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Paperback. Helps readers find the gumshoes, guns, and gore they need to explore the sinister side of human nature: the worst villains of all time - from Hannibal Lechter to Charles Manson; the bloody truth about forensics; weaponry to die for; private dicks, dangerous dames, and dubious characters; the most puzzling unsolved mysteries; and, more. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 202 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256. From History and Literature to True Crime and Television, A Killer Selection of Trivia. 256 pages. Helps readers find the gumshoes, guns, and gore they need to explore the sinister side of human nature: the worst villains of all time - from Hannibal Lechter to Charles Manson; the bloody truth about forensics; weaponry to die for; private dicks, dangerous dames, and dubious characters; the most puzzling unsolved mysteries; and, more. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSK; JKV. Dimension: 150 x 202 x 18. Weight: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Adams Media
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781440525933
ISBN
9781440525933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.24

Paperback. A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and submit work to journals and literary publications, and a list of the best publications for first-time poets is included. Num Pages: 336 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764552724
ISBN
9780764552724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.55

hardcover. Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055577
ISBN
9780719055577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.52

Paperback. .
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155226
ISBN
9781903155226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.27

Hardback. Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England. Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; CFF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844594
ISBN
9781843844594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Paperback. Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma S.; Smail, Daniel Lord. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBG; HBLC; JFCX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488573
ISBN
9780801488573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Connell Guides United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776922
ISBN
9781907776922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.30

Hardcover. Theocritus (early third century BCE) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of his work, along with that of his successors Moschus (fl. mid-second century BCE) and Bion (fl. around 100 BCE), replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library volume of Greek Bucolic Poets by J. M. Edmonds (1912). Translator(s): Hopkinson, Fellow in Classics Neil (Loughborough University University of Cambridge Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University). Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 117 x 35. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996441
ISBN
9780674996441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Hardback. Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century BCE, Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. This work considers the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. Translator(s): Hunter, Richard. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235601
ISBN
9780520235601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.26
€ 65.36

Paperback. First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany's most significant novelists. Translator(s): Zwiebel, William L. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135735
ISBN
9781571135735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 42.56

Paperback. Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholsen, Shierry Weber. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 372 pages. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight: 522. Translator(s): Nicholsen, Shierry Weber.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
372
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231069137
ISBN
9780231069137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231063326
ISBN
9780231063326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.19
€ 83.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB; DSC; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632704
ISBN
9780691632704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.19

Paperback. Newest volume of the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht and aspects of theater and literature of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and theater in a global context. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195632
ISBN
9780985195632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrubuch. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APT; BGL; DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195618
ISBN
9780985195618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

Paperback. Contains a selection of contributions that originated at the 2013 International Brecht Society Symposium in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a focused set of articles on Brecht and Buchner, and new research on Brecht and Tragedy, Brecht and Puccini, and George Tabori. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AN; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195625
ISBN
9780985195625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 3JJP; APF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157483
ISBN
9780231157483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.44
€ 80.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APFR; DSB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157490
ISBN
9780231157490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. This book provides a diverse, ever changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experience of those fromn the Korean penninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature. Editor(s): Hughes, Theodore; Kim, Jae-Yong; Lee, Jin-Kyung; Lee, Sang-Kyung. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 31. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ Of Hawai'I Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947877
ISBN
9781933947877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Paperback. Presents the factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text. Through investigation of European archives and private correspondence, this title provides an account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Num Pages: 608 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 38. Weight in Grams: 858. 608 pages, 3 figures. Presents the factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text. Through investigation of European archives and private correspondence, this title provides an account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HPCF; HPJ. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 38. Weight: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201590
ISBN
9780520201590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226367552
ISBN
9780226367552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.94
€ 79.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360. 248 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477829
ISBN
9780801477829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.23

Hardcover. Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 307 x 2. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139733
ISBN
9781571139733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.22

Paperback. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HBLA1; JFHC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421422435
ISBN
9781421422435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.43

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