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Hardback. This study covers the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of Ancient Rome. It shows how scholars and poets, as well as engineers, soldiers, scientists and politicians, gained inspiration from the writing, theory and practice of their Roman predecessors. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1QDAR; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; HBJD1; HBLA; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631180760
- ISBN
- 9780631180760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.14
€ 119.14
Paperback. Brings together scholars to offer perspectives on the Greek tragedy. The collection pays homage to this genre by offering an exploration into the oldest form of dramatic expression. This book is a celebration and a model of collaboration that will be useful reading for scholars in classics, literature, and drama. Editor(s): Pedrick, Victoria; Oberhelman, Steven M. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226653068
- ISBN
- 9780226653068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.55
€ 36.99
€ 28.55
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125548
- ISBN
- 9781905125548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.28
€ 48.28
Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Signed and inscribed by the author
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Limerick Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8038580
- ISBN
- 9781874653493
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 24.00
€ 24.00
Hardcover. This book provides a diverse, ever changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experience of those fromn the Korean penninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature. Editor(s): Hughes, Theodore; Kim, Jae-Yong; Lee, Jin-Kyung; Lee, Sang-Kyung. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 31. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ Of Hawai'I Press
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947877
- ISBN
- 9781933947877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.38
€ 143.38
Hardback. How do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734363
- ISBN
- 9780804734363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.34
€ 78.34
Paperback. In the small Ayreshire town of Stewarton, the school holidays are like a microwave. So much happens and it all happens so fast. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242290
- ISBN
- 9780571242290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.26
€ 15.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Hart, Kevin. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268030926
- ISBN
- 9780268030926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.12
€ 44.99
€ 39.12
Hardcover. This book examines terraforming in science fiction and shows how, amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, it has come to offer an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382844
- ISBN
- 9781781382844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.45
€ 45.99
€ 45.45
Paperback. For ten winter days in 1977, the orator Paul John - widely respected as a dean of Yupik elders - held an audience of Yupik students rapt at Nelson Island High School in southwest Alaska. This book records one elder's attempt to create a moral universe for future generations through stories about the special knowledge of the Yupik people. Editor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Translator(s): Shield, Sophie. Num Pages: 856 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 856
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295983509
- ISBN
- 9780295983509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.46
€ 45.99
€ 45.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788120752634
- ISBN
- 9788120752634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.00€ 18.21
€ 23.00
€ 18.21
hardcover. Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415994675
- ISBN
- 9780415994675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.68
€ 178.68
paperback. A collection of poems produced by Brian Cox since his retirement as a Manchester professor, which portray scenes from his own life and convey a sense of ending and losing a role. Num Pages: 55 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 55
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545449
- ISBN
- 9781857545449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.05
€ 20.99
€ 18.05
Paperback. An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099751816
- ISBN
- 9780099751816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.93
€ 14.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Series Editor(s): Thieme, John. Series: Contemporary World Writers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070518
- ISBN
- 9780719070518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 209 x 7. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925005516
- ISBN
- 9781925005516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.68
€ 19.99
€ 14.68
Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Lennard J.; Mirabella, M. Bella. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JPFF; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231065665
- ISBN
- 9780231065665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.32€ 93.74
€ 125.32
€ 93.74
Paperback. A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition." Translator(s): Kelly, Christopher; Bush, Judith R. Series: The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Num Pages: 736 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBD; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1008.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874518368
- ISBN
- 9780874518368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.73€ 50.30
€ 59.73
€ 50.30
Paperback. The best of Hagger's many poems, grouped under 'Quest for the One' and 'Follies and Vices' (the two aspects of the fundamental theme of world literature). Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 42. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- O Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780997513
- ISBN
- 9781780997513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.57
€ 34.99
€ 30.57
Paperback. Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. Editor(s): Loewenstein, David. Num Pages: 606 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 606
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405129312
- ISBN
- 9781405129312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.92
€ 44.92
Paperback. Contains essays from the legendary science fiction fanzine "Xero", which provide historical snapshots of the science fiction world in the early 1960s as it was lived by a mix of writers. Highlights include Donald Westlake's humorous denouncement of the science fiction genre and the reasons he quit writing science fiction to write mystery novels. Num Pages: 255 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781892391179
- ISBN
- 9781892391179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.28
€ 20.99
€ 20.28
Translator(s): Ariew, Roger; Grene, Marjorie. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 5. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872206809
- ISBN
- 9780872206809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.97
€ 46.99
€ 32.97
Paperback. Suitable for those interested in early modern literature or the history of food, this title tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. It features illustrations and a handful of recipes. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226021270
- ISBN
- 9780226021270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.92
€ 31.99
€ 24.92
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
- KEX0216117
- ISBN
- 9780747561576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95