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Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595555748
ISBN
9781595555748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.27

Hardcover. This text recounts the varied literary achievements of one of Latin America's most acclaimed and prolific 20th-century writers. Structuring his assessment around metaphors drawn from boxing, the author considers Cortazar's plays, stories, novels, political essays and poetry. Series: Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570033902
ISBN
9781570033902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.69

Paperback. Daniel O'Connell - 'The Liberator' - lived a big, great and graphic life. Born in Kerry in 1775, he witnessed some of the most pivotal events in Irish and European history. Simply told for a young adult audience, with lively text and striking illustrations, this book brings Daniel O'Connell and his world to life. Illustrator(s): Nowakowski, Mateusz. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; BGH; FXZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The Collins Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781848892699
ISBN
9781848892699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Clear Light Publishers United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574160956
ISBN
9781574160956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.17

Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; JFSL3; JPFF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813140773
ISBN
9780813140773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.63

Paperback. A study of the importance of Salem, Massachusetts, in the life and career of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The author investigates Hawthorne's family, his education before college, his friends and acquaintances, and Salem's religious and political influences on him. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213310
ISBN
9780826213310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.72

Hardback. With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 32.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493001408
ISBN
9781493001408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.62

Mixed media pr. Tom Talbert is a composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist. He has been a important influence on the jazz scene since the 1940s, when he formed his own band in Los Angeles. Later he moved to New York where he composed for Buddy Rich, Charlie Burnet and other giants of American jazz. Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810848122
ISBN
9780810848122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.69

Paperback. A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AVH; BGF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224933
ISBN
9780520224933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.46

Hardcover. Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230545427
ISBN
9780230545427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

This series examines authors of the most popular children's books. It enables readers to discover new works by some of their favourite authors, while providing readers a more fully developed background of the author, his life and works. Ages 13+. Series: Who Wrote That?. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (J) Children / Juvenile; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 850.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9780791082331
ISBN
9780791082331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. A fresh, new look for the paperback edition in the genre of Shame and Ugly. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340943496
ISBN
9780340943496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Konopacki, Mike. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PM Press
Edition
Second Edition, Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629630960
ISBN
9781629630960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.72

paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; DSA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816624904
ISBN
9780816624904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

Paperback. Contains twenty biographies of African American male and female athletes that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation. This collection includes: Marshall Taylor, William Henry Lewis, Tiger Woods, and Venus Williams. Editor(s): Wiggins, David K. Num Pages: 472 pages, 19 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557288769
ISBN
9781557288769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.57

Paperback. Editor(s): McElrath, Joseph R., Jr.; Leitz, Robert C. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606613
ISBN
9780691606613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.99

Hardcover. Editor(s): Keatinge, Benjamin; Woods, Aengus. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Irish Academic Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0003209
ISBN
9780716529101
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935106067
ISBN
9781935106067
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.42

Paperback. If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the '40s and '50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a fight, in or out of the ring - the most infamous of The Canterbury Warriors. Series: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KRA0009183
ISBN
9780007542260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781517902278
ISBN
9781517902278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.55

Paperback. How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story Series: Public History in Historical Perspective. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BGHA; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558499157
ISBN
9781558499157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.41

hardcover. This a portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents a portrait the artist could not face, constructed as he would have constructed it, frank, without flattery. Num Pages: 195 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 22. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823216123
ISBN
9780823216123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.93

Features 30 profiles of notable people in the field of healthcare and allied health. In addition, an appendix consisting of 10 historical biographies of "Healthcare Greats" is included, as well as geographical and name indexes. Editor(s): Salem Press. Series: Contemporary Biographies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 30 photographs. BIC Classification: BK; GTC; JFD; JNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Grey House Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619252363
ISBN
9781619252363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.54
€ 129.15

Paperback. A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez. This work includes a presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and an English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language. Editor(s): Rothenberg, Jerome. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 225 pages, 3 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BG; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239531
ISBN
9780520239531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.84

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