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Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.75Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to... -
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.23The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a... -
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson 9781609383473
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.84Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," Nature, "Goethe," and "Persian Poetry," less well known... -
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald by Robert D. Richardson 9781620406533
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620406533Author Robert D. RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imp -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224329
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.33From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads... -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads... -
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425326Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprin -
The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860 by Burton Feldman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78" . . . peerless . . . " -The Key Reporter" . . . this book is a first. It will be a standard . . . Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." -Choice" . . . so... -
Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness by Alan D. Hodder 9780300089592
Booksplease Price: £60.68When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have since focused... -
American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James by Andrea Knutson 9780195370928
Booksplease Price: £107.29This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reform theology as transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay... -
The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic by Kevin Van Anglen 9780271028279
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.49The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret... -
Walden: 150th Anniversary Edition by Henry D. Thoreau 9780691169347
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.30One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This... -
Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball by Jay Martin 9780231147941
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur,... -
The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser by Jerome M. Loving
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10When Theodore Dreiser first published "Sister Carrie" in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality - for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of 'the godless... -
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.00"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American... -
Positive Behavior Support in Secondary Schools: A Practical Guide Ellie L. Young 9781609189730
Booksplease Price: £43.72This much-needed guide shows how to implement positive behavior support (PBS) strategies in secondary settings, using a three-tiered approach. The authors adapt the core ideas of PBS to the... -
Young William James Thinking by Paul J. Croce 9781421423654
Booksplease Price: £52.84During a period of vocational indecision and deep depression, young William James embarked on a circuitous journey, trying out natural history field work, completing medical school, and studying... -
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden 9780300105964
Booksplease Price: £23.70Winner of the Bancroft Prize * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography * Finalist for the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize "The finest biography of...