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Paperback. Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210271
ISBN
9780520210271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Paperback. Offers a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles, owls, vultures, and falcons. Drawing on his own experience working at a raptor rehabilitation center, the author shows these killing birds to be mirrors for humanity. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Original
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226240398
ISBN
9780226240398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Jones revises our understanding of modern China by tracing the ways that evolutionary works developed into a form of vernacular knowledge in modern Chinese literature. From children's primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking, his analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China's cultural evolution. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047952
ISBN
9780674047952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.29
€ 60.05

Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319508108
ISBN
9783319508108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.98

Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804773621
ISBN
9780804773621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845190262
ISBN
9781845190262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.58

Paperback. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826436962
ISBN
9780826436962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.03

Hardback. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times. Both cultural history and literary travelogue, it is shows how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 47. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781847922458
ISBN
9781847922458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 80 illustrations (b/w) with possible 16 page colour section. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781256343
ISBN
9781781256343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.45

Hardback. Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative and picturesque analysis of the Romans' extraordinary desire for food and wine and how this quest for the luxurious is woven into the literature, art, language and culture. Num Pages: 346 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AB; 3D; ACG; CFF; DSBB; JFC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415186247
ISBN
9780415186247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.17

Hardcover. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403993366
ISBN
9781403993366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback. A comprehensive selection of Crozier's poetry and prose, much of it previously out of print or scattered in small press publications. Biographical and critical notes and a detailed bibliography complete this landmark edition of one of the essential figures in modern poetry. Editor(s): Brinton, Ian. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771001
ISBN
9781847771001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.87

Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346524
ISBN
9780822346524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780822346449
ISBN
9780822346449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and 1820. More than a hundred poems are printed here, together with an extensive critical introduction, notes on each text, and a full bibliography. Editor(s): Carpenter, Andrew; Collins, Lucy. Num Pages: 430 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 32. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782051190
ISBN
9781782051190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 21.31

Paperback. This anthology of poetry from 16th- and 17th-century Ireland overturns the accepted view that very little English language poetry was written in Ireland between Spenser and Swift. Num Pages: 598 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 746.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork, Ireland
Number of pages
598
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859183731
ISBN
9781859183731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Hardback. This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and 1820. More than a hundred poems are printed here, together with an extensive critical introduction, notes on each text, and a full bibliography. Editor(s): Carpenter, Andrew; Collins, Lucy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DCQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 42. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782050643
ISBN
9781782050643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Carpenter, Andrew. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227. 8vo. Good copy.Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KEX0286329
ISBN
9781903392799
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Hardcover. This anthology of poetry from 16th- and 17th-century Ireland overturns the accepted view that very little English language poetry was written in Ireland between Spenser and Swift. Num Pages: 624 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 40. Weight in Grams: 840.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859183540
ISBN
9781859183540
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.00
€ 52.59

Paperback. This chronologically arranged anthology includes the work of about 60 Irish poets. The collection includes a range of previously unknown verse by poets such as Swift, William Dunkin, and many lesser known poets such as Henrietta Battier. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 760.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181041
ISBN
9781859181041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

paperback. This study offers a new view of literary theory as an essential part of modern philosophy and contests the view that it is a product of deconstruction. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415127639
ISBN
9780415127639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.48

Paperback. A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family - and a marriage - through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425767
ISBN
9781848425767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. When a woman disappears, four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 123 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848420748
ISBN
9781848420748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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