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Paperback. This second edition in paper back offers in a single comprehensive volume the misdeeds and scandals that occurred during Mahathir Mohamad two decades as prime minister of Malaysia and afterwards. It includes Mahathir's response to the first edition and engages with the debate about Mahathir's legacy. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367869
- ISBN
- 9780230367869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.11
€ 78.11
Paperback. This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230378711
- ISBN
- 9780230378711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.98
€ 33.99
€ 28.98
Hardcover. This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor society. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391925
- ISBN
- 9780230391925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.18
€ 63.18
Hardcover. Sir Eric Phipps was British ambassador to Berlin during the crucial period between Hitler's decision to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations to his decision to become involved in the Spanish Civil War. This work features his diary entries that offers a witty evaluation of Hitler and other leading Nazis and their policies from 1933-1937. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517875
- ISBN
- 9780230517875
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Hardcover. This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged only thirty-four) and sheds new light on her approach and attitudes to writing. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 163 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525597
- ISBN
- 9780230525597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545427
- ISBN
- 9780230545427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. This literary life of the best-known and best-loved Romantic poet uses Coleridge's own 'literary life' - his Biographia Literaria - as both starting point and destination. Now available in paperback, William Christie's immensely readable account of Coleridge's life and works offers detailed discussion of all his major poems and criticism. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580961
- ISBN
- 9780230580961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.90
€ 61.90
Hardcover. The first book to explore the remarkable political alliance and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 243 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618268
- ISBN
- 9780230618268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.48
€ 62.48
Paperback. Lowry began writing his best-known work, Under the Volcano, during their marriage. He based the character of Yvonne on his wife. Now, for the first time, Jan Gabrial tells the true story of their lives during those heady years, and provides a compelling portrait of a troubled artist. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619784
- ISBN
- 9780230619784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619791
- ISBN
- 9780230619791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.80
€ 45.99
€ 40.80
Hardcover. A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 279 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3H; BGR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620308
- ISBN
- 9780230620308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 238 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBTB; HRCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622074
- ISBN
- 9780230622074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This book transforms our contemporary understanding of the recent political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly nationalist African politician in Northern Rhodesia and, later, the leader of parliamentary opposition during Zambia's multi-party First Republic. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; BGH; HBJH; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622746
- ISBN
- 9780230622746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence. Editor(s): Myerson, Joel. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102827
- ISBN
- 9780231102827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Paperback. This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic among his peers, including Bishop and Arendt, in literature and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125956
- ISBN
- 9780231125956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.53
€ 44.53
Paperback. Previously unpublished lectures and interviews by the pre-eminent media seer of the modern age--informal, accessible, provocative. Editor(s): McLuhan, Stephanie; Staines, David. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262633178
- ISBN
- 9780262633178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.65
€ 21.99
€ 20.65
Paperback. Explores a little-known story of a young boy's fate in the juvenile justice system during the bloodiest years in Americas penitentiaries Num Pages: 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992457
- ISBN
- 9780295992457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.79
€ 25.99
€ 22.79
Hardcover. Adds valuable context to the body of work by legal scholars and historians on the seminal Hirabayashi case Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 43 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BM; HBWQ; JWXR; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992709
- ISBN
- 9780295992709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.31
€ 35.99
€ 30.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999791
- ISBN
- 9780295999791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.00
€ 23.99
€ 21.00
Paperback. Originally published: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1955. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BM; HBJK; HBWQ; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999807
- ISBN
- 9780295999807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.05
€ 23.99
€ 21.05