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Al-Qaida's Jihad In Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Networkby EVAN KOHLMANNISBN 1859738079 (1-85973-807-9)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the Cityby Geert MakISBN 1860465986 (1-86046-598-6)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr
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Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden & the Hagueby Rodney BoltISBN 1860110673 (1-86011-067-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Art of Forgettingby Adrian Forty, Susanne KuchlerISBN 1859732917 (1-85973-291-7)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Be Faithful Unto Deathby Stephen Vizinczey, Zsigmond MoriczISBN 1858660602 (1-85866-060-2)
Softcover, Central European Univ Pr
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Black Snowby Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Michael GlenayISBN 1860462243 (1-86046-224-3)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Blockade Dairyby Lidiya Ginzburg, Alan MyersISBN 186046033X (1-86046-033-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Blockade Diaryby Alan Myers, Aleksandr Kushner, Lidiia GinzburgISBN 1860460321 (1-86046-032-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blockade Diary'Book summary:The 900-day siege of Lenningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. From her own experience as a survivor of the blockade and using facts, conversations and impressions collected over the years, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable everyman hero in whom she distils the collective experience of life under siege. Though the author may depict, often painfully, the hunger and harrowing conditions of that period, the reader takes away a different impression: the dignity, vitality and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it records and makes sense of extreme experience. This first translation of a classic work of documentary fiction, reminiscent of the work of Primo Levi and Albert Camus, introduces a major twentieth-century Russian writer to English-language readers. [via]
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The British Army of the Rhineby Carl ShulzeISBN 1859150314 (1-85915-031-4)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Broken Aprilby Ismail KadareISBN 186046503X (1-86046-503-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Cadogan Guide Northern Spainby Dana FacarosISBN 1860111025 (1-86011-102-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Cadogan Guide Rome Venice Florenceby Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsISBN 1860111823 (1-86011-182-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cadogon Guides Rome Venice Florence'Book summary:[via]Cadogan's original three cities guide is now in its fifth edition--and travel companies consistently cite this combination as their most sought-after Italian tour. These are three remarkable cities with three remarkable stories to tell. Rome went out and conquered the world, and in its retirement came back to remake itself as Europe's most ornate capital. Venice built itself up from a Dark Age swamp to become a fairy city of canals. Florence built its empire on finance and wool, and lavished the profits on art and science. Cadogan explores their three very different characters: stately Rome, with its Coliseum and the Sistine Chapel; dreamy Venice, and the eternal romance of a gondola ride along its canals; and Florence, bursting with more paintings, sculptures, and monuments than anywhere else in Italy. They all combine to offer a sublime introduction to the country, or a perfect multi-center trip for travelers with limited time. Cadogan's essential guide uncovers the divine, the great, and the quirky in each city.More editions of Cadogan Guide Rome Venice Florence:
Cadogan Guides Parisby Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsISBN 1860111173 (1-86011-117-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Cadogan Guides Romeby Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsISBN 1860111181 (1-86011-118-1)
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Cadogan Guides to Southwest Irelandby Catharina DayISBN 1860118054 (1-86011-805-4)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Cadogan Parisby Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsISBN 1860119093 (1-86011-909-3)
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Cadogan Romeby Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsISBN 1860110282 (1-86011-028-2)
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Celtic Britainby John RhysISBN 1859582036 (1-85958-203-6)
Hardcover, Senate
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Chronicles of the Crusades: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Wars Between Christianity and Islamby Elizabeth HallamISBN 1858335892 (1-85833-589-2)
Hardcover, Whitecap Books, Limited
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Constitutional & Administrative Lawby Hilaire BarnettISBN 1859419275 (1-85941-927-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constitutional & Administrative Law'Book summary:Much of the extensive programme of constitutional reform commenced by the current government has been achieved. Devolution is now well established,reforms to the electoral process and political party funding have been addressed, a Freedom of Information Act has been enacted and the House of Lords has been partially reformed. Of the reforms the most significant and far-reaching is the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998, the impact of which has been felt across numerous areas of domestic law. The fourth edition of Hilaire Barnetts popular textbook provides a timely and comprehensive update on the impact of these reforms.lt;brgt;lt;brgt; lt;igt;Constitutional and Administrative Lawlt;lt;/igt;gt; provides a clear exposition of the major features of the UKs constitution and a comprehensive summary of recent developments. The book has been consciously designed to meet the needs of students undertaking a constitutional and administrative law course, whether full or part time, and provides comprehensive coverage of the syllabus drawn from a wide range of sources.lt;brgt;lt;brgt; From September 2002, Constitutional and Administrative Law will be supported by a Companion Website, created to keep the book up to date and to provide enhanced resources for both students and lecturers. [via]
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Ageby Bohumil HrabalISBN 1860462154 (1-86046-215-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Dotingby Henry GreenISBN 1860464440 (1-86046-444-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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English Lawby David Kelly, Gary SlapperISBN 1859418988 (1-85941-898-8)
Softcover, Cavendish Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Law'Book summary:Substantially updated, this new edition includes the changes made to the English legal system and to substantive parts of English law. Colourfully illustrated with case examples and supported by a free Companion Website, giving all readers access to regular legal updates on the areas covered in the book, it offers a clear, reliable and excellent encyclopaedic exposition of English law.
