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Hardback. From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human--upon--human violence. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Bourgois, Philippe I. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631223481
- ISBN
- 9780631223481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.54
€ 158.54
Paperback. A collection which makes available to specialists and nonspecialists important work on the Odyssey. The ten essays in this work address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; and others. Editor(s): Schein, Seth L. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044392
- ISBN
- 9780691044392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.43€ 51.21
€ 65.43
€ 51.21
Hardcover. Editor(s): Nielsen, Erland Kolding. Series: Danish Humanist Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 613 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DNF; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 178 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 613
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892665
- ISBN
- 9788772892665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.64€ 66.22
€ 85.64
€ 66.22
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597975056
- ISBN
- 9781597975056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.18
€ 31.18
Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727228
- ISBN
- 9780804727228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Hardback. This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103542
- ISBN
- 9780230103542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287871
- ISBN
- 9781349287871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; 3JJ; BM; DSBH; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610755
- ISBN
- 9780815610755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.66
€ 24.66
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press,
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- SKU
- KOC0018230
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Ann Lauterbach's experimental and compelling choice for the 2003 Verse Prize merges dramatic forms and poetry with dazzling results. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780974635309
- ISBN
- 9780974635309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.99
€ 14.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Savran, David. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559361637
- ISBN
- 9781559361637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.93
€ 19.93
Hardcover. The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008176
- ISBN
- 9781137008176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426734
- ISBN
- 9781137426734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pari Publishing Italy
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788895604015
- ISBN
- 9788895604015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
Paperback. Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 584 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405167277
- ISBN
- 9781405167277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89
Hardcover. Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This title considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day. It incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers. Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 584 pages, 13. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 186 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232711
- ISBN
- 9780631232711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.88
€ 215.88
Hardback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631217114
- ISBN
- 9780631217114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.86
€ 165.86
Paperback. This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. * Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113885
- ISBN
- 9781405113885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains in good condition
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Dell Pub Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KSG0010913
- ISBN
- 9780440201106
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Paperback in good to very condition. Some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRF0020467
- ISBN
- 9780140119695
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99