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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
Paperback. Editor(s): Walker, Rebecca. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Soft Skull Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781593764173
- ISBN
- 9781593764173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.70
€ 17.99
€ 15.70
Paperback. "This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming t Editor(s): Anderson, Mark M. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 212 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393923209
- ISBN
- 9780393923209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.14
€ 16.99
€ 16.14
Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; DSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810860926
- ISBN
- 9780810860926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.81
€ 174.81
Paperback. Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on the many ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. It also explores topics such as: the afro-centric urban Los Angeles environment in Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", and the gritty South African setting of James McClure's "The Steam Pig". Num Pages: 217 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786432981
- ISBN
- 9780786432981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245181
- ISBN
- 9780520245181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691622637
- ISBN
- 9780691622637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.30
€ 48.99
€ 35.30
Hardback. When he was twenty, C.H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. Fifty years later, 'English Perspectives' presents his reflections on politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856359804
- ISBN
- 9780856359804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.19
€ 36.99
€ 31.19
Paperback. Combining theoretical reflections and re-interpretations of Gramsci, this collection presents geo-cultural perspectives on the meaning of the subaltern, passive revolution, hegemony, the concept of national-popular culture, in order to chart out a political map of the postcolonial through the central focus on Gramsci. Editor(s): Srivastava, Neelam; Bhattacharya, Baidik. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415748148
- ISBN
- 9780415748148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Hardcover. A twist on the traditional story finds a teacher and his students coping withevery conceivable crisis on the eve of Christmas. Illustrations. Num Pages: 32 pages, 31 colour illus. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 280 x 215 x 8. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565548336
- ISBN
- 9781565548336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.00
€ 20.99
€ 20.00
Paperback. This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780719068751
- ISBN
- 9780719068751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.23
€ 29.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. In bunkhouses or rodeo arenas, on the trail or around the campfire, cowboys have been creating and reciting poetry since the 1870s. This title explores the 125-year history and development of cowboy poetry and to celebrate those who sustain it. It approaches the tradition of occupational folk poetry from a variety of perspectives. Editor(s): Stanley, David; Thatcher, Elaine. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068362
- ISBN
- 9780252068362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.06
€ 42.99
€ 38.06
Hardback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721684
- ISBN
- 9780804721684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.12
€ 162.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; VXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manor House Publishing Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897453278
- ISBN
- 9781897453278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.18
€ 15.99
€ 12.18
Paperback. Clean copy with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KST0017356
- ISBN
- 9780552083058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. This book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSB; DSC; HRHC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222060
- ISBN
- 9780253222060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. "Unprecedented in the breadth of what it offers from both the ancient and the recent literature of my country."-Thomas Keneally, from the foreword Num Pages: 1504 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 442 x 235 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- College ed
- Number of pages
- 1504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393934663
- ISBN
- 9780393934663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.35
€ 48.99
€ 43.35
Paperback. This volume of essays on Bacon's "The New Atlantis" provides a dialogue between a range of critical perspectives, encompassing cultural history, history of science, literature and politics of early modern culture, incorporating the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. Editor(s): Price, Bronwen. Series Editor(s): Wallace, Jeff; Whale, John. Series: Texts in Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; GT; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719060526
- ISBN
- 9780719060526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.24
€ 29.24
Paperback. "When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm, and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he had become one of the most accomplished English poets of his generation. This collection of his poem Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781857546378
- ISBN
- 9781857546378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.20
€ 25.99
€ 21.20
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135926
- ISBN
- 9781571135926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.51
€ 105.51
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641997
- ISBN
- 9780691641997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.84
€ 154.84
Paperback. Translator(s): Mainland, W.F. Series: German Literary Classics in Translation. Num Pages: 190 pages, xxxiv, 156 p. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226738017
- ISBN
- 9780226738017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.94
€ 31.99
€ 24.94
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908343239
- ISBN
- 9781908343239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781878610621
- ISBN
- 9781878610621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69