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Petese Stories II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£60.99| /The Carlsberg Papyri 6 (CNI 29) contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period...
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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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Pheonix Rising
Goose Lane Editions£5.99| /Sometimes the words are not enough. The structures of language inhibit, prevent the vision. Haiku are keys to unlock images, ideas, and feelings th...
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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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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Picasso's Artful Occupation
Playdead Press£9.99| /In a gloomy vault of a Paris bank in September 1940, Picasso has been summoned by the German occupation authorities. His precious works of art are ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper on the Cariboo Trail
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£9.99| /Cowboy poet, artist and raconteur Mike Puhallo continues his poetic exploration of the cowboy and modern life. At various times in his life a worki...
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Pinocchio / The Yellow Wallpaper
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The Yellow Wallpaper: It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like b...
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Planet Harbor
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Bartlett has put together a collection of poems with a strong narrative line which draws upon experiences as diverse as a bus driver's salute, the ...
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Plato: Complete Works
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Playing Into Silence
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Growing up during the 50s and 60s in small town Alberta, Pam was keenly aware, by the age of nine, that she was a lesbian. And she also knew well t...
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Playing the Inside Out / Le jeu des apparences
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Playing the Inside Out is David Adams Richard's distilled insight on the artist's struggle for full access to artistic integrity by remaining an ou...
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Playlunch
Otago University Press (NZ)£13.50| /First published in 1996 and now updated, this book contains plays by established New Zealand writers that were written for lunchtime theatre. They ...
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Plays & Poems
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobio...
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Plays for Young Audiences, 2nd Edition
Meriwether Publishing (US)£28.99| /An anthology of selected plays for young audiences. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountain-head of the renaissance in playwriting for young audi...
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Plays of the 50's
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /Four plays from the 1950s: "Sky Without Birds" by Oriel Gray; "Shipwreck" by Douglas Stewart; "The Night of the Ding-Dong" by Ralph Peterson; and "...
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Plays of the 50s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The exhilaration caused by the success in 1955 of Ray Lawler's 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll' galvanised a host of new playwrights. Among them wa...
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Plays of the 60s
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The late 1960s were among the most tumultuous years in recent history. Student revolution spread like wildfire around the world as the past-war gen...
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Plays of the 70s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /This volume covers the period 1973--75 and marks a consolidation of form, and the recognition of a sense of direction. While public and social issu...
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Plays of the American Experience
Meriwether Publishing (US)£19.99| /"What brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors? The 25 plays in this collection are short theatrical pieces that bring to...
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Please Use This for Children, Not for War & Guns
Blooming Twig Books (US)£15.99| /From an activist poem about her simple letter to the government along with her family's taxes saying, "Please use this for children, and not for wa...
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Pliegos de villancicos conservados en ocho bibliotecas mexicanas
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£45.99| /Recoge información bibliográfica sobre 166 ejemplares de pliegos de villancicos y otras nueve reproducciones facsimilares procedentes de Madrid, Ma...
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Plotting with Eros
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£47.99| /The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato's dialogu...
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Poemes en ondes hertzianes de Joan Salvat-Papasseit
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /Este estudio sobre la poesía cubofuturista de "Poemes en ondes hertzianes" (1919) de Joan Salvat-Papasseit dilucida el sentido intencional de los p...
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Poèmes Touaregs de l'Ayr, 1
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£40.00| /The present volume is the first in a series of editions of Tuareg poetry. They are presented in their original language with a French translation, ...
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Poèmes Touaregs de l'Ayr, 2
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£53.99| /A collection of Tuareg poems, presented in their original language with a French translation, an introduction to the genre, a section on phonetics ...
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Poems and Fragments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...
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Poems and Fragments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£29.99| /Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...
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Poems for a New World
Ronsdale Press (CA)£10.99| /This new collection of poems takes us into the midst of social and domestic injustice and questions what we are doing to our fellow human beings an...
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Poems for America
Interactive Press£16.99| /Back in 1994, when David Rowbotham released his New and Selected Poems, 1945-1993, a flurry of reviews appeared in the major newspapers and magazin...
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Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship wi...
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Poems from the Madhouse (Young Adult Edition), 2nd Edition
Spinifex Press£9.95| /This powerful collection of poems intrigues readers of all ages, but has a strong resonance for teenagers. Young people are at a particular risk of...
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Poems from the Madhouse / Now Millennium
Spinifex Press£12.95| /An award-winning joint volume of poetry, Sandy Jeffs invites the reader into the world of schizophrenia, while Deborah Staines evokes the mythic pa...
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Poems New and Selected
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /A rigourous selection from Candelaria's earlier books in addition to substantial recent work, this volume provides the first single-volume edition ...
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Poems of Abu Said Abil-Kheyr
Ibex Publishers (US)£24.99| /Text in English & Arabic. Abu Said Abil-Kheyr is revered as one of the fathers of Sufism and the rubaiyat. His philosophy of self annihilation ...
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Poems of Hafez
Ibex Publishers (US)£22.99| /Shamseddin Hafez, although born some six hundred years ago in southern Iran, is a contemporary and universal poet. Wherever Persian is known, he is...
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Poems of the Holocaust
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£10.99| /This is a sensitive reflection through poetry of the savagery and inhumanity of the Holocaust, and a determined faith in humankind. My poems are a ...
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Poems to Friends
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical sourc...
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Poems to Friends
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical sourc...
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Poesías completas de José María Heredia
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£53.99| /A casi dos siglos de la muerte de José María Heredia (1803-1839), esta edición crítica reúne por primera vez la totalidad de las poesías del Cantor...
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Poet Power
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£19.99| /A motivational gem for every poet! Easy to read and accessible to all, this how-to book teaches the ins and outs of working with magazine and book ...
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Poeta
Otago University Press (NZ)£21.00| /Born in 1949, Bluff-based Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Poeta: Selected and New Poems brings together a definitive select...
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