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Billy Budd Melville Volume 11 by Northwestern University Press
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $69.52The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a... -
Reflections on Frege's Philosophy by Reinhardt Grossmann
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99In Reflections on Frege's Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and... -
Improvisation for the Theater by Paul Sills
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.07This work has inspired the work of countless actors, directors, and writers in theatre, television and film. Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern... -
The Secret in the Wings: A Play by Mary Zimmerman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.76Mary Zimmerman's The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humour. The framing story... -
Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory by Edwin Honig
Booksplease Price: $89.39Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory,... -
This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French by Judith Illsley Gleason
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that... -
The World is a Prison by Guglielmo Petroni
Booksplease Price: $123.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810160507Author Guglielmo PetroniFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Northwestern University... -
Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices by Gary Alan Scott
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $36.60Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: if Plato wanted to present... -
The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri by Bashkim Shehu
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by... -
Bug: A Play by Tracy Letts
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.30This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces... -
Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook by Viola Spolin
Booksplease Price: $32.80This handbook presents theatre games and side coaching for the solo player. It contains over 40 exercises which allow actors to side coach themselves, at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. The... -
Plato and Tradition: The Poetic and Cultural Context of Philosophy by Patricia Fagan
Booksplease Price: $48.61Plato's dialogues are some of the most widely read texts in Western philosophy, and one would imagine them fully mined for elemental material. Yet, in Plato and Tradition, Patricia Fagan reveals the... -
Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life by Edward F. McGushin
Booksplease Price: $161.28In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and... -
Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Art of Writing by Antonio Sergio Bessa 9780810122987
Booksplease Price: $48.98Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. His work, as profoundly political as it is aesthetic,... -
The Diary and Letter of Kaethe Kollwitz by Kollwitz. 9780810107618
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23One of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as... -
Hegel on Hamann by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 9780810124912
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70In 1828, G. W. F. Hegel published a critical review of Johann Georg Hamann, a retrospective of the life and works of one of Germany's most enigmatic and challenging thinkers and writers. While... -
Pike St.: A Play by Nilaja Sun 9780810136250
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.99In Pike St., the highly praised second play by New Yorker Nilaja Sun, creator of the solo show No Child . . . a Lower East Side family comes vividly to life. As a storm approaches, Evelyn is trying... -
Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises - 1923-1934 by Ulla E. Dydo 9780810125261
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.88The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways... -
Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism by Laurence Hemming 9780810128750
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx remain two of the most influential thinkers in philosophy, in political science and other social sciences, and in the humanities. Yet there has never been a full-length... -
Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts by David W. Ames 9780810138186
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99The richness, variety, and complexity of the culture of the Hausa city-states are illustrated in microcosm in Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts, in which several hundred Hausa terms for... -
The Third Coast: America's Great Lakes Shoreline David Zurick 9780810148673
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148673Author David ZurickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Northwestern University... -
We Are Civic Media Sangita Shresthova 9780810149069
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26A discipline-crossing introduction to civic media via accounts from grassroots practitioners “Civic media” is the use of contemporary technologies to connect communities, inspire action, build... -
The Wound of the Name Abdelkébir Khatibi 9780810148512
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148512Author Abdelkebir KhatibiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Northwestern University... -
Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds Nicole Grégoire 9780810148758
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148758Author Nicole GregoireFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Northwestern University... -
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraine Oleksandr Mykhed 9780810148543
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Exploring the post-Soviet landscape of the Ukrainian east in a complex journey of loss, hope, and history In 2014, the Russian army, with support from local militants, occupied parts of Ukraine's... -
Milton's Moving Bodies by Marissa Greenberg 9780810147409
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810147409Author Marissa GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Northwestern University... -
Music and More: Essays, 1968-1991 by Samuel Lipman 9780810110762
Booksplease Price: $25.99Samuel Lipman's bold essays passionately defend high culture against what he sees as its growing banalization and politicization. Samuel Lipman is the publisher of ""The New Criterion"", the music... -
Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts by Chon Noriega 9780816626755
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05The first in-depth treatment of Latino film and video.This groundbreaking volume is the first to examine the range of Latino media arts, from independent feature production to documentary to... -
It's Important I Remember: Poems Cortney Lamar Charleston 9780810149649
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.43An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo... -
The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego Agustín Zarzosa 9798899480126
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798899480126Author Agustin ZarzosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Northwestern University... -
Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life by Edward F. McGushin 9780810122833
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and... -
Dos Passos: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr 9780810122000
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37An intimate biography of a great American writer; He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called ""the greatest writer of our time."" A... -
Transit Lit: Fictions of Migration in Twenty-First-Century African Immigrant Literature by Cameron Leader-Picone 9780810149335
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions The expanding number of migrants to the United States from continental Africa since the 1960s has led to a... -
The First Lady of Olympic Track: The Life and Times of Betty Robinson by Joe Gergen 9780810129580
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to... -
Kierkegaard as Psychologist by Vincent A. McCarthy 9780810131811
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Kierkegaard's psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich-Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine-and has had a major influence on... -
Senses of Landscape by John Sallis 9780810131095
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and... -
The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.58The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors... -
Metamorphoses Play by Mary Zimmerman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.21This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the... -
Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays by Rebecca Ann Rugg
Booksplease Price: $47.58In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun energised the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining "A Raisin in the Sun," Rebecca Ann... -
William Warner's Syrinx: or, A Sevenfold History by William Warner
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $34.61William Warner's Syrinx, or a Sevenfold History, may be the first English novel. Unlike others of the time, though, Warner wrote a realistic novel whose ancestors include the adventure stories of...