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Paperback. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? In this book, the author answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons. Num Pages: 176 pages, map. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442259
- ISBN
- 9780141442259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349004358
- ISBN
- 9780349004358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. In 1938, the author was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. In this title, he gives an account of his experiences in Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; BM; DSBH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955796
- ISBN
- 9780241955796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Paperback. Series: Acting Edition S. Num Pages: 84 pages, Illustrations, 1plan. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 4. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 84
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573015663
- ISBN
- 9780573015663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.40
€ 19.40
Paperback. A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. It conveys the scale and variety of science fiction and also shows how science fiction novels have been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Editor(s): Seed, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 246 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405184373
- ISBN
- 9781405184373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.83
€ 55.83
Paperback. In his day, W Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright. This collection of his most popular plays manifests the breadth of his ability. It includes the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witted drama Sheppey. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 34. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872120
- ISBN
- 9781784872120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed during the period of Aristotle's tutorship of Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander's tutors. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 line illustration, indexes. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Loeb Classical Library United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996564
- ISBN
- 9780674996564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
Paperback. Features eighteen contemporary short stories that take the reader on a journey through South Africa's literary landscape, exploring Africa's most popular travel destination. This book, divided into three areas of South Africa - Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape - also includes game parks, farms and even mines. Editor(s): Balseiro, Isabel; Hecht, Tobias. Series: Traveler's Literary Companion. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DQ; FYB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Whereabouts Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781883513221
- ISBN
- 9781883513221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.99
€ 16.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758604
- ISBN
- 9780804758604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; AVGP; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628926279
- ISBN
- 9781628926279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.07
€ 30.99
€ 22.07
Paperback. This second collection of plays by Caryl Churchill includes "Objections to Sex and Violence", "Softcops", "Top Girls", "Fen" and "Serious Money". Series: Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413622709
- ISBN
- 9780413622709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.82
€ 32.82
Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in good dustwrapper.Irish literature.First American edition. William Trevor, KBE (born 24 May 1928), is an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world,[1] he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.[2] He has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name has also been mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] Trevor has resided in Devon, South West England, since the 1950s.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Viking
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- First UK edition
- SKU
- KEX0273966
- ISBN
- 9780670839339
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our times. In recent years, several family-run farms in the downlands of West Dorset have decided to radically change their approach to working the land. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWT; AGB; DN; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Little Toller Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908213341
- ISBN
- 9781908213341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.73
€ 20.99
€ 19.73
Paperback. In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474411349
- ISBN
- 9781474411349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Editor(s): Carter, Steven D. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DQ; HBJF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231167710
- ISBN
- 9780231167710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.45
€ 50.99
€ 36.45
Hardcover. Loosely based on his popular one-man show, the author illustrates the little we know about Shakespeare's childhood, early marriage, his roles as an actor, with apt quotations from the works. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854595683
- ISBN
- 9781854595683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93
€ 52.93
Paperback. This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. Editor(s): Robertson, Fiona. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 240 pages. Editor(s): Robertson, Fiona. This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight: 318.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641291
- ISBN
- 9780748641291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.00
€ 32.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Presents a selection of John Donne's most powerful prose. In this title, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396712
- ISBN
- 9780141396712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Paperback. "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216103
- ISBN
- 9780812216103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KIN0036482
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125. .
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910695418
- ISBN
- 9781910695418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559364539
- ISBN
- 9781559364539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.82
€ 17.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. "Antigone" was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage. Translator(s): Galantibre, Lewis. Series: Modern Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 88. Series: Modern Classics. 80 pages. "Antigone" was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DD. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 6. Weight: 76. Translator(s): Galantibre, Lewis.
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413308603
- ISBN
- 9780413308603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.29
€ 16.29
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408113462
- ISBN
- 9781408113462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.96
€ 27.99
€ 21.96