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  • The Choice
    Peter O. Childs
    With climate change alone now actually threatening life as we know it on this wonderful but so badly abused planet, and with multiple additional crises adding to the rapidly increasing chaos it is essential that we come to understand what is really happening, why, and what to do about it. This book is an attempt to aid in that understanding. It recognizes the peril of this mome...
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    14,37 €

  • Modernism
    Peter Childs
    This third edition of Modernism in the prestigious New Critical Idiom series has been fully updated throughout and now includes a broader range of texts and topics including wider philosophical and cultural debates. New material focusing on the US discusses key figures and movements including Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Stein, the Harlem Renaissance, Poe ...
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    51,58 €

  • SPORTS INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    PETER R N CHILDS DOMINIC F L SOUTHGATE / SOUTHGATE DOMINIC F L
    Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities.Also included are descriptions of some of the latest innovations that have been developed as part ...
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    123,51 €

  • An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory
    Patrick Williams / Peter Childs
    The first book of its kind in the field, this introduction to post-colonial theory offers accessible summaries of the major work of key theorists including Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. It highlights the theorists of post-colonial identity who have been responsible for generating some of the most influential and challenging critical work of recent d...
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    268,02 €

  • Julian Barnes
    Peter Childs
    Now available in paperback, Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes’s literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes’s oeuvre together (love, de...
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    28,66 €

  • Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels
    James Green / Peter Childs
    A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and comment...
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    67,11 €

  • Of Thee I Sing
    Peter Childs
    Our national and global affairs are in perilous disarray, to the point where extremely sober observers are saying that we have brought imminent catastrophe upon ourselves and that it is just too late to escape. While candidly admitting the difficulty and the danger, Of Thee I Sing nonetheless insists that something enormously significant and wonderful is actually coming to pass...
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    33,24 €

  • Of Thee I Sing
    Peter Childs
    Our national and global affairs are in perilous disarray, to the point where extremely sober observers are saying that we have brought imminent catastrophe upon ourselves and that it is just too late to escape. While candidly admitting the difficulty and the danger, Of Thee I Sing nonetheless insists that something enormously significant and wonderful is actually coming to pass...
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    15,17 €

  • Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels
    James Green / Peter Childs
    A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and comment...
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    226,51 €

  • Contemporary Novelists
    M. Hutton / Peter Childs
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    50,71 €

  • Modernist Literature
    Peter Childs
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    44,83 €

  • Modernist Literature
    Peter Childs
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    167,63 €

  • The Essential Guide to English Studies
    Peter Childs
    Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams. Peter Childs offers down-to-earth practical guidance on developing the skills needed to succeed and includes ...
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    44,93 €

  • The Essential Guide to English Studies
    Peter Childs
    Focusing on what it means to study English in higher education, this book guides students through key aspects of English Studies including major topics and approaches, subject-specific study skills and assessment, including seminar presentations, assignments, and exams. Peter Childs offers down-to-earth practical guidance on developing the skills needed to succeed and includes ...
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    206,94 €

  • Modernism and the Post-Colonial
    Peter Childs
    This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide with both the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism’s high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Child...
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    174,29 €

  • Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
    Peter Childs
    Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan’s haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it. ...
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    268,44 €

  • Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
    Peter Childs
    Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan’s haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it. ...
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    77,71 €

  • E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
    Peter Childs
    This Sourcebook introduces readers not only to Forster’s text, but to the contexts within which the novel was written and to crucial trends in the interpretation of the work. ...
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    42,45 €

  • Reading Fiction
    Peter Childs
    This book contains close readings of the opening pages of 24 widely taught texts, from Robinson Crusoe to The Buddha of Suburbia. Offering a wide coverage of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Fiction illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction. Childs’ analyses are to both an overview of modes of fiction over the...
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    61,80 €

  • An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory
    Patrick Williams / Peter Childs
    The first book of its kind in the field, this introduction to post-colonial theory offers accessible summaries of the major work of key theorists including Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. It highlights the theorists of post-colonial identity who have been responsible for generating some of the most influential and challenging critical work of recent d...
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    138,15 €