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Paperback. This work investigates the interlocking histories of "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743501
ISBN
9780804743501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659797
ISBN
9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Hardback. Writer Higuchi Ichiyo has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of her best-known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of her narratives. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022720
ISBN
9780674022720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816689439
ISBN
9780816689439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.69

Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696086
ISBN
9780816696086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oberlin College Press United States
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932440334
ISBN
9780932440334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.46

paperback. .
Publisher
Ronin Publishing
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914171843
ISBN
9780914171843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. These 11 essays are the writings that galvanized the 60s youth revolution, written when Leary was at the peak of his popularity, influence and visionary intensity. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ronin Publishing United States
Edition
6th ed.
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781579510091
ISBN
9781579510091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727778
ISBN
9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.60

Paperback. What keeps us up at night? Love? Death? God? Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 127.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Saturnalia
Condition
New
SKU
V9780991545407
ISBN
9780991545407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478536
ISBN
9780801478536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.15

Hardback. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418032
ISBN
9781421418032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.33

Paperback. Argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ranging widely in 18th-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, this title explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects. It traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; RNK; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034853
ISBN
9780674034853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.89

Hardback. This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility. Editor(s): Murphy, Timothy F.; Poirier, Suzanne. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231078641
ISBN
9780231078641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.45
€ 82.56

Paperback. Selected works of three Marrano poets, together with translations into English and explanatory notes, are presented in this volume. In a general introduction the editor explains the historical and literary background of their works and examines the interrelationship between the Jewish and Christian cultural elements. Editor(s): Oelman, Timothy. Translator(s): Oelman, Timothy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
New in paperback
SKU
V9781904113690
ISBN
9781904113690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oberlin College Press United States
Number of pages
85
Condition
New
SKU
V9780932440402
ISBN
9780932440402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.56

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674036055
ISBN
9780674036055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442273276
ISBN
9781442273276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781987915082
ISBN
9781987915082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.57

Hardback. American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily "green" in contemporary terms, can offer important insights into our relationship to the environment. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; DS; GTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236378
ISBN
9780812236378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.34

Paperback. The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 201 x 9. Weight in Grams: 258. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KRA0011120
ISBN
9781904341819
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 35 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218459
ISBN
9780300218459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.49

Hardback. Presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection Betsy Beinecke Shirley bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. This volume offers to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. It invites reader to recollect images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood. Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Num Pages: 196 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; AKLB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 305 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1647.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300126730
ISBN
9780300126730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available. Editor(s): Chang, Tina; Handal, Nathalie; Shankar, Ravi. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 254 x 34. Weight in Grams: 978.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393332384
ISBN
9780393332384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.65

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