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Literary essays
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819566461
- ISBN
- 9780819566461
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€ 22.54
€ 22.54
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bison Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780803298330
- ISBN
- 9780803298330
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€ 15.99€ 13.60
€ 15.99
€ 13.60
Thomas Reid's An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Comm...
(Edited By Derek R. Bookes)
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
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036108
- ISBN
- 9780271017020
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
John Rainolds' Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric
John (Edited And Translated By Lawrence D. Gr...
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
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036568
- ISBN
- 9780874132878
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 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
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036700
- ISBN
- 9780140435283
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTS0036479
- ISBN
- 9780140442144
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.44
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472060955
- ISBN
- 9780472060955
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Condition: New
€ 29.87
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780872201361
- ISBN
- 9780872201361
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.38
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- CB editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781909585171
- ISBN
- 9781909585171
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.12
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Oxford : The Clarendon Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0036578
- ISBN
- 9780198720836
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Culture in the Anteroom: The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer
Von Moltke Phd, Johannes, Gemunden, Gerd
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051670
- ISBN
- 9780472051670
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Condition: New
€ 49.07
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754633662
- ISBN
- 9780754633662
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Condition: New
€ 80.69
€ 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
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 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
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 41.40
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 49.07
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 61.68
€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781851321490
- ISBN
- 9781851321490
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.34
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.04
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 140.02
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.00
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.92
€ 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
€ 20.01