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Paperback. Editor(s): Malreddy, Pavan Kumar; Heidemann, Birte; Laursen, Ole Birk. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFFN; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493319
- ISBN
- 9781349493319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence. A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0216116
- ISBN
- 9780747561576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Describes author's early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. This title looks back at how author's career who was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kinder transport. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 207 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228331
- ISBN
- 9780823228331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Hardcover. Attending to the dialogue between the comic events in plays by female writers of the 18th century and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political and legal arguements about women and marrige that fascinated the playwrights and the theatre-going public. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239381
- ISBN
- 9780312239381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Paperback. Starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. This book includes a number of prose poems and translations. It offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 118. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000421
- ISBN
- 9780571230976
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSB; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352210
- ISBN
- 9781349352210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. First published in 1960, The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry from South Slavic epic songs to the Iliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, and beyond. This edition offers a corrected text and is supplemented by an open-access website with audio recordings. Editor(s): Elmer, David F. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975736
- ISBN
- 9780674975736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.74
€ 26.99
€ 23.74
Hardcover. Latin text with facing translation plus notes and commentary. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 204 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856686726
- ISBN
- 9780856686726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.53
€ 135.53
Paperback. This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program in relation to two basic problems: the commonly occurring inconsistency of componential models; and the huge number of alternative componential models. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFX; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349440764
- ISBN
- 9781349440764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746309841
- ISBN
- 9780746309841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.94
€ 24.99
€ 22.94
Hardcover. Guerrero focuses on a selection of Mexican historical novels that are particularly revealing of literary trends during the last three decades. The study addresses the balancing act of Mexican writers as they trace a national identity in the face of globalization and respond to modernization on their own terms. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606371
- ISBN
- 9780230606371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.20
€ 51.20
Paperback. Just how badly do you want to find paradise? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007327812
- ISBN
- 9780007327812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: APF; DSB; JFC; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814779958
- ISBN
- 9780814779958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.59
€ 33.99
€ 30.59
Paperback. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, thisbook uses the works of fivemajor playwrights of the 1950s to providea timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century." Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295203
- ISBN
- 9781349295203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJPR; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003609
- ISBN
- 9781474256544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by "lyric shame"--an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. "Lyric" is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems--an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674734395
- ISBN
- 9780674734395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.94€ 49.44
€ 52.94
€ 49.44
Paperback. Delves into the cultural history of the freak show and offers nuanced context within the larger social changes in the United States. Reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices and opens a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120983
- ISBN
- 9780230120983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.87€ 31.06
€ 50.87
€ 31.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 222 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544. 222pp. Signed and inscribed 'For Ruth Feldman with warmest regards, Maurice Wohlgelernter'. Pencil scoring throughout. Keywords: Biography, 20th Century Ireland
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KON0824669
- ISBN
- 9780231041942
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 28.00
€ 28.00
Paperback. Introduces the art of extra-illustration and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. This work includes an introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later 18th and 19th centuries. Num Pages: 40 pages, 20 color illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; AKLB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 296 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 40
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295990231
- ISBN
- 9780295990231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.90
€ 16.99
€ 16.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349183548
- ISBN
- 9781349183548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99
€ 31.99
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
€ 62.94
€ 62.94
Perfect Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Akron Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931968072
- ISBN
- 9781931968072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.83
€ 10.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. A fascinating exploration of the science of quotology Series: Stages. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803217522
- ISBN
- 9780803217522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.41
€ 27.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. An account of the cultural history of English drama, it shows how the character of a given theatrical 'age' contains contradictions and is uneven in development. It offers chapters on Medieval Theatre, Renaissance Drama, Restoration Comedy, Melodrama, and Naturalism. It concludes with accounts of post-War British Theatre and the State. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199380
- ISBN
- 9780631199380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54