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  • Israel... Through the Book of Leviticus - Easy Reader Edition
    Ahava Lilburn
    The Ancient Texts and the Bible series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten volume set synchronizes the manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete storyline.  The books are interwoven using the Torah as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backbone.The eighth book in this ...
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    25,39 €

  • Why Write? Why Read?
    Michael Rosen
    This booklet gathers together some recent talks and blogs on writing and reading, for use by teachers, librarians, parents, or anyone interested in engaging children and students in reading, writing, analysing why and how we do both. ...
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    6,19 €

  • Spedestä Säätiöön
    Panu Petteri Höglund
    SPEDESTÄ SÄÄTIÖÖN – kolme esseetä populaari­kulttuu­rista. Spede Pasanen oli vuosikymmenten ajan Suomen tuotteliain viihdemies. Olisiko nyt aika pohtia myös Speden ansioita suomalaisen komedian uudistajana? John Carter oli Tarzanista kuuluisan Edgar Rice Burroughsin toiseksi tunnetuin seikkailijahahmo, joka sai uutta kuuluisuutta taannoisen suurelokuvan ansiosta. Miten apinamie...
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    27,20 €

  • Beyond the Road
    JT Curran
    “Beyond the Road” is JT Curran’s first published volume of poetry.  Selected from collected works which span over fifty years, JT’s poetry blends colorful observations with thought-provoking reflections.  With wit, compassion, irony, and humor, this book invites the reader to consider the signposts, off-ramps, co-travelers and vistas which populate our journeys. JT’s words remi...
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    24,76 €

  • Turbulence
    Various Artists
    An anthology of work from writers and poets taking part in the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, this book was originally published in 2003. It features an introduction by Irish Writer Mike McCormack, Winner of the Goldsmith Prize 2016 for 'Solar Bones', who was Writer-In-Residence in NUIG at that time. It features fiction: a bald trapeze artist seeks...
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    11,45 €

  • TWILIGHT IN ITALY
    D.H. Lawrence / D.HLawrence
    TWILIGHT IN ITALY by D.H. LAWRENCE  A new edition of the travel book that D.H. Lawrence wrote about his travels in Germany, Italy and the Alps. Twilight In Italy is one of Lawrence's most lyrical and upbeat books, an enchanting account of travelling around Europe.    Illustrated with paintings by J.M.W. Turner.    EXTRACT FROM THE PASSAGE WHERE D.H. LAWRENCE IS AT LAKE GARD...
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    18,61 €

  • AIR AND ANGELS
    JOHN DONNE
    JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a ’Muse poet’, a poet who wrote passionately of the Muse. It is easy to see Donne as a love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard de Ventadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. Donne has written his ...
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    11,10 €

  • CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVA
    Kelly Ives
    CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVATHE JOUISSANCE OF FRENCH FEMINISMBy Kelly IvesThis book is a poetic study of three French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, the ’holy trinity’ of French feminism. Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Kristeva have created some of the most inspiring, insightful and illuminating writing on contemporary feminism and philosophy EXTRACT FROM ...
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    21,20 €

  • JULIA KRISTEVA
    Kelly Ives
    J U L I A K R I S T E V AART, LOVE, MELANCHOLY, PHILOSOPHY, SEMIOTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSISBy Kelly Ives Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1941. Educated in part by French nuns, she was involved early on in her life with Communist Party youth organizations and children’s groups. Since moving to Paris in the 1960s, Kristeva has risen in stature in intellectual circles so tha...
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    21,33 €

  • Epona
    P.D. MacKenzie Cook / P.DMacKenzie Cook
    Epona: Hidden Goddess of the Celts reflects the importance of gender in ancient religion, and the author explores the primacy of the Feminine through Epona's sovereignty as Horse Goddess among the Celts; her identity as "Mistress of Animals" in her love affairs and working relationships, and the surprising role she apparently played in the ancient Greek and Roman Mysteries....
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    23,68 €

  • THOMAS HARDY
    Thomas Hardy
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    14,85 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison
    Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
    In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several cutting-edge theoretical perspectives -- psychoanalytic, n...
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    38,13 €

  • Satellites Out of Orbit
    Chris Wind
    A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain’s wife, Noah’s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been t...
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    15,69 €

