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Hardcover. These essays, first published in 1860, were developed from a series of lectures and show Emerson's interest in many practical aspects of human life and reflect his increasing involvement in politics - chiefly the anti-slavery movement - during the decade before the Civil War. Editor(s): Packer, Barbara L.; Wilson, Douglas Emory; Slater, Joseph. Num Pages: 560 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011908
- ISBN
- 9780674011908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89€ 115.59
€ 128.89
€ 115.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 501 pages, 4 halftones, 1 line illustration, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 501
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674139916
- ISBN
- 9780674139916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89€ 115.21
€ 128.89
€ 115.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674139923
- ISBN
- 9780674139923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.89€ 115.21
€ 128.89
€ 115.21
Paperback. An anthology which includes the central texts from the acclaimed two-volume compilation "Selected Works of Ramon Llull". This volume contains three prefaces on Llull's life, thought, and reputation. Of Llull's works, it offers "Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men"; "The Book of the Lover and the Beloved"; and "Book of the Beasts". Editor(s): Bonner, Anthony. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 halftones Line illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- With a New translation of "The Book of the Lover a
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000916
- ISBN
- 9780691000916
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
€ 46.99
€ 33.55
Hardcover. A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Granta
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781783780792
- ISBN
- 9781783780792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.55
€ 16.99
€ 12.55
Hardback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631202486
- ISBN
- 9780631202486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.70
€ 172.70
Paperback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631202493
- ISBN
- 9780631202493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.53
€ 57.53
Paperback. Presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women. This collection provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers - each with a biographical and literary introduction - that trace the development of an intellectual, personal and critical dialogue between women. Num Pages: 296 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DNF; GTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860649578
- ISBN
- 9781860649578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.95
€ 35.99
€ 30.95
Hardcover. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 116 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903762
- ISBN
- 9781907903762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.33
€ 19.99
€ 17.33
paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 115 x 11. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984115563
- ISBN
- 9780984115563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.36
€ 16.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? For Rene Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and in this work he aims to present the age-old myth in a new light. Editor(s): Anspach, Mark R. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747806
- ISBN
- 9780804747806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Thinking collapses and remerges in this metafictional collection of essays following a writer and artist at work. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781940696270
- ISBN
- 9781940696270
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.49
€ 17.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. This work tells the story of the author's six-week journey by skiff along the Ohio river. He covered 1000 miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Ilinois, where the Ohio river meets the Mississippi. This edition is a reprinting of the original 1897 edition. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 395. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press Illinois
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KEX0212370
- ISBN
- 9780809322688
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. This work tells the story of the author's six-week journey by skiff along the Ohio river. He covered 1000 miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Ilinois, where the Ohio river meets the Mississippi. This edition is a reprinting of the original 1897 edition. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 395. Clean copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press Illinois
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0212371
- ISBN
- 9780809322688
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Born and trained in England and a US resident starting in 1976, Reyner Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. This title presents a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. Editor(s): Barker, Paul; Lyall, Sutherland; Price, Cedric. Num Pages: 366 pages, 32 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AK; AM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition, (A Centennial Book)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520219441
- ISBN
- 9780520219441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.07
€ 41.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Num Pages: 206 pages, 136, 136 colour illustrations, 136 colour. BIC Classification: ACK; AKLB; DNF; JFHF; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434. Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764. 205 pages, with 136 col illus. A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACK; AKLB; DNF; JFHF; WN. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight: 426. Translator(s): Barber, Richard.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851157535
- ISBN
- 9780851157535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.78
€ 26.99
€ 23.78
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158. .
- Publisher
- Lilliput Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843510314
- ISBN
- 9781843510314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.00€ 27.28
€ 35.00
€ 27.28
Paperback. The author was no ordinary genius. He upset those in authority, gave captivating lectures, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints and touched countless lives everywhere. This title collects letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021133
- ISBN
- 9780141021133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Hardcover. Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges into this vibrant, anxious world to recreate the experiences of Herzen and his contemporaries. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903083
- ISBN
- 9781907903083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's extended commentary on the "Tilted Arc" fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical and political problems of art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: ACX; AFK; AGB; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226748801
- ISBN
- 9780226748801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.59
€ 44.99
€ 34.59
Paperback. A collection of highly-informed essays offering fresh perspectives on cutting-edge writers, musicians and fimmakers. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; APB; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785350245
- ISBN
- 9781785350245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.43
€ 13.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. "What is what was" combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773261
- ISBN
- 9780226773261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.02
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€ 26.02
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445602
- ISBN
- 9780140445602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love. Editor(s): Kaeuper, Richard W.; Kennedy, Elspeth. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215793
- ISBN
- 9780812215793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15