Prose: Non-Fiction
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Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the mos...
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Socrates in the Apology
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. ...
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Sophist
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporar...
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£17.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£9.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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State of the Union
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his be...
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Stephanii Notæ Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /This facsimile edition of Stephanus Johannis Stephanius' Notæ Uberiores in Historian Danicam Saxons Grammatici, one of the high-water marks the cen...
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Stitching Things Together
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...
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Story of Petese Son of Petetum & Seventy Other Good & Bad Stories
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£51.99| /The book presents a complete edition of the three known versions of the ancient Egyptian narrative The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy O...
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Strong Words 2019
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submi...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£33.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Sunday Sentiments
Wisdom Tree (IND)£16.95| /Written in Karan's inimitable style, the articles in this book are a real treat -- racy, fun and enlightening at the same time. It is a must read f...
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Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent print...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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The Aerial Letter
Spinifex Press£16.95| /What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...
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The Braided River
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...
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The Citizen
Massey University Press£34.99| /Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the s...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Essential Augustine
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...
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The Green Heart of the Tree
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings e...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Massey University Press£30.99| /From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity, and how a farmer discovered an unknown warrior in a field in Fra...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Massey University Press£30.99| /The second volume in the annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays. Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity; Jess Berentson-...
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The Meditations
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Includes a translator's Introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical Terms, and a biographical inde.
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The Paper Nautilus
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginni...
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The Politics of Cultural Mediation
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /This collection of essays explores the contact zones produced by the migrations of two German-born cultural figures: New York Dada poet and artist ...
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Theogony
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thoug...
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Transcanada Letters
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£26.99| /Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable ...
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Union & Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...
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Verge 2011
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of Creative Writing. The 2010 volume was the sixth in the series. Verge showcases the best creative...
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Verge 2014
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing; this tenth edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers a...
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Verge 2020
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Navigating obsessions, commemorating loved ones, cooking a meal, drinking with friends, picking at our bodies, reckoning with our choices, finding ...
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Verge 2021
Monash University Publishing£13.99| /The death of a bird haunts the relationship between two siblings. A lonely narrator waits for a bus that never comes. A boy makes soup with his gra...
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Vindication of Natural Society
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This is a new edition of Edmund Burke's first work, originally issued anonymously in 1756 as a letter attributed to 'a late noble writer'. In 1757 ...
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