Prose: Non-Fiction
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Khitabah
Tughra Books (US)£6.99| /Speech is a great asset to those who can use it well. One can please or hurt another person with language. A word can heal a broken house, or it ca...
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Kisses From a Distance
Cune Press (US)£18.99| /This book chronicles a Lebanese immigrant experience -- based on a cache of more than 200 letters discovered after the death of the author's mother...
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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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Leaning with Intent to Fall
Garrett County Press (US)£15.99| /This is the first literary book to emerge from bike-punk subculture. Author Ethan Clark -- who has passed the time riding bikes, drinking too much,...
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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 Denis Glover
Otago University Press£42.00| /"Oh Christ, a bloody-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we...
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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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Long-Forgotten Events from Imperial Austria
Ariadne Press (US)£32.99| /The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of ficti...
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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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Making of Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America', 2nd Edition
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /It is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fu...
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Making of Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America', 2nd Edition
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /It is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fu...
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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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Memoirs from a Madhouse
Ariadne Press (US)£18.99| /Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...
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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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Miss Dennis School of Writing
Bancroft (US)£23.99| /This first book from Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follow in ...
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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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