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Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DNF; DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788788073218
- ISBN
- 9788788073218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.13
€ 19.99
€ 16.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DNF; DSB; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892634
- ISBN
- 9788772892634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.56
€ 44.99
€ 31.56
Paperback. Entertaining non-fiction from the number one bestselling writer now reissued with a new cover in B format and supported by a marketing campaign for King's entire back catalogue. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DNF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444723267
- ISBN
- 9781444723267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.56
€ 12.99
€ 11.56
Paperback. A classic translation with critical essays by leading scholars. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Series: Indiana Masterpiece Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- The Indiana Critical Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209306
- ISBN
- 9780253209306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.92
€ 23.99
€ 21.92
Paperback. Daphnis is 15 years old, Chloe 13. The two peasants are drawn to each other and long to make love. But no one has told them what love is, nor do they know how to accomplish the physical act. Longus weaves a fantasy around their predicament. Translator(s): McCail, Ronald. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199554959
- ISBN
- 9780199554959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.73
€ 15.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. "Daphnis and Chloe" has been a European bestseller for centuries and vastly influential in literature, art and music. It has proved an enduringly fertile source for artists from Henry Fielding to Corot and Ravel and is recognizably the masterpiece among early Greek novels. Translator(s): Turner, Paul. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780140440591
- ISBN
- 9780140440591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.43
€ 15.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8pp colour and 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BTP; DNF; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KKD0001671
- ISBN
- 9780099756118
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Critics have compared Michaux's work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee and Beckett. This anthology contains selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, allowing readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a 20th-century visionary. Translator(s): Ball, David. Num Pages: 270 pages, 30 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520212299
- ISBN
- 9780520212299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.82
€ 45.99
€ 32.82
Paperback. A collection of essays discussing the meaning and the philosophical implications of "Darwinism". The contributors to Darwinism and Philosophy are international scholars from the fields of philosophy, science, and history of ideas. Editor(s): Hosle, Vittorio; Illies, Christian. Num Pages: 416 pages, 19 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: DN; HP; JFCX; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268030735
- ISBN
- 9780268030735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
€ 25.25
Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens' most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz. Editor(s): Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 864 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- Norton Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393958287
- ISBN
- 9780393958287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.59
€ 17.99
€ 16.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 235 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DN; HPCD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865972087
- ISBN
- 9780865972087
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.61
€ 24.99
€ 18.61
Paperback. Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, this title provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Labzina's accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offers insights into male and female sensibilities of the time. Translator(s): Marker, Gary (Professor of History, SUNY, Stony Brook, USA); May, Rachel (Associate Professor of Russian, Macalester College, USA). Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; 3JH; BGHA; DN; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875802770
- ISBN
- 9780875802770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.38
€ 138.38
Paperback. Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Translator(s): Sturrock, John. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036731
- ISBN
- 9780141036731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Hardcover. Based on the moral philosophy of the Greek Stoic Panaetius, this text is a source of evidence for Roman ideas of morality and behaviour, one of the few writings on philosophy in Latin. It was written not long before Cicero's death. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198146735
- ISBN
- 9780198146735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.77
€ 53.77
Paperback. An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. It also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, himself, as well as "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", the poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of woman he loved. Editor(s): Toibin, Colm. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140439908
- ISBN
- 9780140439908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210. Used paperback in very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0036270
- ISBN
- 9781840224016
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 8.99€ 4.99
€ 8.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Lucretius lived ca. 99 ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. In his didactic poem "De Rerum Natura" ("On the Nature of Things") he expounds Epicurean philosophy so as to dispel fear of the gods and death, and promote spiritual tranquility. Translator(s): Rouse, William Henry Denham. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 668 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 116 x 33. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Number of pages
- 668
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1924
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674992009
- ISBN
- 9780674992009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.76
€ 33.99
€ 28.76
paperback. In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272. A Memoir. 208 pages, 3 b&w photographs. In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DN. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight: 270.
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866421
- ISBN
- 9781901866421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.29
€ 13.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DN; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781563683213
- ISBN
- 9781563683213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.04
€ 35.99
€ 28.04
Paperback. Threat of book burning ignites passionate discussion about censoring, banning, and other responses to books. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 228 x 5. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888646798
- ISBN
- 9780888646798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. Contains essays that explore the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning). This book also unfolds the author's views on things from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191263
- ISBN
- 9780141191263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Hardcover. The "Templar of Tyre" is the third and longest section of a 14th-century chronicle known as the "Gestes des Chiprois". Written by a Cypriot knight serving the Templar Master William of Beaujeu, it provides precious contemporary insights and the only eyewitness chronicle of the fall of Acre in 1291. Editor(s): Crawford, Dr Paul F. Series Editor(s): Barber, Professor Malcolm; Edbury, Professor Peter W.; Hamilton, Professor Bernard; Housley, Professor Norman; Jackson, Professor Peter. Series: Crusade Texts in Translation. Num Pages: 216 pages, Includes 2 maps. BIC Classification: 3H; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM9; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840146189
- ISBN
- 9781840146189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.19
€ 172.19
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540501
- ISBN
- 9780199540501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. This volume presents five of Cicero's most famous defence speeches: of Roscius, accused of murder; of Murena, accused of bribery; of Archias, on a citizenship charge; of Caelius, accused of violence; and of Milo, accused of murdering Cicero's hated enemy Clodius. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy and introductions and notes guide the reader through the speeches. Translator(s): Berry, D. H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DNS; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537907
- ISBN
- 9780199537907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.13
€ 16.99
€ 16.13