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Hardcover. Addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? This title explores the sensual happiness of the flesh; covers the difficulties of the modern world's obsession with consumption; and, finally the consolation and sympathy provided by art and literature. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 116 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0014614
- ISBN
- 9780701187118
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- American Literatures Initiative
- SKU
- V9781439903179
- ISBN
- 9781439903179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.80
€ 80.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571314741
- ISBN
- 9781571314741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.68
€ 17.99
€ 15.68
paperback. Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and this work tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. Translator(s): Davies, Moya Llewellyn; Thomson, George. Num Pages: 320 pages, endpaper maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DNF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238 298pp. Reissued, 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New e. edition
- SKU
- 9780192813251
- ISBN
- 9780192813251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? This book explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; MQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419908
- ISBN
- 9780821419908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.55
€ 57.55
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Volume 38 showcases a broad range of medieval scholarship, including five original articles, one review article, and seven review notices. Editor(s): Glei, Reinhold F.; Polleichtner, Wolfgang. Series: Medievalia et Humanistica Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442220522
- ISBN
- 9781442220522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.15
€ 165.15
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001471
- ISBN
- 9780571149971
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. "Joyce and the G-Men" explores Hoover's suspicions that James Joyce was a Communist. In his FBI file, Culleton tracks the evidence of the FBI's surveillance of Joyce to show the culture of the FBI under Hoover and the resurgence of American anti-intellectualism. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349386420
- ISBN
- 9781349386420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.28€ 63.07
€ 63.28
€ 63.07
Paperback. Norman Schwenk's new collection, Book of Songs , brings together poems and song lyrics of many varieties: love songs and ballads, dance and battle songs, satires and laments; there is a march, a lullaby, a hymn, a rock-and-roll song, a Christmas carol, a birthday song, a cowboy song, and even a song for a klezmer band. Num Pages: 58 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409879
- ISBN
- 9781910409879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.98
€ 10.99
€ 10.98
Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353539
- ISBN
- 9780822353539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.02
€ 114.02
Paperback. Translator(s): Knodel, Arthur J. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 756 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 756
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615103
- ISBN
- 9780691615103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 146.84
€ 146.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0220299
- ISBN
- 9780863222801
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651293
- ISBN
- 9780745651293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.95
€ 75.95
Paperback. A new title in the Braziller Series of Australian Poets, which brings Australian literature, often under-represented, to a wider audience. Editor(s): Kane, Paul. Series: Australian Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 209 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- George Braziller Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807600108
- ISBN
- 9780807600108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.28
€ 16.99
€ 15.28
hardcover. The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719071560
- ISBN
- 9780719071560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.25
€ 153.25
Brian Friel: Collected Plays – Volume 4: The London Vertigo (after M...
Professor Christopher Murray
Paperback. A fourth collection containing: The London Vertigo (after Macklin) (1992); (January) A Month in the Country (after Turgenev) (1992); (August) Wonderful Tennessee (1993); Molly Sweeney (1994); and, Give Me Your Answer, Do! (1997). Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571331802
- ISBN
- 9780571331802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 14.84
€ 24.99
€ 14.84
Paperback. Identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves", Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and poems by various authors. This book offers a counterpoint to anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752893
- ISBN
- 9780804752893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.66
€ 36.99
€ 32.66
hardcover. Erudite and enlightening, Frye's comments on politics are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them, and this volume will be a valuable reference for understanding the essential Frye. Editor(s): Gorak, Jan. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 39. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802036964
- ISBN
- 9780802036964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.45
€ 122.45
Paperback. At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. This book includes an introduction that examines how Chekhov broke with theatrical conventions and discusses each play in detail. Translator(s): Carson, Peter. Num Pages: 416 pages, chronology, further reading, glossary. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KKD0004999
- ISBN
- 9780140447330
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 183 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416765
- ISBN
- 9780674416765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.63
€ 35.99
€ 29.63
paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571220649
- ISBN
- 9780571220649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 9.88
€ 15.99
€ 9.88
An Elegant Composition Concerning Relief After Adversity. An Eleventh-...
Nissim Ben Jacob Ben Nissim Ibn Shahin
Paperback. To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HRAB; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568219844
- ISBN
- 9781568219844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.01
€ 78.01
Hardback. A compilation of 200 quotes on the subject of love, romance, infidelity, relationships, sex, and break ups. Num Pages: 192 pages, 125 colour illustration. BIC Classification: DQ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811860253
- ISBN
- 9780811860253
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.15
€ 14.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. This reissue of Adrienne Rich's first poetry collection reaffirms the author's place as one of our most important American poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393352573
- ISBN
- 9780393352573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.19
€ 16.99
€ 15.19