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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691622613
ISBN
9780691622613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.18

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312126773
ISBN
9780312126773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.46

Hardback. Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it, showing how in 1989 the consolidation of the information age, the perpetual state of war, and the focus on humanitarianism transformed the novel into a form that addresses contemporary social, technological, and political upheavals. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361374
ISBN
9780822361374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334414
ISBN
9781349334414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 121 x 7. Weight in Grams: 62.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780008115272
ISBN
9780008115272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 7.49

Paperback. In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; ACV; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719073571
ISBN
9780719073571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.76

Paperback. Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding-house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 96. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0001766
ISBN
9780571160785
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Focuses on the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032842
ISBN
9780674032842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349415137
ISBN
9781349415137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. 'One day there is life .. And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins the author's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. This book also includes a section 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', that reveals the author's memories and feelings after the death of his father. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571288328
ISBN
9780571288328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Series: Prairie State Book. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780252060069
ISBN
9780252060069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.56

Hardcover. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230343641
ISBN
9780230343641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.11

Paperback. Editor(s): Fischer, Peter; Hubig, Christoph; Koslowski, Peter. Series: Ethische Okonomie. Beitrage zur Wirtschaftsethik und Wirtschaftskultur. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 697.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Physica-Verlag HD
Condition
New
SKU
V9783790815481
ISBN
9783790815481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.81

Hardcover. Pablo Neruda wrote these sonnets for his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda Translator(s): Tapscott, Stephen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292757608
ISBN
9780292757608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.77

Hardback. Offers a study of Japanese cultural expression. This title reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJF; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520245051
ISBN
9780520245051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.05
€ 62.16

Hardback. This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 figures, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757775
ISBN
9780804757775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99

Paperback. This book is a study of wartime anxiety in the fiction, art, and psychoanalytic writings of mid-century Britain. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284566
ISBN
9781349284566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. Addresses evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. This work features contents such as the idea of childhood in the writing of Gregory of Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the understanding of kingship, and more. Editor(s): Goldberg, P.J.P.; Riddy, Felicity. Num Pages: 152 pages, Cloth over boards. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBT; JFC; JFSP2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153130
ISBN
9781903153130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140383430
ISBN
9780140383430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 4.61

Paperback. This book uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera's translated novels. It focuses on the language of the novels, Kundera's 'lost' works, writing as translation, interpretation, exile, censorship and the social responses to translated fiction. Series: Topics in Translation. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGZ; CFP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853598821
ISBN
9781853598821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 20.55

Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326539
ISBN
9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.76

Paperback. good copy with light shelf wear.Cover is sunned. Light nicks to cover, remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0006704
ISBN
9780140041408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Includes essays that explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Num Pages: 348 pages, 9 music exx., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012463
ISBN
9780253012463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Rowlinson, Matthew. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811434
ISBN
9781554811434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.48

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