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It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption. Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent-as well as sexy. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134088
- ISBN
- 9780231134088
Condition: New
€ 141.46
€ 141.46
Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts - in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important figures of the French Renaissance. This title offers her biography in English. Num Pages: 448 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; BGH; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134125
- ISBN
- 9780231134125
Condition: New
€ 102.23
€ 102.23
This elegant book traces the two major periods of Jane Austen's work in order to demonstrate the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on the later novels. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134149
- ISBN
- 9780231134149
Condition: New
€ 83.36
€ 83.36
Considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Num Pages: 360 pages, spot art. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134385
- ISBN
- 9780231134385
Condition: New
€ 107.30
€ 107.30
A collection of essays, which examine the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such contemporary writers as W G Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J M Coetzee and John Updike, V S Naipaul and Anita Desai. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136747
- ISBN
- 9780231136747
Condition: New
€ 70.51
€ 70.51
Paperback. This compilation of award-winning articles by some of the most acclaimed writers in America celebrates excellence in a variety of genres: investigative reporting, features, profiles, and criticism, and essay-writing. Wide-ranging in style and in their subject matter, these pieces inform, surprise, entertain, and provide new perspectives on our world. Editor(s): Lemann, Nicholas. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137805
- ISBN
- 9780231137805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.37
€ 20.99
€ 20.37
Written by prominent scholars, this title explores the relationship between property and personhood. It considers a range of topics, including: the establishment of the rule of property in US-occupied Iraq; the work of John Locke; and reflections on property and personhood in the art of Jenny Holzer and the novels of Stanislaw Lem. Editor(s): Maurer, Bill; Schwab, Gabriele. Series: Critical Theory Institute Book. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137843
- ISBN
- 9780231137843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.19
€ 83.19
Hardback. Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 24 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138024
- ISBN
- 9780231138024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.33
€ 122.33
Presents a portrait of "The Tale of Genji's" reception and reproduction, taking into consideration a wide variety of genres from no plays to Genji paintings to the modern novel. This volume explores the popularization of the Genji, considering parody, pastiche, and re-creation in various popular and mass media. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 416 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142366
- ISBN
- 9780231142366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.07
€ 149.07
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. This book examines psychological and physiological experiments that proved that races responded differently to rhythmic stimuli. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142762
- ISBN
- 9780231142762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.97
€ 94.97
Series: Masters of Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143264
- ISBN
- 9780231143264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.04
€ 96.04
Drawing on secondary theoretical material as well as her own original research, the author conducts an analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJP; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143608
- ISBN
- 9780231143608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.60
€ 94.60
Paperback. Includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of 24 Iraqis in Haditha; C J Chivers' account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people; and Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. Editor(s): The American Society of Magazine Editors. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143912
- ISBN
- 9780231143912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.61
€ 18.61
Translator(s): Phillips, James. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231145565
- ISBN
- 9780231145565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.34
€ 96.34
Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1444.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147866
- ISBN
- 9780231147866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 384 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149501
- ISBN
- 9780231149501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 136.76
€ 136.76
"Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the semantics of physical modality"--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB; HPK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151566
- ISBN
- 9780231151566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.17
€ 82.17
Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 illus; 6 tables. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151603
- ISBN
- 9780231151603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.59
€ 101.59
This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)." Editor(s): Rea, Christopher G. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152747
- ISBN
- 9780231152747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.59
€ 129.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Mair, Victor H.; Bender, Mark. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DQ; FQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231153126
- ISBN
- 9780231153126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.73
€ 166.73
Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231153324
- ISBN
- 9780231153324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.39
€ 105.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416. The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour". 320 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 5SL; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231163255
- ISBN
- 9780231163255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.00
€ 43.00
Hardcover. Series: Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: D; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241240274
- ISBN
- 9780241240274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.62
€ 25.99
€ 22.62
Paperback. A collection of sixteen retrospectives which include interviews with some of America's greatest writers as well short literary works and an assortment of their personal photographs spanning several decades of their lives. Editor(s): McElroy, Colleen J. Num Pages: 448 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985183
- ISBN
- 9780295985183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.03
€ 40.03