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Paperback. Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year. This is an epic poem to women everywhere. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2FMC; BM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241966259
ISBN
9780241966259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071959
ISBN
9780252071959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

In "The Tempest", Shakespeare created Caliban as an archetype used to depict black men as slaves, savages, and threats to civilization. This study traces the Caliban legacy in modern and post-modern novels, exploring the work of black male writers such as John Edgar Wideman and Clarence Major. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122045
ISBN
9780813122045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927575246
ISBN
9781927575246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036507
ISBN
9780252036507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Paperback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732444
ISBN
9780804732444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 52.94

Hardback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732437
ISBN
9780804732437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 251.91

Hardback. This book presents Black history contextualized in chapters that provide both an introduction to historical periods and an annotated bibliography of outstanding children's literature that can be used to introduce and teach the history of each period. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810858435
ISBN
9780810858435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.70

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252040573
ISBN
9780252040573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252082047
ISBN
9780252082047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. An enlightening study of feminism in the work of seven black playwrights Num Pages: 152 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252032288
ISBN
9780252032288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.23

Hardback. Addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926704
ISBN
9780813926704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.64

Paperback. In Greek thought, "barbaroi" are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's "Histories" attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017900
ISBN
9780674017900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. 'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me..' In this book, the author takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. It features poems that move from the magic of childhood into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701188573
ISBN
9780701188573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH5; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223231
ISBN
9780812223231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Editor(s): Walker, Rebecca. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593764173
ISBN
9781593764173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.66

Paperback. .
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1967
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780573023033
ISBN
9780573023033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.57

Paperback. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.' Henry Rollins has a unique hard- edged view of the world. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 38. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Virgin Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753510353
ISBN
9780753510353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224093859
ISBN
9780224093859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. In the last ten years, the number of books published for and about African American children has grown exponentially. Where once there was famine, there now is an absolute feast. With so many books to choose from, parents and children need guidance in finding the most interesting, best written, and most acclaimed titles available. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSY; GBCR; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 191 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471193531
ISBN
9780471193531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.17

Paperback. Kudos for Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children s Books "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with black children in its focus. " Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook "The perfect tool for parents and educators alike. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSR; DSY; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 191 x 13. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471375258
ISBN
9780471375258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. .
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006512349
ISBN
9780006512349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition
abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781443833820
ISBN
9781443833820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.71

hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Toned, yet text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0028193
ISBN
9780241122723
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 14.00

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