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Hardcover. What baggage do explorers bring to their experiences? This book summarises the various factors that influence the writing & interpretation of exploration narratives, demonstrating the limitations of the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what the explorer saw & what the text describes. Num Pages: 344 pages, b/w maps. BIC Classification: DS; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 212 x 28. Weight in Grams: 918.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552380628
ISBN
9781552380628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.15

Paperback. A study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, recounting the history of Japanese public discourse around Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 6, 1945, to the present day. It studies works from the earliest survivor writers up to Japanese intellectuals writing today. Num Pages: 508 pages, 11 halftones, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226811789
ISBN
9780226811789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSA; HBAH; HBTZ1; JFC; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414003
ISBN
9781421414003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.12

Paperback. A collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. It brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. It covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud, as well as many other important productions. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGFA; BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315727
ISBN
9780571315727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.75

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
SKU
V9783898215916
ISBN
9783898215916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.72

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Charlottesville
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917795
ISBN
9780813917795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.95

Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674016521
ISBN
9780674016521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. Examines the connections between artistic production and political action. This book focuses on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557534859
ISBN
9781557534859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.22

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; JMS; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137593115
ISBN
9781137593115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312214838
ISBN
9780312214838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.39

Paperback. Using the work of Dante as its critical focus, this study examines questions of truth, ideology and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822311171
ISBN
9780822311171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.80

Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JNM; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412206
ISBN
9780821412206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889204300
ISBN
9780889204300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.81

Paperback. This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial." Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBTB; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349370245
ISBN
9781349370245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.61

Hardcover. This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial." Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600652
ISBN
9780230600652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.29

Hardback. Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this book focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804724111
ISBN
9780804724111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354321
ISBN
9780822354321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.87

Paperback. Marilyn Papayanis investigates the "ex-centric" expatriate - a metropolitan figure whose search for the good life leads him away from the industrial West to marginalized or colonized domains. For D. H. Lawrence, Paul Bowles, and Lawrence Durrell - expatriation was a defining act, shaping not only their personal histories but their work as well. Num Pages: 305 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826514691
ISBN
9780826514691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.17

Marilyn Papayanis investigates the "ex-centric" expatriate - a metropolitan figure led away from the industrial West to marginalized or colonized domains. For the principal subjects of her study - D. H. Lawrence, Paul Bowles, and Lawrence Durrell - expatriation was a defining act, shaping not only their personal histories but their work as well. Num Pages: 305 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826514684
ISBN
9780826514684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.99

Paperback. In the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807854921
ISBN
9780807854921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.43

Hardback. An assessment of Native American fiction and criticism. It brings the traditions of Native American fiction into conversation with ideas about the past, present and future of Native literatures. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803222878
ISBN
9780803222878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.45

Paperback. Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349464524
ISBN
9781349464524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.08

Hardcover. Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137339676
ISBN
9781137339676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Hardcover. Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230272279
ISBN
9780230272279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.39

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