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Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. Charles Dickens describes his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness, and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows him as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141047508
- ISBN
- 9780141047508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.11
€ 10.99
€ 9.11
Hardcover. Orwell continued the BBC program "Voice" and developed an "open university" with broadcasts by distinguished speakers such as E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Joseph Needham. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 38. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780436203664
- ISBN
- 9780436203664
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.75€ 40.33
€ 58.75
€ 40.33
Paperback. "The Republic" deals with almost the whole range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument with myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by leisures and appetites. Translator(s): Davies, John Llewelyn; Vaughan, David James. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853264832
- ISBN
- 9781853264832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.33
€ 7.33
Paperback. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period constitute some of the most remarkable 20th century analyses of the emergence of modern society. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire and Brecht to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022294
- ISBN
- 9780674022294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.99
€ 35.99
€ 30.99
Paperback. Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: DN; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 6th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958148
- ISBN
- 9780241958148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces. Editor(s): Weinberger, Eliot. Translator(s): Allen, Esther; Levine, Suzanne. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183022
- ISBN
- 9780141183022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.79
€ 21.99
€ 15.79
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 896
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2000 Modern Library pbk. ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679783220
- ISBN
- 9780679783220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.28
€ 27.99
€ 19.28
Hardcover. Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about politics, art, education and the general conduct of life. Translator(s): Lindsay, A.D. Num Pages: 341 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150988
- ISBN
- 9781857150988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.79
€ 21.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.' Such is the fate of many who have dared to try to catch El Chapo, or oppose him. Num Pages: 304 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141048390
- ISBN
- 9780141048390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. This selection of Cicero's letters not merely documents in detail Cicero's career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero's vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony. Translator(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DB; DNF; HBJD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199214204
- ISBN
- 9780199214204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling to Ireland with hellraiser Peter O'Toole; and, a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a immaculately-crafted meditation on celebrity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194158
- ISBN
- 9780141194158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.59
€ 13.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Offers the reader with modern English parallel-text translations. This title also provides an opportunity to emphasise different but related points about literal and figurative types of chastity and purity appropriate to the laity. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 256 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897808
- ISBN
- 9780859897808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.85
€ 38.85
Paperback. Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036700
- ISBN
- 9780141036700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.11
€ 10.99
€ 9.11
Paperback. This volume contains Arlene Croce, The New Yorker's dance critic, most significant and provocative pieces. Num Pages: 784 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ASD; DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 108 x 39. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Publisher
- Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813029139
- ISBN
- 9780813029139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.98
€ 25.98
Paperback. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 430 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 430
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590170281
- ISBN
- 9781590170281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 20.56
€ 31.99
€ 20.56
Hardcover. Presents one man's personal view of the world around us, and the universe within each of us. Containing Michael Jackson's personal writings and over one hundred photographs, drawings, and paintings from his own collection, this book is suitable for all fans of an incredible, inspiring man who died as he lived - dancing his dream. Num Pages: 160 pages, Full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385403689
- ISBN
- 9780385403689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 21.76
€ 33.99
€ 21.76
Paperback. An evocative and emotionally powerful debut novel of life, death and learning to breathe in between. Sophie is an emerging Australian writer who is already receiving critical acclaim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 138 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Import Aus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733634857
- ISBN
- 9780733634857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.11
€ 18.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580911863
- ISBN
- 9781580911863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241251805
- ISBN
- 9780241251805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.13
€ 6.13
Paperback. 'One day there is life .. And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins the author's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. This book also includes a section 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', that reveals the author's memories and feelings after the death of his father. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571288328
- ISBN
- 9780571288328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.34
€ 14.99
€ 11.34