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Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727778
ISBN
9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.51

Paperback. This book argues for the centrality of the erotic child in the decadent aesthetics of Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov. Ohi argues that the queerness of aestheticism has the potential to interrupt contemporary ideologies of childhood innocence and thus the ideology underpinning sexual oppression in general. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSP; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349531479
ISBN
9781349531479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Hardback. Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230106987
ISBN
9780230106987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Paperback. Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349290413
ISBN
9781349290413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Walter Benjamin Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474251235
ISBN
9781474251235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 32.42

Hardback. This collection explores how new directions in feminist literary study might be informed by the work of the past. It offers a snapshot view of new feminist research in the field today and traces the influence of the substantial feminist inheritance in English Studies through six distinct, individual pieces of rigorous and innovative new work. Editor(s): Jones, Clara; Hogg, Emily. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497499
ISBN
9781137497499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Paperback. Translator(s): Hanson, Susan (Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Drake University, Iowa, USA). Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816619702
ISBN
9780816619702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Dwivedi, O.; Lau, L. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349493869
ISBN
9781349493869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349352012
ISBN
9781349352012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.88

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801440014
ISBN
9780801440014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.38

Hardback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691167824
ISBN
9780691167824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.94
€ 79.32

Paperback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691167831
ISBN
9780691167831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 33.29

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633367
ISBN
9780691633367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH; JPA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816623082
ISBN
9780816623082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.14

Paperback. Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804732512
ISBN
9780804732512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.37

Hardback. Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732505
ISBN
9780804732505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.14

Hardback. A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference.

Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441135070
ISBN
9781441135070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.97
€ 88.93

Paperback. A timely book which makes an important intervention in contemporary feminist theory. It uses an original methodology in "stealing" four figures from ancient Greek texts and reinterpreting them using theories of sexual difference. It will be welcomed by students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Translator(s): Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena; O'Healy, Aine; D'Onofrio, S.A-.; Onofrio, Serena Anderlini-D'. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745615721
ISBN
9780745615721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117676
ISBN
9781551117676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.81

hardcover. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804729512
ISBN
9780804729512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.84

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