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Paperback. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks What is worthwhile? His poems are characterized by simplicity and clarity, narrative and reasoning: he claims they at least .. Translator(s): Colmer, David. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170. 112 pages. An original poet who uses narrative or reasoning to question human values. His searching poems ask, "What is worthwhile?"
. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight: 170. Translator(s): Colmer, David.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464508
ISBN
9780856464508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.11

Paperback. Features poems, in which, the author examines the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104. 64 pages. Features poems, in which, the author examines the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464454
ISBN
9780856464454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Features poems and their prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") that navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 128. 80 pages. Features poems and their prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") that navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 7. Weight: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464447
ISBN
9780856464447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Buoyed by music as well as water, notably the Aegean Sea and the rare rains of the eastern Mediterranean, this title includes poems that combine delicacy and vigour in their pursuit of an elusive equilibrium. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116. 72 pages. Buoyed by music as well as water, notably the Aegean Sea and the rare rains of the eastern Mediterranean, this title includes poems that combine delicacy and vigour in their pursuit of an elusive equilibrium. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 218 x 136 x 7. Weight: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464430
ISBN
9780856464430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. Begins with poems and ends with a collection of epigrams. Between these, the author's published collections appear in chronological sequence. It deals with subjects such as: love, relationships, memory, and all kinds of daily exchange. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432. New and Collected Poems. 304 pages. Begins with poems and ends with a collection of epigrams. Between these, the author's published collections appear in chronological sequence. It deals with subjects such as: love, relationships, memory, and all kinds of daily exchange. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 26. Weight: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464393
ISBN
9780856464393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.41

Paperback. A collection of poems. It treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss. It evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult years with description of emotion and settings. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464324
ISBN
9780856464324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.07

Paperback. Contains "Les Fleurs du mal (1857)", "Nouvelles Fleurs du mal (1868)", and "Les Epaves (1866)". Translator(s): Scarfe, Francis. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 39. Weight in Grams: 592. 472 pages. Contains "Les Fleurs du mal (1857)", "Nouvelles Fleurs du mal (1868)", and "Les Epaves (1866)". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 39. Weight: 592. Translator(s): Scarfe, Francis.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856464270
ISBN
9780856464270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.83

Paperback. Presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. This title tells the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his training for the priesthood, the loss of his virginity and vocation, his flight from Italy, and later his happy marriage and successful career as a Cork merchant. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463754
ISBN
9780856463754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.17

Paperback. Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Translator(s): Bernard, Oliver. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463594
ISBN
9780856463594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.06

Paperback. Contains the moving lyrics the author composed as well as other poems written since 'Reed Music' (1997). Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 107.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry London
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463310
ISBN
9780856463310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. A collection of poems that deal with the personal - family, friendship, love and loss; poems about landscape and place; and, poems that try to come to grips with the larger world and its chaos. Num Pages: 64 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463266
ISBN
9780856463266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.48

Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562. The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry. 264 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754191
ISBN
9780838754191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.38

Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754146
ISBN
9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.02

Hardcover. Examines the whole of Flora Thompson's oeuvre including the poetry, short fiction, and essays that she published in women's periodicals before World War II, her book of poetry, "Bog Myrtle and Peat" (1921), and two posthumously published works, "Still Glides the Stream" (1947) and "Heatherley" (1979). Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838642061
ISBN
9780838642061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.98

Hardcover. This book examines Verga's heroines in the social and cultural context of 19th-century Italy. The work highlights the ways in which social reality and cultural fantasy clash with women's individuality. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838640173
ISBN
9780838640173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.07

Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838639078
ISBN
9780838639078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.55

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hamalian, Leo. Num Pages: 259 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633083
ISBN
9780838633083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.98

Paperback. Maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals can be mitigated but never finally abolished Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245215
ISBN
9780823245215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.49

Paperback. A rigorous and exuberant exploration of language Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242054
ISBN
9780823242054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Slater, Maya. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DNF; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Edition
1st English edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817910259
ISBN
9780817910259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 103.20

Hardcover. Describes the exploits of sorcerers and lovers Translator(s): Mallinson, James. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 610 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
Volume Two
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814795583
ISBN
9780814795583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.40

Hardcover. A collection of tales based on "The Long Story", a lost (and perhaps legendary) repository of Indian fables, in which prince Naravahanadatta wins twenty-six wives and becomes the emperor of the sorcerers. Translator(s): Mallinson, James. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 556 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 115 x 24. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
Volume One
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814788165
ISBN
9780814788165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.01

Paperback. The One Thomas More carefully studies the central humanist and polemical texts written by More to illustrate a coherent development of thought Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813221861
ISBN
9780813221861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.36

Paperback. influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813221168
ISBN
9780813221168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.77

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