Presented in an easy-to-read style, it provides readers with an accurate explanation of how the English legal system currently works and the content of English law in all its key areas of operation. With chapters on civil and criminal procedures, legal services and the judiciary, it comprehensively covers all the main subjects of English law, including:
- criminal law
- consumer protection law
- the law of equity and trusts
- European law
- business and corporate law
- contract law
- tort law.
An invaluable reference work, this book is an excellent resource for students of the English legal system and English law and professionals and businesses.
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Fencing Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 1860464556 (1-86046-455-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fencing Master'Book summary:In The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte explored the labyrinthine world of antiquarian book dealers, spicing his tale of mystery and murder with characters straight out of Paradise Lost and The Three Musketeers. Next came The Flanders Panel, a brilliant puzzle comprised of art, chess, and untimely death whose resolution lies in a painting by a Flemish master. In The Seville Communion, Pérez-Reverte turned his sights on the tangled politics of the Roman Catholic Church as an appropriate backdrop--for murder. In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
The year is 1866 and revolution is brewing in Spain. The corrupt Bourbon queen, Isabella II, is slowly losing her grip on power as equally corrupt exiled politicians vie to be her successor in a new republic. Against this background of political upheaval, Don Jaime goes about his business, teaching a dying art to a dwindling number of students. This is a man who resists changing times; to a friend he explains, "I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense." But then Adela de Otero--a woman with a mysterious past and an amazing talent for swordplay--comes into his life, and Don Jaime's world is turned upside down. As always, Pérez-Reverte offers literary excellence, a thumping good mystery, and fascinating insight into an arcane practice, in this case, fencing. Though the 19th-century politics in the book may resonate more with a Spanish audience than with English readers, the moral at the heart of The Fencing Master is universal: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor." In this, Don Jaime and Arturo Pérez-Reverte both succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
For They Know Not What They Do : Enjoyment as a Political Factorby Slavoj ZizekISBN 185984460X (1-85984-460-X)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Forbidden Fruit: Selected Tales in Verseby Jean De La Fontaine, Guido Waldman, Richard S. SmithISBN 1860464912 (1-86046-491-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Foundation Pitby Andrey Platonov, Robert ChandlerISBN 186046050X (1-86046-050-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Franceby Monica LarnerISBN 1860111289 (1-86011-128-9)
Softcover, Cadogan Guides
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Gendered Nations : Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Centuryby Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann, Catherine HallISBN 185973264X (1-85973-264-X)
Softcover, Berg Publishers
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Heart of a Dogby Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovISBN 1860460828 (1-86046-082-8)
Softcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of a Dog'Book summary:This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.[via]More editions of Heart of a Dog:
Heroes Like Usby Thomas BrussigISBN 1860464033 (1-86046-403-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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Holland 2000by Rodney Bolt, Kate PaiceISBN 1860119611 (1-86011-961-1)
Softcover, Cadogan Books
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The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings (1966-67)by Louis Althusser, Francois Matheron, G.M. GoshgarianISBN 1859844081 (1-85984-408-1)
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The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Mattersby Slavoj ZizekISBN 1859840949 (1-85984-094-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Information Bombby Paul Virilio, Chris TurnerISBN 1859843697 (1-85984-369-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Introduction to Modernityby Henri Lefebvre, John MooreISBN 1859840566 (1-85984-056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Modernity: Twelve Preludes September 1959-May 1961'Book summary:Appearing for the first time in an English translation, Introduction to Modernity is one of Henri Lefebvre's greatest works. Published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of the movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. it is a book which supersedes the conventional divisions between academic disciplines. With dazzling skill, Lefebvre moves from philosophy to sociology, from literature to history, to present a profound analysis of the social, political and cultural forces at work in France and