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Paperback. A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bjork to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Semiotext
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350668
ISBN
9781584350668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.31

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1929
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674992528
ISBN
9780674992528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Editor(s): O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; AB; AC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306216
ISBN
9780226306216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.92

Paperback. Editor(s): Stachniewski, John; Pacheco, Anita. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGXA; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554980
ISBN
9780199554980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 185 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226408545
ISBN
9780226408545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.33

Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that tells the story of the period in our cultural and political life. This book is filled both with personal story and the power of documentary witness. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571238866
ISBN
9780571238866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.96

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
€ 29.63

Hardcover. 'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 184 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903632
ISBN
9781907903632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

paperback. Translator(s): Palsson, Hermann. Num Pages: 144 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442380
ISBN
9780140442380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.91

Hardback. Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as foregrounding the ethical as well as the political and the aesthetic and shows how they participate fully in her creative process. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227187
ISBN
9780230227187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

Hardcover. These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 36. Weight in Grams: 704.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150742
ISBN
9781857150742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.30

Paperback. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion that women shouldn't travel, by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met by women. Editor(s): Robinson, Jane. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
490
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192802019
ISBN
9780192802019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Granta Magazine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905881871
ISBN
9781905881871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. A collection of essays on travels in Italy. It explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself. It covers the aesthetic allure of Venice, the vitality of Rome, and the noisy, sensuous appeal of Naples. Editor(s): Auchard, John. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435078
ISBN
9780140435078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.54

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
€ 9.50

Paperback. Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Translator(s): Stopp, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447200
ISBN
9780140447200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Offering an invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), this essay on the joys of idleness contains writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141043968
ISBN
9780141043968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Ill Anv
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143129264
ISBN
9780143129264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.48

Paperback. Series: Classics of Western Spirituality Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Paulist Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809126590
ISBN
9780809126590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.51

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
€ 8.43

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