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Paperback. 13pp. One of twenty six lettered copies, signed by the author and designed by Joanne Dus-Zastrow. Original printers wrappers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Bolt Court Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KHS1003665
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 95.00

Hardback. Considered together, these six intellectuals serve as sobering reminders that political commitments are never as simple or straightforward as they seem and that admirable motives for political involvement can have dangerous and destructive consequences in historical practice. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801882586
ISBN
9780801882586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.26
€ 53.83

Paperback. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks What is worthwhile? His poems are characterized by simplicity and clarity, narrative and reasoning: he claims they at least .. Translator(s): Colmer, David. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170. 112 pages. An original poet who uses narrative or reasoning to question human values. His searching poems ask, "What is worthwhile?"
. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight: 170. Translator(s): Colmer, David.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464508
ISBN
9780856464508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. Madame Fi Fi's Farewell opens with some lively, affecting poems of love and relationships in a variety of voices. This is a book of poems to read and re-read, quietly to yourself or - as good poetry of any age deserves - out loud. Num Pages: 128 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820056
ISBN
9781842820056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0012915
ISBN
9781901866780
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814745182
ISBN
9780814745182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.55

Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141014548
ISBN
9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. The Austen heroine must suppress her wit to become the one and not the other, to become, that is, a person fit to be tied in a conjugal knot. But for herself, Austen refuses personhood, with all its constraints and needs, and disappears into the sourceless anonymity of her style. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123875
ISBN
9780691123875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.47

paperback. Explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain. The author, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92. Good copy signed by the author
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303733
ISBN
9780571231225
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734271
ISBN
9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.22

Hardback. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DC; DS; HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295994994
ISBN
9780295994994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.88

Hardcover. Ex Libris with usual markings. Fine copy with minor shelf wear, dustwrapper with sunning and minor nicks, otherwise clear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KKD0015330
ISBN
9780333184820
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature. This title offers a collection of five hundred poems that provides an account of its first three millennia (1500 BCE-1200 CE). It also introduces the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. Editor(s): Hinton, David. Translator(s): Hinton, David. Num Pages: 512 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 210 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780374531904
ISBN
9780374531904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.23

Paperback / so. Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DCF; DSB; DSC; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781618113078
ISBN
9781618113078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.16

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0016021
ISBN
9780856405761
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Anderson offers fresh literary and historical accounts of Bradford's accomplishment, exploring the context and the form in which the author intended his book to be read. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSK; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801870743
ISBN
9780801870743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.36
€ 47.92

Paperback. The love poems in This Tremor Love Is span 25 years, from Marlatt's first writing to its most recent sequences. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 185.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Talon Books,Canada Canada
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889224506
ISBN
9780889224506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.21

Hardback. From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this book presents the literature and culture of the American South. It includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region. It explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Huston. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; DSB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 186 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631224044
ISBN
9780631224044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.87

hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138177192
ISBN
9781138177192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.41

Hardcover. This book presents English translations of two French plays: Moliere's Don Juan and a recent play, Elvira, by Brigitte Jaques/Louis Jouvet, in which a teacher and a group of students rehearse a scene from the classical comedy. An introduction, bibliography, and notes make the volume suitable for use as a university textbook. Translator(s): Edney, David. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of America
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761824749
ISBN
9780761824749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.26

Hardcover. Signed. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lightly toned, text is crisp and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027244
ISBN
9781856190749
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 32.00

Paperback. Offers an account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the historical process that gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture. This book shows how English Victorian novels appropriated an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095554
ISBN
9780691095554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.61

Hardback. "An excellent introductory historical survey..an important resource to both literary scholars and followers of Jungian psychology."-ARBA "..a great help..succeeds quite well in achieving his stated purpose.."-PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Num Pages: 355 pages, Plans, transparencies, index. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJPN; DSB; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
355
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810821606
ISBN
9780810821606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.04

Hardcover. Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. This book includes articles that examine children's work from the mid-1800's and until the 1990's. It is the result of an inter-Nordic research project about children's work in the Nordic countries involving various five Nordic countries. Editor(s): De Coninck-Smith, Ning; Sandin, Bengt; Sandin, Ellen. Num Pages: 211 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSP1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778382696
ISBN
9788778382696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.46

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