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Prose: non-fiction
hardcover. For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. This title includes thirty-six of these writings. Editor(s): Sanderson, Kenneth M.; Stein, Bernard L.; Anderson, Frederick. Series: Mark Twain Papers. Num Pages: 751 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 44. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 751
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520020399
- ISBN
- 9780520020399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.07€ 62.46
€ 81.07
€ 62.46
Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802046949
- ISBN
- 9780802046949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
paperback. Editor(s): Henricksson, John. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816629039
- ISBN
- 9780816629039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.17
€ 18.99
€ 18.17
paperback. Hyperides was ranked in antiquity as second in greatness only to Demosthenes amongst the Ten Attic Orators. His execution in 322 BC for opposition to Macedonian rule left Dinarchus as the last of the Ten to survive. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856683077
- ISBN
- 9780856683077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. The Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; DNF; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859893169
- ISBN
- 9780859893169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.69
€ 38.69
Hardback. A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200074
- ISBN
- 9780230200074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Paperback. In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230309
- ISBN
- 9780230230309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234062
- ISBN
- 9780230234062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Paperback. Sarah Gamble's compelling study, now available in paperback, disentangles the cult of Angela Carter as 'the fairy godmother of magical realism' from her own claims to be a materialist and a 'demythologiser' by placing her within the social, political and theoretical context in which she wrote. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580985
- ISBN
- 9780230580985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback. Now available in paperback, Maurizio Ascari's study of crime fiction takes a new look at its evolution, drawing on material from the Middle Ages onwards. He explores the connections between revenge tragedies, the gothic, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, and examines the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594623
- ISBN
- 9780230594623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.72
€ 121.72
hardcover. Offering close readings of novels by Sherman Alexie to Leslie Marmon Silko, this book documents the reinvention of Anglo-European nationality in the interests of sustaining the indigenous traditions that long-preceded colonization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613423
- ISBN
- 9780230613423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Hardcover. This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615373
- ISBN
- 9780230615373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. Editor(s): El Kahla, Mouna. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620353
- ISBN
- 9780230620353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.46€ 45.34
€ 50.46
€ 45.34
Hardcover. This volume of essays is not only a tribute to a distinguished scholar, it is also a specifically planned assessment of the six most important lines of enquiry of Luigi Pasinetti's research programme. The book attempts to evaluate and give new insights into Pasinetti's contributions. Editor(s): Baranzini, Mauro; Harcourt, G. C. Num Pages: 440 pages, tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333573976
- ISBN
- 9780333573976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.82
€ 187.82
Hardcover. Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson and many others, often now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333681596
- ISBN
- 9780333681596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.28
€ 123.28
Hardback. t/c with MS. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DNF; PBMS; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387987484
- ISBN
- 9780387987484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
hardcover. This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will deepen our understanding of Murdoch's complex life and work. Editor(s): Meyers, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 130 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352415
- ISBN
- 9781137352415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
Hardcover. Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378231
- ISBN
- 9781137378231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; DNJ; HBJF1; JPSD; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137395122
- ISBN
- 9781137395122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Paperback. The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain one of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization, while they themselves are second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here, collected for the first time, is their correspondence with accessible commentary from two of our foremost medieval scholars. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Mary Martin; Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413642
- ISBN
- 9781137413642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.36
€ 123.36
Hardback. Series: Information Technology and Global Governance. Num Pages: 366 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JM; DNJ; HBTV; JFD; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497895
- ISBN
- 9781137497895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Hardback. Editor(s): Mazzeno, Laurence W. Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Num Pages: 289 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137602183
- ISBN
- 9781137602183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.19
€ 176.19
Hardcover. In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs. Editor(s): Plate, Liedeke; Smelik, Anneke. Num Pages: 253 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ACX; APFA; DNF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230575677
- ISBN
- 9780230575677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period. Editor(s): Beidler, Philip D.; Taylor, Gary. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295967
- ISBN
- 9780312295967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91