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paperback. Offers translation and commentary on Eutropius, whose Breviarium (Abbreviated History of Rome) was a major vehicle for transmitting knowledge of Roman history to people of the Middle Ages and beyond. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 186 pages, 3 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780853232087
- ISBN
- 9780853232087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.09
€ 36.99
€ 28.09
Hardcover. Martial Epigrammata Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 490 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1922
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198146254
- ISBN
- 9780198146254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKWC; AJB; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781721780
- ISBN
- 9781781721780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
paperback. A collection of William Cullen Bryant's editorials for the New York "Evening Post". This volume traces the growth of the chief editor and principal owner's political and social maturity as he made over a conservative, parochial, small-city newspaper into a national organ. Num Pages: 394 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DNF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 573.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823215447
- ISBN
- 9780823215447
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
paperback. Written by the celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, this book presents a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 50. Weight in Grams: 587.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571218486
- ISBN
- 9780571218486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.71
€ 21.99
€ 15.71
Paperback. Containing 74 essays, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, racial prejudice and the preciousness of free expression. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140140361
- ISBN
- 9780140140361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.09
€ 19.99
€ 18.09
Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200050
- ISBN
- 9780230200050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardcover. Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205857
- ISBN
- 9780230205857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218390
- ISBN
- 9780230218390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2nd edition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world. Num Pages: 285 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219571
- ISBN
- 9780230219571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219861
- ISBN
- 9780230219861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Hardcover. The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220416
- ISBN
- 9780230220416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardcover. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book engages with the most recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221567
- ISBN
- 9780230221567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment. Thomson charts the intricate dance between his novels and screenplays, his many audiences, and an intellectual establishment reluctant to identify the work of a popular writer as 'literature'. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228542
- ISBN
- 9780230228542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book discusses the visual and verbal city sketches which proliferated during the 'journalistic revolution' of the 1830s and 1840s. It shows how sketches transformed models of visual and printed media and of life science into a unique kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNJ; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518032
- ISBN
- 9780230518032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.93
€ 67.93
Hardcover. This new edition offers an extensive editor's introduction, a fully annotated text of the first edition of Vindicia Gallica and an appendix which includes the significant substantive revisions that Mackintosh made to Vindicia Gallica in the late summer of 1791. Editor(s): Garratt, Edmund. Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; DNF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525399
- ISBN
- 9780230525399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. Offers an analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. This study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates by focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; DNF; JFC; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554054
- ISBN
- 9780230554054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and 'magic' in African literature. Emphasizing the ambivalent nature of the sacred, it advances work on the religious dimension of canonical African texts and attends to the persistence of pre-colonial cultures in postcolonial spaces. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DNF; DSB; GTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577558
- ISBN
- 9780230577558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579767
- ISBN
- 9780230579767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Includes detailed case studies on James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594630
- ISBN
- 9780230594630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58
€ 65.58