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Biography
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809333493
- ISBN
- 9780809333493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.85
€ 20.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. This book describes the views of two of our nation s greatest presidents and explains how these views provide valuable insight into modern-day debates.The first extended examination of the ideas of both Lincoln and Jefferson, it provides readers with a succinct guide to their opinions that still resonate today." Num Pages: 176 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809334902
- ISBN
- 9780809334902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.38
€ 27.99
€ 24.38
Hardcover. Examining Abramov's place within the village prose movement of the 1960s - 1970s and within Anglo-American theories of cultural reception, this work draws on the author's diaries and his private writings. The text includes an essay by Abramov's widow. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810114524
- ISBN
- 9780810114524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.18
€ 90.18
Paperback. Translator(s): Bettauer Dembo, Margot. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810114753
- ISBN
- 9780810114753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.02
€ 20.99
€ 19.02
Paperback. The autobiographical novel is Gauch's attempt to come to terms with his father, Herman Gauch - a physician who had joined the National Socialists in the 1920s, who wrote six books of "race research" as a member of the SS, and who to his dying day remained an unrepentant Nazi. Translator(s): Radice, William. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; BG; FA; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810118904
- ISBN
- 9780810118904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.14
€ 18.99
€ 18.14
Hardback. A Holocaust story told from the perspective of a young boy. His Jewish family moves through a series of hiding places in the countryside. When the father is murdered, the family flees across Poland, carrying forged papers identifying them as Catholics. Translator(s): Wieniewska, Celina; Lourie, Richard. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810119017
- ISBN
- 9780810119017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.87
€ 60.87
Hardcover. Recalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself. Translator(s): Shore, Marci. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; BG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810119581
- ISBN
- 9780810119581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.22
€ 73.22
Paperback. "Originally published in German in 2007 under the title Susan Sontag: Geist und Glamour." Translator(s): Dollenmayer, David. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810125834
- ISBN
- 9780810125834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.57
€ 38.57
Paperback. Begins with the death of the poet Karen Gershon's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kinder-transport mission. This title charts the period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated passage from adolescence to adulthood in the British Isles. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810126138
- ISBN
- 9780810126138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.38
€ 29.99
€ 25.38
Paperback. Looks back to the author's career as a film critic in the glamorous - at least superficially - world of 1950s Hollywood, when he traveled in circles that included the talented British actor George Sanders (1906-1972) and his then-wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was talented at, well, being famous. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810126244
- ISBN
- 9780810126244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. "First published in the United States in hardcover in April 2007 by Pantheon Books. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of the Random House Group, Ltd., London, in 2006."--T.p. verso. Num Pages: 1012 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810127593
- ISBN
- 9780810127593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.44
€ 34.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. "First published 2006 by PublicAffairs under the title The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir." Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810127951
- ISBN
- 9780810127951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.01
€ 20.99
€ 20.01
Paperback. ""Raouf Mama is widely beloved by children and adults alike for his books and especially for his African and multicultural storytelling, which incorporates poetry, song, music, and dance. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDB; BGLA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810129733
- ISBN
- 9780810129733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.79
€ 36.99
€ 33.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: B; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131279
- ISBN
- 9780810131279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.33
€ 20.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 67 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 7. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- Translated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160217
- ISBN
- 9780810160217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.33
€ 20.33
Paperback. Translator(s): Shepley, John. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160514
- ISBN
- 9780810160514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.29
€ 19.99
€ 18.29
Paperback. This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies of a celebrated writer, one whose work often challenged others because of his brutal honesty and his claim that only experience can be the basis of creativity. Translator(s): Wood, Willard. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160675
- ISBN
- 9780810160675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.86
€ 26.99
€ 22.86
Paperback. This text is the memoir of a French girl whose mother was taken by the SS in 1944 and interned in Aushwitz. On her return at the end of the war, the mother's health was irreparably damaged, but she wanted to talk. Unwilling to put her story in writing herself, the task was left to her daughter. Translator(s): Wainhouse, Austryn. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160774
- ISBN
- 9780810160774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.00€ 26.49
€ 28.00
€ 26.49
Paperback. During the 1860s, W.D. Howells was the American consul in Venice. This text is his humorous portrait of the city. He swam in the Grand Canal, dined with the rich and mingled with the humble. Howells tells his story with wit and curiosity. Illustrator(s): Pennell, Joseph. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; BGHA; DNF; HBJD; HBLL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160859
- ISBN
- 9780810160859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.21
€ 18.21
Hardcover. As Pekelis sifts through her memories in this story of awakening, growing consciousness and courage, she recalls what it meant to be Jewish in Italy as she was growing up. As fascism began its march through her homeland, she learnt that it would have profound meaning and dire consequences. Translator(s): Hochfield, George. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGA; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160866
- ISBN
- 9780810160866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.09
€ 93.09
Paperback. As Pekelis sifts through her memories in this story of awakening, growing consciousness and courage, she recalls what it meant to be Jewish in Italy as she was growing up. As fascism began its march through her homeland, she learnt that it would have profound meaning and dire consequences. Translator(s): Hochfield, George. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGA; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160873
- ISBN
- 9780810160873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.92
€ 28.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press New Jersey
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813519173
- ISBN
- 9780813519173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.75
€ 44.75
Hardcover. Part of a 12-volume work which presents psychologist and philosopher William James's vast and entertaining correspondence with his brother Henry, with other members of his family, with friends and colleagues, as well as with enthusiasts and detractors among readers of his work. Editor(s): McDermott, John J. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University, USA); Grohskopf, Bernice; Bradbeer, Wilma. Series: The Correspondence of William James. Num Pages: 576 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGA; HPC; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1193.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914145
- ISBN
- 9780813914145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.42€ 85.22
€ 94.42
€ 85.22
Hardcover. This volume presents the correspondence between William James, known for his contributions to psychology and philosophy, and his brother Henry. It covers their most productive years, when William was writing "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and Henry was writing his late masterpieces. Editor(s): McDermott, John J. Series: The Correspondence of William James. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813915104
- ISBN
- 9780813915104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.42€ 85.22
€ 94.42
€ 85.22