Literary essays
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Literary essays
Paperback. Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: AMV; DNF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223545
- ISBN
- 9780812223545
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.97
€ 35.99
€ 33.97
Paperback. The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers". Editor(s): Rosenblum, Constance. Num Pages: 303 pages, Photos. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814775721
- ISBN
- 9780814775721
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€ 24.99€ 20.75
€ 24.99
€ 20.75
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821416532
- ISBN
- 9780821416532
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Condition: New
€ 59.41
€ 59.41
paperback. A collection of writings from the influential feminist art journal "M/E/A/N/I/N/G", with a foreward by Johanna Drucker. This book is of interest to artists, art historians, critics, and a general audience interested in the views of practising artists. Editor(s): Bee, Susan; Schor, Mira. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DNF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 740.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325666
- ISBN
- 9780822325666
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.07
€ 32.99
€ 31.07
Paperback. Collection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; JFSK1; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349778
- ISBN
- 9780822349778
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.33
€ 29.99
€ 27.33
Hardcover. Offers an annotated edition of both Creswell's English text, based on the original copy presented to the ambassador of James I, and his contemporary Castilian version from the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. Creswell draws on his personal knowledge to write comments about the Gunpowder Plot events. Num Pages: 210 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; DNF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780823214464
- ISBN
- 9780823214464
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Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Paperback. Offers a collection of five satires from the Reformation period, written between 1517 and 1526. This title focuses on the impact and importance of a supporting cast of satirists whose ad hoc productions reached a wider audience, in a more visceral manner, than the rational approach which typified scholarly theological arguments. Num Pages: 122 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DNF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC9; WHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823214839
- ISBN
- 9780823214839
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Condition: New
€ 39.64
€ 39.64
Hardback. In 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. This volume contains Catholic manuscripts of those debates. Num Pages: 249 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 3JB; DNF; HRA; HRCC7; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 471.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218875
- ISBN
- 9780823218875
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Condition: New
€ 68.60
€ 68.60
Hardback. A collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas' writings mean for both Jews and Christians. It takes a snapshot of the state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas as the rationale for the discussion. It represents three generations of Levinas scholars. Editor(s): Hart, Kevin. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230150
- ISBN
- 9780823230150
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Condition: New
€ 111.02
€ 111.02
paperback. A collection that includes the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus ("Panegyrici Latini XI/3"), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian ("de S Babyla c Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX"), and Emphrem Syrus' "Hymns Against Julian". Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 160 pages, map, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780853233763
- ISBN
- 9780853233763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Paperback. "On the Tabernacle" was one of Bede's most popular works, appearing in a great many manuscripts from every period of the Middle Ages. This title contains the translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of the Christian Church. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HRCC1; HRCG9; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853233787
- ISBN
- 9780853233787
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Condition: New
€ 44.97
€ 44.97
Paperback. Focuses on the development of the church in Visigothic Spain and its internal politics, and also on its, at times troubled, relationship with the Visigothic state and the history of that state itself, particularly in the period when the Visigoths changed their adherence from Arian to Trinitarian Christianity. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 208 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3F; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853235828
- ISBN
- 9780853235828
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Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Paperback. The Satires contain six Latin poems of moderate length in the hexameter metre. Persius belonged to the well-to-do and landowning gentry of Italy and the tone and philosophical content of the Satires suggest that he pursued philosophy with an ardour beyond that conventionally thought proper by Romans. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856681738
- ISBN
- 9780856681738
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Condition: New
€ 41.62
€ 41.62
Paperback. A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 136 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the United Kingdom in 1985. Rep
- SKU
- V9780856682513
- ISBN
- 9780856682513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.62
€ 41.62
Paperback. Of the 1995 full-length edition:'Aristophanes addicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette 'The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts.. The volume will remain authoritative for generations. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprinted with revisions 1991.
- SKU
- V9780856682889
- ISBN
- 9780856682889
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Condition: New
€ 48.75
€ 48.75
Paperback. The dating of the Phaedrus has been hotly debated: sometimes it has been counted among Plato's earliest works; sometimes with the dialogues of the 'middle' period (Phaedo, Symposium, Republic); sometimes with the late works (e.g. Sophist, Statesman). Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published 1986, reprinted with corrections 2
- SKU
- V9780856683145
- ISBN
- 9780856683145
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Condition: New
€ 43.11
€ 43.11
Hardcover. Covers the years 28 to 5 BC; includes Dio's discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the UK in 1990. Reprinted with
- SKU
- V9780856683831
- ISBN
- 9780856683831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.64
€ 169.64
Paperback. Covers the years 28 to 5 BC; includes Dio's discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the UK in 1990. Reprinted with
- SKU
- V9780856683848
- ISBN
- 9780856683848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. The fourth book of Tacitus' Annals recounts one of the most turbulent periods of Tiberius' reign: the conflict between the emperor and Agrippina's family moved to its twin climaxes of Tiberius' retirement to Capreae and the destruction of Agrippina and members of her family. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856684043
- ISBN
- 9780856684043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.11
€ 43.11
Paperback. Pliny's letters sent to Trajan from Bithynia, and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor. The edition makes this record accessible to even those with no knowledge of Latin. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 241 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published 1990. Reprinted with addenda 2007.
- SKU
- V9780856684081
- ISBN
- 9780856684081
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Condition: New
€ 41.62
€ 41.62
Paperback. Plutarch's Lives have always attracted a large number of admirers, particularly because of his pragmatic concern with ethics and politics. But Plutarch intended his Lives to be read in pairs, an intention that is often ignored by those who treat these works as merely historical sources. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856684227
- ISBN
- 9780856684227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.01
€ 32.99
€ 31.01
Hardcover. Text with translation and commentary. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856684678
- ISBN
- 9780856684678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.64
€ 169.64
Hardcover. Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality. Editor(s): Edwards, M. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685279
- ISBN
- 9780856685279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.64
€ 169.64
Paperback. Universally recognised as the greatest speech by the finest of the Attic Orators, On the Crown is Demosthenes' vindication of his lifelong devotion to Athenian primacy among the Greek states and opposition to the advance of Philip II of Macedon. He won the case, and his opponent Aeschines went into exile. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685347
- ISBN
- 9780856685347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.12
€ 46.12