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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. Alshaer's book offers a subtle and historically grounded reading of modern Arabic poetry, emphasising the aesthetic integration of politics within poetic form. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; 3JH; 3JJ; DSC; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849043199
ISBN
9781849043199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 40.93

paperback. In 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an abominable poem about the king. So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 halftones, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066045
ISBN
9780674066045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.50

Paperback. What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In this text, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in 14th-century England. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038700
ISBN
9780268038700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.54

Paperback. A collection of poems produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Editor(s): Pearsall, Derek; Wu, Duncan. Series: Blackwell Essential Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DCQ; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 121 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631229872
ISBN
9780631229872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.45

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DCQ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843206
ISBN
9781509843206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. A new anthology that combines generous selections from well-known soldier poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon with work by civilian and women poets. A general introduction places Great War poetry in its contexts and the work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that explains the circumstances of composition. Editor(s): Kendall, Tim. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DCQ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780198703204
ISBN
9780198703204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.32

Paperback. Tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book ranges from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, and highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122601
ISBN
9780691122601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling an illimuntating tale of the curious occasion of the 'peacock dinner,' when W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound led four lesser-known poets to the home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to eat a peacock. Num Pages: 240 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198788331
ISBN
9780198788331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.85

Hardback. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911281
ISBN
9781575911281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.88

Hardback. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; HBLH; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649378
ISBN
9781442649378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.91

Paperback. The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Translator(s): Strauss, Edward M. Num Pages: 480 pages, 18 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BJ; BM; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 678.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212488
ISBN
9780300212488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.90

Paperback. Ambushes. Hidden bombs. Snipers. The point man is the first to encounter these signs of danger. He's the soldier who leads the patrol into battle. Few survive for long. Between 2007 and 2008, 20-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; BGHA; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007641
ISBN
9780571272433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. This title brings to life one of the most significant pre-Revolutionary which conflicts between American settlers and the native tribes. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 249 x 7. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472805096
ISBN
9781472805096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.22

Hardcover. Tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. This work shows how this affair became a cause celebre, the object of a lively public debate that focused on an issue much on the minds of intellectuals in the age of Enlightenment: the problem of evil. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JF; GTB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691002330
ISBN
9780691002330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.56
€ 54.65

Paperback. In this lively overview of Poland's modern history, Brian Porter-Szucs sets the country in a broader context of Europe, using the events of Poland's past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century. Series: New History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 390 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444332193
ISBN
9781444332193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.56

Hardback. In this lively overview of Poland's modern history, Brian Porter-Szucs sets the country in a broader context of Europe, using the events of Poland's past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century. Series: New History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444332186
ISBN
9781444332186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.61

Hardback. This is a history of Poland's post-World War II Communist era, that approaches the transition from Communism to democracy through an analysis of Poland's political crises, beginning with the 1956 uprising and culminating in the 1990 collapse of the former Communist regime. Editor(s): Curry, Jane Leftwich; Fajfer, Luba. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVP; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781879383456
ISBN
9781879383456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745324562
ISBN
9780745324562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 24.02

Hardback. An in-depth study of the effects of free market reforms in Poland since the collapse of communism. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JP; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745324579
ISBN
9780745324579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.96
€ 82.36

Paperback. How did the patronage activities of India's Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? The author argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. She focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 230 pages, 9 b/w, 6 maps, 1 line art. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3H; 3JB; HBJF; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520291836
ISBN
9780520291836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

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