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Paperback. Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DN; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141398556
ISBN
9780141398556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 5.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780684818450
ISBN
9780684818450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BJ; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Anchor
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780804171441
ISBN
9780804171441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555977597
ISBN
9781555977597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Backes, David. Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DNS; DSBH; RNA; RNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780816637096
ISBN
9780816637096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. A companion to British literature explores the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history and background of English poetry, fiction, prose, and drama and analyzes the changing conditions of literary activity. Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 700. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002840
ISBN
9780393303438
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. This volume reconstructs F. Scott Fitzgerald's planned volume of personal essays. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 366 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780521402392
ISBN
9780521402392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.43

hardcover. A collection of Fitzgerald's writings for high school and Princeton University magazines. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 308 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521765923
ISBN
9780521765923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.02
€ 94.83

hardcover. An account of World War II from the articles of one of the war's finest correspondents. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: DN; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780521830515
ISBN
9780521830515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.86
€ 75.12

hardcover. The first edition of all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson. Editor(s): Pettit, Alexander. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780521830522
ISBN
9780521830522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.23
€ 167.97

hardcover. This first volume of the first ever complete critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea provides established texts of Finch's early manuscript books. Editor(s): Keith, Jennifer; Kairoff, Claudia Thomas. Num Pages: 600 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DD; DN; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107068605
ISBN
9781107068605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.86

hardcover. This second volume of the first ever complete critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea provides established texts of Finch's later collections in print and manuscript form. Editor(s): Keith, Jennifer; Kairoff, Claudia Thomas. Num Pages: 600 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DD; DN; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781107068650
ISBN
9781107068650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.50

Hardcover. Addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? This title explores the sensual happiness of the flesh; covers the difficulties of the modern world's obsession with consumption; and, finally the consolation and sympathy provided by art and literature. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 116 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0014614
ISBN
9780701187118
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and practice of war, and new generations of readers have" Translator(s): Sawyer, Mei-Chun. Num Pages: 392 pages, 9 maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; HBJF; HBLA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Westview Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813388885
ISBN
9780813388885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.38

Paperback. These 11 essays are the writings that galvanized the 60s youth revolution, written when Leary was at the peak of his popularity, influence and visionary intensity. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ronin Publishing United States
Edition
6th ed.
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781579510091
ISBN
9781579510091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise. Num Pages: 496 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226035857
ISBN
9780226035857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.45

Hardcover. Charts the connections that the author has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. This book considers the author's ideas alongside Freud's and helps in gaining a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226043524
ISBN
9780226043524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.21
€ 76.86

Paperback. Exploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044101
ISBN
9780226044101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.35

Paperback. This volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 288 pages, music. BIC Classification: 1H; AVGH; DNF; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 239 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226088303
ISBN
9780226088303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 35.79

Paperback. Originally published anonymously in 1844, "Vestiges" was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. This volume includes Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin and an autobiographical essay. It also features a new introduction by James Secord. Num Pages: 312 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; PSAJ; RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226100739
ISBN
9780226100739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.70

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