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The Old English Physiologus by Yale University Press 9780371350607
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371350607Author Yale University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Learn to Read Latin by Yale University Press 9780300194999
Booksplease Price: $86.08Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with... -
A Book of Yale Review Verse by Yale University Press 9780371239292
Booksplease Price: $16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371239292Author Yale University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
The Chronicles of America Series: Volume 2 by Yale University Press 9780371782019
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371782019Author Yale University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left by Hassan Abbas
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.26The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors A Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021,... -
Wiltshire by Julian Orbach
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $55.41The indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire With hundreds of buildings added to the new gazetteer, this volume offers a fully revised and updated guide to Wiltshire. From... -
Alexander Henderson: Art and Nature Helene Samson 9780300266924
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.89Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four, eager to explore the Canadian wilderness. Photography, his observation tool, would also reveal a... -
An Insider's Guide to the UN by Linda Fasulo
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.98Thoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the United Nations for students and interested readers "My UN bible. Linda Fasulo knows all the right questions and brings... -
The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.68The second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a "remarkable... -
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin R. Barber
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.60Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time-climate change,... -
Forgiveness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Booksplease Price: $27.98A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world "Broad in its philosophical sweep and fine in its literary analysis, this work redefines... -
For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE by Guy MacLean Rogers
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.18A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical... -
Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making by Ying-chen Peng
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.89This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from... -
Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth by Ali Smith
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.69A thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch's often neglected pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist's landscapes, seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time and ours... -
Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette by John Hardman
Booksplease Price: $39.25A major new biography of Antoine Barnave-the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in... -
Dieter Roth, Bjoern Roth: Work Tables and Tischmatten by Barry Rosen
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.69Dieter Roth's unique and eclectic Tischmatten ("Table Mats") incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemeral materials. Roth placed these gray cardboard mats on tables in his apartment,... -
Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie Brunetta
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $24.51Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive... -
On Being a Language Teacher: A Personal and Practical Guide to Success by Norma Lopez-Burton
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34On Being a Language Teacher provides an innovative, personal approach to second-language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through... -
The Glory of Saint George: Man, Dragon, and Death Laurent Busine 9780300215755
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.72This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George... -
Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon by Paul David Blanc
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous... -
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 by David Jacques
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.24Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that... -
Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books by Kathryn M. Rudy
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $73.17Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn... -
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840 by Christopher Monkhouse
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.48A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign... -
On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court by Erin Griffey
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.96In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits... -
Modernism and Memory: Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting Ian Collins 9780300214871
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.21This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker's collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester... -
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by Sir David Attenborough
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolors of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the Age of Discovery From the fifteenth century... -
Becoming Property: Art, Theory, and Law in Early Modern France by Katie Scott
RRP: $74.18Booksplease Price: $64.28This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early history... -
Adapting to Climate Change: Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future by Matthew E. Kahn
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $26.94A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choices Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten Books in Business and... -
A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.49A classic memoir by one of the greatest American screenwriters, Ben HechtNamed to Time's list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the un-put-downable testament of the era's great... -
Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea Ben A Minteer 9780300260724
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.42A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one... -
Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order by James E. Cronin
Booksplease Price: $39.25How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North... -
The American Phage Group: Founders of Molecular Biology by William C. Summers
Booksplease Price: $45.30A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology This book is the first critical and analytical study of... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
Booksplease Price: $22.79An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or... -
The Spirit of the Buddha by Martine Batchelor
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01In this slim, enlightening volume, internationally recognized Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the... -
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.79A searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine, and its bloody aftermath "[A] tour de force. . . . With his customary in-depth archival research . . . clear presentation, and... -
The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change by Libby Robin
Booksplease Price: $39.64An innovative anthology that offers a global perspective on how people think about predicting the future of life on Earth This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas... -
A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War John J. Curley 9780300188431
Booksplease Price: $77.61An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban... -
The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book,... -
Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future by Bill Emmott
Booksplease Price: $22.79An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and... -
Wunderkammer by Tod Williams
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $9.57An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer-"wonder-room" or...