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Hardcover. In this collection of poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careering into life and sending it off course and tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036577
- ISBN
- 9780268036577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.08
€ 107.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926972992
- ISBN
- 9781926972992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.59
€ 27.99
€ 19.59
Paperback. This volume tells the story of David Chaffetz's experience of Afghanistan shortly before the Soviet invasion. His account is an intimate portrait of the Afghan people and the vast landscape which surrounds them. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; DNF; RGC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226100647
- ISBN
- 9780226100647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.57
€ 34.99
€ 27.57
Hardback. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231070867
- ISBN
- 9780231070867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.71€ 64.35
€ 81.71
€ 64.35
Hardback. This critical study of the African writer, Chinua Achebe, has been revised and a new chapter added. The underlying concern throughout is with his system of values and its response to the turbulent history of modern Nigeria - colonialism, independence, political disillusionment and military rule. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333490808
- ISBN
- 9780333490808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardback. Presents a reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays. This work focuses on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the cycle of terrorism and counter terrorism that characterized the Algerian War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140867
- ISBN
- 9780231140867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.39€ 82.78
€ 107.39
€ 82.78
Paperback. Edinburgh has provided the setting for countless novels over the years, not least in more recent times with Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (1993). Nowadays, the city hosts its annual International Book Festival, when, for a couple of weeks every August, authors and visitors from far and wide. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; DSRC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752462141
- ISBN
- 9780752462141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.37
€ 17.99
€ 16.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140874
- ISBN
- 9780231140874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.64
€ 36.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330136
- ISBN
- 9780820330136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.25
€ 25.99
€ 24.25
Paperback. Intends to understand the world in its fullness, both the suffering that history imposes on individual experience and the sacredness that underpins it. This title presents a meditation on love and faith built out of language as spare and direct as prayer. It also includes poems that deal with issues of statehood and Jewish identity. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820334738
- ISBN
- 9780820334738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 30.79
€ 37.99
€ 30.79
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Samuel French
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573033667
- ISBN
- 9780573033667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.41
€ 16.41
Paperback. Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk , David Campos's winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them." Series: The Andrys Montoya Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268023775
- ISBN
- 9780268023775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.46
€ 17.99
€ 17.46
Paperback. The first full-length poetry collection from art historian David C. Ward, Call Waiting combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observation of America - its landscapes, its history, its social and foreign policy. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847772268
- ISBN
- 9781847772268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.66
€ 18.99
€ 16.66
Paperback. David Ward started writing poetry in his late thirties. His poems are the work of an historian who knows how environments and events, on a family or a national scale, shape and change us, and how we live with moral and psychological consequences of actions for which we are not ever fully accountable. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847771629
- ISBN
- 9781847771629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.52
€ 21.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. Covering all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing, this edition is for students and scholars. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DSA; DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 582
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815317913
- ISBN
- 9780815317913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.21
€ 59.21
Hardcover. This work explores the tradition of representing coal miners in literature, poetry, drama and film, investigating the vexed relationship between activists and artists. Duke argues that miners became stock characters in an industrial morality play, robbed of individuality or humanity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; AS; DSB; KNAT; KNBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122373
- ISBN
- 9780813122373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.39
€ 40.39
Hardcover. Explores "Chronicles of Narnia", offering a look at the stories themselves and also focusing on the intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. This title presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe - each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of vitality, beauty, and clarity. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787978907
- ISBN
- 9780787978907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback.
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848403642
- ISBN
- 9781848403642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.00€ 8.83
€ 10.00
€ 8.83
Paperback. Who is Celia, and what are the mysterious papers found concealed under the attic floorboards of an old country house? Are they simply instructions for assembling a table-tennis table, written in idiosyncratic German, or could they contain a coded message? Num Pages: 128 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571205707
- ISBN
- 9780571205707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075570
- ISBN
- 9780226075570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.81
€ 32.99
€ 25.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DQ; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173160
- ISBN
- 9780691173160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.20
€ 29.99
€ 22.20
Hardback. Brahmanical Theories of the Gift constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a d nanibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter." Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 470 pages. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBJF; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088481
- ISBN
- 9780674088481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.64€ 49.91
€ 53.64
€ 49.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HRJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349409693
- ISBN
- 9781349409693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Brauner, David; Staehler, Axel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 252 x 34. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646159
- ISBN
- 9780748646159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.94€ 206.91
€ 215.94
€ 206.91