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Hardback. The first analysis in any language of China's recent epic novels about official corruption, this book explores how Chinese authors treat the theme of official malfeasance in mass-market thrillers, how those works reflect modern life, and how they approach the taboo subject of regime change. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754859
ISBN
9780804754859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.13

Paperback. The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England. This edition abridges Crudities' more than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most likely to be of interest to students. Editor(s): Palmer, Philip S. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Broadview Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
abridged edition annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554813230
ISBN
9781554813230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868194035
ISBN
9780868194035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452677
ISBN
9781552452677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
9781447206583
ISBN
9780330524933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.70

Hardback. Framed. Broadside published in Heaven Poster Series #8 White fields Press for the literary renaissance 1994 editors Ron Whitehead and Kent Fielding production Laura Loran, layout Ernest Sedgwick. Signed by Ginsberg. Original white card with black print, self portrait photography by Ginsberg, and 'the literary renaissanc' emblem. 89cm x 38.5cm." Keywords: Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
White Fields Press, Louisville,
Publication date
1994
SKU
KHS0071188
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 650.00

paperback. This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748640034
ISBN
9780748640034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137515
ISBN
9780231137515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137508
ISBN
9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.12

Hardback. This book is a concise and engaging analysis of contemporary literature viewed through the critical lens of cosmopolitan theory. It covers a wide spectrum of issues including globalisation, cosmopolitanism, nationhood, identity, philosophical nomadism, posthumanism, climate change, devolution and love. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230234772
ISBN
9780230234772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.79

Paperback. An anthology of 27 science fiction stories from Latin America and Spain, ranging from 1862 to the early 21st century. The introduction examines how the genre has developed in Latin America and Spain and studies science fiction as a means of defamiliarizing regional culture, history and politics. Editor(s): Bell, Andrea L.; Molina-Gavilan, Yolanda. Translator(s): Bell, Andrea L.; Molina-Gavilan, Yolanda. Series: Early Classics of Science Fiction S. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DQ; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819566348
ISBN
9780819566348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.71

Paperback. Exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. This book reveals how various models of queer egalitarianism attempt to reconcile the plantation's regional legacies with national debates about equality and democracy, particularly during the eras of the New Deal, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927923
ISBN
9780813927923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.40

Paperback. " Funny, raw, and colorfully musical, "Nod" plays what teeters, like a tuning fork. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 72 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421417141
ISBN
9781421417141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.98

Hardcover. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to an Arabic mirror, this study evokes the mentality of the distinctive environment - the border region. It covers the literary, cultural, political and historical contexts and their confluence in Pseudo Mawardi's Nasihat al muluk. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSK; HPDC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748696987
ISBN
9780748696987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.78
€ 119.62

Electronic book text. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Eup. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; DSB; HRAB; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474426428
ISBN
9781474426428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.15

Hardback. In this intense, illuminating collection of poems, Sandra Beasley examines how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393243208
ISBN
9780393243208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.06

Paperback. "Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter."-Washington Post Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780393353211
ISBN
9780393353211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.31

Paperback. New collection by leading British poet focussing on the shifting relationship between loss and gain. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Northumberland
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249120
ISBN
9781852249120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

Paperback. Features poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226109282
ISBN
9780226109282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

paperback. A feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. In this edition, he continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum which surveys the course of his subsequent books (up to the publication of Collected Poems, 1915-1967) and work-in-progress. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 40.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520001961
ISBN
9780520001961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.78

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120370
ISBN
9781772120370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.09
€ 40.27

Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive history of Grove Press, the groundbreaking publisher responsible for the end of obscenity and the assimilation of the avant-garde into the American mainstream. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784160
ISBN
9780804784160
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.86

Hardback. Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758246
ISBN
9780804758246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.35

Hardback. This is a study of the nine prose fiction works of Christiane Rochefort written between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received little critical attention. Her fiction forms an approachable learning tool for all students of post-war French politics and culture. Num Pages: 277 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895859
ISBN
9780859895859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.07

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