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  • HOLLY BERRIES FROM DICKENS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Originally published in Boston in 1898 as a small format gift book, complete with its own box, Holly Berries from Dickens seemed to promise a Christmas book of a sort. It isn't. At least not directly. Something quite different awaits inside. These holly berries comprise over 120 quotations from just over 20 works by Charles Dickens including his Christmas stories and the author...

    $39.70

  • THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters. Boasting two ghost stories from undisputed ma...

    $39.70

  • NO THOROUGHFARE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The story combines Collin's touch of mystery with Dickens’s satire which makes it quite interesting. The Overture sets a mysterious tone to the story which was to follow. There afterwards, the story takes off with a mistaken identity, vivid set of characters including a villain and an unusual heroine for Victorian time; and the writing seems to have more influenced by Dickens a...

    $39.70

  • BLEAK HOUSE ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Bleak House ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Roman, der in den 1820er Jahren spielt, erschien von März 1852 bis September 1853 in 20 Fortsetzungen. Jede Folge enthielt zwei Illustrationen von Phiz und kostete einen Shilling, die beiden letzten Folgen wurden zusammen veröffentlicht und kosteten zwei Shilling. Die Rahmenhandlung bildet ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erb...

    $39.70

  • OLIVER TWIST ILLUSTRIERTE AUSGABE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufwächst, ohne etwas über seine Herkunft zu wissen. Durch die katastrophalen Zustände im Armenhaus gezwungen, bittet er um mehr Nahrung, worauf er eine Woche lang in den Kohlenkeller gesperrt wird. Außerdem wird ausgeschrieben, dass die Gemeinde denjeni...

    $39.70

  • CHARLES DICKENS DETEKTIVGESCHICHTEN
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Charles Dickens war fasziniert von der modernen Londoner Polizeiarbeit. Seine Erkenntnisse schrieb er in diesen Geschichten nieder. Sie spiegeln nicht nur das Verhältnis von Polizei und Verbrechertum wider, sondern zeigen auch die zugrunde liegenden Auswirkungen sozialer Konflikte. Dickens unterhält in bester Tradition eines Doyle oder Poe. ...

    $39.70

  • CULTURAL RESOURCES
    JR. DICKENS
    Cultural resource management is a new and vital field that has come about as a result of intensified federal efforts to identify, evaluate, and manage cultural resources as an element of the environment. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, planners, and others have had to pool their talents and knowledge to properly respond to n ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE STORY MAKER
    FRANCES DICKENS / KIRSTIN LEWIS
    The Story Maker is an innovative manual designed to help children aged 4-11 write creatively. Packed with original colour illustrations, the book is full of handy tips and guidance that will inspire children of all abilities to write their own stories and broaden their vocabulary. Each chapter focuses on a key element of story writing; for example story types, settings, charact...

    $1,059.00

  • A CHRISTMAS TREASURY
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages. Included are Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and other delightful poetry and fiction. Beautifully illustrated, this book will become part of your family's Christmas tradition for years to...

    $19.00

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday. Come spend Christmas with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge, and all the ghosts of Christmas. Truly a timeless wonder. ...

    $9.00

  • SAS: SECRET WAR IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
    PETER DICKENS
    From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno's Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service the SAS an elite branch of the British military whose essence is secrecy and whose tools are boldness, initiative, surprise, and high skill.W...

    $249.00

  • SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY
    JONATHAN DICKENS
    An understanding of social policy is vital for engaging practically with social work values, and dealing with political and ethical questions about responsibility, rights and our understanding of ‘the good society’. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to social policy, tailored to the needs of a social work audience. The new edition of this popular and accessibl...

    $979.00

  • HUNTED DOWN
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A rare detective story by one of the greatest writers in the English language A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving.   Written in the uncann...

    $85.00

  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    One of the most celebrated and influential novels of the past two centuries tells the vivid and unforgettable coming-of-age story of the orphan Pip In the marsh country of Victorian England, young Pip lives with his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe, eking out a hardscrabble life. Pip’s one true aspiration is to apprentice for Joe and become a blacksmith himself...

    $85.00

  • A TALE OF TWO CITIES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The premier novel of the French Revolution, by England’s greatest author Set against the bloodthirsty backdrop of revolutionary France, this monumental saga—one of the most famous works in all of literature—is at its heart the story of a beautiful woman and the two men who compete for her love: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who renounces his heritage, yet stands accused o...

    $85.00

  • PROPERTY BUREAUCRACY & CULTURE
    MICHAEL SAVAGE / JAMES BARLOW / PETER DICKENS / TOM FIELDING
    This assured and powerful study explores the condition of the middle classes in Britain today. The authors outline a new theoretical perspective for exploring the middle classes and provide the reader with up-to-date empirical information on the class structure. ...

