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Paperback. John Keegan concentrates in this book on significant war themes: the impact of war on the 20th century and the forms it has taken; the origin of war in human nature and history; the adoption and use of war by states as an instrument of policy; and the experience of war by individuals. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000311
ISBN
9780712665667
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951590
ISBN
9780241951590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Hardcover. 344pp. A love story set in Ireland during World War II
Publisher
Corona
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780972063043
ISBN
9780972063043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.48

Paperback. A compelling new poetry collection from the acclaimed Australian poet Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main Market ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447259435
ISBN
9781447259435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. A new collection from an innovative and visionary Australian poet Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330453776
ISBN
9780330453776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. An essential new collection from the visionary Australian poet Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330511841
ISBN
9780330511841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. "One of the most original and poignantly authentic poets writing in English."-Harold Bloom Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393341409
ISBN
9780393341409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.13

Hardcover. A collection of essays that claim that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. It includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. Editor(s): Lucy, Niall. Num Pages: 232 pages, 13 colour plates, 1 black & white plates, 1 maps. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781846314698
ISBN
9781846314698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

John Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual and the natural environment. Series Editor(s): Greenway, Gerard. Series: Angelaki Humanities. Num Pages: 448 pages, 28 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 826.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526113344
ISBN
9781526113344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 177.67

Paperback. A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully, Firebreaks records life and ecology in Western Australia. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393352610
ISBN
9780393352610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.27

Paperback. John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. Series Editor(s): Greenway, Gerard. Series: Angelaki Humanities. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719095603
ISBN
9780719095603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.89

Hardcover. An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139092
ISBN
9781571139092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.11

Hardback. John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721431
ISBN
9780804721431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.69

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 3. Weight in Grams: 85.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691612126
ISBN
9780691612126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.52

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640051
ISBN
9780691640051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.77
€ 63.98

Hardcover. Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472097098
ISBN
9780472097098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.35

Hardback. Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691127125
ISBN
9780691127125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.67
€ 52.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480898
ISBN
9780801480898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.27

Paperback. Presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary fiction, its virtues and vices, and its distinguished practitioners. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575866000
ISBN
9781575866000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.57

Paperback. "Here is comfort for the faithful and rewarding reading for almost anyone, religiously inclined or not, interested in the examined life."-The Washington Times Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217335
ISBN
9780823217335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.48

hardcover. "Here is comfort for the faithful and rewarding reading for almost anyone, religiously inclined or not, interested in the examined life."-The Washington Times Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 701.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823217328
ISBN
9780823217328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823210749
ISBN
9780823210749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.84

paperback. This biography of William Wordsworth attempts to tell the story of his life through a rigourous reading of key and representative works of the poet. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's life. Num Pages: 301 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217168
ISBN
9780823217168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 44.29

Hardback. This biography of William Wordsworth attempts to tell the story of his life through a rigourous reading of key and representative works of the poet. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's life. Num Pages: 301 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 26. Weight in Grams: 627.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217151
ISBN
9780823217151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.43

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