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The Secret World of the Irish Male

Joseph O´connor

Hardcover. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: New Island Books
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KAK0010919
ISBN: 9781874597148

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€ 4.99

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The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki’s Fiction

Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2GJ; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages: 140
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674796744
ISBN: 9780674796744

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€ 40.99
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The Secret Vice. Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture...

Diane Mason

Provides a reading of both fictional and medical writings concerned with auto-erotic sexuality in the long nineteenth century. This book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by influential English, Continental and American practitioners such as J H Kellogg, E B Foote, Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing and R V Pierce. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.

Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages: 192
Condition: New
SKU: V9780719077142
ISBN: 9780719077142

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€ 151.16

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The Secret Supper

Javier Sierra

Paperback.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2007
SKU: KIN0004284
ISBN: 9781847390042

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€ 4.99

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The Secret Purposes

David Baddiel

Paperback. Brilliantly accomplished and critically acclaimed novel of Nazi Germany and the plight of internees in wartime Britain by writer and comedian David Baddiel. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 300. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: 1st Abacus Edition
Publisher: Abacus
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
SKU: KRA0010583
ISBN: 9780349117461

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€ 10.00

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The Secret Purposes

David Baddiel

Condition: Used, Like New
Edition: 1st Abacus Edition
Publisher: Abacus
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
SKU: KNW0006336
ISBN: 9780349117461

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€ 4.99

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The Secret of the Totem. Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud.

Robert Alun Jones

Considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Num Pages: 360 pages, spot art. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.

Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 360
Condition: New
SKU: V9780231134385
ISBN: 9780231134385

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€ 107.30

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The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sac...

Martin Lings

Hardcover. His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art. 200 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 25. Weight: 632.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Quinta Essentia
Edition: 3rd
Number of pages: 200
Condition: New
SKU: V9781870196154
ISBN: 9781870196154

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€ 26.99
€ 23.66

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The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Paperback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1968
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Condition: New
SKU: V9780811200455
ISBN: 9780811200455

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€ 11.33

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The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Unde...

Michael Bérubé

hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; JNSG2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: NYU Press United States
Number of pages: 240
Condition: New
SKU: V9781479823611
ISBN: 9781479823611

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€ 97.14

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The Secret Life of Puppets

Victoria Nelson

Paperback. In this work, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that forced the transcendental underground and firmly displaced wonder and awe with the forces of reason, materialism and science. Num Pages: 368 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.

Publisher: Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2003
Edition: 1st
Condition: New
SKU: V9780674012448
ISBN: 9780674012448

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€ 56.27

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The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer

Tom Paulin

Paperback. A primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. Suitable for students and readers of poetry, it explains how poetry works by bringing into view the hidden order of specific poems. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Number of pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2011
Edition: Main
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571278718
ISBN: 9780571278718

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€ 17.99
€ 13.03

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The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame (Cornell East Asia Series)

Edwin A. Cranston

Hardcover. The three essays in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University East Asia Program
Condition: New
SKU: V9781933947129
ISBN: 9781933947129

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€ 139.23

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The Secret in the Wings: A Play

Mary Zimmerman

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.

Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2014
Condition: New
SKU: V9780810129870
ISBN: 9780810129870

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€ 31.66

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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov

Andrea Pitzer

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pages of B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 478.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Pegasus
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9781605986173
ISBN: 9781605986173

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€ 18.99
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The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi

Junichiro Tanizaki

Paperback. Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.

Publisher: Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Condition: New
SKU: V9780099283171
ISBN: 9780099283171

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€ 13.99
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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Maste...

John Pfordresher

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2017
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780393248876
ISBN: 9780393248876

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€ 27.99
€ 24.81

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Procopius - The Secret History - 9780140455281 - 9780140455281

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The Secret History

Procopius

paperback. Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina. This book depicts holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule. Editor(s): Sarris, Peter. Translator(s): Williamson, G. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Condition: New
SKU: 9780140455281
ISBN: 9780140455281