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Hardback. Series: Literary Companions. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333275719
ISBN
9780333275719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 226 x 22. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333217047
ISBN
9780333217047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.91

Paperback. Experience the history, politics, and tragedy of World War II through the original, often firsthand daily reportage of The New York Times, our country's newspaper of record. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; DNJ; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 218 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2014.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316393966
ISBN
9780316393966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.75

Paperback. A collection of letters by one of the 19th century's most-loved novelists, drawing on the extensive public and private collection of Collins' letters scattered across the world. Some are published for the first time. Letters in this volume cover the period from his youth through the writing of his Editor(s): Baker, William; Clarke, William M. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312223434
ISBN
9780312223434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 219.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312101701
ISBN
9780312101701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.61

This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)." Editor(s): Rea, Christopher G. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152747
ISBN
9780231152747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.12
€ 76.70

Paperback. Includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of 24 Iraqis in Haditha; C J Chivers' account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people; and Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. Editor(s): The American Society of Magazine Editors. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231143912
ISBN
9780231143912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.17

Hardback. Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 24 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138024
ISBN
9780231138024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.50
€ 64.81

Paperback. More than two hundred columns, articles, essays, speeches, and letters, tracing ER's development from timorous columnist to one of liberalism's most eloquent and outspoken leaders. From My Day columns on Marian Anderson, excerpts from Moral Basis of Democracy and This Troubled World, to speeches and articles on the Holocaust and McCarthyism. Editor(s): Black, Allida M. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231111812
ISBN
9780231111812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. Spanning the first three decades of this century to the Sino-Japanese War, these twenty-two works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each newly translated and prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. Editor(s): Dooling, Amy D.; Torgeson, Kristina M. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DNF; DQ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 258 x 32. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107013
ISBN
9780231107013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Editor(s): Krapp, George Philip. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
1932
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231087698
ISBN
9780231087698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.12
€ 76.70

Paperback. Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Includes detailed case studies on James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230594630
ISBN
9780230594630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 28.75

Hardcover. Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230579767
ISBN
9780230579767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.72

Hardcover. This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DNF; DSB; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230577558
ISBN
9780230577558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.18

Hardcover. Offers an analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates by focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; DNF; JFC; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230554054
ISBN
9780230554054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.04

Hardcover. This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicia Gallica and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindicia Gallica in the late summer of 1791. Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; DNF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230525399
ISBN
9780230525399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 49.94

Hardcover. This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNJ; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230518032
ISBN
9780230518032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.00

Hardcover. One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of a popular writer as 'literature'. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228542
ISBN
9780230228542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 43.83

Hardcover. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book engages with the most recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221567
ISBN
9780230221567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.51

Hardcover. The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220416
ISBN
9780230220416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.16

Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219861
ISBN
9780230219861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.49

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

€ 50.87
€ 47.35

Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218390
ISBN
9780230218390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 43.83

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

€ 67.18

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