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Hardcover. The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541345
- ISBN
- 9781137541345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
Paperback. Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. This book represents an examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055889
- ISBN
- 9780674055889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.92
€ 31.99
€ 26.92
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 2PGP; DSBB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226323985
- ISBN
- 9780226323985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Hardback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices -- this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773928
- ISBN
- 9780804773928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Paperback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s." Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804773935
- ISBN
- 9780804773935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651309
- ISBN
- 9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.68
€ 27.68
Hardback. As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors. Editor(s): Dunst, Alexander; Schlensag, Stefan. Num Pages: 246 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414588
- ISBN
- 9781137414588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.62
€ 116.62
Digital (delivered electronically). Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. Editor(s): Burry, Alexander (Ohio State University); White, Frederick (Utah Valley University). BIC Classification: 1DVU; APFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425919
- ISBN
- 9781474425919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. This book traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. It shows the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority. Editor(s): Jones, Alexander. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; PDX; PG; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400730861
- ISBN
- 9789400730861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 248.98
€ 248.98
Hardback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; APF; DSB; DSGS; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148481
- ISBN
- 9780231148481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.39€ 83.75
€ 109.39
€ 83.75
Hardback. Making an important new contribution to rapidly expanding fields of study surrounding the adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation is the first book to address the intersection of ethics, aesthetics, authority, and authenticity. Editor(s): Huang, Professor Alexander C. Y.; Rivlin, Elizabeth J. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375766
- ISBN
- 9781137375766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066528
- ISBN
- 9780719066528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.07€ 91.15
€ 101.07
€ 91.15
Paperback. A critical book on Virgina Woolf that places her world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. It is a penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work. Num Pages: 375 pages, 2Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520061842
- ISBN
- 9780520061842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137528094
- ISBN
- 9781137528094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardback. The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844662
- ISBN
- 9781843844662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardcover. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674282483
- ISBN
- 9780674282483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.83€ 51.77
€ 55.83
€ 51.77
Hardcover. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346339
- ISBN
- 9781137346339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466887
- ISBN
- 9781349466887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Paperback. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this guide to Roy's novel offers an introduction to the text and contexts of "The God of Small Things". It also presents a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text. It is aimed at those beginning detailed study of "The God of Small Things". Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415358439
- ISBN
- 9780415358439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Hardcover. Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394378
- ISBN
- 9781137394378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBJD1; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349543441
- ISBN
- 9781349543441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardback. Explores the theoretical concerns of literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, this work significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500495
- ISBN
- 9780230500495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. * An overview of the topic of technology in literature, covering the span from late Victorian innovations, through modernism and the cold war, to computing and the internet. * Brings together a wide range of literature in a concise, student-oriented fashion. Series: Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745639543
- ISBN
- 9780745639543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardback. Editor(s): Tickell, Alex. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403537
- ISBN
- 9781137403537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.98
€ 116.98