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Hardcover. For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its historical context. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 13 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; DSG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226853505
ISBN
9780226853505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 87.41

Paperback. David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. Translator(s): Gallop, David. Series: Phoenix Presocractic Series. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802069085
ISBN
9780802069085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.82

paperback. This revised edition of The Poem of Empedocles (1992) integrates substantial new material from a recently discovered papyrus containing evidence of over seventy lines or part lines of poetry, of which more than fifty are both new and usable. Editor(s): Inwood, Brad. Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802083531
ISBN
9780802083531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 46.95

paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 6. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Playdead Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957607798
ISBN
9780957607798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought. Series: Phoenix Presocractic Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442611634
ISBN
9781442611634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. ISBN: 9780241968628
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241968628
ISBN
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.76

paperback. Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, and more. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571254743
ISBN
9780571254743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.37

paperback. Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection "The Lost Leader" was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. "The Lost Leader" won the Forward Prize and revealed a poet of dazzling virtuosity, eloquence and subtlety. This title brings together the best work of the Scottish poet Mick Imlah. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571268818
ISBN
9780571268818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 7.02

hardcover. Clustering around the letter 'C', this title features seventy poems that celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It includes tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571321452
ISBN
9780571321452
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 7.02

paperback. Tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021879
ISBN
9780571317165
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.82

paperback. In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021880
ISBN
9781843512707
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0021887
ISBN
9781853711251
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. This book challenges the standard view that formal rhetoric arose in response to the political and social environment of ancient Athens. Instead, it was the theatre of Ancient Greece that prompted the development of formalized rhetoric. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118357088
ISBN
9781118357088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 210 pages, 24 b/w plates. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 304 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763504041
ISBN
9788763504041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.73
€ 54.99

Hardback. The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Sean O Riordain Editor(s): Sewell, Frank. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300190588
ISBN
9780300190588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.00

paperback. "Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) Series: Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Specialist
Condition
New
SKU
9780413711205
ISBN
9780413711205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.67

paperback. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021928
ISBN
9780140239744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Amistad
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021951
ISBN
9780007195305
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Phoenix
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022181
ISBN
9781857992915
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Founder of the Surrealist movement, Andre Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the 20th century's most influential poets. This inaugural volume in the "Poets for the Millennium" series offers a selection of his poetry along with some of his major prose writings. Editor(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: Poets for the Millenium. Num Pages: 184 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239548
ISBN
9780520239548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. A collection containing over 300 pieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in an historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600. Num Pages: 960 pages, 17 halftones, 14 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 245 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
960
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195144567
ISBN
9780195144567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.46

Paperback. The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers. Illustrator(s): White, A.B. Series: Hardscrabble Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 71 drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874517941
ISBN
9780874517941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.28

paperback. A collection of three of Tom Murphy's most iconic plays - Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming - covering the period from the Great Hunger of the nineteenth century to the 'new' Ireland of the 1970s. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Condition
New
SKU
9781408173190
ISBN
9781408173190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.30

Paperback. Reprint September 1948. In original cloth covers showing light shelf wear and minor staining to boards. Minimal scoring to endpapers. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022270
ISBN
9780140017892
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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