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Paperback. Part of series which presents various speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. This volume contains three speeches, by the orator of classical antiquity, that illuminate Athenian law and culture in the fourth century BC. Translator(s): Harris, Edward M. Series Editor(s): Gagarin, Michael. Series: Oratory of Classical Greece. Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNS; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717848
- ISBN
- 9780292717848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.97
€ 24.99
€ 22.97
Hardcover. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan and Korea includes the work of practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travellers and recluses and covers fifteen centuries of Oriental literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857157383
- ISBN
- 9781857157383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.54
€ 16.99
€ 12.54
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: D; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Empire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901746969
- ISBN
- 9781901746969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.89
€ 26.99
€ 18.89
Paperback. This text examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in 16th- and 17th-century England. The author outlines the vernacular through which female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness by examining travel narratives, anatomies and marital advice books. Series: Sexuality, History & Society S. Num Pages: 268 pages, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226020099
- ISBN
- 9780226020099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.23
€ 44.23
Paperback. Award-winning actress Dame Harriet Walter reflects on performing Shakespeare's most famous roles - both male and female. An exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the eyes of a self-identified 'feminist actor' - but, above all, a remarkable account of an acting career unconstrained by tradition or expectations. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848422933
- ISBN
- 9781848422933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.90
€ 19.99
€ 15.90
Hardcover. Explores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472108794
- ISBN
- 9780472108794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.06
€ 112.06
Hardback. This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal who lived at the end of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of Russo-Jewish identity in the modern period and of larger questions of hybridity and performativity. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732901
- ISBN
- 9780804732901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.12
€ 95.12
Hardback. Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 697.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804774437
- ISBN
- 9780804774437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.87
€ 84.87
Paperback. Recounts the author's life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation. This title documents the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. Editor(s): Painter, Nell Irvin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140437959
- ISBN
- 9780140437959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.42
€ 14.42
Paperback. Of many slave narratives published before the Civil War, this is one of the few written by a woman. It blends and manipulates several narrative techniques, including those of sentimental novel, of autobiography, and of the classical slave narrative. Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DNF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 117 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195066708
- ISBN
- 9780195066708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.01
€ 24.99
€ 23.01
Paperback. One of the film critics, a speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, and a producer on Broadway, Robert E Sherwood scripted some of the popular plays and films of his day. This biography traces his obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496194
- ISBN
- 9781558496194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Piatkus Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- SKU
- KTG0009712
- ISBN
- 9780749900113
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Piatkus Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- SKU
- KTJ0008671
- ISBN
- 9780749900113
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects. Num Pages: 354 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310527
- ISBN
- 9780226310527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.55
€ 50.55
hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804714846
- ISBN
- 9780804714846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.00
€ 95.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375756931
- ISBN
- 9780375756931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.12
€ 14.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486794822
- ISBN
- 9780486794822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.14
€ 18.14
Paperback. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; FC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840224023
- ISBN
- 9781840224023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.60
€ 6.60
Paperback. An introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. Editor(s): Bessa, Antonio Sergio; Cisneros, Odile. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810120303
- ISBN
- 9780810120303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.87
€ 35.87
Hardback. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801441936
- ISBN
- 9780801441936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.06
€ 76.06