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The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.99Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a... -
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
Booksplease Price: $19.41Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's... -
Confessions: A New Translation by Augustine
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first... -
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06When Dr David Hosack tilled the America's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental... -
Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.45Fresh 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... -
95 Poems E. E. Cummings 9780871401816
Booksplease Price: $18.80Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life... -
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.96Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine you'll find" (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth... -
Confessions: A New Translation Augustine 9780871407146
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.45No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first... -
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781631494291
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.32Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review)... -
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett 9780871407955
Booksplease Price: $30.53Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell"... -
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel by Jules Feiffer 9780871403148
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.41The legendary Jules Feiffer presents his first noir graphic novel. Spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centres on five formidable women linked fatefully and... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407061
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science,... -
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns: A Novel Elizabeth Kelly 9780871407450
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, from the best-selling author of Apologize, Apologize!, introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old daughter of the idealistic Camp and his manicured,... -
The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly Philip Mudd 9780871407887
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.25Adapting the lessons gleaned from over two decades in government intelligence, Philip Mudd has created a necessary guide to how we approach complex and high-stakes decisions. Filled with logical yet... -
The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times Guy de Maupassant 9781631491894
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.20Widely considered to be the greatest short story writer in all of French literature, Guy de Maupassant helped define the modern short story, deeply influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel... -
The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel by Jules Feiffer 9781631493133
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.75Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale. In The Ghost Script, he plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch... -
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron 9781631490163
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.41In the summer of 1878 three ruthless and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another fought to prove that science... -
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory by Aldo Schiavone 9781631492358
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.63The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. Presiding over the trial and... -
El Paso: A Novel by Winston Groom 9781631493409
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) 9781631494123
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
Gertrude Stein's America by Gertrude Stein 9780871401632
Booksplease Price: $11.83The groundbreaking writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was intensely American, though she lived most of her life in France. She returned only once to the United States, having left it at the age of... -
Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class by J.R. Helton 9781631492877
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.99In the 1980s, somewhere in Austin, Helton was young, married, and jobless. After a few strung-out years trying to make it as a writer, he was caught in a cycle of drunken, coked-up nights, crashing... -
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown 9781631491993
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.02From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9781631491078
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.61The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and... -
The Daughters: A Novel by Adrienne Celt 9781631491948
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.45When Lulu was a child, her grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. Each mother in their family has been given a daughter but each... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts by Davis Miller 9781631492235
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.45In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the... -
Hold Still: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong 9781631492655
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.64When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for... -
Kingdom Come by J G Ballard 9780871404039
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $21.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404039Author J G BallardFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West by Andrew R. Graybill 9780871408570
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.24At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper 9781631494956
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.07Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist... -
Outward Bound by Sutton Vane 9780871403018
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $18.99The climax of the first act of this extraordinary play provides the sort of thrill that comes no oftener than once in a theatrical season. A strange company of ship-mates, mystified by a vaguely... -
American Journal: Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401274
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First... -
Afternoon in the Jungle: From Wagner to Virtual Reality by Albert Maltz 9780871402561
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $21.74This superb collection signals the long overdue return of Albert Maltz, one of the "Hollywood Ten" blacklisted during the McCarthy era, to the forefront of American letters. From "Afternoon in the... -
Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401069
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $18.20In his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being... -
Papa Says: The Story of My Sister Bianca by Cena Christopher Draper 9780871403049
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403049Author Cena Christopher DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Kingdom Come by J G Ballard 9780871403193
RRP: $15.39Booksplease Price: $13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403193Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Fernhurst, Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings by MS Gertrude Stein 9780871401618
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $21.81Gertrude Stein began the creative work that was to earn her the reputation as one of the most original writers of this century with the three pieces in this volume. Fernhurst, a fictional episode... -
On the Nightmare by Ernest Jones 9780871402486
RRP: $27.74Booksplease Price: $26.95On the Nightmare is a searching investigation of this mysterious, often terrifying phenomenon. Curiously enough, no disorder in the history of medical science has evoked such consistent superstition... -
Peace with China?: U.S. Decisions for Asia by Earl C. Ravenal 9780871402578
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.60How and why was the course of America's relationship to Asia changed? What are the prospects for detente with the People's Republic of China? How might the new course affect America's economy and her... -
Journey Into Limbo by Scott Michel 9780871403032
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $23.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403032Author Scott MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Liveright Publishing...