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Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne -- 2-Volume Set
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£121.99| /Text in German. This volume contains a complete re-edition and study of the 'Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars'. This handbook on Religious A...
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Guesswork
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Winner, City of Hamilton Arts Award, Established Artist, WritingBeginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldson's marvell...
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Guesthouse
Playdead Press£9.99| /Three generations of women try to push back the tide.It is 1966. I am sixteen years old and I am on the Venetian bridge with Brian Joy from the Gol...
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Guitars & Adobes
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)Original price £25.99Current price £16.89| /Fray Angélico Chávez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. This rare collection of writings combines...
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Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £100.00Current price £65.00| /Text in English & Persian. Is the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writer...
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H.C. Andersens brevveksling med Lucie og B.S. Ingemann
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £76.99Current price £50.04| /H.C. Andersens (1805-1875) brevveksling med B.S. Ingemann (1789-1862) og hustruen Lucie (1792-1862) er en af eventyrdigterens sidste store korrespo...
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Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /"Miss Bells [translations] are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGerald's paraphrase of the Quatrains ...
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Haft Paykar
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £21.99Current price £16.49| /"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-centur...
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Haft Paykar
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £58.99Current price £38.34| /"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-centur...
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Haiku in Papiamentu
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Curaçao writer, sculptor and artist Elis Juliana's poetry blends the intrinsic rhythmic and tonal aspects of the Papiamentu language as he depicts ...
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Hamlet Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Book & slipcase. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been wr...
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Hamlet Minibook: Gilt Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £24.99Current price £18.74| /Book & slipcase. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been wr...
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Hans Christian Andersen
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £31.00Current price £20.15| /On the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary the theme chosen was Hans Christian Andersen between Children's Literature and Adult Liter...
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Hans Christian Andersen
Odense University Press (DK)Original price £32.75Current price £21.29| /For the first time ever in English, this book presents a wide range of approaches to Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and his works, thereby pro...
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Hans Christian Andersen and Community
University of Southern Denmark PressOriginal price £33.00Current price £21.45| /The theme of community has perhaps never been of a more vital significance than in our present day and age. The process we refer to as modernity ha...
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Hans Christian Andersen in China
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £22.00Current price £16.50| /Hans Christian Andersen is known and loved throughout modern China. With his fairy tales and other stories the Danish author builds a bridge of ima...
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Hans Christian Andersen in Russia
University of Southern Denmark PressOriginal price £36.00Current price £23.40| /Hans Christian Andersens long-standing canonical status among his Russian readers is owed specifically to his fairy tales. For the nearly two cent...
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Hans Christian Andersens Magic Trunk
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £18.00Current price £13.50| /At the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense the writer's trunk is on display. It is worn and dusty, for Andersen loved to travel and was often ...
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Happy New
Playdead Press£9.99| /People don't really accept chickens, which is wrong, cos we invented the pecking order.' The outback. Danny and Lyle were abandoned by their mothe...
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Hard-Boiled Anxiety
Secant Publishing LLC£25.99| /Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...
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Harmonic
Interactive Press£19.99| /Poetry. This collection brings together the strengths of Oliver's poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic exp...
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Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai
Daimon Verlag (CH)£30.00| /Two of Japans foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk too...
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He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Elegiac, lyrical, ironic; a series of reflections, recollections; a collection about relationships -- to family, clocks, water, trees, ungulates, e...
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Heart Takes Wing
Interactive Press£6.99| /A brilliant collaboration of words and music between tanka artist Kathy Kituai and composer/musician Nitya Bernard Parker. Kituai says of tanka: 'O...
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Hecuba
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Hecuba about Hecuba's grief over her daughter and son's deaths and the revenge she enacts over...
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Heimskringla
Viking Society For Northern ResearchOriginal price £12.00Current price £11.00| /This is the first part of a new translation in three volumes of Heimskringla, the collection of sagas covering the history of Norway from its legen...
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Hemingway in Spain
Interactive Press£19.99| /"Articulate and endlessly curious, David Reiter sets no bounds to his taste for the world's many places, people, and happenings. These poems criss-...
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Henry VIII Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...
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Henry VIII Minibook -- Limited Gilt-Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £24.99Current price £18.74| /Book in slipcase. Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These bo...
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Her Side of the Story
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £17.95Current price £13.46| /This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of t...
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Her Voice, Her Century
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /An original collection of four plays about unsung women from the history of the Canadian west. With theatrical twists and turns, Her Voice, Her Cen...
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Heracles
Focus Publishing (US)Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with affective hu...
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Herkunft und Textkultur
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£42.99| /Using five basic texts written in early modern Europe between 1499 and 1627, Susanne Zepp examines the role of Jewish culture in the process of the...
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Hey, Girlfriend
Meriwether Publishing (US)Original price £19.99Current price £14.99| /At last. A book of insightful monologues for girls only! This collection of monologues deals with the dilemmas that teenage girls face everyday at ...
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Hidden
Playdead Press£9.99| /Meet Claire, searching for an unexpected item in her bagging area. Meet Gareth, wrestling over breakfast. Meet Cara, wondering if she's value for f...
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Hidden
Playdead Press£9.99| /"A love story about invisible disability. Chris is a city lawyer; Jess is a Ph.D student. Two ordinary people in a relationship who want to get on ...
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Hidden River Poems
Goose Lane Editions£3.99| /An early collection from the author of The Pearl Inside the Body.
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Hieratic Texts From Tebtunis
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £56.99Current price £37.04| /This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narr...
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Hieratic Texts from the Collection
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £50.00Current price £32.50| /Mainly dedicated to hieratic manuscripts from the Tebtunis temple library and contains contributions by Alexandra von Lieven, J F Quack, and Kim Ry...
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High Marsh Road
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /High Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor General's Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a...
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Hillsdale Book
Newest Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /In this new collection, two-time winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry Gerald Hill fuses verse, prose, history, photography, and his own...
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Himalayan Poem
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£9.95| /Nishi Chawlas long poem entitled A Himalayan Poem is broken up into eight sections. The long poem is her own personal response to the landscape of...
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Hippolytus
Focus Publishing (US)Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus about how Phaedra unsuccessfully fights her desire for Hippolytus, while he risks h...
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Historia Norwegie
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £35.99Current price £23.39| /The fragmentary medieval chronicle, Historia Norwegie, is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of No...
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Histories that Mansoul and Her Wars Anatomize
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KGOriginal price £142.99Current price £92.94| /Robert McKelvey argues that John Bunyan wrote The Holy War as a warfare allegory symbolizing the salvation history of Scripture from a Calvinistic-...
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History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood
ibidemOriginal price £31.00Current price £20.15| /This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throug...
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History of Literary Criticism in Iran, 1866-1951
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £100.00Current price £65.00| /This book contains a comprehensive research on the works of leading figures in the field of literary criticism in modern Iranian thought of the nin...
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Holderlins Fluchtlinie Griechenland
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£42.99| /Holderlin felt his Germany as a Russian doll made of prison-like "containers". He suffered from both personal and political claustrophobia, from wh...
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