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Paperback. In this annual annotated reference, children's and youth librarians, educators, teachers and parents can access summaries of the winning books over the decades. The 2003 edition features an essay ""That Big Gold Sticker: Children Talk About the Newbery Award"", by Kathleen Horning. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSR; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
American Library Association
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838935347
ISBN
9780838935347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.45

Hardcover. Editor(s): Elder, Chris. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1MBN; DQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864738370
ISBN
9780864738370
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99

Hardcover. A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization Num Pages: 146 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472118496
ISBN
9780472118496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.64

Paperback. The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers". Editor(s): Rosenblum, Constance. Num Pages: 303 pages, Photos. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814775721
ISBN
9780814775721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.55

Hardcover. Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Editor(s): Silverberg, Mark. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137280565
ISBN
9781137280565
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

paperback. Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Editor(s): Silverberg, M. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349447770
ISBN
9781349447770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Paperback. New York Poems is dedicated to "The City of New York: embattled, gallant, enduring" by poet D. H. Melhem, who calls the Upper West Side her "muse." D.H. Melhem looks at neighborhood struggles with blight and urban renewal (chastised as "Negro Removal"). Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608134
ISBN
9780815608134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters. Series: New York Classics. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815604136
ISBN
9780815604136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.39

Hardcover. Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack. Series: In Quotations. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DQ; WTM; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 88. .
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851244201
ISBN
9781851244201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 8.24

Hardcover. The city that never sleeps has played host to numerous modern classics. Arguably the heart of the American book business, New York has always been a hot spot for writers and literati. This book takes you on a tour of the city, examining it as it has appeared as a setting in various works of literature. Ages 15+. Editor(s): Bloom, Prof. Harold. Series: Bloom's Literary Places S. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 225 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1000.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9780791078389
ISBN
9780791078389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 379 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 31. Weight in Grams: 629.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823212149
ISBN
9780823212149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.26

Hardcover. Examining the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, the author addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as "individual knowledge projects" - the writers' attempts to transform raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with others. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826216007
ISBN
9780826216007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.06
€ 52.89

Paperback. This book, now in paperback, demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures, exploring ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230308565
ISBN
9780230308565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.48

Hardback. This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230020054
ISBN
9780230020054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.21

Paperback. This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349286157
ISBN
9781349286157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T. S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922782
ISBN
9780813922782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.37

Hardback. This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. This book opens up new worlds on the impact of books and images in the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480269
ISBN
9781611480269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.93

Paperback. The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297726
ISBN
9781349297726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Varieties of marriage in early American and British novels Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688320
ISBN
9781611688320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.62

Paperback. A study of the lives and accomplishments of five women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349534432
ISBN
9781349534432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.81

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