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Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. May Sarton, poet and novelist, chronicles the year that began on 3rd May 1982, her 70th birthday. At her home in Maine, she savours "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place" reflecting on nature, friends and work. May Sarton also wrote "Journal of Solitude" and "As we are Now". Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJPN; BG; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393310306
- ISBN
- 9780393310306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.46
€ 26.99
€ 25.46
paperback. This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. " Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138913981
- ISBN
- 9781138913981
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Condition: New
€ 56.66
€ 56.66
Paperback. Features fifty essays that focus on a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. This work provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629964238
- ISBN
- 9789629964238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.31
€ 27.31
hardcover. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 182 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781509822805
- ISBN
- 9781509822805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.59
€ 15.99
€ 12.59
paperback. Set around the time of Iceland's conversion to Christianity, this saga follows a 50 year blood-feud. The narrative focuses on Njal Thorgeirsson who, along with his family, is burnt alive in his home. The saga exposes the cathatic power of vengance and inadequacy of the law. Editor(s): Cook, Robert. Translator(s): Cook, Robert. Num Pages: 432 pages, 4 maps, chronology, family trees, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; 3F; DNF; FT; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140447699
- ISBN
- 9780140447699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.29
€ 14.99
€ 11.29
paperback. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.' Henry Rollins has a unique hard- edged view of the world. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 38. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Virgin Books
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780753510353
- ISBN
- 9780753510353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.99
€ 17.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his creative violence and insistence on the sound of poetry, the author was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. Editor(s): Gardner, William Henry. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1953
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140420159
- ISBN
- 9780140420159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Just what was so great about Peter, Catherine, Frederick and Alexander? What did Cleopatra see to admire in the fat man with a beard, Mark Anthony? Why do people suffer from Montezuma's revenge? This title takes you on a journey through the annals of history with the heroes and villains of the past as your fellow travellers. Illustrator(s): Steig, William. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGH; DNF; HBG; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750932042
- ISBN
- 9780750932042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
The Barbara Johnson Reader. The Surprise of Otherness.
Johnson, Barbara. Ed(S): Gonzalez, Bill Johns...
Offers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers. Editor(s): Gonzalez, Bill Johnson; Feuerstein, Melissa; Valens, Keja; Porten, Lili; Valens, Keja L. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 785.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354031
- ISBN
- 9780822354031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Num Pages: 528 pages, 6, 6 black and white. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843276
- ISBN
- 9781843843276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 140.53
€ 140.53
paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679724841
- ISBN
- 9780679724841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.40
€ 24.99
€ 21.40
Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 36. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Universe Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780789331328
- ISBN
- 9780789331328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.56
€ 14.56
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
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
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
€ 50.99€ 36.45
€ 50.99
€ 36.45
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
€ 23.99
€ 20.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Nightboat Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937658380
- ISBN
- 9781937658380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.89
€ 20.99
€ 20.89
Hardback. Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNJ; HBTB; JFD; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 262 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252040269
- ISBN
- 9780252040269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.48
€ 119.48
Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996403
- ISBN
- 9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
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
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
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
€ 32.99€ 29.48
€ 32.99
€ 29.48