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Paperback. In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790046
- ISBN
- 9780226790046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903045
- ISBN
- 9781907903045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.58
€ 16.99
€ 15.58
Paperback. John Keegan concentrates in this book on significant war themes: the impact of war on the 20th century and the forms it has taken; the origin of war in human nature and history; the adoption and use of war by states as an instrument of policy; and the experience of war by individuals. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000311
- ISBN
- 9780712665667
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSB; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205000
- ISBN
- 9780872205000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Editor(s): Resek, Carl. Translator(s): Resek, Carl. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205017
- ISBN
- 9780872205017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
€ 45.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. A unique document offering unrivalled insight into women's minds and lives during the Second World War. Editor(s): Sheridan, Dorothy. Series: Women in History. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BG; DN; HBJD1; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842126172
- ISBN
- 9781842126172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, the author captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141391496
- ISBN
- 9780141391496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Aronson, Ronald; Hoven, Adrian van den. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590174937
- ISBN
- 9781590174937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.94
€ 31.99
€ 22.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Olubas, Brigitta. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173261
- ISBN
- 9780231173261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Bookstorm
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781920434168
- ISBN
- 9781920434168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
€ 17.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 121 x 7. Weight in Grams: 62.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008115272
- ISBN
- 9780008115272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Paperback. World War II was the largest and greatest conflict in US history. This book presents a collection of diary entries, letters, and photographs from that era. Num Pages: 292 pages, photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; DNF; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842027977
- ISBN
- 9780842027977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Paperback. Steve Biko, father of the black consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only 30 years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. Editor(s): van Wyk, Chris. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144648
- ISBN
- 9781868144648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 336 pages, references, commentary, notes, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687396
- ISBN
- 9780856687396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist. It resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099387817
- ISBN
- 9780099387817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Here, the author a Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual - answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674028364
- ISBN
- 9780674028364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. Presenting a collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, the author takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is the Road. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099769811
- ISBN
- 9780099769811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. In What Do Women Want?, critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergner disseminates the latest scientific research and paints an unprecedented portrait of female lust Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFSJ1; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 119 x 17. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782112570
- ISBN
- 9781782112570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
paperback. During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140446425
- ISBN
- 9780140446425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. "What is what was" combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773261
- ISBN
- 9780226773261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09