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Paperback. First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. Translator(s): Gantz, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140443974
- ISBN
- 9780140443974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Hardcover. Early Life Conditions and Rapid Demographic Changes in the Developing World Num Pages: 216 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 25 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBD; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400769786
- ISBN
- 9789400769786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Paperback. This study presents findings from historical and survey data on over 144,000 older adults in 20 low- to high-income countries which suggest that survivors of poor early life conditions born during the 1930s-1960s are susceptible to disease later in life. Num Pages: 233 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 25 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBD; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401778725
- ISBN
- 9789401778725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Hardback. The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed. Editor(s): McJannet, Linda; Andrea, Bernadette. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 2AB; DSBD; HBJF1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115422
- ISBN
- 9780230115422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349425204
- ISBN
- 9781349425204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
Hardcover. From the 16th century to the 18th century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. This title looks at some of those representations to tease out the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333925379
- ISBN
- 9780333925379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Paperback. Offers a history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, this title examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: HBLH; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152882
- ISBN
- 9780691152882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403994790
- ISBN
- 9781403994790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England. Editor(s): Erickson, Peter; Hulse, Clark. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 133 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; AC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812217346
- ISBN
- 9780812217346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.30
€ 46.99
€ 42.30
Hardback. In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298620
- ISBN
- 9780230298620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 299 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACD; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 220 x 2. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319332215
- ISBN
- 9783319332215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.95
€ 116.95
Paperback. Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and very early nineteenth centuries. It includes letters, signatures, journals, baskets, pictographs, and petitions. Editor(s): Bross, Kristina; Wyss, Hilary E. Series: Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2JN; DQ; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496484
- ISBN
- 9781558496484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.92
€ 41.92
Paperback. In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. This title gathered many of those foundational essays. Editor(s): Bove, Paul A. Series: A Boundary 2 Book. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- Text is Free of Markings
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316497
- ISBN
- 9780822316497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.75
€ 30.99
€ 27.75
Paperback. Imam Muhammad al-Baqir was one of the most erudite Muslims of his age, and played a significant role in the history of early Islam. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850435921
- ISBN
- 9781850435921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.04
€ 35.04
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Education. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; JFSL3; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 191.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789812879080
- ISBN
- 9789812879080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.43
€ 76.43
Hardback. Dozens of trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and unconventional insights and lessons. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KJU; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062407474
- ISBN
- 9780062407474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.57
€ 31.99
€ 26.57
Paperback. Earning Respect examines the lives of white and blue-collar women workers in Peterborough between 1920 and 1960 and notes the emerging changes in their work lives, as working daughters gradually became working mothers. Series: Studies in Gender and History. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802069535
- ISBN
- 9780802069535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501317910
- ISBN
- 9781501317910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.10
€ 15.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HB; JFSG; JFSL9; JHB; RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922235046
- ISBN
- 9781922235046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.80
€ 36.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. Is there a geometrical energy system that surrounds our planet? - a suped grid involving polyhedral forms, ley lines, earth energy currents and archaeoastronomical alignments? From ET flight-paths to anti-gravity, the grid has many claims attached to it. This book unravels the many theories to give an overview of this incredible subject. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFH; RG; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 117 x 7. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263647
- ISBN
- 9781904263647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.35
€ 10.35