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Paperback. Sima Qian tells the story of the First Emperor, founder of the Qin dynasty, in whose reign the Great Wall was built and whose tomb was guarded by the famous terracotta warriors excavated in 1974. His account details the ruthless exercise of power but also the creation of an empire that endured until 1911. Translator(s): Dawson, Raymond. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3D; DNF; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199574391
- ISBN
- 9780199574391
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.97
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Granta Magazine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905881871
- ISBN
- 9781905881871
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€ 17.99€ 13.07
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Paperback. Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905881895
- ISBN
- 9781905881895
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
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€ 13.03
Paperback. Features Leonardo da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. This book explores his sexuality - 'why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way he did?' and 'What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Translator(s): McLintock, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AGB; BGH; DNF; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182377
- ISBN
- 9780141182377
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
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Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. Written in the 1920s and early 1930s, these essays examine the everyday world of the masses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674551633
- ISBN
- 9780674551633
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
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paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DNF; JFSJ1; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816628759
- ISBN
- 9780816628759
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Paperback. These poems -- more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi -- are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110914
- ISBN
- 9780231110914
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. A translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Series: Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268012953
- ISBN
- 9780268012953
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Hardback. Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." This book offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes fresh readings of this story. Editor(s): St.Jean, Shawn. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821416532
- ISBN
- 9780821416532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.20
€ 46.20
Hardcover. In 124 epistles Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more often in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences. He thus presents a Stoic philosopher s thoughts about the good life in a contemporary context. Translator(s): Gummere, R.M. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 469 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 117 x 169 x 27. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1925
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674990869
- ISBN
- 9780674990869
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.84
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Paperback. Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy. Translator(s): Davie, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199552405
- ISBN
- 9780199552405
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
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Paperback. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. This title is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Translator(s): Kaster, Robert A.; Nussbaum, Martha C. Series: The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748429
- ISBN
- 9780226748429
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
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Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Anderson, Anne M.; Corr, James. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CJBT; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246. Fine copy in fine dust wrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Appletree Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0001074
- ISBN
- 9780862816650
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Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175376
- ISBN
- 9780571175376
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 14.44
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Paperback. A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice and place? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 422
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571210916
- ISBN
- 9780571210916
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
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Paperback.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571141517
- ISBN
- 9780571141517
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875801957
- ISBN
- 9780875801957
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Condition: New
€ 48.72
€ 48.72
Hardcover. Editor(s): Nielsen, Erland Kolding. Series: Danish Humanist Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 613 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DNF; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 178 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 613
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892665
- ISBN
- 9788772892665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.17€ 65.65
€ 85.17
€ 65.65
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784993467
- ISBN
- 9781784993467
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.83
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Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926455846
- ISBN
- 9781926455846
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.78
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Hardback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 107 x 178. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781477309490
- ISBN
- 9781477309490
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Condition: New
€ 23.46
€ 23.46
Paperback. This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic. Editor(s): Ahmed, Sara; Stacey, Jackie. Series: Transformations. Num Pages: 256 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415223560
- ISBN
- 9780415223560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.57
€ 74.57
Paperback. Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125178
- ISBN
- 9780231125178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.22
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Hardcover. A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present. Editor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M.; Porter, Roger J. Num Pages: 512 pages, ---. BIC Classification: DNF; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 243 x 43. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393239843
- ISBN
- 9780393239843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.94
€ 37.99
€ 31.94