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Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 388 pages, 41 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; DNF; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607168
- ISBN
- 9780815607168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.48
€ 13.48
Hardcover. When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published "The Iconoclast", the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months. This title synthesizes some of the most memorable Brannisms, from America to Texas Politics to the Universe. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724051
- ISBN
- 9780896724051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.29
€ 30.99
€ 26.29
Paperback. Combines mythology, legend and human drama. This book focuses on the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. It incorporates strands from the oral narratives of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Byock, Jesse L. Num Pages: 160 pages, glossary, maps. BIC Classification: DNF; FC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447385
- ISBN
- 9780140447385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
hardcover. Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney. Editor(s): Swan, Jesse G. Num Pages: 302 pages, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611485400
- ISBN
- 9781611485400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.43
€ 146.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590173558
- ISBN
- 9781590173558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.38
€ 23.99
€ 19.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Murray, Isobel. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- B&W Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903265017
- ISBN
- 9781903265017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.64
€ 8.99
€ 7.64
Paperback. Translator(s): Goldstein, Ann. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408866139
- ISBN
- 9781408866139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.70
€ 15.99
€ 11.70
Since 1980, the Adirondack mountains in New York have inspired a resident population of writers and have gained regional and national prominence as these writers use the Adirondacks as their primary setting and subject matter. This anthology contains works by 43 writers from the region. Editor(s): Gould, Jim. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607014
- ISBN
- 9780815607014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Driftwood Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900055072
- ISBN
- 9780900055072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.40
€ 13.99
€ 13.40
Hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKWC; AJB; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781721780
- ISBN
- 9781781721780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.07
€ 26.99
€ 20.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268028930
- ISBN
- 9780268028930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. Translator(s): Keown, Dominic; Kitts, Sally-Ann; Rubies, Joan-Pau; Wheeler, Max; Willis, Judith; Yates, Alan. Series: Anglo-Catalan Society Occasional Papers. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 138
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905512065
- ISBN
- 9781905512065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. These posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 248 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226430287
- ISBN
- 9780226430287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.82
€ 31.99
€ 24.82
hardcover. A brand new collection of essays exclusively commissioned by Notting Hill Editions. Iain Sinclair writes in his luminous introduction, the contributors try to explain their impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation, or hopeful punt in the dark'. Num Pages: 4 Full Colour. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions Trade
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910749166
- ISBN
- 9781910749166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.46
€ 19.99
€ 16.46
Hardcover. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories ('everything is interesting, sooner or later') as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember.' BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 117 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903571
- ISBN
- 9781907903571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DNF; WNGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 211.
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307406866
- ISBN
- 9780307406866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.06
€ 18.99
€ 15.06
paperback. In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; AKLC; DNJ; DSK; FXZ; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224080897
- ISBN
- 9780224080897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 16.68
€ 25.99
€ 16.68
Paperback. In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8pp colour and 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BTP; DNF; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KKD0001671
- ISBN
- 9780099756118
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Retraces John C. Fremont's five remarkable western expeditions (1842-53) and portrays wilderness on the brink of irreversible change. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; DNF; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 254 x 9. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570982606
- ISBN
- 9781570982606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.51
€ 20.99
€ 20.51
Paperback. Wenderoth moves from outrageous premises to piercing insights in his first book since Letters to Wendy's. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; DQ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974635378
- ISBN
- 9780974635378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.63
€ 15.99
€ 14.63