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Paperback. The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than Cook's death. This book contains introductory essays that discuss Samwell's contribution to our understanding of the dramatic period in Pacific and maritime history, and examines the personality and career of Samwell. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- No Statement of Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708320730
- ISBN
- 9780708320730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.36
€ 5.36
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays which argues that art is what we have to cleave to in the face of evil, against the expression of the darker side of human nature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571250899
- ISBN
- 9780571250899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. A collection of prose pieces by the Poet Laureate, on literary matters and on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen and Sylvia Plath. Hughes also expresses concerns about education, the environment, and the arts in general. Num Pages: 480 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 135 x 35. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571174263
- ISBN
- 9780571174263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.40
€ 26.99
€ 18.40
Paperback. This selection of early saints' lives, full of vivid incidents and astonishing miracles, consists of classics of hagiography that were all written in the second half of the 4th century. Editor(s): White, Carolinne. Translator(s): White, Carolinne. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435269
- ISBN
- 9780140435269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought--documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life. Editor(s): Corpet, Olivier; Matheron, Francois. Translator(s): Mehlman, Jeffrey. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231101691
- ISBN
- 9780231101691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.41
€ 37.99
€ 27.41
Paperback. Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only art worth loving is that built on complete untruths. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192659
- ISBN
- 9780141192659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rudolf Steiner Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855840812
- ISBN
- 9781855840812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
Hardcover. Lucretius De Rerum Natura Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1922
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198146247
- ISBN
- 9780198146247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.57
€ 77.57
Paperback. Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This translation, annotated for the nonspecialist, brings to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 1114 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1560.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520064010
- ISBN
- 9780520064010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. THIS YOUNG MONSTER is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. Num Pages: 280 pages, 31 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910695357
- ISBN
- 9781910695357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.57
€ 20.99
€ 19.57
Paperback. This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 473.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862416058
- ISBN
- 9780862416058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.33
€ 26.99
€ 18.33
Paperback. Entertains and diverts by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224087858
- ISBN
- 9780224087858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The Hystoria Constantinopolitana relates the adventures of Martin of Pairis, an abbot of the Cistercian Order who participated in the plunder of the city, as recorded by his monk Gunther. Alfred Andrea has captured the full flavor of the original with its alternating sections of prose and poetry. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; DNF; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215861
- ISBN
- 9780812215861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardback. A collection of 50 of the most significant speeches from around the globe that demonstrably changed the modern world and analysis into the impact they had. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNS; GBCQ; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 251 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1038.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473640948
- ISBN
- 9781473640948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.04
€ 26.99
€ 19.04
Paperback. Writing his column "Bones of Contention" for the "Nationalist and Leinster Times", the author took on the character of the quizzical and enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable public house in Carlow: erudite, urbane and informative. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 259
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843512653
- ISBN
- 9781843512653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.66
€ 11.99
€ 11.66
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 492 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 223 x 37. Weight in Grams: 842. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 155 x 223 x 37. Weight: 842.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 492
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605903
- ISBN
- 9780748605903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.57€ 113.30
€ 118.57
€ 113.30
Paperback. Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China, the massacres in Java, the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam and the USA's dirty little wars in Central America. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DNJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780601052
- ISBN
- 9781780601052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.23
€ 17.99
€ 13.23
Paperback. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; JFCV; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Greystone Books,Canada
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771642743
- ISBN
- 9781771642743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.83
€ 17.99
€ 16.83
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099821601
- ISBN
- 9780099821601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.41
€ 25.99
€ 19.41
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€ 14.42
€ 17.99
€ 14.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484261
- ISBN
- 9780801484261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Paperback. Takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World"; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099572350
- ISBN
- 9780099572350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.36
€ 25.99
€ 19.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Wellstone Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780985419073
- ISBN
- 9780985419073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.78
€ 15.99
€ 14.78
Paperback. Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432114
- ISBN
- 9780140432114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.17
€ 18.99
€ 14.17