the world in the aftermath of Stalin's death - an analysis in which the contours of our own 'postmodernity' appear with startling clarity. Lefebvre's lectures have become legendary, and something of his charismatic presence and delivery is captured in this book, which he intended 'to be understood in the mind's ear ...and not simply to be read'. With its mercurial shifts of tone, now intensely poetic, now conversational, it not only explores modernity, it exemplifies it. Equally experimental in conception is the book's remarkable structure, twelve 'preludes' through which a range of recurrent themes are interwoven in free-form counterpoint: irony is a critical tool, utopianism, nature and culture, the Stalinization of Marxism, the alienation of everyday life, the cybernetic society ...What gradually emerges is not only a series of original concepts about humanity and culture, but an extraordinary invocation of the complexity of social contradictions. Yet the fragmented structure of the book is not left to float free. Its shifting and eclectic melodies and leitmotifs have a solid ground bass: the wish to rehabilitate the Marxist dialectic as a method for understanding and transforming the modern world. This programme is at the heart of the book, and gives it its underlying coherence, making Introduction to Modernity not only essential reading for all students of European cultural history, but also a key text for Marxism in the post-Communist world of the late twentieth century. [via]
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The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-Americaby Theodore W. AllenISBN 1859840760 (1-85984-076-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Johansens Recommended Hotels: Europe & the Mediterranean 2000ISBN 1860177115 (1-86017-711-5)
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The KGB's Literary Archiveby John Crowfoot, Vitalii ShentalinskiiISBN 1860460739 (1-86046-073-9)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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Latin or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuriesby Francoise Waquet, John HoweISBN 1859844022 (1-85984-402-2)
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A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. [via]More editions of Latin or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries:
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Latin: or The Empire of the Signby Francoise Waquet, John HoweISBN 1859846157 (1-85984-615-7)
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Lenin's Embalmersby Ilya Zbarsky, Samuel HutchinsonISBN 1860465153 (1-86046-515-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Life and Fateby Vasily Grossman, Robert ChandlerISBN 1860460194 (1-86046-019-4)
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Machiavelli and Usby Louis Althusser, Francois MatheronISBN 1859847110 (1-85984-711-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Machiavelli and Us'Book summary:The text of Althusser's lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the Ecole normale superieure in 1972. [via]
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europeby Ivan Szelenyi, Gil Eyal, Eleanor R. TownsleyISBN 1859843123 (1-85984-312-3)
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800by Robin BlackburnISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800'Book summary:At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to batten on this commerce, and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and race. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Each are shown to have contributed something to the eventual consolidation of racial slavery and to the plantation revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is shown that plantation slavery emerged from the impulses of civil society rather than from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. [via]
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Masters of the Universe : NATO's Balkan Crusadeby Tariq Ali, Harold Pinter, Edward W. Said, Oskar Lafontaine, Yevgeni YevtushenkoISBN 1859842690 (1-85984-269-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of the Universe : NATO's Balkan Crusade'Book summary:The essays in this book on the Balkans, notes editor Tariq Ali in his introduction, "share one common approach to the region: all regard the break-up of Yugoslavia as a major European disaster." They are also uniformly and often vituperatively negative when it comes to NATO's 1999 war against Serbia. This event dominates the book, and the contributors have nothing good to say about it. The war gave a "green light" for Russia to assault Chechnya ("Could it be that this is Moscow's reward for helping to end the war in Kosovo?"), intensified poor relations between India and Pakistan, and made China more aggressive toward Taiwan and Tibet. Ali even asserts that the Chinese embassy in Belgrade--whose bombing was called an accident at the time--was "clearly included" on the NATO hit list. (Stranger still is Ali's approving quotation from Hitler's Mein Kampf on the subject of English media manipulation; his point is the moral equivalence of NATO's press relations and Nazi propaganda.)
