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Hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KSS0005280
ISBN
9780755330522
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Includes Thoreau's reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his impressions and observations entered in journals during the famous Walden sojourn. Editor(s): Sattelmeyer, Robert. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 680 pages, Ill.2M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691061863
ISBN
9780691061863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.91
€ 100.40

Paperback. Includes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This work reflects the diversity, liveliness, humor, and cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. It also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132176
ISBN
9780231132176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.35

paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with some light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KTK0080838
ISBN
9780099771517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Set in the 9th century, the cycle of poems on the life of William of Orange grew out of centuries of oral composition and were written down for the first time in the 12th century. Changing and growing through the years, the poems reflect historical events from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Translator(s): Ferrante, Joan M. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; DCQ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123532
ISBN
9780231123532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.19

Hardback. Editor(s): Lock, F. P.; Rawson, Claude. Num Pages: 717 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 168 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
717
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491494
ISBN
9781611491494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.05

CD-Audio. Keywords: "Spoken Word, Bestsellers, Naxos, Poetry & Drama, Literary Classics, Unabridged, Beckett, Samuel, General, 20th Century, English, Age (feature_two_browse-bin), Audio CD"
Format
CD
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks Dublin
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
9789626342923
ISBN
9789626342923
CD
Condition: New

€ 39.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 742.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447693
ISBN
9780801447693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.26

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874137552
ISBN
9780874137552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.85

Paperback. This anthology of Christian literature gathers together writings drawn from 2000 years of Christian history. Assuming no prior knowledge of Christian theology or history, it offers students in one volume a diverse selection of material. Num Pages: 816 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631216063
ISBN
9780631216063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.54

paperback. Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and suggests how historical and ideological assumptions and anxieties may be read into the texts they produce. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 3JJ; CFG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780748611812
ISBN
9780748611812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.65

hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jewish Lights Publishing United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781594732393
ISBN
9781594732393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.78

Hardcover. Fine clean copy in orignial cloth covers. Title in gilt to spine. Showing light shelf wear. Some spotting to FFEP, remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1950
Publisher
The Reprint Society London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000080
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. This volume of fifteen essays includes "The Case of the Door's Marriage (Catullus 67.6)," by E. Badian; "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," by Charles E. Murgia; "Poetae Novelli," by Alan Cameron; "Three Pieces from the 'Latin Anthology, '" by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and "Bar Kokhba Coins and Documents," by Leo Mildenberg. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 341 pages, 5ill.4M. BIC Classification: CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379312
ISBN
9780674379312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.42

Hardback. The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770170
ISBN
9780804770170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899541
ISBN
9788772899541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.38

Paperback. Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674699069
ISBN
9780674699069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.58

Hardback. Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic - of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, and of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. This title presents an English translation of his work. Translator(s): Hacker, Marilyn. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBT; 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340. Poems by Hedi Kaddour. 192 pages. Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic - of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, and of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. This title presents an English translation of his work. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBT; 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Dimension: 217 x 151 x 18. Weight: 340. Translator(s): Hacker, Marilyn.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300149586
ISBN
9780300149586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.79

Paperback. Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099457053
ISBN
9780099457053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 324 pages, 130 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; DSBB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 321 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844419
ISBN
9781843844419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.00

Paperback. Looking at the period of the early 16th century, the juncture of the Renaissance and the Reformation, this collection of essays focuses on the unique link between humanism and the literary works of the period - in particular, the patristic scholarship inherent in Erasmus' ideals of reform. Num Pages: 105 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBB; HP; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 173.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
105
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823216017
ISBN
9780823216017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Hardcover. The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239218
ISBN
9780812239218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.02

Paperback. An anthology of the verse of Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk of the Zen sect, who was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. It contains not only representative works influenced by poets of the 8th-century, but also a number of Chinese poems (kanshi) which are doctrinal in nature. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 126 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231044158
ISBN
9780231044158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Hardcover. Offers the study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. This title makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226071091
ISBN
9780226071091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.89
€ 75.68

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