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The Two Horizons, New Testament Hermeneutics
- £25.00
- This lucidly written survey of hermeneutics includes a thorough examination of the extent of the contribution of philosophy to the interpretation of the Bible, as well as a detailed original treatment of the work of Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein.
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The Tyrant’s Novel
- £15.00
- Imagine a Middle-Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until he…
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The Unbearable Bassington (FOLIO)
- £20.00
- "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart." Saki is the penname of the British writer Hector Hugh Munro. In The Unbearable Bassington, he tells the story of the whimsical Francesca Bassington, an upper middle class woman whose main concerns in…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (A 44 Scotland St novel) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has…
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- £24.00
- An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of artÕs relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts…
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The Unconsoled (SIGNED)
- £140.00
- Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give . . . On first publication in 1995, The Unconsoled was met in some quarters with bewilderment and vilification, in others with the highest praise. One commentator asked,…
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The Undeclared War: The Struggle for Control of the World’s Film Industry (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An account of the way in which Hollywood has achieved almost total sovereignty over the world's movies. It tells of a battle which has seen Hollywood establish itself as a global cultural and economic force, and in the process, devastate the national industries of many other countries.
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
- £20.00
- Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity. The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance…
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of Efica, you will only have heard rumours about the juggling, the Burro Plasse tunnel, and the…
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
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The Vagrant Mood, Six Essays
- £7.00
- The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary…
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The Valley of Bones
- £6.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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The Valley of Bones [Dance to the Music of Time 7]
- £60.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
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The Two Horizons, New Testament Hermeneutics
- £25.00
- This lucidly written survey of hermeneutics includes a thorough examination of the extent of the contribution of philosophy to the interpretation of the Bible, as well as a detailed original treatment of the work of Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein.
- Add to basket
-
The Tyrant’s Novel
- £15.00
- Imagine a Middle-Eastern country that was once a friend of the West becoming an enemy, its people starving and savagely repressed by a tyrant known as Great Uncle. As a celebrated writer and war hero, the man who here relates his story has a better life than most, until he…
- Add to basket
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The Unbearable Bassington (FOLIO)
- £20.00
- "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart." Saki is the penname of the British writer Hector Hugh Munro. In The Unbearable Bassington, he tells the story of the whimsical Francesca Bassington, an upper middle class woman whose main concerns in…
- Add to basket
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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (A 44 Scotland St novel) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has…
- Add to basket
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
- £24.00
- An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of artÕs relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts…
- Add to basket
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The Unconsoled (SIGNED)
- £140.00
- Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give . . . On first publication in 1995, The Unconsoled was met in some quarters with bewilderment and vilification, in others with the highest praise. One commentator asked,…
- Add to basket
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The Undeclared War: The Struggle for Control of the World’s Film Industry (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- An account of the way in which Hollywood has achieved almost total sovereignty over the world's movies. It tells of a battle which has seen Hollywood establish itself as a global cultural and economic force, and in the process, devastate the national industries of many other countries.
- Add to basket
-
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
- £20.00
- Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity. The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance…
- Add to basket
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of Efica, you will only have heard rumours about the juggling, the Burro Plasse tunnel, and the…
- Add to basket
-
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- £30.00
- Eliot's 1932-33 Norton Lectures at Harvard are among the best and most important of his critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition…
- Add to basket
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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- £20.00
- Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' Ð Sunday Times. Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America:…
- Add to basket
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The Vagrant Mood, Six Essays
- £7.00
- The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary…
- Add to basket
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The Valley of Bones
- £6.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
- Add to basket
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The Valley of Bones [Dance to the Music of Time 7]
- £60.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
- Add to basket
-
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
- Add to basket