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Paperback. Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Num Pages: 141 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; AJC; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
SKU
V9780946487929
ISBN
9780946487929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Paperback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770507
ISBN
9780804770507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

Hardback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770491
ISBN
9780804770491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 135 x 3. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632430069
ISBN
9781632430069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, this book revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226781709
ISBN
9780226781709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.61

Paperback. Listen to the voices of the muses in a Scottish-Canadian daughter's homage to her parents. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888645395
ISBN
9780888645395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. Simon Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers in the archives of a deceased philosopher friend of his. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Num Pages: 72 pages, 8 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9780992974718
ISBN
9780992974718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Simon Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers in the archives of a deceased philosopher friend of his. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Num Pages: 72 pages, 8 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006122
ISBN
9780992974718
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 19.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; CBP; DNF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155. .
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926455440
ISBN
9781926455440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.05

Paperback. This play opened at the Hampstead Theatre in the summer of 1996 and became an instant hit. Three sisters and their partners gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarous way Also included is "Five Kinds of Silence". Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148. Series: Modern Plays. 144 pages. This play opened at the Hampstead Theatre in the summer of 1996 and became an instant hit. Three sisters and their partners gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarous way Also included is "Five Kinds of Silence". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DD. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight: 122.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413714701
ISBN
9780413714701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.31

Paperback. Presents a selection of Justo Jorge Padron's (one of the representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s) works. This book offers a wide selection from Padron's thirteen Spanish volumes since 1989 including his last English collection, "On the Cutting Edge". Translator(s): Bourne, Louis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463464
ISBN
9780856463464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.32

Hardcover. Editor(s): Frawley, Oona; O'Callaghan, Katherine. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; HBTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633525
ISBN
9780815633525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
LIT Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825872557
ISBN
9783825872557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd London
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714528687
ISBN
9780714528687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? This title offers an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. Translator(s): Muhawi, Ibrahim. Series: Literature of the Middle East. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition, With a new Foreword by Sinan Antoon
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273047
ISBN
9780520273047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Features the essays that chart some of the author's experiences or remembrances: his youthful love of a particular London bus route that evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning; and memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris that meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555599
ISBN
9780099555599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892258
ISBN
9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.33

Paperback. The Berlin wall has been pulled down. A man arrives at his grandmother's flat with questions about the past. Meanwhile, a generation later, in Bethlehem, the Israeli security barrier is going up. Played out by a company of actors, this play brings the past and present together in an exploration of destiny and the potency of memory itself. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854599742
ISBN
9781854599742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.38

Paperback. Presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. This book examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415402736
ISBN
9780415402736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473223
ISBN
9781611473223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.66

Paperback. Used Copy. Very Good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
KNOPF
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KDK0014370
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Editor(s): Bax, Martin. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 213 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ambit Books United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900055089
ISBN
9780900055089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.25

Paperback. This text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872863606
ISBN
9780872863606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.48

Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169967
ISBN
9780231169967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.07
€ 42.00

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