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Paperback. Situating the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems - in the larger context of Sufi, Bhakti and Sant poetry in medieval India, the author explores their history, characteristics, themes and prosody, as well as the unique Khojki script in which they were recorded. Series: Ismaili Heritage Series. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; DSC; GTB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860648281
- ISBN
- 9781860648281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.51
€ 26.51
Paperback. Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play. Editor(s): Scobie, Brian. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 128 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713666908
- ISBN
- 9780713666908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.32
€ 14.32
Hardback. This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. Num Pages: 292 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611488128
- ISBN
- 9781611488128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.84€ 61.16
€ 95.84
€ 61.16
Hardback. David D. Phillips presents a commentary on Polybius' first book. Volume includes the definitive text by Theodor Buttner-Wobst, with detailed commentary on points of linguistic and historical interest, and an introduction to Polybius' life, the Histories and Polybian language, style, and tone. An index of Greek words is also provided. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2AHA; 3B; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 257 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Michigan Classical Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979971372
- ISBN
- 9780979971372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.41
€ 65.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352319
- ISBN
- 9781349352319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.28€ 12.99
€ 73.28
€ 12.99
Hardcover. An extensive look at historical, literary, and media representations of '68 in Germany, challenging the way it has been instrumentalized. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJPK; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139542
- ISBN
- 9781571139542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.15
€ 122.15
Hardback. A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844143
- ISBN
- 9781843844143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.15
€ 94.15
Hardback. This new interdisciplinary collection spanning anthropology, image studies, literary criticism, psychology and history explores the ways in which children's books were important vehicles for the expression of national identities, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, right up until the present day. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Emer; Immel, Andrea. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, 27 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461681
- ISBN
- 9781137461681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.92€ 18.32
€ 147.92
€ 18.32
Hardback. Editor(s): Kelvin, Norman. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632988
- ISBN
- 9780691632988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.33€ 108.67
€ 155.33
€ 108.67
Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226369655
- ISBN
- 9780226369655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.26
€ 38.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. More than 900 entries, carefully selected, organized, and annotated, and accompanied by informative background material, make this volume a unique and indispensable guide to Chaucer and related studies. Series: Toronto Medieval Texts & Translations. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454. Clean copy in good to very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KRF0006453
- ISBN
- 9780802064080
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691646077
- ISBN
- 9780691646077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.44€ 64.27
€ 80.44
€ 64.27
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; HBTB; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137597144
- ISBN
- 9781137597144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.07
€ 90.07
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611476644
- ISBN
- 9781611476644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.18€ 14.08
€ 81.18
€ 14.08
Paperback. This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hebert's writing into English by people "in the middle" of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 244 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780776623764
- ISBN
- 9780776623764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.07
€ 41.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. A complete translation of a major Japanese puppet drama written in 1746, with an investigation into the play's many authors and the use of "bunraku" puppets. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231059879
- ISBN
- 9780231059879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.43
€ 35.99
€ 26.43
Hardback. In this wide-ranging study, Gomma examines contemporary migrant narratives by Arab-American, Chicana, Indian-American, Pakistani-American, and Cuban-American women writers. Concepts such as national consciousness, time, space, and belonging are scrutinized through the "non-national" experience, unsettling notions of a unified America. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502865
- ISBN
- 9781137502865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.12
€ 65.12
Hardback. This is a new edition of Rob Roy. It is set in 1715-16, yet it concerns not the conduct of the Jacobite Rising, but the economic and social conditions which gave rise to it. Editor(s): Hewitt, David. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 612 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 38. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 612
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605699
- ISBN
- 9780748605699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.68€ 112.92
€ 138.68
€ 112.92
Paperback. The first-ever collection of Anniiih/Gros Ventre narratives to be published in the Aaniiih/Gros Ventre language, this book contains traditional trickster tales and war stories. Some of these stories were collected by Alfred Kroeber in 1901, while others are contemporary, oral stories, told in the past few years. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; FF; FJM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139. .
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889774803
- ISBN
- 9780889774803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.37
€ 22.37
Hardcover. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Berg Publishers Oxford
- Number of pages
- 236
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRS0018700
- ISBN
- 9780854969098
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 2ACG; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380498
- ISBN
- 9781782380498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 25.94
€ 36.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poetry aloud. It discusses how reading the poems aloud can offer one of the best ways of fully participating in properly engaged reading. Series: Shakespeare Now!. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847064547
- ISBN
- 9781847064547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.52
€ 28.52
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107085206
- ISBN
- 9781107085206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.51
€ 90.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403922014
- ISBN
- 9781403922014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.66
€ 37.99
€ 37.66