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  • Seeing the Unseen
    Kristine Hoyt Jouanne / Mathew D. Staunton / Rethabile Masilo
    Fitz-James O’Brien’s 'Enigma', the progenitor of all invisible monsters, has thrilled readers for a century and a half and inspired several generations of science fiction and horror writers. A masterpiece of mystery, this strange text leaves the reader as perplexed as its befuddled narrator. Is it the exciting account of triumph over evil it purports to be? Or is there more to ...
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    18,82 €

  • Peruvian Short Stories
    Dorila aMarting
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    32,15 €

  • Peruvian Short Stories
    Dorila aMarting
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    23,73 €

  • Steaming into a Victorian Future
    This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on—and interrelationship with—popular culture and the wider society. ...
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    42,60 €

  • A critical reader of the romantic grand tour
    Chloe Chard
    A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches. ...
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    44,17 €

  • My Haunted Land
    Jackie Ray Holton
    There are many things in this world that happen. Some of them are unexplained. For the past thirty-nine years, my family and I have witnessed uncountable paranormal activities in several homes that were built on my land. All in which remain unexplained. So I decided to write most of these things down and share these experiences with the rest of the world. I used to be a very sk...
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    10,74 €

  • LOS SÍMBOLOS EN EL PRINCIPITO
    Ramírez Ortiz, Tomás
    El simbolismo que encierra El Principito es el hilo que une el pasado del autor con su obra, una alegoría magistral relatada con gran sobriedad linguística, con palabras que están llenas de un gran contenido. Las frases, las metáforas, la falta de ornamentos, establecen verdades con exactitud, con la precisión de un fabricante de mecanismos de relojería, todas son exactas, dice...
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    19,00 €

  • The Heritage of Heinlein
    Joe Sanders / Thomas D. Clareson
    Robert A. Heinlein is generally recognized as the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century. This is the first detailed critical examination of his entire career. It is not a biography--that is being done in a two-volume work by William Patterson. Instead, this book looks at each piece of fiction (and a few pieces of sf-related nonfiction) that Heinl...
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    51,33 €

  • James Ellroy
    Jim Mancall
    This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy’s work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown’s Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced Ellroy fans and scholars with detailed analyses of the themes, motifs and stylistic innovations of h...
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    73,20 €

  • Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination
    Simon Marsden
    Readers of Emily Brontë’s poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary 'mystic of the moors'. Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the...
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    206,81 €

  • The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe
    Mircea Mihaies
    Raymond Chandler’s role in the reshaping of hard-boiled literature can hardly be exaggerated. He shattered the dogmas of a genre content to be popular, and paved the way for a noble, complex and aristocratic destiny. He implemented his revolutionary vision by radical changes in style, manner, and character construction. Like his hero, Philip Marlowe, he was fascinated with the ...
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    131,94 €

  • Real Money and Romanticism
    Matthew Rowlinson
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    36,89 €

  • The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come
    Lauren J. Lacey
    This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Car...
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    42,94 €

  • The Twilight Saga
    Claudia Bucciferro
    When Stephenie Meyer’s first novel, Twilight, was published in 2005, it received an astounding reception, selling millions of copies. The three sequels that followed—New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn—became international bestsellers as well. The worldwide success of the movie adaptations further cemented the series as a cultural force. In The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Glo...
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    106,92 €

  • From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels
    Kimberly Yost
    Drawing upon her background inOrganizational Leadership, the author looks at the various representations of leadership in science fiction programs of the last 50 years. She examines how the various leaders in these programs reflect societal trends in business, religion, spirituality, politics, and the military. ...
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    135,99 €

  • Comics as History, Comics as Literature
    This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. ...
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    134,53 €

  • Ramsey Campbell
    Gary William Crawford
    This is a collection of critical essays on Ramsey Campbell, author of several award-winning stories and novels in the fields of fantasy and horror, including To Wake the Dead, Incarnate, and Grin of the Dark. ...
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    150,02 €

  • Apocalypse and Post-Politics
    Mary Manjikian
    In Mary Manjikian’s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End, apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and historic Britain are affirmed as a creative luxury of development. Manjikian examines a number of such novels using the lens of an international relations theorist, identifying faults in the logic of the American exceptionalists and showing that the apo...
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    66,20 €

  • The Ages of Wonder Woman
    Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry. More than 70 years after her debut, Wonder Woman remains a popular culture icon. Throughout the intervening years many comic book creators have had a hand in guiding her story, resulting in...
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    28,22 €

  • The Science Fiction Handbook
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    225,97 €

  • Building Christian Character Through the Hobbit
    Andrew Boll
    Building Christian Character through The Hobbit is a companion book with a built-in Bible-study based upon Bilbo’s adventures. Not only does it explore the many ways that Christian virtues are modeled in The Hobbit, but it also examines the terrific parallels between Bilbo’s journey and our own walk of faith in Christ. From the first page to the last, Tolkien’s original masterw...
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    19,92 €

  • Where the Shadows Lie
    Pia Skogemann
    Where the Shadows Lie takes the reader on a journey through Tolkien’s Middle-earth, following the hobbits, their companions, and the characters they encounter on their quest. Along the way, Skogemann reveals the deep symbolic layers that are the source of joy and enchantment that many find in reading The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn, with the aid of Gandalf, Legoli, and Gimli, as...
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    44,95 €

  • Where the Shadows Lie
    Pia Skogemann
    Where the Shadows Lie takes the reader on a journey through Tolkien’s Middle-earth, following the hobbits, their companions, and the characters they encounter on their quest. Along the way, Skogemann reveals the deep symbolic layers that are the source of joy and enchantment that many find in reading The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn, with the aid of Gandalf, Legoli, and Gimli, as...
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    23,71 €

  • The Blog That Became a Book
    Edward Trice
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    23,64 €

  • Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula
    Bram Stoker / Elizabeth Miller / Robert Eighteen-Bisang
    Bram Stoker’s initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel Dracula were auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in 1913 and eventually made their way to the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where they are housed today. Until now, few of the 124 pages have been transcribed or analyzed. This painstaking work reproduces the handwritten notes both in facsimil...
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    51,73 €

  • Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury
    William F. Touponce / William FTouponce / William Touponce
    This is a comparative study of modernity in the works of Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury, noted writers of fantastic fiction. The books examines how these authors addressed modernity by creating short stories that were in some sense "nostalgic" for a lost time or imaginary culture that they called home. ...
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    136,35 €

  • The Gift
    Sheldon Cohen
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    23,69 €

  • The Gift
    Sheldon Cohen
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    32,10 €

  • Images of the Modern Vampire
    This book examines vampires as an international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire, or twentieth-century film versions. Instead, the authors reshape the legend into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant while retaining elements of folklore mixed with a hint of science fiction. ...
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    124,83 €

  • The Quest of the Absolute
    Louis Dupré
    This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré’s planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the presen...
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    56,57 €


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