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Paperback. In his first collection of critical essays, Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics. This investigation leads him to envision a "nomadic poetics" as a strategy for new poetic work, for translation and, fundamentally, for an ethics of early 21st century life. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819566461
ISBN
9780819566461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.54

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bison Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780803298330
ISBN
9780803298330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.60

hardcover. This volume presents an editied version of Thomas Reid's "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" (1785), together with evidence relating to the original text's composition. Editor(s): Brookes, Derek. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. . Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0036108
ISBN
9780271017020
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

hardcover. Published for the first time, these are the only university lectures known to have survived from sixteenth-century Oxford and the first major treatment of Aristotle's Rhetoric in England. Includes a critical edition of the Latin and Greek text, translation, commentary, and critical introduction. Num Pages: 469 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 840. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0036568
ISBN
9780874132878
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

paperback. Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord. Editor(s): Secord, James. Num Pages: 528 pages, b&w maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DNF; DSBF; PSAJ; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 392. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0036700
ISBN
9780140435283
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

hardcover. This text presents a selection of the political speeches of Cicero, including: "On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius", "Against Lucius Sergius Catilina", "In Defence of the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias", and "In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus". Translator(s): Grant, Michael. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242. This text presents a selection of the political speeches of Cicero, including: "On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius", "Against Lucius Sergius Catilina", "In Defence of the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias", and "In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus". Translator(s): Grant, Michael. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KTS0036479
ISBN
9780140442144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.44

Paperback. The famous chronicle of the wealthy Athenian leader Xenophon, brought to life for the modern reader Translator(s): Rouse, William Henry Denham. Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1958
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472060955
ISBN
9780472060955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.87

paperback. Editor(s): Grube, G. M. A. Translator(s): Grube, G. M. A. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9780872201361
ISBN
9780872201361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
CB editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781909585171
ISBN
9781909585171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.12

paperback. Theaetetus Translator(s): McDowell, John. Series: Clarendon Plato S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Oxford : The Clarendon Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0036578
ISBN
9780198720836
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work Num Pages: 313 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
313
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472051670
ISBN
9780472051670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.07

paperback. This work encourages contemporary students to engage in Plato's thought, outrageous and politically incorrect as it may seem. The authors believe that by grappling with his ideas, we can explore the relevance of his arguments in contemporary terms. Num Pages: 190 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK; HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780754633662
ISBN
9780754633662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.69

hardcover. Traces Tacitus' development of this fingere/credere dynamic both backward and forward from the crucial year A D 69. This book offers insights into the conditions of historical knowledge and into the psychic logic of power and its vicissitudes, from Augustus through the Flavians. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0037574
ISBN
9780520236509
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

paperback. A work on Pythagoreanism. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 144 pages, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 158 x 9. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0037636
ISBN
9780853233268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Hardcover. We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. Translator(s): Greenwood, L.H.G. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 699 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
699
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1935
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674993235
ISBN
9780674993235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.40

Hardcover. Brings together Manetti's famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. Translator(s): Baldassarri, Stefano U.; Bagemihl, Rolf. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674011342
ISBN
9780674011342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.07

Paperback. A comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history. Editor(s): Dunn, Ross E.; Mitchell, Laura J.; Ward, Kerry. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 656 pages, 2 b/w images, 16 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: DNF; HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 253 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289895
ISBN
9780520289895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Congail, Nollaig Mac. Num Pages: 302 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arlen House
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9781851321490
ISBN
9781851321490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.34

Paperback. Political science as a discipline is multifaceted and its role in society is complex. This collection of essays is based on an approach grounded in history and informed by a theory of participatory pluralism. The author reflects on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate, Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 275 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783847405061
ISBN
9783847405061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.04

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGL; DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633572
ISBN
9780691633572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.02

Paperback. Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship. These pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man and of Judge William. Editor(s): Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H. Series: Kierkegaard's Writings. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DNF; DSBF; HPCF3; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 44. Weight in Grams: 842.
Edition
n Later printing
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
728
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691020419
ISBN
9780691020419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.85

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DNF; KNTD; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 603.
Publisher
Harbour Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Signed copy
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550177787
ISBN
9781550177787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.00

Paperback. Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power. Editor(s): Wallis, Brian. Series: Writing Art. Num Pages: 344 pages, 230. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; AGB; DNF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 267 x 191 x 19. Weight in Grams: 968.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262571067
ISBN
9780262571067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 2AB; BGL; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300223552
ISBN
9780300223552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.01

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