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Hardback. 'Tai-Me' is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. The author set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. This book gathers these stories. Illustrator(s): Momaday, N. Scott. Num Pages: 106 pages, 6 black-&-white drawings. BIC Classification: DN; JFHF; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826348210
- ISBN
- 9780826348210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.65
€ 20.99
€ 19.65
Paperback. Over the past two decades, practitioners across the West have used documentary performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. This book, now in paperback and with a new Preface, contextualizes this work, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre and applying a range of critical perspectives. Editor(s): Forsyth, Alison; Megson, Chris. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AS; DSBH; DSG; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336896
- ISBN
- 9780230336896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.97
€ 132.97
Hardcover. The poets of the Northern Song dynasty were writing after what is thought to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals how their response shaped their literary art. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804721264
- ISBN
- 9780804721264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.63
€ 96.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Shaw, Jonathan. Series: National Theatre S. Num Pages: 128 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868191546
- ISBN
- 9780868191546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.71
€ 19.99
€ 14.71
Hardcover. One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. This is a study of such texts. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009561
- ISBN
- 9780674009561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.60
€ 46.99
€ 38.60
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345422804
- ISBN
- 9780345422804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. A futuristic, stunningly imaginative poetic exploration of superheroes, religion, and myth. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566893152
- ISBN
- 9781566893152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.91
€ 16.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936291
- ISBN
- 9780813936291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.92
€ 33.92
Hardback. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust wrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0027455
- ISBN
- 9780747580225
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity. Num Pages: 358 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226805566
- ISBN
- 9780226805566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.58
€ 41.99
€ 32.58
Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Michigan Classical Press United States
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979971303
- ISBN
- 9780979971303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Paperback. Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Leros in the Greek Dodecanese, The Protagonists is Chamberlain's response to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967. Editor(s): Davies, Damian Walford. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908069962
- ISBN
- 9781908069962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.96
€ 11.99
€ 11.96
Paperback. Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. This book presents her biography that pieces together the story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her poems. Num Pages: 602 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1018.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 602
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203457
- ISBN
- 9780520203457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.03
€ 42.99
€ 31.03
hardcover. An exploration of the ways fiction mimics the real and the links between cyber realities, fiction, and human beings. It also explores the foundations of mimeticism in order to explain the important effect fiction has on human beings. Translator(s): Cohn, Dorrit. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 figures and 4 tables. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 220 x 31. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803217584
- ISBN
- 9780803217584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51
€ 69.51
Paperback. An A-Z of the wittiest and most memorable stories, proverbs, and observations. Reprint with new cover. Illustrator(s): John, J. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; HRCV; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854245885
- ISBN
- 9781854245885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Hardcover. This study provides literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the issues of identity, autobiography and social determinism raised in these texts. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739106259
- ISBN
- 9780739106259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Paperback. An astonishing debut from a brilliant and original new voice in Irish fiction. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290. 8vo. Some light shelfwear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0272860
- ISBN
- 9780330529860
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 446 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609959
- ISBN
- 9780691609959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.27
€ 88.27
Paperback. "Grace was originally commissioned and produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company at the Warehouse Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2004." Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810128996
- ISBN
- 9780810128996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.44
€ 19.99
€ 18.44
Paperback. Features stories that magnify a New Ireland as it copes with the rewards and pressures of its fresh success: immigration, mid-life crisis, adultery and divorce, a lost sense of place and history, and of course, what to do with all that prosperity. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Light spotting to page edges. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0004702
- ISBN
- 9780571235544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Best-selling poet/novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard truth of mortality, including sonnets about the recent death of his wife. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781942683162
- ISBN
- 9781942683162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.09
€ 17.99
€ 16.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312211738
- ISBN
- 9780312211738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164542
- ISBN
- 9780231164542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23€ 49.67
€ 63.23
€ 49.67
Hardback. Translator(s): Palma, Michael. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642628
- ISBN
- 9780691642628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.21€ 83.48
€ 109.21
€ 83.48