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Hardcover. This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world. Num Pages: 285 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219571
ISBN
9780230219571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

Paperback. This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd ed. 2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219588
ISBN
9780230219588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.66

Paperback. A selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, "The Poodle Springs Story", left unfinished at his death. Num Pages: 275 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
275
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208353
ISBN
9780520208353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.27

This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas. Translator(s): Barzun, Jacques. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
317
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872204874
ISBN
9780872204874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.19

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
317
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872204867
ISBN
9780872204867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.82

Paperback. A lovely tribute to one of the most inspirational voices of our time. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20-25 photos b/w integrated. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349006147
ISBN
9780349006147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. This collection brings together the many diverse political extents of early 19th-century British feminism, as well as representing the works of literary figures such as Shelley, Tennyson and the Brontes. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DQ; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333726136
ISBN
9780333726136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.14

Paperback. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition - specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This title addresses this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry. Editor(s): Morris, Daniel; Miller, Stephen Paul. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 552 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817355630
ISBN
9780817355630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.01

Hardcover. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 401.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403911834
ISBN
9781403911834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.15

Hardcover. Essays in English by French, Irish and German academics, which explore the relevance and interest of the tragic theatre today of the French dramatist, Jean Racine (1639-99). Editor(s): Caldicott, Edric; Conroy, Derval. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900621564
ISBN
9781900621564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 44.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 206 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; DNJ; HBT; WFBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764325953
ISBN
9780764325953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 157 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sybylla Co-operative Press Australia
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9780908205042
ISBN
9780908205042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. In January 2014 the author was informed that he had cancer. This book is not about death, but about what it means to be human. It is about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. It is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784701567
ISBN
9781784701567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DNF; RGL; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 121 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910749562
ISBN
9781910749562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.15

Hardback. Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. Editor(s): Alexander, J.H.; Wood, G.A.M. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 595 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 35. Weight in Grams: 818.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
595
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605798
ISBN
9780748605798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.05

Hardcover. Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230205857
ISBN
9780230205857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.21

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Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401692
ISBN
9781474401692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.72

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401708
ISBN
9781474401708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.13

Hardback. Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind. Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S.; Gilbert, Suzanne. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 967.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748609345
ISBN
9780748609345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.21
€ 105.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896727786
ISBN
9780896727786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.55

Paperback. Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099572350
ISBN
9780099572350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.25

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 3JH; 3JJ; DNJ; HBJK; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650081
ISBN
9780691650081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.29

Hardcover. The period covered by the essays published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. The themes most prominent here reflect the concerns of this transition and the development of Voegelin's understanding of the stratification of reality. Editor(s): Sandoz, Ellis. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 336 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826212825
ISBN
9780826212825
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.99

Hardcover. This volume includes some of Eric Voegelin's most provocative and interesting essays, written between 1940 and 1952. It contains his first publications after he fled from Austria to the US as Hitler rose to power, providing eyewitness commentary on the rise of National Socialism. Editor(s): Sandoz, Ellis. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: DN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213044
ISBN
9780826213044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.64

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