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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class by J.R. Helton 9781631492877
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01In the 1980s, somewhere in Austin, Helton was young, married, and jobless. After a few strung-out years trying to make it as a writer, he was caught in a cycle of drunken, coked-up nights, crashing... -
Outward Bound by Sutton Vane 9780871403018
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.64The climax of the first act of this extraordinary play provides the sort of thrill that comes no oftener than once in a theatrical season. A strange company of ship-mates, mystified by a vaguely... -
Gertrude Stein's America by Gertrude Stein 9780871401632
Booksplease Price: £9.14The groundbreaking writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was intensely American, though she lived most of her life in France. She returned only once to the United States, having left it at the age of... -
Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City by Edward O. Wilson 9780871404701
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.45Entranced by Edward O. Wilson's mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson's native... -
Confessions: A New Translation by Augustine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.90No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first... -
Kingdom Come by J G Ballard 9780871404039
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404039Author J G BallardFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Fig Tree John by Edwin Corle 9780871402424
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.82Leaving the despised reservation after the defeat of Geronimo, Fig Tree John settles with his small family on a desolate shore of the Salton Sea. But he is helpless against the encroaching white... -
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns: A Novel Elizabeth Kelly 9780871407450
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, from the best-selling author of Apologize, Apologize!, introduces Riddle James Camperdown, the twelve-year-old daughter of the idealistic Camp and his manicured,... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) 9781631494123
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
American Journal: Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401274
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First... -
The Physiology of Taste: Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 9780871402004
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.38"An animal swallows its food; a man eats it, but only a man of intelligence knows...how to dine." "The man who gives a dinner for a group of his friends and takes no trouble over what... -
The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly Philip Mudd 9780871407887
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Adapting the lessons gleaned from over two decades in government intelligence, Philip Mudd has created a necessary guide to how we approach complex and high-stakes decisions. Filled with logical yet... -
Confessions: A New Translation Augustine 9780871407146
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.28No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first... -
Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy 9780871401557
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.56Along with Pound, Eliot, and Joyce, Edward Estlin Cummings is one of the leading American poets who revolutionized literary expression in the twentieth century. He was also a Cubist painter, a... -
95 Poems E. E. Cummings 9780871401816
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life... -
Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel by Jules Feiffer 9780871403148
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47The legendary Jules Feiffer presents his first noir graphic novel. Spiced with the deft humour for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centres on five formidable women linked fatefully and... -
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown 9781631491993
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration; those who suffered bipolar disorder endured dangerous, ineffective treatments for centuries until a breakthrough in the 1950s offered salvation... -
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron 9781631490163
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47In the summer of 1878 three ruthless and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another fought to prove that science... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407061
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science,... -
The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times Guy de Maupassant 9781631491894
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Widely considered to be the greatest short story writer in all of French literature, Guy de Maupassant helped define the modern short story, deeply influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel... -
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West by Andrew R. Graybill 9780871408570
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.55At dawn on January 23, 1870, four hundred men of the Second U.S. Cavalry attacked and butchered a Piegan camp near the Marias River in Montana in one of the worst slaughters of Indians by American... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics by William J. Cooper 9781631494956
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.96Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist... -
Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401069
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.04In his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being... -
Ten Restaurants That Changed America by Paul Freedman 9781631494987
Booksplease Price: £19.31Combining an historian's rigor with a food enthusiast's palate, Paul Freedman's seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9781631491078
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.98The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and... -
Papa Says: The Story of My Sister Bianca by Cena Christopher Draper 9780871403049
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403049Author Cena Christopher DraperFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory by Aldo Schiavone 9781631492358
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.73The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect Pontius Pilate. Presiding over the trial and... -
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.96When Dr David Hosack tilled the America's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental... -
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.01Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a... -
Two, Four, Six, Eight, When You Gonna Integrate? by Frank A. Petroni 9780871402417
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.62Theorizing that prejudices would have the most profound effect on persons in a period of major personality growth such as adolescence the authors interviewed students on the social and psychological... -
Afternoon in the Jungle: From Wagner to Virtual Reality by Albert Maltz 9780871402561
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.76This superb collection signals the long overdue return of Albert Maltz, one of the "Hollywood Ten" blacklisted during the McCarthy era, to the forefront of American letters. From "Afternoon in the... -
Peace with China?: U.S. Decisions for Asia by Earl C. Ravenal 9780871402578
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.69How and why was the course of America's relationship to Asia changed? What are the prospects for detente with the People's Republic of China? How might the new course affect America's economy and her... -
Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the... -
The Son of Man: The Story of Jesus by Emil Ludwig 9781871401943
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.04There are few biographers of the scope, depth and reach of Emil Ludwig. His biographies of Napoleon and other world-famous figures have made him one of the most widely read, widely appreciated... -
On the Nightmare by Ernest Jones 9780871402486
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.77On the Nightmare is a searching investigation of this mysterious, often terrifying phenomenon. Curiously enough, no disorder in the history of medical science has evoked such consistent superstition... -
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett 9780871407955
Booksplease Price: £23.11Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell"... -
Hold Still: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong 9781631492655
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.54When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for... -
The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay 9780871402042
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.32The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing, as a work of analysis and vision. Over fifty years ago Lindsay saw the hunger that still obsesses the film enthusiast. Sculpture-in-motion,... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts by Davis Miller 9781631492235
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.41In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the... -
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets by Michael Korda 9781631496882
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.36Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to...