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Paperback. The perfect gift book for the literary cat lover - musings on the magical mystique of our feline friends, from American icon Charles Bukowski Editor(s): Debritto, Abel. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782117278
- ISBN
- 9781782117278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thinking during the course of his long career, with a discussion of how his work relates to that of other sociologists. Editor(s): Mennell, Stephen (Professor of Sociology, University College, Dublin); Goudsblom, Johan (Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). Series: Heritage of Sociology Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226204321
- ISBN
- 9780226204321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.57
€ 47.99
€ 37.57
Paperback. This edition includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading. Translator(s): Young, David. Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780915145973
- ISBN
- 9780915145973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Paperback. Translator(s): Jordon, M.D. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268015039
- ISBN
- 9780268015039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843916185
- ISBN
- 9781843916185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.71
€ 14.99
€ 13.71
Paperback. This volume collects three previously published books of Wenders' essays. He discusses his development as a film-maker from the moment he picked up a camera, and offers a broad analysis of his passions - rock music, avant-garde cinema, questions of German identity, and the influence of America. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 38. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571207183
- ISBN
- 9780571207183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.34
€ 33.99
€ 22.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201880
- ISBN
- 9780872201880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.42
€ 18.99
€ 15.42
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445954
- ISBN
- 9780140445954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.10
€ 21.99
€ 19.10
Paperback. A collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. It also includes a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, and more. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952719
- ISBN
- 9780241952719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.07
€ 19.99
€ 15.07
Paperback. Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History" considers how heroes are created and conveys his ideas on the importance of heroic leadership. In six reevaluative essays, the authors argue that Carlyle's concept of heroism actually repudiates its own authoritarian roots and stresses the hero's spiritual dimension. Editor(s): Sorensen, David R.; Kinser, Brent E. Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300148602
- ISBN
- 9780300148602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.92
€ 24.99
€ 18.92
Paperback. Editor(s): Bannister, Robert C. Num Pages: 423 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 423
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865971011
- ISBN
- 9780865971011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.75
€ 14.99
€ 12.75
Paperback. In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co New York
- Number of pages
- 314
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393312850
- ISBN
- 9780393312850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.67
€ 20.99
€ 19.67
Paperback. Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. These three dialogues here are among the most accessible of Cicero's philosophical works. Editor(s): Griffin, Miriam T. Translator(s): Davie, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; DNF; HBJD; HBLA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199644148
- ISBN
- 9780199644148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
€ 13.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. A collection of essays on the key texts that have shaped the Eco, the novelist and critic. After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, this book examines a number of major authors from the Western canon, such as French writer Nerval's masterpiece, "Sylvie", as well as the works of Cervantes, Swift, and Piero Camporesi. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099453949
- ISBN
- 9780099453949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Weiser Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578631001
- ISBN
- 9781578631001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.45
€ 18.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Editor(s): Morrison, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539048
- ISBN
- 9780199539048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 276 x 18. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496850
- ISBN
- 9781847496850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Paperback. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology. Editor(s): Sigmund, Paul E. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393952438
- ISBN
- 9780393952438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.63
€ 18.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Marcel Proust's fiction is threaded through with evidence of his belief in the importance of reading. This book contains a special selection of Proust's own writings about reading, along with a key Ruskin essay 'Of Kings' Treasuries'. Translator(s): Searls, Damion. Series: On. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843916161
- ISBN
- 9781843916161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.85
€ 14.99
€ 13.85
Hardback. Of all the wide-ranging interests Coleridge showed in his career, religion was the deepest and most long-lasting, and John Beer demonstrates in this book how none of this work can be fully understood without taking this into account. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 287 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; DSC; HPM; HRAB; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333734902
- ISBN
- 9780333734902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Paperback. Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, and the importance of sleep. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043852
- ISBN
- 9780141043852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DN; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396965
- ISBN
- 9780141396965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Brien, Anthony; etc. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210. 240pp. Keywords: Irish poetry, anthology
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KHS1011326
- ISBN
- 9780948339851
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 19.00
€ 19.00
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Brien, Anthony; etc. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210. . Very good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name to FFEP, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0011978
- ISBN
- 9780948339851
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99