Prose: Non-Fiction
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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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Motherlode
Sybylla Press (AUS)£12.95| /In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose from Sybylla Feminist Press, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for m...
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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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Nahanni Journals
University of Alberta Press (CA)£26.99| /When you cross an Oxford graduate with a young man seeking gold and adventure in the remote wilderness, the result is Nahanni Journals. In this fas...
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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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Not Quite a Memoir
Silman-James Press (US)£30.99| /This is a unique collection of pieces about the many filmmakers and writers from around the globe -- Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East --...
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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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One Step Over the Line
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"We are stepping into unfamiliar territory." This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women's histories traversing the American and Canadian...
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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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Pacific Rim Letters
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£26.99| /Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka at once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with K...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Quilt
Sybylla Press (AUS)£9.95| /Finola Moorhead pulls no punches, her voice is extraordinarily fresh, direct and honest, she takes chances, she is often surreal, and always challe...
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Rainbow Punch
Palavro Publishing£12.99| /• An eclectic mix of poetry that showcases global experiences of lockdown• Highlights the unique experience of being pregnant during the pandemic• ...
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Reading Robinson
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...
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Real Desire
Indra Publishing (AUS)£21.99| /A collection of essays, written over the last ten years by Robyn Ferrell, who is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmani...
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ReCalling Early Canada
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WW...
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Return to Palm Island
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In 1976, Bill Rosser visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. H...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /A classic of Irish literature: a sparkling new verse version of this great sea adventure which originally appeared in Latin prose. The tale centres...
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Secret of Fame
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /Fame. Why do authors seek it? How does one acquire it? What are the consequences of attaining it? Gabriel Zaid examines the methods and motivations...
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Seeds of Reconciliation
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£16.99| /Hargrove, has gathered the most important articles, written by world leaders in Jewish-Christian dialogue, and previously published in the journal ...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£22.95| /A companion volume to the three-book set "Select Works of Edmund Burke", this text includes seven of Burke's major contributions to English politic...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke -- 3-Volume Set
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£32.85| /Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of SELECT WORKS OF BURKE is universally revered by students o...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This first volume contains B...
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