side by Trish Hall 9781631497872
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Trish Hall's essential new work on writing well is a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. Hall has spent years immersed in argument, passion and... -
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut) 9780871406613
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.94We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia... -
A Miscellany E. E. Cummings 9780871406538
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.94Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E.E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in... -
The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It by Joanna Scutts 9781631492730
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.53The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed and... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871404084
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.42Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and... -
No Vacancies in Hell: Poems by Daniel M. Epstein 9780871402868
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.34Several long poems of absorbing skill stand out in the book: "Requiem for Christine Latrobe," "Letter Concerning the Yellow Fever," and "The Assassins," an imagined address after the deed from John... -
Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Philip Gefter 9780871404374
Booksplease Price: £25.16Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from... -
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo 9780871401847
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.57Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff... -
The Handbook of Dream Analysis by Emil A. Gutheil 9780871402196
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871402196Author Emil A. GutheilFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm 9781631494185
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.47"A work of courage and ferocious honesty" (Diana Abu-Jaber), Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures from Gloria Steinem to Beyonce embrace the word... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.86In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader Peter Catapano 9781631492983
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.63Since 2010, The Stone-the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in The New York Times-has revived and re-interpreted age-old inquiries to speak to our contemporary condition. Now, doing... -
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) 9780871406637
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.83The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched... -
Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World by Maurice Walsh 9781631491955
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.77The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding aftermath in the early part of the twentieth... -
Is 5 by E. E. Cummings 9780871401649
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.39Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
Booksplease Price: £10.52In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral... -
Black Anima by N J Loftis 9780871403643
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403643Author N. J. LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels by Henry Roth 9780871407627
Booksplease Price: £36.63Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the... -
Education and the Good Life by Bertrand Russell 9780871402127
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.75One of the Great Classic Books on Education by Nobel Prize Winner Bertrand Russell.About the AuthorBertrand Russell (1872-1970) was born in England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His... -
Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn 9781631492945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.40Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb 9781631492969
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.99Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the... -
Cravings of Desire by Woodland Kahler 9780871403650
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403650Author Woodland KahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas by Adam Briggle 9781631490071
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.40When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in... -
The Double Life of Paul De Man by Evelyn Barish 9781631490057
Booksplease Price: £16.67Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive that it threatened to topple the very foundations of...