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Hardcover. This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230284036
ISBN
9780230284036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Spiers, J. Num Pages: 270 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349329205
ISBN
9781349329205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349329229
ISBN
9781349329229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Demetriou, Tania. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486403
ISBN
9781349486403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401489
ISBN
9781137401489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349379781
ISBN
9781349379781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

hardcover. This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616264
ISBN
9780230616264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback. A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes' invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571327652
ISBN
9780571327652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437361
ISBN
9780226437361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. A novel about transforming organizations from the author of bestselling business books The Goal and Zapp! The Cure is a novel for managers about transforming an under-performing bureaucratic organization into a boundaryless, fact-driven management culture like the one that made Jack Welch's General Electric so consistently successful. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471268307
ISBN
9780471268307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.98

Paperback. Clustering around the letter 'C', this volume includes a collection of seventy-some poems that celebrates a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It also features tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322961
ISBN
9780571322961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

hardcover. Clustering around the letter 'C', this title features seventy poems that celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It includes tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571321452
ISBN
9780571321452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100. Series: Modern Plays. 112 pages. Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DD. Dimension: 196 x 136 x 10. Weight: 118.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408173350
ISBN
9781408173350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.49

Paperback. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Editor(s): SparkNotes. Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 212 x 133 x 6. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
SparkNotes
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411471009
ISBN
9781411471009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.31

hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
London, UK: Jonathan Cape / Random
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001928
ISBN
9780224063784
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.44

Paperback. Good, clean copy. Signed by the author. Nicked at top spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0004081
ISBN
9781844880898
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243846
ISBN
9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood in light of blood's ubiquity as a metaphor and literal agent.. Recommended."-Choice Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
SKU
V9780812237139
ISBN
9780812237139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. The title of Kelly Grovier's third collection, The Lantern Cage, conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. The poems it brings together are fascinated by a universe whose meaning flickers dimly across the walls of our experience. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 217 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906188139
ISBN
9781906188139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. A collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. The real work of a novel is not bound up in the specifics of any one language: what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence. This work describes how the best novels do just that. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571232819
ISBN
9780571232819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; DQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Press, The
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595589866
ISBN
9781595589866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.55

Paperback. Tells a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This title includes poems that are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571288113
ISBN
9780571288113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTM0000799
ISBN
9781841954042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0014558
ISBN
9781841954042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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