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Paperback. A warrior sails to a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy: the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his blood-thirsty foe, save the Geats from being wiped off the map, and claim his just rewards? The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous new translation. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penned in the Margins United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908058140
- ISBN
- 9781908058140
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback / so. San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish. Series: San Francisco Poet Laureate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931404136
- ISBN
- 9781931404136
€ 15.99€ 15.11
€ 15.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931859288
- ISBN
- 9781931859288
€ 15.99€ 15.10
€ 15.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. Recognized as one of his generation's most important voices: fervent, generous, intimate, new. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 162 x 7. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517001
- ISBN
- 9781933517001
€ 12.10
€ 12.10
Paperback. A brutal and apocalyptic New York epic in the beat tradition. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 145 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517018
- ISBN
- 9781933517018
€ 12.10
€ 12.10
Paperback. An unforgettable debut: Dorothea Lasky is a seductive prophet who delights as well as terrifies. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517247
- ISBN
- 9781933517247
€ 13.99€ 13.11
€ 13.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. Poems of exquisite pain and conciliation from one of Brooklyn's most devoted and dynamic poets. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517391
- ISBN
- 9781933517391
€ 13.99€ 13.08
€ 13.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 218 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 82
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517421
- ISBN
- 9781933517421
€ 13.99€ 13.11
€ 13.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. The world's enduring struggles fuse with a family's tiniest gestures in this popular NY-based poet's most recent collection. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517506
- ISBN
- 9781933517506
€ 15.99€ 15.11
€ 15.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517513
- ISBN
- 9781933517513
€ 15.99€ 15.10
€ 15.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. It's possible to be an experimental humanist. Translator(s): Valentine, Sarah. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517537
- ISBN
- 9781933517537
€ 15.99€ 15.11
€ 15.99
€ 15.11
Paperback / so. Deliberately anachronistic and delightfully extractable, the microgram is a metaphor itself for that which is well-worth the digging. Translator(s): De Acosta, Alejandro; Beckman, Joshua. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517551
- ISBN
- 9781933517551
€ 15.99€ 15.11
€ 15.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. Fierce and visceral, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's poem is as canonical to Infrarealism as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was to the Beats. Translator(s): Cole, Heinowitz; Graman, Alexis. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 165 x 4. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517681
- ISBN
- 9781933517681
€ 15.99€ 15.10
€ 15.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. Exuberantly referential poems of personal and political struggle inhabit this highly acclaimed poet's fourth collection. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933517728
- ISBN
- 9781933517728
€ 16.99€ 16.10
€ 16.99
€ 16.10
Paperback. Elegiac, brimming with beauty, and grounded in daily life on a farm. An accessible and sweet document of human experience. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781940696102
- ISBN
- 9781940696102
€ 16.99€ 16.08
€ 16.99
€ 16.08
Paperback. What is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically? What checks and balances are being put on the news media? This collection of fourteen chapters by leading authors examines journalism as practised today and what we might expect from it in the future. Editor(s): Gordon, Janey; Rowinski, Paul; Stewart, Gavin. Num Pages: 308 pages, 14, 8 ill. B/W / 6 tab. BIC Classification: CBP; CBWJ; DSB; GTC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034309042
- ISBN
- 9783034309042
€ 59.38
€ 59.38
Paperback. Shows that, under the influence of the popular geography of the eighteenth century, an increasing number of literary works began to make use of actual topographical data. The author demonstrates that the kinship between geographical and literary representations of topography went further: they underwent parallel developments. Num Pages: 233 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; HBLH; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034312578
- ISBN
- 9783034312578
€ 61.68
€ 61.68
Paperback. Offers insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). This title examines Burton's 'impersonations' of multiple masculine identities in the countries that he visited, which involved elaborate processes of both identification and dis-identification. Series: Victorian and Edwardian Studies. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; EB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034313605
- ISBN
- 9783034313605
€ 58.29
€ 58.29
Paperback. Series: Exilstudien/Exile Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CB; DSBH; HB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783039101801
- ISBN
- 9783039101801
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Hardcover. In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. This book aims to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified this relationship in postmodern narratives. Editor(s): Wrobel, Szymon. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF3; HPS; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631650394
- ISBN
- 9783631650394
€ 53.64
€ 53.64
Paperback. In a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality, 19 authors and specialists, of diverse origins, consider how transculturality can help us understand the world. The contributions deal with literary texts, movies, drama, and visual art. The chapters cover themes such as multiculturalism, stereotypes, movement, or bilingual writing. Editor(s): Leblanc, Andre; Gilsenan Nordin, Irene; Edfeldt, Chatarina; Hu, Lung-Lung; Jonsson, Herbert H. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GTC; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631660614
- ISBN
- 9783631660614
€ 61.55
€ 61.55
Hardcover. The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen's prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters' identity. Series: Mediated Fictions Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 255 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631670255
- ISBN
- 9783631670255
€ 31.99€ 30.83
€ 31.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. Editor(s): Bliss, Alan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780261103559
- ISBN
- 9780261103559
€ 11.99€ 8.13
€ 11.99
€ 8.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786465736
- ISBN
- 9780786465736
€ 46.57
€ 46.57