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Letters and Poems to and from Her Mentor and Other Members of Her Circle
ISBN: PB: 9781649590121, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
414 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones
Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As "the Star of Utrecht", she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learn...
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£53,00
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Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones
Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...
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£44,00
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On Tarrying
ISBN: PB: 9780857427243, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Western culture has been marked by deep divisions between action and contemplation, intervention and passivity, and decisiveness and withdrawal. Conceived as radical opposites, these terms structure the history of religion, philosophy, and political...
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Essay on Negation Towards a Linguistic Anthropology
ISBN: HB: 9780857424389, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What pa...
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£19,50
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Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780857425881, Seagull Books, February 2012
121 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 22 colour illus.
"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job". In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic e...
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£11,99
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Aleksander Wat Life and Art of an Iconoclast
ISBN: PB: 9780300183054, Yale University Press, November 2011
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Members of adoption triangles-adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents-must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-disco...
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£25,00
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Deaf History Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781563683596, Gallaudet University Press, October 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 figures
"The Deaf History Reader" presents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from a noteworthy group of historians, including Reg...
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£19,00
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