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Prose: non-fiction
Paperback. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140436426
- ISBN
- 9780140436426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.08
€ 11.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives. In doing so, he draws on a variety of fields, including psychology, psychotherapy, theology, philosophy, feminist theory, and literary theory. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626386
- ISBN
- 9781442626386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.65
€ 45.99
€ 40.65
Paperback. A simple illustrated English version of the story of the Aeneid, aimed at ages 8-12. Illustrator(s): Weller, Simon. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; YQF. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 148 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862921989
- ISBN
- 9780862921989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.77
€ 30.99
€ 25.77
Paperback. Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141190068
- ISBN
- 9780141190068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Paperback. A memoir of the author's early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571203963
- ISBN
- 9780571203963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.54
€ 15.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Matt Groening returns to his music journalism roots in the fourth volume of Da Capo's highly acclaimed series Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; DNF; GBCY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Edition
- 2003 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306812361
- ISBN
- 9780306812361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.21
€ 25.99
€ 18.21
Paperback. This edition of "The Mirror of the Simple Souls" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account. Translator(s): Grant, Judith (Lecturer, University of Auckland, Australia); Marler, J.C. (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, USA); Colledge, Edmund; etc. Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBB; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268014353
- ISBN
- 9780268014353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.68
€ 48.68
paperback. Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court. Translator(s): McKinney, Meredith. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- 9780141192109
- ISBN
- 9780141192109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. A collection which proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories which offer insights into the filmmaker, Luis Bunuel's life and thought. Translator(s): White, Garrett. Num Pages: 277 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 2ADS; APFA; APFB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376. Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel. 277 pages, 1 b&w photograph. A collection which proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories which offer insights into the filmmaker, Luis Bunuel's life and thought. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2ADS; APFA; APFB; DNF. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight: 400. Translator(s): White, Garrett.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234239
- ISBN
- 9780520234239
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. .". Humphries has rendered (Ovid s) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique." Virginia Quarterly Review" Translator(s): Humphries, Rolfe. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5106 x 3328 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253200020
- ISBN
- 9780253200020
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
Hardcover. Media Nation brings together some of the most exciting voices in media and political history to present fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics. Together, these contributors offer a field-shaping work that aims to bring the media back to the center of scholarship modern American history. Editor(s): Schulman, Bruce J.; Zelizer, Julian E. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DNJ; HBJK; JFD; KNT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248883
- ISBN
- 9780812248883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447241041
- ISBN
- 9781447241041
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175376
- ISBN
- 9780571175376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 14.44
€ 20.99
€ 14.44
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€ 37.45
€ 47.99
€ 37.45
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Mount, Jane. Num Pages: 272 pages, Integrated: 220 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 185 x 21. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316200905
- ISBN
- 9780316200905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.48
€ 30.99
€ 20.48
Paperback. The father of gonzo journalism takes to the campaign trail Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; DNJ; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330510752
- ISBN
- 9780330510752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 4.99
€ 13.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Presenting a selection of her writing, the author covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her interests. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099222811
- ISBN
- 9780099222811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 5.70
€ 14.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Scully, Pauline Bermingham. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781851321193
- ISBN
- 9781851321193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.13
€ 19.99
€ 16.13
Paperback. Series: On. Num Pages: 119 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781843916116
- ISBN
- 9781843916116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 7.23
€ 10.99
€ 7.23
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213174
- ISBN
- 9780253213174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.26
€ 51.99
€ 46.26
Hardcover. Aristotle Ethica Nicomachea Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 194 x 21. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1920
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198145110
- ISBN
- 9780198145110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.45
€ 37.45
paperback. Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and this work tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. Translator(s): Davies, Moya Llewellyn; Thomson, George. Num Pages: 320 pages, endpaper maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DNF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238 298pp. Reissued, 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New e. edition
- SKU
- 9780192813251
- ISBN
- 9780192813251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.04
€ 14.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Editor(s): Hall, Edith. Translator(s): Kitto, H. D. F. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; 4KL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- KSS0004270
- ISBN
- 9780199537174
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This is a companion volume to the BBC radio programme "From Our Own Correspondent". It contains transcripts of radio journalism, ranging from eye-witness accounts of events that made the news in 1993, human-interest stories and comic observations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; DNF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490. Paperback in very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KIN0006170
- ISBN
- 9781850437833
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99