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Hardcover. 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre. Editor(s): Powell, Steven. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 373 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525375
- ISBN
- 9780230525375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.83
€ 128.83
paperback. Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Num Pages: 344 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300197204
- ISBN
- 9780300197204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.16
€ 19.99
€ 15.16
Paperback. This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503205
- ISBN
- 9780742503205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Paperback. A simple illustrated English version of the story of the Aeneid, aimed at ages 8-12. Illustrator(s): Weller, Simon. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; YQF. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 148 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862921989
- ISBN
- 9780862921989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.53
€ 29.99
€ 25.53
Paperback. This study argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism. Published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the novels use fictional houses to criticize and unsettle home and homeland, depicting their linked oppressions and exclusions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349358625
- ISBN
- 9781349358625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. A guide to the increasingly allusive and complex Peppercanister poems. All the poems are discussed in chronological order and are accompanied by illustrations and reproductions of covers, which are fully explained in the text. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 256 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590. Nice copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003133
- ISBN
- 9781900621526
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 206 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSBH; JFC; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403987204
- ISBN
- 9781403987204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
paperback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291410
- ISBN
- 9781349291410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Examines the possibility of writing the other and explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible. This book also discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. It examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226719
- ISBN
- 9780823226719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.16
€ 94.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Butler, Lance St. John. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349032211
- ISBN
- 9781349032211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardback. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. Series: Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153614
- ISBN
- 9781405153614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.81
€ 114.81
Hardcover. This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361998
- ISBN
- 9781137361998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Paperback. Studying Shakespeare s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to the non-Shakespearian drama of Renaissance England that can be read as complete subject overview or used as an indexed reference resource. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405132442
- ISBN
- 9781405132442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.24
€ 33.24
Paperback. Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African American print culture might enrich the study of print culture, while at the same time expanding the terrain of African American literature beyond authorship to editing, illustration, printing, circulation, and reading. Editor(s): Cohen, Lara Langer; Stein, Jordan Alexander. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 432 pages, 43 illus. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223347
- ISBN
- 9780812223347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
hardcover. Editor(s): Gaines, Robert A. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 148 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- SKU
- V9781349951697
- ISBN
- 9781349951697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137288899
- ISBN
- 9781137288899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.95
€ 67.95
Hardback. An eloquent answer to some of the most vexing questions about the myth of Orpheus and its far-reaching ramifications through time and culture, Detienne's work ultimately offers a major rethinking of Greek mythology. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869549
- ISBN
- 9780801869549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.03€ 58.38
€ 63.03
€ 58.38
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613413
- ISBN
- 9780691613413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.04€ 55.58
€ 70.04
€ 55.58
Hardback. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group consciousness and western individualism. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1QFH; 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333743102
- ISBN
- 9780333743102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100268
- ISBN
- 9780230100268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Series: Classica et Mediaevalia - Revue Danoise de Philologie et D'Histoire. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896052
- ISBN
- 9788772896052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.52€ 52.22
€ 66.52
€ 52.22
Hardcover. A History of the Hellenistic World provides a new, authoritative account of the period following the reign of Alexander the Great. With clear narration and extensive documentation, the book explains the highly complex political history of the Hellenistic period. Series: Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 856.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233879
- ISBN
- 9780631233879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903153420
- ISBN
- 9781903153420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.07
€ 97.07
Paperback. There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer's canon as Jamaica Kincaid's mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid's efforts to free herself from her mother. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938462
- ISBN
- 9780813938462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.20
€ 38.20