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Paperback. Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-, race-, and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343776
- ISBN
- 9780822343776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thinking during the course of his long career, with a discussion of how his work relates to that of other sociologists. Editor(s): Mennell, Stephen (Professor of Sociology, University College, Dublin); Goudsblom, Johan (Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226204321
- ISBN
- 9780226204321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.45
€ 47.99
€ 37.45
Paperback. Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069109
- ISBN
- 9780252069109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Paperback. Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036119
- ISBN
- 9780268036119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.86
€ 46.99
€ 41.86
Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066528
- ISBN
- 9780719066528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.66€ 90.20
€ 100.66
€ 90.20
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780791078808
- ISBN
- 9780791078808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.69
€ 36.69
Hardback. Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Editor(s): Harrison, Olivia. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794213
- ISBN
- 9780804794213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. A collection of poems that contemplates the fall of the Celtic Tiger, while railing against bankers and 'bonus boys'. It includes poems of love lost and won, and poems in memory of friends and relatives who have passed on. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846556272
- ISBN
- 9781846556272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.60
€ 16.99
€ 12.60
paperback. Moving away from crime fiction, Pauline McLynn has crafted a mesmerising novel about human relationships. 'This is Pauline McLynn's fourth novel, and the author is going from strength to strength with every outing. Fizzing with vividly sketched characters, The Woman on the Bus is a skilfully written story' Sunday Tribune Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302. Good Clean copy with minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMF0000289
- ISBN
- 9780747267829
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 9.58
€ 12.99
€ 9.58
hardcover. 306pp. First US edition. Keywords: Irish literature
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- HarperCollins London
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS1011518
- ISBN
- 9780060196783
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 16.00
€ 16.00
Paperback. Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175376
- ISBN
- 9780571175376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 14.44
€ 20.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Italy 1 - Ireland 0 . . . The score that marked Ireland's demoralising exit from Italia 1990 took its toll. No more so than on Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street, who lost far more than the match that night. Some years on, they reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage through interconnecting monologues. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.. Signed by the author.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571243662
- ISBN
- 9780571243662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. A work that was produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571244577
- ISBN
- 9780571244577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.94
€ 12.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. Num Pages: 128 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571244591
- ISBN
- 9780571244591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. A second collection containing: The Freedom of the City (1973); Volunteers (1975); Living Quarters (1977); Aristocrats (1979) (March); Faith Healer (1979) (April); and, Translations (1980). Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 46. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571331840
- ISBN
- 9780571331840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 16.38
€ 22.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. Contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. This title focuses on the theme 'the end of the poem'. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571240814
- ISBN
- 9780571240814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 14.65
€ 21.99
€ 14.65
Paperback. Part of the five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel, this first title includes: The Enemy Within (1962); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964); The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966); Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967); Crystal and Fox (1968); and, The Gentle Island (1971). Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571331741
- ISBN
- 9780571331741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.38
€ 24.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. This analysis of the performance history of "Hamlet" recreates many productions from three centuries. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, and to important European stage productions. It is intended both for students of Shakespearean theatre and for playgoers. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719046254
- ISBN
- 9780719046254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.53
€ 20.99
€ 19.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447241041
- ISBN
- 9781447241041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 59
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549263
- ISBN
- 9781857549263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 178. Poems About Bats. 160 pages. Editor(s): Baron, Michael. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 9. Weight: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Central Books
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905512270
- ISBN
- 9781905512270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Hardcover. Ex-libris. Good copy with some shelf wear. Library paper and stamp on front end page. Locator code on the spine. Remains a good reading copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- L.H. Walker Galway
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAK0005689
- ISBN
- 9780950364100
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. A third collection containing: Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981); The Communication Cord (1982); Fathers and Sons (Turgenev) (1987); Making History (1988); and, Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 49. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571331789
- ISBN
- 9780571331789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.38
€ 24.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. "Pancatantra" is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed this great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals. Translator(s): Rajan, Chandra. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 351.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455205
- ISBN
- 9780140455205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.03
€ 18.99
€ 17.03