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  • Fantasy
    Adam Roberts
    One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today. Pinning the evolution of fan...
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    95,30 €

  • The Expositor’s Bible
    George Adam Smith / W. Robertson (William Roberts... Nicoll
    Explore the profound prophecies and historical context of the Old Testament with George Adam Smith’s comprehensive commentary, 'The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2).' This meticulously prepared edition delves into the initial chapters of Isaiah, offering insightful analysis and illuminating the rich tapestry of biblical prophecy.A cornerstone of biblical studies, this volume pro...
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    26,16 €

  • The Expositor’s Bible
    George Adam Smith / W. Robertson (William Roberts... Nicoll
    Explore the profound prophecies and historical context of the Old Testament with George Adam Smith’s comprehensive commentary, 'The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2).' This meticulously prepared edition delves into the initial chapters of Isaiah, offering insightful analysis and illuminating the rich tapestry of biblical prophecy.A cornerstone of biblical studies, this volume pro...
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    37,48 €

  • American Journalism and 'Fake News'
    Adam Maksl / Jessica Roberts / Seth Ashley
    This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the state of American journalism and news-gathering in the 21st century, with a special focus on the rise-and meaning-of 'fake news.'A part of ABC-CLIO’s Examining the Facts series, which uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and p...
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    40,05 €

  • Shoreline of Infinity 32
    Adam Roberts / Jane Yolen
    The Science Fiction and Fairy Tales Special IssueGuest Editor: Teika Marija SmitsStoriesLad and the Devil - Adam RobertsA Good Morsel of Clay - Woodrow DismukesCassandra Takes the Plunge - Mary BermanThe Golden Circle Tour - Edmund FinesA Gorgon Reversed - Rhys HughesLast Life in the Universe - e rathkeSuch is the Pathway to the Stars - Laura ScotlandThe Space Apostle - Dave We...
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    8,73 €

  • Middlemarch
    Adam Roberts
    In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning...
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    26,67 €

  • Middlemarch
    Adam Roberts
    In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning...
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    40,99 €

  • H G Wells
    Adam Roberts
    This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells’ importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a th...
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    32,35 €

  • Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order
    Adam Roberts
    ’For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.’ Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, foreshadowed his own assassination in 2005. He was an astute and brave thinker and practitioner on many key issues in international politics. Long before 9/11 he warned Western democracies that...
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    59,99 €

  • Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook
    Adam Roberts / Joanna Hogg
    Between 2013 and 2015, A Nos Amours presented in London a complete retrospective of the films of the celebrated film-maker Chantal Akerman, the only complete retrospective given to date. Rights and screening copies turn out to be widely scattered and incredibly difficult to access. The research needed to present this retrospective is offered in this book so that others may more...
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    25,20 €

  • The Man Who Would Be Kling
    Adam Roberts
    When two strangers ask the manager at Kabul Station to take them into the Afghanizone he refuses. What sane person wouldn’t? Thought to be the result of an alien visitation, the zone is deadly. Nothing works there. Electrical items are your enemy; they malfunction or simply blow up. The pair go in anyway, and the biggest surprise is when one of them walks out again. Nobody surv...
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    10,06 €

  • American Journalism and 'Fake News'
    Adam Maksl / Jessica Roberts / Seth Ashley
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    88,91 €

  • Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon
    Adam Roberts
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    21,41 €

  • The Lake Boy
    Adam Roberts
    Historical fiction meets science fiction and the paranormal in this gripping novella set in the Lake District. Cynthia lives in a lakeside parish in Cumbria, where none suspect her blemished past. Then a ghostly scar-faced boy starts to appear to her and strange lights manifest over Blaswater. What of the astromomer Mr Sales, who comes to study the lights but disappears, presum...
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    10,03 €

  • Morpheus Tales
    Adam Bradley / Philip Roberts / Richard Farren Barber
    Collected together for the first time, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK’s most controversial weird fiction magazine! Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the seventh collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls 'edgy and dark'. Featuring fiction by Philip Roberts, Brent Pilkey, C. E. Zach...
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    12,07 €