All the views contained in Masters of the Universe? are way to the left of mainstream opinion; essay authors include Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. A spirit of anti-Americanism also pervades the book. Gilbert Achcar, for instance, notes "the current level of the U.S. defense budget corresponds rationally to the U.S. aspiration to imperial expansion and exclusive global hegemony." In other words, the United States fought in Kosovo because it wants to rule the world. Somewhat underscoring this claim, Ellen Meiksins Wood cites an ill-advised comment by President Clinton about Kosovo's importance: "If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be a key.... That's what this Kosovo thing is all about." But, overall, the left-wing slant of the contributors of Masters of the Universe? makes it a less-than-balanced assessment of what has happened in the Balkans. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Meaning of Europeby Mikael af Malmborg, Bo StrathISBN 1859735762 (1-85973-576-2)
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Merchants and Revolutions : Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653by Robert BrennerISBN 1859843336 (1-85984-333-6)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snowby Peter HoegISBN 1860461670 (1-86046-167-0)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: The Making of a Filmby Karin Trolle, Peter Heg, Bille AugustISBN 1860463711 (1-86046-371-1)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: The Making of a Film'Book summary:This volume gives an insight into the making of the film "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow". It contains interviews with the director, Bille August, and the cast: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Harris and Jim Broadbent, and also with the author himself, Peter Hoeg There are approximately 150 stills from the shooting of the film, as well as drawings by the set decorator, storyboard sketches, call sheets and Peter Hoeg's hand-written drafts of the novel, showing how the complex character of Miss Smilla came into being on the page and on the screen. [via]
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Night's Liesby Gesualdo BufalinoISBN 1860461107 (1-86046-110-7)
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalismby Perry AndersonISBN 1859841074 (1-85984-107-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism'Book summary:The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe. [via]
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Plague-Spreader's Taleby Gesualdo BufalinoISBN 1860466087 (1-86046-608-7)
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Poems of St. John of the Crossby Roy Campbell, P. J. Kavanagh, St. John of the Cross StaffISBN 1860465897 (1-86046-589-7)
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The Politics of Friendshipby Jacques Derrida, George CollinsISBN 1859840337 (1-85984-033-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics of Friendship'Book summary:Jacques Derrida is known primarily, and until recently, as the major proponent of deconstruction; always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of the day. Derrida's "political turn" was marked by the appearance of "Specters of Marx". In this study, Jacques Derrida renews this orientation through an examination of the political history of the idea of friendship pursued down the ages. Derrida's thoughts are haunted throughout the book by the strange and provocative address attributed to Aristotle, "O my friends, there is no friend", and its inversions by later philosophers, such as Montaigne, Kant, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Blanchot. The exploration allows Derrida to recall and re-stage the ways in which all the oppositional couples of Western philosophy and political thought - friendship and enmity, private and public life - have become dangerously unstable. At the same time, he dissects geneology itself, the familiar and male-centred notion of fraternity and the virile virtue whose autority has gone unquestioned in the Western culture of friendship and modern models of democracy. The future of the political, for Derrida, becomes the future of friends, the invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and more inclusive democracy. [via]
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Ports of Callby Alberto Manguel, Amin MaaloufISBN 1860464467 (1-86046-446-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Ports of Callby Amin MaaloufISBN 1860464475 (1-86046-447-5)
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Prague Talesby Michael Henry Heim, Jan NerudaISBN 1858660580 (1-85866-058-0)
Softcover, Central European Univ Pr
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Musicby Theodore AdornoISBN 1859841597 (1-85984-159-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Return and Other Storiesby Andrey PlatonovISBN 1860465161 (1-86046-516-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The Rough Guide to Pragueby Rob Humphreys, Tim NollenISBN 1858289009 (1-85828-900-9)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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The Rough Guide to the Netherlandsby Phil Lee, Martin Dunford, Jack HollandISBN 1858289157 (1-85828-915-7)
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Russian Revolution 1899-1919by Richard PipesISBN 1860463363 (1-86046-336-3)
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Second Harvestby Jean Giono, Louis William Graux, Henri Fluchere, Geoffrey MyersISBN 1860462669 (1-86046-266-9)
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Shameby Bergljot Haff, Sverre LyngstadISBN 1860465315 (1-86046-531-5)
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Silkby Guido Waldman, Alessandro BariccoISBN 186046310X (1-86046-310-X)
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Silkby Alessandro BariccoISBN 1860463665 (1-86046-366-5)
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Skylarkby Dezso Kosztolanyi, Richard AczelISBN 1858660599 (1-85866-059-9)
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Soft City : A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Lifeby Jonathan RabanISBN 1860461077 (1-86046-107-7)
Softcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soft City : A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life'Book summary:Jonathan Raban's vivid, often funny portrait of metropolitan life is part reportage, part incisive thesis, part intimate autobiography, and a much-quoted classic of the literature of the city. In an age when the big city has fewer friends than ever, this is a passionate and imaginative defense of city life, its "unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom". Soft City, first published in 1974, records one man's attempt to plot a course through the urban labyrinth. Holding up a revealing mirror to the modern city, Raban finds it a stage for a demanding and expressive kind of personal drama.
