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Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 8 by Synecdoche
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.17Naoe-kun, a massage therapist, is about to head home for the day when he's saddled with a rather strange patient. This lovely lady has emerald eyes, pointy ears, and grew up in the forest-everything... -
Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 6 (Rerelease) by Synecdoche 9798888435977
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.07BEACH BOOT(Y) CAMP!In order to get Elfuda and the others away from junk food, Naoe takes them to the beach for some extreme training. But an old enemy, the Satyress, follows them there, and this time... -
Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 2 (Rerelease) by Synecdoche 9781685797997
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.48FEEDING FRENZYNaoe has been helping Elfuda shed the pounds she's picked up since coming to the human world...but now he's started to gain weight, too! Turns out he's fallen under the spell of a... -
Plus-Sized Elf: Second Helping! Vol. 2 by Synecdoche
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41KITTY CHOWWhile acting as a health consultant to a bevy of otherworldly babes, Naoe Tomoatsu has encountered all sorts of fantasy creatures. And though there have been a few close calls, he's always... -
Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 7 (Rerelease) by Synecdoche 9798888435984
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41SWEET DREAMSNaoe has been having trouble sleeping lately. It seems he has caught the eye of a creature that eats dreams, and she's determined to give Naoe the strangest ones possible! Later on,... -
Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 3 (Rerelease) by Synecdoche 9798888430309
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.27REVENGE WITH A SIDE OF FRIES!Ever since a satyress set her sights on Naoe, Elfuda has been guarding her friend round the clock. But when the satyress discovers Elfuda's weakness for fast food, both... -
Plus-Sized Elf Vol. 5 (Rerelease) by Synecdoche 9798888433775
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.30THE FIVE STAGES OF GREASEElfuda and her friends may be addicted to the human world's junk food, but Naoe is determined to show them that there's more to life than french fries! To help the gang sing... -
Plus-Sized Elf: Second Helping! Vol. 4 Synecdoche 9798891605008
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.34The sequel series to Plus-Sized Elf (also from Seven Seas), the hit manga about an elf struggling to lose weight after she discovered human French fries!Massage therapist Naoe Tomoatsu certainly has... -
Synecdoche, New York: Movies Minute by Minute by Grant Maierhofer 9798765188453
Booksplease Price: $81.81A minute-by-minute analysis of Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York (2008).Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it... -
Plus-Sized Elf: Second Helping! Vol. 3 by Synecdoche 9798891604865
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891604865Author SynecdocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint -
The Films That Made Me... by Peter Bradshaw
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89'Like a pizza delivery driver who travels everywhere by moped, or a volcanologist who keeps turning the central heating up, I'm a film critic who loves going to the cinema.' - Peter Bradshaw. ... -
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 9780691157788
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $45.05The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of... -
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime by Jenny C. Mann 9780691219226
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $52.33A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and... -
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691608532
RRP: $69.68Booksplease Price: $59.70In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao 9780691199252
Booksplease Price: $50.17A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,... -
Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics by Andrew Welsh 9780691656946
RRP: $174.20Booksplease Price: $158.07Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how... -
On the Way to Theory by Lawrence Grossberg 9781478026631
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $107.33In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces... -
Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Art Cinema by James Harvey 9781474423786
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $127.10In Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Ranciere's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very same terms: each involves the visible and the... -
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion by 9781904263906
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.01What do you do when you use a metaphor? Or a simile or analogy? Can you tell the difference between a synecdoche and a metonymy? What are the secret tricks used every day by professional persuaders?... -
The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman by David LaRocca 9780813176215
Booksplease Price: $40.23From the Academy Award--winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award--nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), writer Charlie Kaufman... -
Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming by Roger V. Des Forges 9780804740449 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.18The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government... -
Reckoning by Patrick Friesen 9781772142167
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Reckoning is one long poem in search of itself, its own meaning. A synecdoche of verse, segments calling and responding to each other, like jazz musicians riffing back and forth in a late-night... -
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide by Gregory Salle 9781509559954
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.65A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres-more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these... -
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu 9780691239033
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.48The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these... -
Sport Philosophy Now: The Culture of Sports after the Lance Armstrong Scandal by Matthew James McNees 9781442260658
Booksplease Price: $121.36In today's media-driven world, it seems there is always a scandal in the news involving athletes. Whether it's performance-enhancing drugs in cycling, domestic violence in football, or sexual assault... -
Antkind: A Novel by Charlie Kaufman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.73The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar (R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. ... -
The Fight For Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity by Paul Apostolidis 9780190459338
Booksplease Price: $150.55In today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. The Fight for Time explores the logic behind this paradox by listening... -
Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror by Roy J. Eidelson 9780228018612
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $30.07Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard 9780192871022
Booksplease Price: $42.12Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to... -
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard 9780198793113
Booksplease Price: $150.95Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to... -
The Double Life of Paul De Man by Evelyn Barish 9781631490057
Booksplease Price: $22.78Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive that it threatened to topple the very foundations of... -
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse 9781804272282
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. So much has vanished with it - counterfeit watches, streets echoing with the sound of stilettos, and even some of your... -
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore 9780691293714
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.97From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin... -
In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People by T.D. Allman 9780802127846
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.77From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author's life and discoveries in an ancient town in "Deep France," from nearby prehistoric...