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Paperback. The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571144389
- ISBN
- 9780571144389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. A classic collection of stories by the world's greatest SF writer Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 120 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857989328
- ISBN
- 9781857989328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719043574
- ISBN
- 9780719043574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.17
€ 16.17
Paperback. Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. For most of his working life he was a writer and producer for BBC radio. His death in 1963 was sudden and unexpected. Editor(s): Longley, Michael. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main - Poet to Poet
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571226764
- ISBN
- 9780571226764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. 294 pages. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight: 406.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 294
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224902
- ISBN
- 9780520224902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.21
€ 36.99
€ 32.21
Paperback. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 276 x 18. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496850
- ISBN
- 9781847496850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811221856
- ISBN
- 9780811221856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Wilders, John (Worcester College, Oxford). Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904271017
- ISBN
- 9781904271017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.38
€ 12.38
Paperback. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. Carefully edited by her long time, award winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska's work until her death in 2012. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 203 x 45. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544705159
- ISBN
- 9780544705159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.93
€ 17.99
€ 12.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. 88pp. Keywords: Irish poetry
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Rockingham Press
- Number of pages
- 88
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KHS1011068
- ISBN
- 9781873468227
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Eup. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474402316
- ISBN
- 9781474402316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.50€ 119.45
€ 124.50
€ 119.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, Andrew M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872202917
- ISBN
- 9780872202917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.78
€ 24.99
€ 18.78
Paperback. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848425316
- ISBN
- 9781848425316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435849
- ISBN
- 9780140435849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Bilingual French-English edition of poems by Jules Supervielle with English versions by Moniza Alvi. Translator(s): Alvi, Moniza. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190. Selected Poems. 96 pages. Bilingual French-English edition of poems by Jules Supervielle with English versions by Moniza Alvi. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 9. Weight: 190. Translator(s): Alvi, Moniza.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249205
- ISBN
- 9781852249205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Hardcover. Brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. This volume contains self-narratives that propel themselves and their authors to the centre of critical debates concerning the status of the subject, the nature of self-representation, the globalisation of the regional, and more. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778387110
- ISBN
- 9788778387110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.13
€ 26.99
€ 20.13
Paperback. Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, this book maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716694
- ISBN
- 9780814716694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. By the same authors as "French Leave" and "An Enthusiast" this book is a collection of stories first published at the turn of the century and were considered some of the funniest prose in the English language. They have more recently inspired the television series of the same name. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349101460
- ISBN
- 9780349101460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.51
€ 17.99
€ 12.51
paperback. This edition shows Shakespeare's Pericles to be a unified aesthetic experience. Editor(s): DelVecchio, Doreen; Hammond, Anthony. Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Num Pages: 226 pages, 15 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372. Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare. 227 pages, 15 b/w illus. 1 map. Editor(s): DelVecchio, Doreen; Hammond, Anthony. This edition shows Shakespeare's Pericles to be a unified aesthetic experience. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DDS. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight: 372.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 227
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521297103
- ISBN
- 9780521297103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.03
€ 15.03
Hardback. Li Mengyang (1473 1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li's quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; BGH; DSBD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674970595
- ISBN
- 9780674970595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
€ 46.30
Paperback. Hirshfield is one of America's leading poets. This is her fourth book from Bloodaxe, following Come, Thief (2012), T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted After (2006) and Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (2005). Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780372464
- ISBN
- 9781780372464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.11
€ 16.99
€ 13.11
Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in original cloth with clean dustwrapper
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1938
- Edition
- First American Edition
- SKU
- KEX0278926
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975845
- ISBN
- 9781555975845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.90
€ 18.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. From Angela Merkel to Sean 'P Diddy' Combs, Martin Amis to one of the Arab world's most notorious sons, this book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of or world's most powerful players. Editor(s): Barber, Lionel; Barber, Lionel. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BK; DNJ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241239469
- ISBN
- 9780241239469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02