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Hardback. Offers a postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing. This title argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake - the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631207634
ISBN
9780631207634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.73

Hardcover. Spanning a period of eighty years, this book depicts a nineteenth-century central New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast changes in technology, transportation, culture, education, and even regional landscape. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations, 10 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608608
ISBN
9780815608608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.32

Paperback. * First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka. Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated: 16, int b/w. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Time Warner Books Uk
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349115931
ISBN
9780349115931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Emphasizing various Texas' mystery writers and the images they convey of the state's regions and cultures, this book provides an introduction to the literary genre and to Texas as a place in fiction. It features selections from the works of Kinky Friedman and Mary Willis Walker and some outsiders like Nevada Barr and Carolyn Hart. Editor(s): Newsom, Rollo K.; Cunningham, Bill; Davis, Steven L. Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 508. Weight in Grams: 397.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292717374
ISBN
9780292717374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. Editor(s): Bussel, Rachel Kramer. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 203 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220. 230 pages. Editor(s): Bussel, Rachel Kramer. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FP. Dimension: 143 x 203 x 13. Weight: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cleis Press
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573448185
ISBN
9781573448185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.16

paperback. This collection of new and published poetry reflects Meehan's paradoxical intimacy; the tones can be quiet, even private, but the private world erupts or is broken open by the public world, its violence, its insistent issues. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92. Signed and inscribed. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Very good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031392
ISBN
9781857544626
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 28.00

Hardback. This book is a translation of Salinas's Seguro azar. It includes fifty poems, most of them one or two pages in length, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages. There is also a prologue by the poet, and introduction by the translator, and a reminiscence by Salinas's friend and fellow poet, Willis Barnstone. Translator(s): Garrison, David Lee. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481259
ISBN
9781611481259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.47

Paperback. Reassesses better-known works and themes in the field of Lydgate studies, including Lydgate's unofficial laureateship, his relationship to his patrons, and his relationship to Chaucer. This book makes an important contribution to medieval scholarship and it will be welcomed by scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry; Simpson, James. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041168
ISBN
9780268041168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover. How did Byron become "Byron"? The author of this text locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations he performed at Harrow School, in this examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience. Throughout, the poet is recognized in the boy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863431
ISBN
9780801863431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Completely produced by students in the Purdue University Honors College, this book contains ten essays by undergraduate students of today about their forebears in the class of 1904. Two Purdue faculty members have provided a contextualizing introduction and reflective epilogue. Editor(s): Bross, Kristina. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626710146
ISBN
9781626710146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.70

Paperback. 128pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Merlin Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0022735
ISBN
9780863272585
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 85.00

Paperback. Little attention has been paid to the ties between producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in the Heian. This book addresses such issues by investigating how different members of the court deployed poems in the pursuit of power. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 433 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947396
ISBN
9781933947396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DN; JMAF; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811220040
ISBN
9780811220040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. The first anthology of Sung dynasty tz'u poems available in English, Beyond Spring provides a representative body of translations, 150 in all. Keeping true to the original music, Landau's faithful translations capture the phrasing and rhythms crucial to Tz'u. Translator(s): Landau, Julie. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 274 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096799
ISBN
9780231096799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252064593
ISBN
9780252064593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926131
ISBN
9780813926131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.26

Paperback. These Dumfries and Galloway poets, free in their own inimitable styles and approaches, are bound together by the unique culture of Scotland. Their poems help to raise the wall of that culture in the modern world. Editor(s): Wilson, Rab. Num Pages: 256 pages, Black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384. Signed by the author
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9781906817053
ISBN
9781906817053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.35

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134349
ISBN
9781571134349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; JFD; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813561776
ISBN
9780813561776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473223
ISBN
9781611473223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.66

Paperback. Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works of some prominent writers on the art of growing older. In this anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP31. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226065496
ISBN
9780226065496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.68

Paperback. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003393
ISBN
9780140119510
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 333 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772895246
ISBN
9788772895246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.81

Paperback. When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, and sustained vision of the natural world. This title offers an introduction to this one of the resonant - and relevant - of poets. Editor(s): Hollis, Matthew. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007491
ISBN
9780571235698
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

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