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The Beautiful and the Grotesque by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780871401922
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.34Ever since his death in 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa has been hailed as one of the greatest short story writers in world literature. Most famous for his story Rashomon and the Kurosawa movie it... -
Selected Papers of Wolfgang Kohler by Wolfgang Kohler 9780871402530
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.11One of the pioneers of Gestalt psychology, Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) broke new ground in numerous areas of human thought. This collection of writings spans Koehler's brilliant and productive... -
The Red Car: A Novel by Marcy Dermansky 9781631493393
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.03In her "dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups" (People), celebrated novelist Marcy Dermansky offers a biting exploration of a woman's search for self-realization and models of a life... -
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi 9780871404565
Booksplease Price: £80.96Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most astute intelligence," has largely been considered a... -
The Place of Value in a World of Facts by Wolfgang Kohler 9780871401076
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.83In this important and challenging book, Wolfgang Koehler's subject is value, or what he calls the "requiredness" of an object or activity. Starting with a descriptive account of values as we become... -
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse 9781631494512
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith... -
Sweetland: A Novel by Michael Crummey 9780871407900
Booksplease Price: £21.69The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous... -
Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side by Trish Hall
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.23Trish 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 Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence by Marilyn Brookwood
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.06"Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his... -
The Hero's Body: A Memoir by William Giraldi 9781631492938
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.35At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated... -
Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth by Craig Ryan 9780871406774
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.00Sixty years ago, cars and aeroplanes were deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than they were, thanks in part to a pioneering US Air Force doctor's research on seatbelts and ejection... -
My Foreign Cities: A Memoir Elizabeth Scarboro 9780871407399
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.65When she was just seventeen, independent and ambitious Elizabeth Scarboro fell in love with irreverent and irresistible Stephen. She knew he had cystic fibrosis, that he was expected to live only... -
Malcolm: A Comic Novel by James Purdy 9780871409577
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.65The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as "the boy on the bench", the titular character of Malcolm is a... -
On Augustine: The Two Cities Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407078
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.12Augustine's political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Europe but also much of the modern world. In On Augustine Alan Ryan carefully lays out the complicated... -
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography by J G Ballard 9780871404206
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404206Author J G BallardFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies Josef Joffe 9780871408464
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.48America-bashing predates America: French Enlightenment philosophies claimed that the colony was doomed and one critic reported that the colony's population was "astonishingly idiotic [and] enervated"... -
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan 9781631490590
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.95In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the... -
Best Boy: A Novel by Eli Gottlieb 9781631491924
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.18Sent to a "therapeutic community" for autism aged eleven, Todd Aaron is now in his fifties. A joyous man who re-reads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrival of... -
Eustace Chisholm and the Works: A Novel by James Purdy 9780871409522
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.84No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to "a game of... -
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings 9780871401762
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The poems in Etcetera were discovered in three Cummings manuscript collections and selected from more than 350 unpublished pieces. Many of the poems are from his early years and all convey his... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically... -
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes 9780871404121
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.45The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of... -
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler 9781631495953
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.23Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event... -
Letters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) 9780871403773
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.90Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson... -
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 9780871403179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.99This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and... -
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times Jerome Charyn 9781631493874
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.33Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through... -
Hello America by J G Ballard 9780871404183
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404183Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson 9781631492525
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871406705
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.56Henry 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... -
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings 9781631490415
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.11With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for... -
The Story of America: From the Very Beginning Up to the Present by Hendrik Willem Van Loon 9780871403001
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.11As a thrilling, magnificent story of the backgrounds of our country, of those rough pioneers who build that we might live, of the struggle to preserve our unity and our happiness, and of those modern... -
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings by Ferdowsi 9781631494468
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £93.13Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes... -
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson 9780871403858
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson... -
Death in the Woods and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson 9780871401854
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.22Still fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson's unforgettable characters. In Death in the Woods, we... -
Gestalt Psychology: The Definitive Statement of the Gestalt Theory by Wolfgang Kohler 9780871402189
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £19.47Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, the influential school that argues that perception is best understood as an organized pattern rather than as separate parts... -
The Classic Arabian Horse by Judith Forbis 9780871406125
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.76The beauty, grace, and uniformity of these magnificent horses, bred selectively for centuries, are unexcelled, and every Arabian owner will agree that there is a spiritual bond and kinship between... -
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted by Laura Caldwell 9781631490880
Booksplease Price: £35.79Long thought to be statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, wrongful convictions-we are just beginning to learn-happen with frightening regularity. But very few people understand... -
An Anthology of Pure Poetry by George Moore 9780871402769
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.83Almost fifty years since the anthology's first appearance, it is still the only such one ever attempted. By "pure poetry" Moore meant lasting objects of verbal beauty and imagination that serve no... -
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.28First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions... -
A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army by Brian Matthew Jordan
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.38Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand...