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Hardcover. First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts present descriptions of the hermetic cosmology and the alchemical work. The introduction provides a biographical note on d'Espagnet and traces the influence these works had on later generations. Translator(s): Everard, John; Ashmole, Elias. Series: English Renaissance Hermeticism. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780824075422
- ISBN
- 9780824075422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.53
€ 160.53
paperback. Editor(s): Editors of The Believer. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- McSweeney's, Believer Magazine
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936365050
- ISBN
- 9781936365050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19
Paperback. Explores the problems faced by refugees and migrants in the rich society of the western world as they are seen by the refugees and migrants themselves. This work focuses on the literature written by these displaced persons and discusses the issues of language, cultural transmission and racism. Editor(s): Petersen, Kirsten Holst; Rutherford, Anna. Num Pages: 173 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DN; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 166 x 11. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772885070
- ISBN
- 9788772885070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.69
€ 12.69
Paperback. An introduction to Irish literature from the 1920s onwards. The title suggests the immense influence Yeats and Joyce have had on the styles, stances, and preoccupations of 20th-century Irish literature. Authors from Kinsella and Beckett to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney and Mary Lavin are included. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 206 pages, further reading list, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004234
- ISBN
- 9780192892317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8pp colour inset. BIC Classification: DNF; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782115113
- ISBN
- 9781782115113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.45
€ 19.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Editor(s): Holt, Stephanie; Lynch, Maryanne. Num Pages: 220 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sybylla Co-operative Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780908205110
- ISBN
- 9780908205110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.92
€ 16.99
€ 12.92
Paperback. BIC Classification: BG; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Avalon Travel Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802135827
- ISBN
- 9780802135827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.55
€ 14.99
€ 14.55
Hardcover. In this volume, the circumstances and reasoning behind Adams's bold moves in the spring of 1781 are presented in full, showing him to be a determined and resourceful diplomat, unafraid to go beyond the bounds of traditional diplomacy to implement his vision of American foreign policy. Editor(s): Ryerson, Richard Alan; Cecere, Anne Decker; Shea, Jennifer; Taylor, C. James; Walker, Celeste. Series: Adams Papers. Num Pages: 568 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1371.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674011366
- ISBN
- 9780674011366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.94€ 126.49
€ 144.94
€ 126.49
Hardcover. This miscellany of articles and essays, written over a stretch of 60 years, is being published on the occasion of the author's 90th birthday. Broadly bounded by Dublin and Trinity College, this gathering illuminates a wide range of human experience. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DN; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0019222
- ISBN
- 9781843510284
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 16.00
€ 16.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DNF; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837635171
- ISBN
- 9783837635171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.79€ 76.88
€ 100.79
€ 76.88
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Duncan, W. Jack; Taylor, Frank H. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823212705
- ISBN
- 9780823212705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.05
€ 50.05
Hardback. A grassroots tour of small-town American newspapers, and the people who write, edit, and produce them. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230163
- ISBN
- 9780803230163
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.78
€ 29.99
€ 29.78
Paperback. Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise. Num Pages: 496 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035857
- ISBN
- 9780226035857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 39.45
€ 51.99
€ 39.45
Paperback. This edition of Francoise Pascal's collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and preciosite. Editor(s): Steinberger, Deborah. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 78 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 115.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 78
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896672
- ISBN
- 9780859896672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.09
€ 50.09
Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
- SKU
- V9780856682513
- ISBN
- 9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.82
€ 33.99
€ 29.82
Hardback. Collects letters, novellas, essays, criticism, and a play by a leading intellectual of the Romantic period. Translator(s): Folkenflik, Vivian. Num Pages: 411 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 411
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231055864
- ISBN
- 9780231055864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07€ 86.56
€ 115.07
€ 86.56
Paperback. A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 121 x 7. Weight in Grams: 62.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008115272
- ISBN
- 9780008115272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 7.49
€ 9.99
€ 7.49
paperback. A collection of essays with the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Num Pages: 447 pages, 3 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520217003
- ISBN
- 9780520217003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.11
€ 29.99
€ 23.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8, 7 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781501702358
- ISBN
- 9781501702358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.66
€ 29.66
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bate, W. Jackson. Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 1164 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 92. Weight in Grams: 2240.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 1164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300011579
- ISBN
- 9780300011579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.63€ 150.80
€ 195.63
€ 150.80
Paperback. A translation into English of one of Gregory's eight books of miracle stories, which contains a series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of martyrs. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 147 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853232360
- ISBN
- 9780853232360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.25
€ 35.99
€ 32.25
Paperback. Offers insights into the true nature of fanaticism and proposes an approach to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict. This book comments on contemporary issues - the Gaza pullout, Yasser Arafat's death, and the war in Iraq. It argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; DN; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 101 x 8. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University Press Group Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148632
- ISBN
- 9780691148632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.68
€ 17.99
€ 15.68
Paperback. Contains twelve of author's celebrated short stories, together with "The Grass Harp" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". This title also includes various sketches of places from Tangiers to Brooklyn, and insights into the lives of his contemporaries, from Jane Bowles and Cecil Beaton to Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185309
- ISBN
- 9780141185309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.37
€ 17.99
€ 12.37
Hardback. In this eccentric etiquette guide, aphorisms, suggestions, and cautionary tales culled from Mark Twain's personal letters, speeches, and novels are dispensed on topics such as dress, health, food, childrearing, and safety. Editor(s): Salamo, Lin; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B. Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain. Num Pages: 221 pages, 36 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242456
- ISBN
- 9780520242456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.93
€ 24.99
€ 18.93