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Paperback. Written to entertain, the short informal hsiao-p'in essays reflect the growing individualism in the late 15th century Ming period that evoked censorship in later eras. This unique anthology of 70 of the genre includes English and Chinese language references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, Translator(s): Yang, Ye. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 13. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780295977331
- ISBN
- 9780295977331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Yang Lian's most personal work to date draw ins on family photographs from the 1950s through to the 1970s when he was sent to be "re-educated through labour", digging graves in rural China. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373515
- ISBN
- 9781780373515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.70
€ 19.99
€ 15.70
Paperback. Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 8. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247034
- ISBN
- 9781852247034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.34
€ 15.99
€ 12.34
Paperback. Translator(s): Holton, Brian. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852244712
- ISBN
- 9781852244712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Translator(s): Allen, Joseph Roe. Num Pages: 448 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
- SKU
- V9780295972633
- ISBN
- 9780295972633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Lovelock, Yann. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149. Weight in Grams: 137.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Iron Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780906228654
- ISBN
- 9780906228654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.14
€ 9.99
€ 9.14
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTG0003836
- ISBN
- 9781841952833
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on endpapers and minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- KSS0007963
- ISBN
- 9781841953922
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003231
- ISBN
- 9781841952833
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that have an irresistible potency. Translator(s): Harsent, David. Num Pages: 79 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 79
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907587214
- ISBN
- 9781907587214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Translator(s): Keeley, Edmund. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691603391
- ISBN
- 9780691603391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 127.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oberlin College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932440716
- ISBN
- 9780932440716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.63
€ 16.99
€ 14.63
Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023796
- ISBN
- 9780674023796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.69
€ 19.99
€ 18.69
Hardback. Translator(s): Johnston, Ian. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 257 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231170482
- ISBN
- 9780231170482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.67€ 57.47
€ 73.67
€ 57.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443763
- ISBN
- 9780801443763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Through an analysis of philosophical and literary texts by Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht and Charlotte Delbo, Theaters of Justice raises the question: how does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial both facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770323
- ISBN
- 9780804770323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. * A passionate novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, set among an Anglo-Iranian family Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Abacus, London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KIN0031851
- ISBN
- 9780349119557
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349490714
- ISBN
- 9781349490714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426130
- ISBN
- 9781137426130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides with hilarious consequences. The question is: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571190140
- ISBN
- 9780571190140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime? This play premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2008. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242580
- ISBN
- 9780571242580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them a special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571204410
- ISBN
- 9780571204410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Simon Weinberg is dead. On a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - siblings, lovers and in-laws. Mourning allows them special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571221912
- ISBN
- 9780571221912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.82
€ 21.99
€ 17.82
Paperback. Follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabul. This title presents the topical and intense plays of one of the most interesting new voices in American theater. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906497705
- ISBN
- 9781906497705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32