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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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£16,99
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Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...
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£12,00
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Babel Adventures in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851245093, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
176 pp., 24.4x20.7 cm, 65 colour illus.
This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of tran...
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£20,00
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Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...
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£20,50
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Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense Two Novellas
ISBN: PB: 9780857425010, Seagull Books, February 2018
128 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wake of the Pakistani army's attacks on Bengali people. "Blue Venom" and "Forbidden Incense", two novel...
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£14,99
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Book Lovers' Miscellany
ISBN: HB: 9781851244713, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
136 pp., 17x11 cm
Ever wondered how ink is made? Or what is the bestselling book of all time? Or which are the oldest known books in the world? Highbrow to lowbrow, all aspects of the book are celebrated and explored in "The Book Lovers' Miscellany". From a list of u...
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£9,99
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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132
ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....
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£35,00
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Bergeners
ISBN: HB: 9780857424426, Seagull Books, August 2017
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Bergeners" is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, No...
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£16,99
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Bond of the Furthest Apart Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka
ISBN: PB: 9780226414065, ISBN: HB: 9780226413907, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 75 halftones
In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled.  The "bond" of Sharon...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Bleak Liberalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226923529, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallo...
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£20,00
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