Literary Essays
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Gorgias
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination w...
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Heracles
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with affective hu...
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Home
Massey University PressOriginal price £30.99Current price £26.99| /A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of home and commissioned from twenty-two of New Zealands best writers. Strong, rel...
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If I Had My Life to Live Over -- Petite
Papier Mache Press (US)£7.99| /This companion volume to the award-winning anthology, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, illuminates the experiences of women, young and o...
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If There's Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain't Staying
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£30.99| /Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Losack, a woman farmer and water...
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Imagining Ancient Women
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fi...
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Imagining Peace
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /Sometimes playful but always passionate, Imagining Peace offers a glimpse into the private world of a quirky systems reformer. The great-granddaugh...
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In Defense of Freedom & Related Essays
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£13.95| /First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...
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In Defense of Freedom & Related Essays
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...
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In the Flesh
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are...
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Intersecting Sets
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as...
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Irish Literature
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£66.99| /Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds...
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Judgments on History & Historians
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£20.95| /Renowned for his 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' and 'Reflections on History', Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) has been described as "the mos...
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Judgments on History & Historians
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Renowned for his 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' and 'Reflections on History', Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) has been described as "the mos...
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Laches and Charmides
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. T...
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Least Likely to Succeed
Lone Wolfe Press£25.99| /You will follow Jack Clifford from humble beginnings in Michigan on a nation-wide odyssey. Cook with Emeril, go out to dinner with Robin Leach, wal...
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Lectures on Rhetoric & Belles Lettres
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /This book is divided into "an examination of the several ways of communicating our thoughts by speech" and "an attention to the principles of those...
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Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that...
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Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that...
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Little Yellow House
Gutteridge Books (University of Alberta Press)£21.99| /"Ma'am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?" Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with...
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Lost & Found in Las Vegas
Huntington Press Inc (US)£14.99| /You never know what you will encounter in a lost-and-found box -- random items, lost histories, and left-behind fragments of very different lives. ...
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Lysistrata
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy will appeal to the modern reader because of its lively and imaginative plot, memorabl...
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Man and Citizen
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Include...
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Man Versus the State
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. I...
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