Readers of Arabia (1979), Old Glory (1982), Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990), and, more recently, Badlands (1997) will be delighted to discover this early work by one of the most inventive and enjoyable writers of our time. [via]
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Strategy of Deceptionby Paul Virilio, Chris TurnerISBN 1859843018 (1-85984-301-8)
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Take the Kids Paris and Disneyland Resort Parisby Helen TruszkowskiISBN 1860118453 (1-86011-845-3)
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Meby Javier MariasISBN 1860464343 (1-86046-434-3)
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Trees of Britain and Europeby Bob PressISBN 1859749275 (1-85974-927-5)
Hardcover, New Holland Publishers, Limited
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A Very Long Engagementby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 1860463614 (1-86046-361-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Very Long Engagement'Book summary:January 1917: five French soldiers are marched to their own front lines where they will be tossed out into no man's land with their hands tied behind their backs and left for the Germans to shoot. They were, in civilian life, variously a pimp, a mechanic, a farmer, a carpenter, and a fisherman; now they are condemned because each had sought to leave the war by shooting himself in the hand. Taken to a godforsaken trench nicknamed Bingo Crépuscule, the five are reluctantly sent out into the darkness; days later, five bodies are recovered and the families are notified, merely, that the men died in the line of duty.
August 1919: Mathilde Donnay receives a letter from a dying man. In it, the former soldier tells her that he met her beloved fiancé, the fisherman Manech, shortly before he died. Mathilde goes to meet Sergeant Daniel Esperanza at his hospital and there hears the story of the execution. She also receives a package with a photograph of the men and copies of their last letters. As Mathilde reads and rereads the letters and goes over Esperanza's tale, she begins to suspect that perhaps the story didn't end quite so neatly. And so begins her very long investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of five condemned prisoners--one of whom, at least, might not really be dead.
In Mathilde Donnay, Sebastien Japrisot has created one of the most compelling and delightful heroines in modern fiction. Though confined to a wheelchair since childhood, "Mathilde has other lives, varied and quite beautiful ones." She paints, cares for her pets, enjoys a rich fantasy life, and is relentless in her search for the truth about Manech's death. But she is by no means the only vibrant personality leaping off Japrisot's pages. This author has a remarkable ability to draw even minor characters in three dimensions with economy and wit. Take Mathilde's mother, for instance, caught in mid-card game: "At bridge, manille, bezique, Mama is a dirty rotten swine. Not only is she an ace with the pasteboards, but she throws her opponents off their mettle by insulting or making fun of them." And even the characters we meet only through other people's memories--the condemned men--are so fully realized that you find yourself torn over which one you hope may have survived. As Mathilde comes ever closer to solving the mystery of what happened at Bingo Crépuscule that January morning in 1917, Sebastien Japrisot proves himself a master storyteller and A Very Long Engagement a near perfect novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hopeby Susan WeissmanISBN 1859844448 (1-85984-444-8)
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A Voidby Georges Perec, Gilbert AdairISBN 1860460984 (1-86046-098-4)
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Wanderlust: A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 1859846238 (1-85984-623-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking'Book summary:The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Rebecca Solnit, a thoughtful writer and spirited walker, takes her readers on a leisurely journey through the prehistory, history, and natural history of bipedal motion. Walking, she observes, affords its practitioners an immediate reward--the ability to observe the world at a relaxed gait, one that allows us to take in sights, sounds, and smells that we might otherwise pass by. It provides a vehicle for much-needed solitude and private thought. For the health-minded, walking affords a low-impact and usually pleasant way of shedding a few pounds and stretching a few muscles. It is an essential part of the human adventure--and one that has, until now, been too little documented.
Written in a time when landscapes and cities alike are designed to accommodate automobiles and not pedestrians, Solnit's extraordinary book is an enticement to lace up shoes and set out on an aimless, meditative stroll of one's own. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War, November 1939-March 1940by Jean Paul Sartre, Quintin HoareISBN 1859842380 (1-85984-238-0)
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The Way of the World : The Bildungsroman in European Cultureby Franco MorettiISBN 1859842984 (1-85984-298-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of the World : The Bildungsroman in European Culture'Book summary:Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is problematic and restless youth - 'strange' characters, as their own creators often say - arising from the downfall of traditional societies. But even more than that, youth is the symbolic figure for European modernity: that sudden mix of great expectations and lost illusions that the bourgeois world learns to 'read', and to accept, as if it were a novel. The Way of the World, with its unique combination of narrative theory and social history, interprets the Bildungsroman as the great cultural mediator of nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality. This new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around the First World War (a crisis which opened the way for Modernist experimentation), and a rew preface in which the Moretti looks back at The Way of the World in light of his more recent work. [via]
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Western European Illuminated Manuscripts of the 8th to the 16th Centuries in the National Library of Russia, st Petersburg: France, Spain, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlandsby Tamara Voronova, Andrei StreligovISBN 1859952402 (1-85995-240-2)
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