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Paperback. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This title deals with her works. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107408
ISBN
9780143107408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Anderson, Anne M.; Corr, James. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CJBT; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246. Fine copy in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Appletree Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001074
ISBN
9780862816650
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Contains 27 essays and reviews defining the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, the writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism. An extended introductory essay by the author clarifies his views. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 colour plates, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226263199
ISBN
9780226263199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.03

Paperback. Includes interlocking essays that uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099590019
ISBN
9780099590019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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

Paperback. Explores form, style, life, love, death, mortality, immortality and what art and writing can mean. Part fiction, part essay, this book is a revelation of what writing can do. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959572
ISBN
9780241959572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. At the time of her death in 1999, Patricia Beer had been planning a collection of her essays. She liked the title "As I Was Saying Yesterday": it caught at once the speaking quality of the essays and the consistency of concern which runs through a body of work disparate in subject-matter. Editor(s): Rigby, Sarah. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857540574
ISBN
9781857540574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.01

Paperback. New edition of Morrison's insightful and brilliant account of the Bulger trial. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; DNF; JFSP1; JKVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
3rd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847084170
ISBN
9781847084170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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

Paperback. History of the American sexual revolution as depicted through the correspondence between Ira Reiss and Albert Ellis, two leading social scientists and pioneers of the revolution. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; DNF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759102736
ISBN
9780759102736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.93

Paperback. Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141031682
ISBN
9780141031682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

"At Zero Point" presents a new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the 18th century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the 17th century. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813120393
ISBN
9780813120393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.35

Paperback. Series: Focus Philosophical Library. Num Pages: 106 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585100781
ISBN
9781585100781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.29

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903618
ISBN
9781907903618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.73

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691616261
ISBN
9780691616261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.79
€ 48.71

Paperback. Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Cordoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. Num Pages: 630 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DNF; HPDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Edition
3 Reprint
Number of pages
630
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094563
ISBN
9780906094563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.89

Hardcover. Muhammad b. Hatim's chronicle is the fullest historical source on Yemen for the period it covers, from the conquest of Yemen by Saladin's brother Turanshah to when the Rasulids, who had come to the country as followers of the Ayyubids, had replaced their old masters as its rulers. Editor(s): Smith, G.R. Series: New. Num Pages: 786 pages, and 188pp. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; 3H; DNF; HBJF1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 174 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
786
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094297
ISBN
9780906094297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.62

Paperback. This translation with notes is primarily for classroom use. It aims to be true to the basic meaning of the text and tries to bring across some of the beauty of the poetry as well as the rhetorical power of the dialogue and speeches. Translator(s): Woodruff, Paul. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
82
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872203921
ISBN
9780872203921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.67

paperback. Editor(s): Menikoff, Barry. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804713993
ISBN
9780804713993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. .
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910749067
ISBN
9781910749067
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.73

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