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The Battle for the Kingdom by Ava Gregory 9798893425390
Booksplease Price: £13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893425390Author Ava GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint -
Cocaine Skies: How an Ex-Navy Fighter Pilot Found Adventures in Colombia's Cocaine War by Thomas 9789696192831
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789696192831Author ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
The Editors by Stephen Harrison 9781950301676
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950301676Author Stephen HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint
The Cambridge Companion to Horace by Stephen Harrison
Booksplease Price: £35.77Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine...
The Cambridge Companion to Horace by Stephen Harrison 9780521830027
Booksplease Price: £102.51Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine...
Intratextuality and Latin Literature by Stephen Harrison 9783110610215
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is generated through the medium of intertextuality, namely how different texts of the same or different...
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain by Stephen Harrison 9780761941606
Booksplease Price: £88.43'This is an excellent textbook for which there is currently a niche in the market. The chapters on rationing, professionalism, politics of clinical knowledge and the politics of democracy and...
Alexander the Great: Lives and Legacies Stephen Harrison 9781789149975
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on...
Victorian Horace: Classics and Class by Stephen Harrison 9781472583901
Booksplease Price: £35.46The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the...
Parables and Paradox: The Offensive Gospel by Stephen Harrison 9781956001716
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956001716Author Stephen HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint
A Companion to Latin Literature Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 9781405161312
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.42A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of...
Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses by Stephen Harrison
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly...
Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Nine Studies by Stephen Harrison 9781443875332
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £25.26This is the first volume dedicated to the topic of characterisation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the Latin novel from the second century CE. The subject has not been ignored in recent scholarship on...
Managing the National Health Service: Shifting the frontier? by Stephen Harrison 9780412339608
Booksplease Price: £46.67Provides an understanding, in the light of both political and economic developments, of what has been happening to NHS managers and professionals in the last decade. The book also explains the basis...
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars by Stephen Harrison 9781350379442
Booksplease Price: £103.11Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of...
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women Stephen Harrison 9781350551084
Booksplease Price: £90.57This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside...
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars Stephen Harrison 9781350379459
Booksplease Price: £31.52Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of...
Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 by Stephen Harrison 9780192862983
Booksplease Price: £105.04The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to...
Today's Survival Guide: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes by Dr Stephen Harrison 9798894650807
Booksplease Price: £8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894650807Author Dr Stephen HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Impr
Roman Readings: Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Ovid by Stephen Harrison 9783111678719
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80This volume collects seventeen pieces on the classical Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan period written and published since 2000. They share a common interest in the close reading of...
AcaPolitics: A Novel About College A Cappella by Professor of Latin Literature Stephen Harrison 9780615513058
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615513058Author Professor Stephen HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306
Classical Scholarship and its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in honour of Christopher Stray by Stephen Harrison 9783110718171
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £92.62It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination...
Classical Scholarship and Its History: From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray by Stephen Harrison 9783111115139
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.37It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination...
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento by Stephen Harrison 9781350292383
Booksplease Price: £90.57A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems...
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento Stephen Harrison 9781350292376
Booksplease Price: £30.54A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems...
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been...
Performing Epic or Telling Tales by Fiona M. Macintosh
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman...
Handbook of Public Services Management by Christopher Pollitt 9780631193456
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.41The Handbook of Public Services Management brings together twenty leading contributors to cover all the key issues affecting public services management. It is organized in a practical way to help...
Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature by Colin Burrow 9783110699500
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £79.79This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as 'linear' window reference - where author C simultaneously...
Horace and Housman by Richard Gaskin 9781137366160
Booksplease Price: £46.28The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to...
The Viking Ship Gareth Williams 9780714123400
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Viking ship is one of the most iconic images of the Vikings and the longship in particular has been central to our understanding of the Viking Age. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to...
Babel: Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge) 9781851245093
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story...
Heritage and Identity: Shaping the Nations of the North J.M. Fladmark 9781873394557
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Was the shaping of nation states in Northern Europe governed by military might, or by Christian and democratic ideals? How has trade and cross-cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the British...
Horace: Odes Book II by Horace 9781107600904
Booksplease Price: £27.60Horace's Odes remain among the most widely read works of classical literature. This volume constitutes the first substantial commentary for a generation on this book, and presents Horace's poems for...
Horace: Odes II: Vatis Amici by Horace 9780198721635
Booksplease Price: £76.80In these odes Horace creates lyric poetry in Latin which stands comparison with anything written by his brilliant predecessors in Greek. Of the three books published together in 23 BC the second is...
Exits, Voices and Social Investment: Citizens' Reaction to Public Services by Keith Dowding 9781107022423
Booksplease Price: £101.83Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complaint or exit when they were dissatisfied with goods or services. Loyal consumers would voice rather...
Unequal partners: User groups and community care by Marian Barnes
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.99Self-organised user groups of social and health care services are playing an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user...
Identity Crises in Apuleius: The Empire and the Ass in Ancient Rome Ashli J. E. Baker 9780299357702
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies,...
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections by Lorna Hardwick 9780198907879
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £89.65Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers,...
Horace by Paul Allen Miller 9781784533304
Booksplease Price: £21.68Perhaps no classical writer has been so consistently in vogue as Horace. Famous in his own lifetime as a close associate of the Emperor Octavian, to whom he dedicated several odes, Quintus Horatius...