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Focuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237436
- ISBN
- 9780812237436
Condition: New
€ 83.56
€ 83.56
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
€ 95.00
Paperback. In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America - and recent signs of its reintegration - within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801881701
- ISBN
- 9780801881701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.19
€ 34.99
€ 29.19
Paperback. Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Translator(s): Bernard, Oliver. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856463594
- ISBN
- 9780856463594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.30
€ 19.99
€ 18.30
Paperback. A reproduction of one of Canada's most important poet's highly regarded works. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 242 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552667262
- ISBN
- 9781552667262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.77
€ 20.99
€ 18.77
Paperback. Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099461876
- ISBN
- 9780099461876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
€ 14.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814735190
- ISBN
- 9780814735190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Enthralled by Dorian Gray' own exquisite portrait, he exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. Editor(s): Mighall, Robert. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228 253pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141439570
- ISBN
- 9780141439570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.10
€ 9.99
€ 9.10
Hardback. Includes first-hand accounts of Thomas Jefferson's demeanor at his successor's inauguration and one of the most detailed descriptions of life at Monticello by a visitor. This volume tells of his efforts to restore order at his mismanaged mill complex, breed merino sheep, and otherwise resume full control of his financial and agricultural affairs. Editor(s): Looney, J. Jefferson. Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series. Num Pages: 784 pages, 8 halftones. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1257.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 792
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121215
- ISBN
- 9780691121215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.41€ 121.59
€ 163.41
€ 121.59
Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231153324
- ISBN
- 9780231153324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.63
€ 104.63
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
€ 15.00
Paperback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360636
- ISBN
- 9780822360636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Hardback. Part of a "Pacific Northwest Poetry Series", this book explores the intimacies of the shorter line as well and displays the author's formal inventiveness and emotional range. It addresses our time and human condition in ways both domestic and global. Series: The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989143
- ISBN
- 9780295989143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
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
€ 17.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493313
- ISBN
- 9781611493313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.67
€ 135.67
Paperback. Inspector Martin Allen's life is a mess, and the last thing he needs on Christmas Eve is a collapsed woman on the street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, in Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband, Milton Amery, an unfaithful plastic surgeon. All of their roads lead to Inishowen. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016008
- ISBN
- 9780099286530
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 24. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801487613
- ISBN
- 9780801487613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.12
€ 46.99
€ 41.12
Hardback. The second of a three-volume collection of studies focusing on Joseph Conrad's Polish roots and his contributions as a British writer. Series: East European Monographs S. Num Pages: 285 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton United States
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880332675
- ISBN
- 9780880332675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.79
€ 29.79
Paperback. * Asks what literary criticism should do in the post--theory era. * Articulates the case for a theoretically aware but textually centred literary studies. * Controversial in its privileging of texts over readings and in its insistence on the rehumanisation of literary studies. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631221685
- ISBN
- 9780631221685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 44.19
€ 45.99
€ 44.19
Paperback. An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Inscription on ffep and writing on last page, remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KCW0001450
- ISBN
- 9780099740315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 10.05
€ 13.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 315 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 107 x 19. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Bantam Classics
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553212587
- ISBN
- 9780553212587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.48
€ 7.48
Hardcover. Alice Taylor's poems have proved perennially popular. Some have been woven into her phenomenally successful memoirs, and she has published three previous books of poetry. Organized thematically, this substantial collection includes sections entitled "The Home Place", "A Village Romance", "Grief and Grace", and "Winter Ploughing." Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 78 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains fine
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0027232
- ISBN
- 9780863223914
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardback. Contains the last of seven works signed by the author. This book covers three of his discourses - 'On the Occasion of a Confession', 'On the Occasion of a Wedding' and 'At a Graveside'. 'On the Occasion of a Confession' centers on stillness, wonder, and one's search for God - in contrast to the speechmaking on erotic love in 'In Vino Veritas'. Editor(s): Gibbs, Robert; Hong, Edna H. Translator(s): Gibbs, Robert; Hong, Edna H. Series: Kierkegaard's Writings. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DNF; DSBF; HPCF3; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780691033006
- ISBN
- 9780691033006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.58€ 94.29
€ 126.58
€ 94.29
Hardback. Num Pages: 310 pages, 11ill. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810818262
- ISBN
- 9780810818262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.84
€ 110.84