Literature & Literary Studies
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Poetics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£13.99| /A complete translation of Aristotle's classic that is both faithful and readable, along with an introduction that provides the modern reader with a...
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Poetics of Hispanism
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£28.99| /Text in English & Spanish. The authors address a double question, namely, what is the fate of contemporary Spanish poetry and what role critics...
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Poetics of Naming
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Literary historian and scholar George Melnyk engages the dynamic between truth, language, and personal identity. His intent is to take the reader t...
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Poetry
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£72.99| /The opening chapter of Poetry: Interpretations and Influence on the World tries to explain the correlation between history and poetry, as well as a...
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Poetry for the Insane
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£15.99| /An impotent message: This book is for the insane. It's also for anyone who at some point in life had a fleeting moment of self doubt: the virtually...
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Poetry Matters
Presa Press (US)£14.99| /In this collection of thirteen essays about writing, reading, editing and publishing poetry, six influential, independent poet-publishers explicate...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Massey University Press£26.99| /Continually in print since 1951, when it was established by leading poet Louis Johnson, this annual collection of new poetry, reviews and essays is...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Massey University Press£26.99| /Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this countrys longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the w...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
Massey University Press£26.99| /Poetry New Zealand, this countrys longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of ta...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
Massey University Press£26.99| /Each year Poetry New Zealand, this countrys longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to ...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
Massey University Press£30.99| /Each year Poetry New Zealand, this countrys longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ide...
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Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /This volume is an interpretation of the poetic work of one of the most important Spanish poets of the 20th century, Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958)....
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Poetry of Rav Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Rav Yosef Tzvi Rimon wrote heartfelt, spiritual poetry that resonated with the secular and religious alike. Rav Kook himself saw Rav Rimon as the i...
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Poetry of the Earth
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Mapuche poetry has flourished in recent decades and is now one of the most compelling neighbourhoods of contemporary Latin American literature. Inc...
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Poets in Review
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /Widely published and internationally acclaimed poet Eric Greinke wrote reviews of his contemporaries in two periods, from 1972 to 1982 and from 200...
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Poets Talk
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Seven poets of diverse region, gender, sexual orientation, race, and generation. Seven poets linked by experiment and opposition. Robert Kroetsch d...
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Pointwise
Goose Lane Editions£4.99| /A finely tuned collection of observational poems by a master poet. These poems will stay with you long after you've put the book down.
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Poisonous If Eaten Raw
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter sh...
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Polari
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /"Polari," from the Italian "polare" ("to talk") is a coded language, originating in the UK and dating as far back as the 16th century. Overheard in...
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£29.95| /The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it w...
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Political Writings of William Penn
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£23.95| /William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the se...
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Political Writings of William Penn
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the se...
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Politics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /The Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Politics is a lucid and useful translation for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as...
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Politics by Principle, Not Interest Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /"Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is 'politics by interest', whether in the form of explicitly discrimin...
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Politics by Principle, Not Interest Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /"Politics by principle is that which modern politics is not. What we observe is 'politics by interest', whether in the form of explicitly discrimin...
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Poor Boy
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Jeremy Glass is an untroubled little boy until his seventh birthday, when he suddenly announces that he is really a grown man called Danny, who die...
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Pop Beckett
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£40.00| /When Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. Howev...
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Popular Government
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /Sir Henry Sumner Maine was one of the great intellects of the Victorian era. In POPULAR GOVERNMENT he examines the political institutions of men. H...
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Positive
Playdead Press£9.99| /Benji's mantra has just about got him through his first year with HIV, but it's not so much the virus that is the problem -- it is everything that ...
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Post Office
Wisdom Tree (IND)£3.99| /Originally written in Bengali in 1912, the play narrates the story of a young boy, Amal. Confined to his house because of illness, Amal experiences...
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Potential of Poetry
Presa Press (US)£12.99| /This book collects seven recent essays by critically-acclaimed poet Eric Greinke that assert the value of poetry in human progress. These essays ha...
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Power Plays
Meriwether Publishing (US)£19.99| /Intense. Poignant. Moving. Powerful. The twenty short plays in this collection cover a broad spectrum of dramatic situations, including revenge, ab...
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Prayer to an Iron God
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Set in a small isolated outback town, this moving and gutsy play is a confronting look at the impact of a young man's suicide on the lives of the f...
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Pre-Socratic Points
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /Nelson explores the range of poetic form. He utilises a traditional sonnet format in one section and an open, non-linear format, in which he not on...
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Prince of Darkness
Ariadne Press (US)£66.99| /The Prince of Darkness', written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to...
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Principles of Ethics
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£24.95| /Though almost forgotten today, Herbert Spencer ranks as one of the foremost individualist philosophers. His influence in the latter half of the nin...
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Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /79 articles in English, French, German and Italian from a congress held in Copenhagen from the 23th-29th August 1992. All the papers deal with subj...
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Professor Bernhardi & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£29.99| /Long considered one of Arthur Schnitzler's greatest accomplishments, Professor Bernhardi brings together its author's treatment of anti-Semitism, a...
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Prometheus Bound
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound . The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult...
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Prometheus Bound
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£26.99| /This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound . The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult...
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Proof
DC Books (CA)Original price £14.99Current price £13.99| /Proof explores the worlds of entomology, memory and mathematics. What can be proven with empirical evidence and what demands reason. The poems exam...
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Prophecy, Populism, Propaganda in the 'Octavia'
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£10.99| /Prophecy, Populism, Propaganda in the 'Octavia'
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Protagoras
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of Sophistic teaching into an idiom remarkable fo...
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Public Speaking & Other Plays
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Award-winning actor/playwright Chris Craddock explodes the conventions of the theatrical monologue in this collection of three hilarious, poignant,...
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Pulchra Parthenope
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£32.99| /Acercamiento a la obra de Garcilaso de la Vega. El punto de partida es un Garcilaso en plena formación que, en 1525, entra en contacto con los gran...
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Purgatorio
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£18.99| /This translation by Tom Simone provides a text that is close to Dante's meter and style as is possible using modern English. In such a way a studen...
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Purgatorio
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Paradiso (Hackett, 2017), Stanley Lombardo's Purgatorio features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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