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Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...
Author: Mathias Nordvig ISBN: 9781032672816 Format: Paperback	$73.99
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The Body of Language: esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu

The Body of Language: esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu...
Author: Giorgio Agamben , Kevin Attell ISBN: 9781803094762 Format: Hardback	$41.95
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Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah

Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli...
Author: Jane Kanarek ISBN: 9781684582693 Format: Hardback	$215.95
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Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda

Old Norse Mythology: An Introduction to the Poetic Edda...
Author: Mathias Nordvig ISBN: 9781032672830 Format: Hardback	$273.00
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Angela Carter Translator and Translated: In the Workshop of Creation

Angela Carter Translator and Translated: In the Workshop...
Author: Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère , Marie Emilie Walz ISBN: 9781032874593 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century: 2 Volume Set

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century: 2 Volume Set...
Author: John Hollander ISBN: 9781138966574 Format: Paperback	$242.00
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A Quality of Loss

A Quality of Loss
Author: D. Q. McInerny ISBN: 9781587316869 Format: Paperback	$32.95
The world in the 1970s was a cultural upheaval in many respects. This novel is a story of the deepest disruption... Read More >>

Animals in Premodern Japan: The Encyclopaedia of Andô Shôeki 安藤昌益 (1703-1762)

Animals in Premodern Japan: The Encyclopaedia of Andô...
Author: Melissa Ann Kaul ISBN: 9783032080042 Format: Hardback	$158.37
In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics... Read More >>

The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages

The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle...
Author: Daniel L. Newman , Nasir al-Din al-Tusi,Muhammad ibn Muhammad ISBN: 9781849250757 Format: Paperback	$34.99
The Sultan's Sex Potions by Nasr al-Dn al-Ts, a 13th-century scientific text, explores aphrodisiacs, sexual practices... Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies

The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies...
Author: Mark Rifkin (University at Buffalo) ISBN: 9781009435611 Format: Paperback	$59.49
Provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. It centers... Read More >>

Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World

Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World
Author: Kristen Abbott Bennett (Framingham State University) ISBN: 9781009111096 Format: Paperback	$46.58
This Element engages Shakespeare's thought-experiment: how does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'? It examines... Read More >>

Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature Before Emancipation

Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African...
Author: Douglas A. Jones, Jr. ISBN: 9780226845111 Format: Hardback	$190.95
This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought... Read More >>

Choruses and Counter-Choruses: Culture and Politics in Brazil, 2013 - 2023

Choruses and Counter-Choruses: Culture and Politics...
Author: Flora Sussekind , Sergio Delgado Moya ISBN: 9781509568192 Format: Paperback	$30.95
In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil.... Read More >>

Destins croisés, des vies de combats: Georges Clemenceau - Winston Churchill - Charles de Gaulle

Destins croisés, des vies de combats: Georges Clemenceau...
Author: Franz Van Der Motte ISBN: 9791042809447 Format: Paperback	$42.69
Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill et Charles de Gaulle, immenses personnages aux parcours politiques exceptionnellement... Read More >>

Tahar Ibtatene, dit Tintin: Héros de la Résistance (1940-1945) et de la guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962) Deuxième édition revue et augmentée

Tahar Ibtatene, dit Tintin: Héros de la Résistance (1940-1945)...
Author: Lyazid Benhami , Nils Andersson ISBN: 9782336547565 Format: Paperback	$61.49
Ce livre est le parcours d'un homme de devoir. Tahar IBTATENE, cet homme de courage, décédé en 2000, vécut une... Read More >>

Louis Joseph Landa (1875-1935): De la canne à sucre aux salons: la culture matérielle d'un homme d'influence

Louis Joseph Landa (1875-1935): De la canne à sucre...
Author: Abel Alexis Louis ISBN: 9782336571164 Format: Paperback	$40.02
Louis Joseph Landa, métis martiniquais, a gravi les échelons de la société coloniale avec une détermination et une... Read More >>

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica...
Author: Darcy A. Krasne (Lecturer, Lecturer, Columbia University) ISBN: 9780198850748 Format: Hardback	$282.95
Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the... Read More >>

The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient...
Author: Duncan F. Kennedy (Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature and the Theory of Criticism, University of Bristol) ISBN: 9780198985051 Format: Hardback	$234.95
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Programming Literature

Programming Literature
Author: Rebecca Roach (Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham) ISBN: 9780198976561 Format: Hardback	$182.95
This is a book about the archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed... Read More >>

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production...
Author: Alice Wickenden (University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9781009497398 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Alice Wickenden uses Hans Sloane's remarkable collection – the founding core of the British Library and British... Read More >>

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination: A Cultural History of Animal Disease Management

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination: A Cultural...
Author: Raymond Malewitz (Oregon State University) ISBN: 9781009670173 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and... Read More >>

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help...
Author: Gillian Moore (Trinity College Dublin) ISBN: 9781009438490 Format: Hardback	$232.88
Offers a unique look at the charged relationships between contemporary fiction and self-help culture. It explores... Read More >>

The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies

The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies...
Author: Mark Rifkin (University at Buffalo) ISBN: 9781009435666 Format: Hardback	$194.06
Provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. It centers... Read More >>

After Impressionism: Poetry and Painting, 1874-1914

After Impressionism: Poetry and Painting, 1874-1914...
Author: Rob Harris (Magdalen College, Oxford) ISBN: 9781009534789 Format: Hardback	$245.81
First study of the poetry written after impressionism. It has a wide interdisciplinary range across the fields of... Read More >>

Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to Restoration

Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to...
Author: Clare Siviter (University of Bristol) ISBN: 9781009645966 Format: Hardback	$245.81
The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration.... Read More >>

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