  • Wordsworth's Political Writings
    This compilation by Richard Gravil of texts edited by W J B Owen and J W Smyser presents the four major political texts in Wordsworth’s prose oeuvre and illustrates both the detail of the poet’s political grasp, and the remarkable swerves he made between 1793 and 1835. The first text, A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) is severely Jacobinical. Had Wordsworth published it...
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    25,27 €

  • Tracing the Essay
    G. Douglas Atkins
    The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a greased pig, for example, or a pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit. In Tracing the Essay, G. Douglas Atkins embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters.Drawing...
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    30,56 €

  • Mannerism and Baroque in Seventeeth-Century French Poetry
    James Crenshaw Shepard
    This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L’Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry. He then turns to Tristan’s works, examining the poems contained in the Plaint...
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    38,46 €

  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Soyinka’s Language
    Obioma Ofoego
    This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.   ...
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    52,90 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • HEAVENLY LOVE
    Edmund Spenser
    EDMUND SPENSER: HEAVENLY LOVE: SELECTED POEMSA selection of the great poems by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser created a drama of England in his poetry. The ’dream’ occurs throughout his poetry, but finds its most concentrated expression in The Faerie Queene, with its epic treatment of the ’dream of Albion’, a myth-making vision of Blighty as the expression of Elizabeth I’s ma...
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    12,89 €

  • PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the odes, hymns and paeans of England’s breathless, angelic, anarchic poet. Famous poems, such as ’Ode to the West Wind’ and ’The Cloud’, are set beside extracts from Prometheus Unbound and Epipsychidion. New poems and new illustrations have been added to this edition. Percy Shelley is one of the...
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    13,03 €

  • Secrets of the Culture Machine
    Elinor Blackletter
    Secrets of the Culture Machine exposes the hidden systems that shape what becomes literature in the twenty-first century. While the publishing industry presents itself as a space of opportunity-where talent, originality, and 'the market' determine success-the reality is defined by structural controls. Elinor Blackletter reveals how corporate consolidation, editorial gatekeeping...
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    11,37 €

  • Standardization (Standardisation)
    Jonathan H. Grossman
    An innovative study of the history of standardization that draws on both technical documents and novels. Jonathan H. Grossman’s elegant analysis of standardization approaches the topic by exploring how institutions create standards. Grossman tracks how published standards documents became the dominant means of homogenizing durable objects during the nineteenth century’s industr...
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    36,35 €

  • Willful Listeners
    Kate Nesbit
    A cultural and literary history of domestic reading aloud'Listening,' a recent Audible advertising campaign proclaimed, 'is the new reading.' But this is no new phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, reading aloud was one of the most popular evening entertainments and one of the primary ways people consumed fiction. In Willful Listeners, Kate Nesbit considers the Victorian prac...
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    42,10 €

  • THE KNIFE THAT WILL CUT EVERYONE
    DANIEL WAL THON
    The Knife That Will Cut Everyone is an allegorical exploration of power, fear, corruption, and silence in societies where truth is dangerous, and dissent is punished. Through the symbol of a knife- 'not a simple piece of metal... it is power, greed, corruption, silence, complicity, and fear' -the book traces how systems are built, abused, and ultimately collapse under their own...
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    16,90 €

  • Hoarded Gold
    Eleanor Parker
    Anglo-Saxon literature contains many reflections on the subject of wisdom, rich in subtle observation of life and advice on human behaviour. This anthology of poems, proverbs, and prose extracts in translation brings together writing on the theme of wisdom from across the corpus of Old English literature, offering a fresh and accessible introduction to one of the most important...
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    31,52 €

  • XIVONO
    Rabelani Mundalamo
    XIVONO is a soulful collection of 21 poems written in Xitsonga, born in Mhinga-A, Thulamela, Limpopo.This is poetry of vision, earth, and tomorrow. From the dusty path of ritshuri to the shade of the baobab tree, from nsimu ya mavele to vana va xikolo carrying books and hope, Rabelani Mundalamo reminds us: 'Munhu a nga tswariwi na xivono, kambe xivono xi tswala munhu.' A person...
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    15,87 €

  • Ludic Pleasures
    Tyrone Williams
    Incisive observations on popular music, poetry, and culture, and on the ways that gender, race, class, and contemporary politics shape artistic production.Poet and critic Tyrone Williams (1954–2024) was a prolific reviewer of poetry, poetics, and culture, publishing nearly 150 reviews between 1975 and 2023. Starting with his omnibus reviews of music in a college student newspap...
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    48,45 €


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