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Paperback. Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers. Num Pages: 800 pages, 44 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSK; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199639366
- ISBN
- 9780199639366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.64
€ 80.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781573093927
- ISBN
- 9781573093927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.92
€ 74.92
Paperback. aeo A timely and highly accessible study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. aeo The author sheds new light on Benjamina s lifelong fascination with the city by examining a number of key texts, including those of Naples, Marseilles, Moscow, Paris and Berlin. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620107
- ISBN
- 9780745620107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.90
€ 24.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226279916
- ISBN
- 9780226279916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.63€ 43.74
€ 50.63
€ 43.74
Paperback. This study examines selected aspects of John Donne's life and work in an historical context, emphasizing the relationship between his circumstances and his individuality. Thus his poetry and prose are examined as products of difficult times as opposed to mere aesthetic forms. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Some sunning to spine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000823
- ISBN
- 9780333422137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; HPCB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636900
- ISBN
- 9780691636900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.66
€ 134.66
Hardback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242146
- ISBN
- 9780823242146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.23
€ 68.23
Paperback. Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from premodern China. With Hanan's introduction and notes, and containing Li Yu's emphasis marks, notes, and critiques, this volume will interest students of Chinese literature and general readers alike. Translator(s): Hanan, Patrick. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBD; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113854
- ISBN
- 9780231113854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.43
€ 42.43
Hardback. Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which wheeled into the 20th century. Translator(s): Friedman, Roger. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727099
- ISBN
- 9780804727099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.00
€ 123.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252065835
- ISBN
- 9780252065835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Frame, Donald M. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 908 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press Stanford, CA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 906
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804704861
- ISBN
- 9780804704861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 45.53
€ 51.99
€ 45.53
Hardback. Explores Goethe's ethics of happiness and themes of resignation within them. Prandi uses Lucretius and Spinoza as models of influence for Goethe's "natural morality", considering the similarity between the three in their definition of what makes people rationally happy. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819189912
- ISBN
- 9780819189912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.09
€ 120.09
Hardback. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898747
- ISBN
- 9780801898747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.52€ 68.57
€ 76.52
€ 68.57
Paperback. Is Lucan's epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry, or does it proclaim the meaninglessness of ideology? The author finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the need for, yet suspicion of, ideology; and the redemptive power of storytellings. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005501
- ISBN
- 9780674005501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.55
€ 41.99
€ 34.55
Hardback. Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today. Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759120945
- ISBN
- 9780759120945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.85
€ 140.85
Hardcover. Studies the representations of queer subjectivities during the Spanish Transition era (1960s to 1990s), drawing on some of the most influential critical theorists and philosophers. This book focuses on well-known Spanish authors and film-makers as well as on others who have merited far less critical attention. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 5S; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846314674
- ISBN
- 9781846314674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.71
€ 135.71
Paperback. A literary walking tour of New York City as seen through the eyes of American and British writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274253
- ISBN
- 9780823274253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.19
€ 26.99
€ 23.19
Paperback. This scrupulously revised edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the beauty and wonder of the Catskill mountain region. Combining a wealth of information with abundant illustrations, the book falls into four main sections. Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBTP; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823213016
- ISBN
- 9780823213016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.54
€ 51.54
Hardcover. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718516
- ISBN
- 9780804718516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.03
€ 71.03
Hardback. Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. This book explores this dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, while taking into account the developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and post-modern psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023475
- ISBN
- 9780674023475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.48€ 52.08
€ 57.48
€ 52.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761821458
- ISBN
- 9780761821458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.53
€ 125.53
Hardcover. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318429
- ISBN
- 9781846318429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Paperback. The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674246904
- ISBN
- 9780674246904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.56
€ 40.99
€ 33.56
Hardcover. John McNamee captures through his poetry the heroism, irony, tragedy and beauty that is hidden even among the shambles of the desolate urban neighborhoods in which he ministers. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AFH; DC; DSBH; DSC; HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556128127
- ISBN
- 9781556128127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.19
€ 36.19