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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.

Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 36. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253206916
ISBN
9780253206916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.07

paperback. The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. This book offers the study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DSB; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419229
ISBN
9780821419229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.88

Hardback. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California has produced, but a major poet of the 20th century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This text is the final volume in the complete edition of his work. Editor(s): Hunt, Tim. Series: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Num Pages: 1152 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 203 x 66. Weight in Grams: 2381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738170
ISBN
9780804738170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.52

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691622385
ISBN
9780691622385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.00
€ 39.52

Paperback. In the spring of 1919, two British solar eclipse expeditions confirmed the correctness of general relativity theory and propelled Albert Einstein to instant celebrity. This work include a collection of papers of Einstien. Translator(s): Engel, Alfred. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691057187
ISBN
9780691057187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.81
€ 56.99

Hardback. The volume begins with an introductory essay on the origins of British humour in the Middle Ages. Chapters then examine British literary humour during particular centuries. Each chapter begins with an overview of humour during that time period followed by entries for individual authors. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313297069
ISBN
9780313297069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.45

Paperback. A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 2AFS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scottish Text Society United Kingdom
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897976340
ISBN
9781897976340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.54

hardcover. A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855663138
ISBN
9781855663138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.59

Paperback. Analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846315008
ISBN
9781846315008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.81

Hardback. Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Num Pages: 256 pages, 45, 16 colour, 29 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ACK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842804
ISBN
9781843842804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.11

Hardback. In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509513314
ISBN
9781509513314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

paperback. Voices of Italian America presents the first authoritative study and anthology of the largely Italian-language literature written and published in the U.S. from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880-1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after WWII. Num Pages: 343 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823239733
ISBN
9780823239733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.33

Hardback. In The Official World Mark Seltzer analyzes the suspense fiction, films, and performance art of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others to demonstrate that the modern world continuously establishes itself through the staging of its own conditions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360865
ISBN
9780822360865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.15

Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346661
ISBN
9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.40

paperback. Shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, rooted in pre-colonial African cultures and disseminated in a rich oral tradition, has served diasporic communities by creating structures of feeling linking those of African descent across centuries and continents. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332220
ISBN
9780822332220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Paperback. Compares the discourses of indigeneity used by Maori and Native American peoples and proposes the concept treaty discourse to characterize the relevant form of postcolonial situation. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBN; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329473
ISBN
9780822329473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 419 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DQ; DSB; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 34. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
419
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412251
ISBN
9780821412251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.81

Hardcover. Editor(s): Fenton, Mary C.; Schwartz, Louis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duquesne
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820704883
ISBN
9780820704883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.94
€ 62.60

Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631858
ISBN
9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.51

paperback. Editor(s): Spadaccini, Nicholas; Talens, Jenaro. Series: Hispanic Issues S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CBW; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816620296
ISBN
9780816620296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.53

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