Literary Essays
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Servile State
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /THE SERVILE STATE has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to pro...
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Shining Land
Massey University Press£34.99| /A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Desolate Star brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima....
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Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the mos...
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Socrates in the Apology
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. ...
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Sophist
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporar...
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£17.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£9.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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State of the Union
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his be...
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Stephanii Notæ Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /This facsimile edition of Stephanus Johannis Stephanius' Notæ Uberiores in Historian Danicam Saxons Grammatici, one of the high-water marks the cen...
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Story of Petese Son of Petetum & Seventy Other Good & Bad Stories
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£51.99| /The book presents a complete edition of the three known versions of the ancient Egyptian narrative The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy O...
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Strong Words 2019
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submi...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£33.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent print...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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The Aerial Letter
Spinifex Press£16.95| /What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...
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The Braided River
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...
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The Citizen
Massey University Press£34.99| /Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the s...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Essential Augustine
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Massey University Press£30.99| /From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity, and how a farmer discovered an unknown warrior in a field in Fra...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Massey University Press£30.99| /The second volume in the annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays. Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity; Jess Berentson-...
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The Meditations
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Includes a translator's Introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical Terms, and a biographical inde.
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The Uncaged Voice
Cormorant Books£12.99| /Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justifica...
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Theogony
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thoug...
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Union & Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...
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Vindication of Natural Society
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This is a new edition of Edmund Burke's first work, originally issued anonymously in 1756 as a letter attributed to 'a late noble writer'. In 1757 ...
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Voices, Places
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /How are voices like places? They move through us as we move through them. Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography ...
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Waiting
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.--"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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Wieland; or The Transformation
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atl...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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Wisdom of Adam Smith
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£7.95| /Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected her...
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Writer Who Stayed
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...
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