  • Wodwo Vergil
    Adam Roberts
    Adam Roberts' incomparable versions of Vergil's Ecologues are wise, witty, reeking, rollicking, knurled, greenly flourishing, leaking and shimmering with fusions and fissions. These zephyrs have the guts to zigzag when requisite to give it to us straight. 'Nature is always the resource that has always already been worked. The landscape is not ‘nature’’ it is what cultiv...
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    11,17 €

  • Selective Security
    Adam Roberts / Dominik Zaum
    In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessarily selective approach. ...
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    343,15 €

  • The History of Science Fiction
    Adam Roberts
    This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and the...
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    106,77 €

  • The History of Science Fiction
    Adam Roberts
    This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and the...
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    44,18 €

  • Crises and Conflicts
    Adam Roberts / Christopher Nuttall / Gavin Smith
    From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th anniversary of independent publisher NewCon Press1. Introduction2. The Last Tank Commander - Allen Stroud3. Between Nine and Eleven - Adam Roberts4. Taking Flight - Una McCormack5...
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    18,60 €

  • Rave and Let Die
    Adam Roberts
    An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. Following the success of Sibilant Fricative (Steel Quill Books, 2014), Adam now takes on the daunting task of providing an overview of the science fiction and fantasy produced during 2014. As ever, he pulls no punch...
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    19,10 €

  • Sibilant Fricative
    Adam Roberts
    'Adam Roberts makes everything wonderful. If he wrote non-fiction about drying paint, I would still be the first in line to read it.' - Jared Shurin, Pornokitsch.An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. In Sibilant Fricative Adam considers a broad spectrum...
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    19,68 €

  • The Riddles of The Hobbit
    Adam Roberts
    Riddles have lost none of their power over us: we are as fascinated by mysteries, from sudoko to whodunnits, from jokes to philosophical conundrums. The Hobbit is a book threaded through with riddles; most obviously in its central ’Riddles in the Dark’ chapter, but everywhere else too-what does ’Good Morning’ mean? What is a burrahobbit? How many versions of the Hobbit are ther...
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    32,21 €

  • The Mexican War Journal of Thomas James Dunn
    Adam Call Roberts / Thomas James Dunn
    When Thomas James Dunn enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War, he scarcely could have imagined the adventures that lay in store. He kept a journal, detailing a story of exploration, faith, discovery, gold, and encounters with Native American tribes -- friendly and otherwise! Along the way, he made history, blazing trails and helping to secure the Southwest for the U...
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    9,19 €

  • Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror
    Adam Roberts
    ’For those of us who have to live with terrorism, when we leave home in the morning there is no guarantee that we will come back.’ Thus Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, foreshadowed his own assassination in 2005. He was an astute and brave thinker and practitioner on many key issues in international politics. Long before 9/11 he warned Western democracies that...
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    225,93 €

  • New Model Army
    Adam Roberts
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    43,13 €

  • Planning the Night-time City
    Adam Eldridge / Marion Roberts
    Explaining the changes that have taken place in town and city centres at night, the authors draw on international experience and trends to explore how the changing approaches to night-time activities have been conceptualised in UK planning practice. This nuanced view of a contentious issue outlines a holistic approach to planning and managing the night-time city. ...
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    94,86 €

  • Planning the Night-time City
    Adam Eldridge / Marion Roberts
    Explaining the changes that have taken place in town and city centres at night, the authors draw on international experience and trends to explore how the changing approaches to night-time activities have been conceptualised in UK planning practice. This nuanced view of a contentious issue outlines a holistic approach to planning and managing the night-time city. ...
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    342,39 €

  • Swiftly
    Adam Roberts
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    34,51 €

  • The History of Science Fiction
    Adam Roberts
    The first comprehensive critical history of SF for thirty years, this book traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece, via its rebirth in the seventeenth century, up to the present day. Concentrating on literary SF and (in the later chapters) cinema and TV, it also discusses the myriad forms this genre takes in the contemporary world, including a c...
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    133,47 €


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