.png){kind=logo}
Prose: non-fiction
Results 241 - 260 of 1924
Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a special afterword to discuss how Strange Career achieved its own significance as part of history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBTB; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Commemorative
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195146905
- ISBN
- 9780195146905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. In April 1956, C S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and the author found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In this journal, he freely confesses his pain, rage, and struggle to sustain his faith. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCV; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571310876
- ISBN
- 9780571310876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.37
€ 11.99
€ 10.37
Paperback. Including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag, this title also deals with subjects such as Caffeine; Ghostbusters; Being Poor; Twitter; Caravans; Obama; Wales; Paul McCartney; The Welfare State; Sherlock; and more. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091940898
- ISBN
- 9780091940898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. 'I've lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac - and that's just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?' Combining the best of her recent columns, the author deals with topics as pressing and diverse as 1980s swearing, benefits, boarding schools, and why the internet is like a drunken toddler. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGFA; DNF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091949068
- ISBN
- 9780091949068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover. Editor(s): Canfield, Douglas J.; Hunter, Paul J. Num Pages: 200 pages, Plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133745
- ISBN
- 9780874133745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.07
€ 122.07
Paperback. Umberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. This anthology intends to examine his ideas of literary semiotics and interpretation as evidenced both in his scholarly work and in his fiction. Editor(s): Capozzi, Rocco; Eco, Umberto. Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 38. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253211163
- ISBN
- 9780253211163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. * A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. * Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Editor(s): Pollard, Tanya. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405111942
- ISBN
- 9781405111942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.16
€ 59.16
Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, ...
Carlo Devito (Ed.) Mark Twain
paperback. Mark Twain's Notebooks combines journal writings with rarely seen sketches and doodles creating a fascinating and often hilarious archive of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. Editor(s): De Vito, Carlo. Num Pages: 336 pages, 150 colour & b&w Illus & photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DN; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781579129972
- ISBN
- 9781579129972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 7.76
€ 19.99
€ 7.76
Paperback. Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family whose political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. Written as war clouds were gathering over Europe, this work is also a powerful indictment of our contemporary moral and political failures. Editor(s): Pugliese, Stanislao G. Translator(s): Gourevitch, Adolphe. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DN; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 103
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139977
- ISBN
- 9780231139977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardcover. From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns, this book delivers two dozen essays that revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella's writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DNF; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226729091
- ISBN
- 9780226729091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; VXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Element Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855384279
- ISBN
- 9781855384279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Discover your true nature and explore you inner world with these inspirational pieces. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DN; VXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Import Aus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780733636530
- ISBN
- 9780733636530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Hardback. A vibrant study of the rich cultural and literary landscape of mid-eighteenth Britain and the forging of 'modern' subjectivity in a time of global war. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625642
- ISBN
- 9780748625642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.70€ 125.79
€ 130.70
€ 125.79
Paperback. The volume examines the critical interfaces between the personal and political that frame the utopian visions of Bai Ren, Robert Francis Garcia, Cesar Lacara, Zelda Soriano, Peter Bacho, and Rey Ventura in their works. They illuminate the ongoing transformation and redefinition of the Philippine nation-state. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DNF; GTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789715504713
- ISBN
- 9789715504713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.11
€ 85.11
Paperback. During the British women's suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences. Num Pages: 353 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115115
- ISBN
- 9781551115115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.39€ 51.38
€ 51.39
€ 51.38
Hardcover. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book engages with the most recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221567
- ISBN
- 9780230221567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. The comedies of Menander reveal that the oft-employed theme of mistaken identity is as old as the Great Dionysia. Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216523
- ISBN
- 9780812216523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140081954
- ISBN
- 9780140081954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. By the end of the 15th century Cassandra Fedele was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. This collection of letters reveals the central, mediating role Cassandra Fedele occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. Translator(s): Robin, Diana. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; BJ; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226239323
- ISBN
- 9780226239323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Hardback. A collection of postcolonial discourses, which takes a region-by-region approach to postcolonial theory, giving a sense of the heterogeneity of postcolonial studies. Editor(s): Castle, Gregory. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 175 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1112.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631210047
- ISBN
- 9780631210047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.84
€ 173.84