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Paperback. .
Publisher
SteinerBooks, Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780970109712
ISBN
9780970109712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.95

Paperback. Following the spirit of the world's longest coastal driving route, Paul Clements sets out on a meandering journey to discover the real west of Ireland. Along the way he encounters memorable characters living on the Atlantic edge and presents a unique portrait of their lives. Series: Wandering Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: From Banba's Crown to World's End. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HB; WN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
The Collins Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848892606
ISBN
9781848892606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Virtually no one would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one also consistently hold that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? In Wandering in Darkness, Eleonore Stump argues that the difficult questions raised by the problem of suffering can be considered best in the context of biblical narratives. Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 245 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199659302
ISBN
9780199659302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173801
ISBN
9780691173801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this book focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 halftones. 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161051
ISBN
9780691161051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardcover. Reveals wampum's undeniable influence on the cultural, political, and economic foundations of North America. Num Pages: 168 pages, 18 color photographs, 101 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL9; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 190 x 17. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252033667
ISBN
9780252033667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.66

Paperback. This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294434
ISBN
9780312294434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.31
€ 66.58

Paperback. This excellent collection of nearly 200 old photographs illustatrates some of the dramatic changes that have occured over the last century in this busy London suburb. Series: Archive Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752403595
ISBN
9780752403595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. A superbly written personal account of fighting years on the Western Front. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 page plate section plus maps etc in text. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745970301
ISBN
9780745970301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Series: Library of African-American Biography. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566638654
ISBN
9781566638654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. The author uses Ralegh's History as a touchstone to explore the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226213965
ISBN
9780226213965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Hardcover. Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this title presents the discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of modernity in Britain. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646258
ISBN
9780748646258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 103.18

Hardcover. Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674368132
ISBN
9780674368132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. This study of Benjamin's "The Origin of German Tragic Drama" views it as a critique of anthropocentric historical thinking, which introduces an ethico-theological dimension. It reconstructs this dimension by analyzing the stones, animals and angels that are scattered throughout his writings. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226845
ISBN
9780520226845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.56

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

Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 1 ISBN 0674015886. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Smith, Gary; Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017467
ISBN
9780674017467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.81

Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 2 ISBN 0674017463. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Eiland, Howard; Smith, Gary. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674015883
ISBN
9780674015883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.04

Paperback. Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more. Editor(s): Bullock, Marcus Paul; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013551
ISBN
9780674013551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.81

Paperback. "Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder." Translator(s): Smith, Chadwick, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
273
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804780605
ISBN
9780804780605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. The works of Walter Benjamin (1892--1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth--century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745610078
ISBN
9780745610078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.49

Paperback. An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520084001
ISBN
9780520084001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. Benjamin's relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world's most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology has in Benjamin's writings, aiming for nothing less than the beginning of a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship. Editor(s): Dickinson, Colby. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270170
ISBN
9780823270170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.71

Paperback. Benjamin's relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world's most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology has in Benjamin's writings, aiming for nothing less than the beginning of a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship. Editor(s): Dickinson, Colby. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270187
ISBN
9780823270187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Steinberg, Michael P. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482571
ISBN
9780801482571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

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