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Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 9780140440591
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.01A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek... -
Chaise Longue by Baxter Dury
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BEST NON-FICTION PICK A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Chaos and debauchery defined Baxter Dury's turbulent childhood. Abandoned by his punk rock star dad Ian... -
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.18'he sat down and wept, to think that even the rams knew more about the deeds of love than he did' Daphnis is fifteen years old, Chloe thirteen. They are drawn to each other and long to make love... -
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski 9780953478040
RRP: $32.30Booksplease Price: $29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478040Author Marghanita LaskiFormat PaperbackImprint -
Words of Hope in Troubled Times by Jose Ramos-Horta 9780648204718
RRP: $37.91Booksplease Price: $29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648204718Author Jose Ramos-HortaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The Alps: An Environmental History Jon Mathieu 9781509527717
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.79Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks... -
I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780198822721
RRP: $56.03Booksplease Price: $51.28Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our... -
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the Xviith Century. by Thomas Longueville 9781240116409
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Allied Warships vs the Atlantic Wall: Normandy 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472854155
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.78A fascinating exploration of the often-overlooked gunnery duels between the formidable artillery weapons in the Atlantic Wall defences and the mighty US and Royal Navy battleships. Amphibious... -
The Limits of Demonstrative Science Considered in a Letter to the REV. William Whewell, D.D. by William Whewell Hen Longueville Mansel 9781113364814
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The Philosophy of the Conditioned: Comprising Some Remarks on Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, and on Mr. J. S. Mill's Examination of That Philosophy by Henry Longueville Mansel 9780371677964
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371677964Author Henry Longueville ManselFormat PaperbackPage Count 213 -
FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy Mike Mattesi 9780415733977
RRP: $75.98Booksplease Price: $72.75The newest book in Michael Mattesi's Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy, explores the different facets of motion and the human body. As opposed to the... -
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion by Chariton 9780140449259
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped... -
The Idler: #94, Jan/Feb 2024, Arthur Brown by Tom Hodgkinson 9781739660895
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.83In which Will Hodgkinson meets Arthur Brown, the God of Hellfire; Stephen Bayley attacks the idea of fun; we look at the surprising history of the chaise longue, and visit Britain after the Romans... -
Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development by Dorothy L. Hodgson
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69"Once Intrepid Warriors advances a brilliantly persuasive critique of development among the Maasai. . . . This historical ethnography is a tour de force, counter-balancing the analysis of cultural,... -
Design Monograph: Perriand by Dominic Lutyens 9781838612054
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay... -
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE by Susanne Luther 9783112213766
RRP: $35.15Booksplease Price: $25.88Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists... -
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth Andreas Malm 9781836740070
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.76Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on... -
Complete Step-by-Step Upholstery by David Sowle
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.16This is the manual for anyone who wants to become a skilled upholsterer. The book, now made available again in paperback, contains a total of 15 step-by-step projects. The first eight are basic... -
Complete Step-by-Step Upholstery by David Sowle 9781843309291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $6.63This is the manual for anyone who wants to become a skilled upholsterer. The book, now made available again in paperback, contains a total of 15 step-by-step projects. The first eight are basic... -
Waiting for Ted by Marieke Bigg 9781915368003
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06WAITING FOR TED charts the destruction of Rosalind and Ted's relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue. Rosie comes from a wealthy, upper- class background. She dreams of being a... -
The Family Business by Adrian Kenny 9781901866377
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.57Another first in my life: at the age of thirty-one I brought a girlfriend home. Kathleen sat on the chaise longue, small legs crossed, one tiny toe resting on my mother's lime-green pouffe, her... -
South Sudan: A New History for a New Nation by Douglas H. Johnson
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $24.68Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an... -
Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.06Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree or... -
Guide des pays federaux, 2005 by Ann L. Griffiths 9780773528963 [USED COPY]
RRP: $190.00Booksplease Price: $12.10Depuis plus de deux siecles, le federalisme montre comment les gens peuvent vivre ensemble tout en conservant leur diversite. Le Guide des pays federaux, 2005 perpetue la tradition amorcee par... -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 9781913097172
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people... -
Ode To A Banker: (Falco 12) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Another delightful excursion into the world of Marcus Didius Falco by multimillion-copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Bringing Ancient Rome to life with its vivid description and... -
Time To Depart: (Marco Didius Falco: book VII): an enthralling and entertaining historical mystery that takes you deep into the Roman underworld from bestselling author Lindsey Davis Lindsey Davis 9780099515135
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23If you like S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom, you will love this absorbing, fast-paced and - at times - wonderfully funny Roman mystery from bestselling author Lindsey Davis... -
Abortion in Mexico: A History Nora E. Jaffary 9781496240217
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical... -
The Depression Comes to the South Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933 by Christopher Robert Reed
RRP: $45.58Booksplease Price: $25.21In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline-a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine 9781786634092
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.17Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential... -
Platinum Blonde Phoebe Stuckes 9781780375021
RRP: $18.91Booksplease Price: $14.02Platinum Blonde is Phoebe Stuckes' debut collection. Whether wildly or wryly funny, each poem presents an episode in the up-and-down life of the wise-cracking party girl. On the surface, this is a... -
Apparently Matthew Caley 9781852248635
RRP: $17.01Booksplease Price: $12.84Every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently" begins - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'. In conversation this word usually precedes a scurrilous piece of gossip or hearsay, allowing the... -
L'Odyssee De La Brigade Ramcke a El Alamein: FallschirmjaGer En eGypte, De Bab El Katara a Mersa El Brega by Hans Rechenberg
RRP: $70.30Booksplease Price: $51.68El Alamein. C'est la que l'offensive de Rommel, qui semblait irresistible, est stoppee sur la route d'Alexandrie, a l'ete 1942. S'ensuivent de longues semaines de guerre de position dans les sables... -
When Ballet Became French: Modern Ballet and the Cultural Politics of France, 1909-1939 by Ilyana Karthas 9780773546059
RRP: $72.20Booksplease Price: $59.43For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standing... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $23.81Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential... -
A History of Zimbabwe by Alois S. Mlambo
RRP: $49.40Booksplease Price: $45.45The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and... -
What Doesn't Kill Us Ajay Close 9781913393960
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.99'This book is a must read ... a uniquely raw and authentic voice.' Maxine Peake A killer stalks the streets of Leeds. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra... -
The Scribbler Iain Maitland 9781912235803
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40"He's back, Carrie. The Scribbler is back." DI Gayther and his rookie colleague DC Carrie have been assigned a new caseload. Or rather, an old one ... cold cases of LGBTQ+ murders dating back to the... -
The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester by Isaac Rose 9781915672186
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? As the crane capital of Europe, Manchester's transformation since the...