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  • Sherlock Bones and the Art and Science Alliance by Renee Treml 9781911679363

    Sherlock Bones and the Art and Science Alliance by Renee Treml 9781911679363

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    Hi there, I'm Sherlock Bones - tawny frogmouth skeleton, chief sleuth and star of all museum-related investigations!Today is an exciting day because the museum has a new exhibit - and a new mystery!Together with my partners, the ever-brilliant Watts and...
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  • Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity Joshua Gooch 9781032088341

    Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity Joshua Gooch 9781032088341

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    In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens's novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life's precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence,...
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  • Apollonius of Tyana, Volume III: Letters of Apollonius. Ancient Testimonia. Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles Philostratus 9780674996175

    Apollonius of Tyana, Volume III: Letters of Apollonius. Ancient Testimonia. Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles Philostratus 9780674996175

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    The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which...
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  • The Portable Kristeva by Julia Kristeva 9780231126298

    The Portable Kristeva by Julia Kristeva 9780231126298

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    As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new...
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  • Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920 by Hermann Broch 9780226075167

    Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920 by Hermann Broch 9780226075167

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    Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory,...
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  • Och Wheesht and Get Oan Wae It by Lewis Dawson 9780955364112

    Och Wheesht and Get Oan Wae It by Lewis Dawson 9780955364112

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955364112Author Lewis DawsonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Doodle MacDoodlePublisher Doodle MacDoodleWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 130mm * 95mm...
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  • Is Anybody There? by Jenny Deane 9781800421738

    Is Anybody There? by Jenny Deane 9781800421738

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    Jenny Deane has had her work read on the radio but this is her first collection of poems. They are sharp observations of the world around us and the way we lead our everyday lives. Some pose difficult questions, encouraging us to go deeper, to revise our...
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  • Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds by Ingrid E Castro 9781498594318

    Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds by Ingrid E Castro 9781498594318

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    Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of...
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  • The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by Laura E. Thomason 9781611487053

    The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage by Laura E. Thomason 9781611487053

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    Mary Delany's phrase "the matrimonial trap" illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely...
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  • The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry by Carl Woodring 9780231101806

    The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry by Carl Woodring 9780231101806

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    A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single...
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  • Dorothy Richardson by Carol Watts 9780746307083

    Dorothy Richardson by Carol Watts 9780746307083

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    Dorothy Richardson is a major modernist novelist, only now beginning to attract the critical attention she deserves. In her time she was regarded as a pioneer, the originator of narrative 'stream of consciousness', her exploration of a woman's...
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  • Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Reflect: Oxford Reading Levels 10-11: Mixed Pack by Hawys Morgan 9781382007832

    Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Reflect: Oxford Reading Levels 10-11: Mixed Pack by Hawys Morgan 9781382007832

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    This pack contains 8 books, one of each of the following titles: Ishi on the Waves, Odi's Day, Danger in the Mine, The Important-to-Me Tree, It's Never Too Late, The Pack, Here to Stay and The Kindness Boomerang. Reflect is a series of emotionally...
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  • Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition by Elijah Chudnoff 9780198863021

    Forming Impressions: Expertise in Perception and Intuition by Elijah Chudnoff 9780198863021

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    Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge about the concrete world around us, and more abstract matters such as mathematics, metaphysics, and morality. Perception and intuition, however, are also capacities we deliberately improve in...
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  • Density of Light by Sarah Quartel 9780193560239

    Density of Light by Sarah Quartel 9780193560239

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    for SATB (with divisions) and organ Density of light is an anthem that sets an evocative hymn by Thomas Troeger. The text is drawn from an Epiphany reading and explores the theme of the triumphing of light over darkness. The organ opens with a rising...
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  • Fire the Bastards! by Jack Green 9781564786098

    Fire the Bastards! by Jack Green 9781564786098

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    "Fire the Bastards! "is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel "The Recognitions "as a case study.About the AuthorJack Green attended Princeton and worked for an insurance company before...
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  • The Literary Heritage of the Arabs: An Anthology by Suheil Bushrui 9780863568244

    The Literary Heritage of the Arabs: An Anthology by Suheil Bushrui 9780863568244

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    The Literary Heritage of the Arabs samples some of the finest literature produced by Arab writers from pre-Islamic times to the Abbasid Dynasty. The selection of poetry and prose spans many genres and styles, conveying the full range of Arab experiences...
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  • How Milton Works by Stanley Fish 9780674012332

    How Milton Works by Stanley Fish 9780674012332

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    Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum...
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  • Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet 9780231110884

    Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet 9780231110884

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    What makes good drama? How does drama matter in our lives? In Three Uses of the Knife, one of America's most respected writers reminds us of the secret powers of the play. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and director,...
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  • Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth by Benedicte Meillon 9781793631596

    Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth by Benedicte Meillon 9781793631596

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    Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous...
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  • Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place Dara Downey 9781783489848

    Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place Dara Downey 9781783489848

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    Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises...
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  • Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present by Alina Cherry 9781611478969

    Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present by Alina Cherry 9781611478969

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    Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present considers the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005), and its broader implications for the study of narrative,...
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  • Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time by Ingrid E. Castro 9781498597401

    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time by Ingrid E. Castro 9781498597401

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    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings...
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  • Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale by James Scarth Gale 9781487504342

    Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale by James Scarth Gale 9781487504342

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    Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888-1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history,...
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  • Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner 9780916397661

    Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner 9780916397661

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916397661Author Gary GlaznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g
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  • Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 by Mary de Rachewiltz 9780199584390

    Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 by Mary de Rachewiltz 9780199584390

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    The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint; was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at...
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  • In Common Things: Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature by Matthew Rowney 9781487543488

    In Common Things: Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic Literature by Matthew Rowney 9781487543488

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    The hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss - each describes a way of being in and understanding the world. These substances are both natural objects hailed in...
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  • An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and Thou Simon Ravenscroft 9781912453795

    An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and Thou Simon Ravenscroft 9781912453795

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    Martin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an 'I' towards a...
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  • Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution by Katherine Astbury 9781907975424

    Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution by Katherine Astbury 9781907975424

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    This book examines both the notion that the non-political fiction of the Revolution is responding to the events in France and the idea that trauma theory might shed light on the ways in which novelists responded to the Revolution.About the...
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  • The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century by Dawn LaValle Norman 9781108494175

    The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century by Dawn LaValle Norman 9781108494175

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    This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized...
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  • Edna O'Brien by Amanda Greenwood 9780746309674

    Edna O'Brien by Amanda Greenwood 9780746309674

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    Since the publication of her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, Edna O'Brien has experimented with an impressive range of forms and genres. Her most recent trilogy, completed in 1999 with the publication of Wild Decembers, focuses on issues...
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  • Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500 by Daniel Sawyer 9780198857778

    Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500 by Daniel Sawyer 9780198857778

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    Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence,...
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  • Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 by Christopher Norton Warren 9780198831136

    Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 by Christopher Norton Warren 9780198831136

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    Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of...
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  • Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics by J. Brian O'Roark 9780198829478

    Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics by J. Brian O'Roark 9780198829478

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    Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? Economics and comics may seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic book...
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  • Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Ashley Maher 9780198816485

    Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Ashley Maher 9780198816485

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    Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this...
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  • Cyfan-dir Cymru: Ysgrifau ar Gyfannu Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru M. Wynn Thomas 9781786830982

    Cyfan-dir Cymru: Ysgrifau ar Gyfannu Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru M. Wynn Thomas 9781786830982

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    Dyma gasgliad o ysgrifau sy'n archwilio rhai o'r dolennau cyswllt cymhleth a chyfoethog rhwng diwylliannau llen Cymraeg a llen Saesneg Cymru dros ganrif a mwy. Mae'r testunau a drafodir yn amrywio o bynciau cyffredinol (tarddiad y syniad fod y Cymry yn...
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  • The Four Branches of The Mabinogi by Matthieu Boyd 9781554813193

    The Four Branches of The Mabinogi by Matthieu Boyd 9781554813193

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    Set in a primal past, the Mabinogi bridges many genres; it is part pre-Christian myth, part fairytale, part guide to how nobles should act, and part dramatization of political and social issues. This edition of what has become a canonical text provides a...
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  • Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage by The late Margery Palmer McCulloch 9780192858047

    Edwin and Willa Muir: A Literary Marriage by The late Margery Palmer McCulloch 9780192858047

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    This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about...
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  • Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel: An Intertextual Study by Aleksandra Tryniecka 9781666905779

    Women’s Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel: An Intertextual Study by Aleksandra Tryniecka 9781666905779

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    Women's Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel is a dialogical and intertextual journey through the pages of nineteenth-century novels and their modern, revisionary counterparts. It is the book not only dedicated to the readers...
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  • The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Daniel Matore 9780192857217

    The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Daniel Matore 9780192857217

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    Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining...
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  • Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary Michael Van Dussen 9781802078299

    Richard Rolle: On Lamentations: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary Michael Van Dussen 9781802078299

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    This volume presents the first study, critical edition, and translation of one of the earliest works by Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), a hermit and mystic whose works were widely read in England and on the European continent into the early modern period...
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