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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Map for the Heart
Otago University Press£18.00| /To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the I...
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Medea
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...
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Meno
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£7.99| /About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, un...
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Miscellany of Demotic Texts & Studies
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...
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Montaigne: Selected Essays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...
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Montaigne: Selected Essays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...
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My Private China
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /What do normal people in China look forward to when they get up in the morning? What is the mentor of Lang Lang like? What about the personal frien...
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Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...
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Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...
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Nicomachean Ethics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...
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On Crimes and Punishments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.
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On Liberty, Society & Politics
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /William Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, his interpreta...
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Oral Art Forms & their Passage into Writing
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...
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Out Here
Rocky Mountain Books£20.99| /Carolyn Highlands outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer...
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Oxford Version of the Achilleid
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£14.99| /Complete edition of the three known versions of the romance.
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Parmenides
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticu...
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Parmenides
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...
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Peat
Otago University Press (NZ)£18.99| /Peat starts out as Lynn Jenners study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre ...
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Phaedo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A first rate translation at a reasonable price. --Michael Rohr, Rutgers University
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Phaedo
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending executio...
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Phaedrus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects b...
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Philebus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard...
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