    $1,259.00

  • SOCIAL WORK, LAW AND ETHICS
    JONATHAN DICKENS
    Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work – all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct. However, the relationship between the law and social work values and ethics is not without its tensions and this book takes a problem-based approach to explore the dilemmas and challenges that can arise. The first part of the book...

    $979.00

  • NIGHT ACTION
    PETER DICKENS
    A highly decorated Royal Navy officer recounts his experiences at the command of a motor torpedo boat in the North Sea during WWII.   In 1942-43, Captain Peter Dickens commanded the 21st MTB Flotilla, mainly in the North Sea and the English Channel. In Night Action, he vividly recounts his experiences performing daring missions amid storms of gunfire, usually under the cover of...

    $229.00

  • COSMIC SOCIETY
    PETER DICKENS / JAMES ORMROD
    Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society’s projects. But what are the political implications of society not only being globalized, but becoming ‘cosmic’? Our ideas about society have long affected, and been affected by, our understanding of the universe: l...

    $1,139.00

  • RECONSTRUCTING NATURE
    PETER DICKENS
    One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecolog...

    $1,139.00

  • OLIVER TWIST. 81 (LLUVIA DE CLASICOS)
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Oliver Twist es una de las primeras novelas del prolífero escritor inglés Charles Dickens. Fue publicada por entregas entre 1836 y 1837.En ella se cuenta la vida del niño que da nombre a la obra. Son más las situaciones difíciles, aunque también las hay halagadoras, en las que Dickens coloca a Oliver en los cincuenta y tres capítulos que la componen y en los que, con inusitada ...
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    $215.00

  • CANCIÓN DE NAVIDAD
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Ebenezer Scrooge es un hombre avaro y egoísta, sarcástico y huraño con sus pocos seres allegados. La víspera de Navidad, el fantasma de su antiguo socio Jacob Marley se le manifiesta, provocando una serie de apariciones de los fantasmas de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras, que despertarán emociones en el protagonista que parecían olvidadas. Esta edición, con una nueva...
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    $178.00

  • HISTORIAS DE FANTASMAS
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Si bien como novelista Dickens apenas recurre a lo sobrenatural, salvo en formas metafóricas, en algunos cuentos entra de lleno en el terreno de ultratumba y sin reservas pone al servicio de lo fantasmal su inmenso talento literario. "El guardavía" constituye, sin duda, una de las mejores historias de fantasmas jamás escritas; "Confesión encontrada en una cárcel en tiempos de C...
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    $105.00

  • HISTORIA DE DOS CIUDADES
    DICKENS
    Charles Dickens es sin duda el más famoso novelista victoriano, y probablemente el que más ha contribuido a crear una imagen de la época incluso en quienes no lo han leído. El escritor mantuvo una postura crítica ante las instituciones más representativas del victorianismo, desde el Parlamento al sistema educativo, desde las teorías económicas del utilitarismo al funcionamiento...
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    $135.00

  • CANCIÓN DE NAVIDAD
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Dickens fue un escritor genial. Creó este ser especial, personajes memorables, oprimidos, miserables..., tan repletos de emoción que llegan al corazón. Canción de Navidad es una de sus novelas más famosas y empieza así: Scrooge es gruñón y huraño. Vive este ser tan tacaño acumulando fortuna y más que solo una. ...
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    $315.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. MONETARY POLICY
    EDWIN DICKENS
    Mainstream economists explain the Federal Reserve’s behavior over its one hundred years of existence as (usually failed) attempts to stabilize the economy on a non-inflationary growth path. The most important monetary event during those first one hundred years was the replacement of fixed exchange rates, based on a gold-exchange standard, with flexible exchange rates. In this b...

    $1,199.00

  • POSTMODERNISM AND SOCIAL INQUIRY
    DAVID R. DICKENS / ANDREA FONTANA
    This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, semiotics, the new ethnography and feminist theory. This guide should be suitable as an und...

    $1,199.00

  • OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    CHARLES DICKENS
    “When it comes to walking the mean streets, Dickens could give modern genre authors the tour of their lives.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times   When a corpse is found in the Thames River and identified as John Harmon, many lives will be forever changed. John, who had been abroad and estranged from his miserly father for years, will no longer collect his inheritance. It will...

    $85.00

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The story of a miser’s transformation, and the most beloved Christmas novel of all time.   An immediate bestseller in the mid-nineteenth century and praised by the Illustrated London News for its “playful and sparkling humor [and] gentle spirit of humanity,” Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has remained continuously in print for more than one hundred years, a cherished part ...

    $85.00

  • NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A young man fights to save his mother and sister—and a group of abused schoolboys—in this novel of hardship and heroism from the great Victorian writer.   Suddenly fatherless and penniless, young Nicholas Nickleby can find no help for himself and his family. His uncle Ralph may be rich, but he is neither a kind nor an honorable man—so it is up to Nicholas to take responsibility...

    $85.00


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