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Korean Treasures, Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University
ISBN: HB: 9781851242870, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2011
112 pp., 25x21 cm, 82 colour illus.
Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spec...
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£35,00
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Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones
French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...
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I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
ISBN: PB: 9780226789835, ISBN: HB: 9780226789828, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
176 pp., 22x14 cm, 30 halftones
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 – as well as its capti...
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£18,00
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£48,00
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Invitation to the Bold of Heart
ISBN: PB: 9780857426147, Seagull Books, December 2011
152 pp., 12.7x20.3 cm
A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of "Invitation to the Bold of Heart", the debut novel by Swiss writers Dorothee Elm...
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£12,99
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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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Exactly My Own Length
ISBN: PB: 9781906188047, Carcanet, November 2011
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Olivia McCannon's first collection explores life on the edge of possibility: in one moment the familiar is blown open, we plunge into the unknown. A chance meeting seals a lifetime; a girl leaps from a window, away from safety – "she wanted to see wh...
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£9,95
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No Trace of the Gardener Poems of Yang Mu
ISBN: PB: 9780300184204, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of w...
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£20,00
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Unpacking My Library Writers and Their Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300170924, Yale University Press, November 2011
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object – whether pristine collectible or battered relic – is growing as well. "Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books" spotlights the per...
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£16,00
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Dead from the Waist Down Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300185263, Yale University Press, November 2011
242 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.
At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, "dead from the waist down", as Browning so wickedly put it. In...
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£18,00
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Child New and Selected Poems 1991-2011
ISBN: PB: 9781847770943, Carcanet, November 2011
180 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011" combines a generous collation of poems from Mimi Khalvati's five Carcanet volumes with previously uncollected sequences. She orders her work autobiographically, telling the stories of her life in four section...
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£12,95
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