Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 20 results for “john lucas”
Skip side bar filters

  • Britain's Forgotten Serial Killer

    The Terror of the Axeman

    by John Lucas ...
    This true crime biography reveals the full story of a remorseless serial killer once proclaimed the most dangerous man in Britain—and where he is now.For a few days in the winter of 1975, it looked as though police had unmasked a serial killer whose reign of terror was unprecedented in British crime history. Convicted of three killings, suspected of another eight, Patrick Mackay was dubbed the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 92 Acharnon Street

    A Year in Athens

    by John Lucas ...
    Greece has always had its admirers, though none seems to have cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous traffic and the jaded prostitutes, the petty bureaucratic tyrannies, the street noise and the heroic individualists with the irony and detachment of John Lucas. 92 Acharnon Street is a gritty portrait of a dirty city and a wayward country. Yet Lucas's love for the realities of Greece ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Houdini

    by Jeremy Holt ...
    In this action-adventure graphic novel, Harry Houdini, master magician and spy, has been kidnapped, and only his estranged—and gifted—son can save him.Josef Houdini takes after his father: A gifted escape artist, there's not a jam he can't get himself out of. Then again, when your father is one of the greatest illusionists of all time, that comes as no surprise. What does come as a surprise is the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TammyTalk: Advice for the Rest of Us

    by John Lucas ...
    Forget about Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Tammy deals with real problems and doesn't give a rip if your mother-in-law is a nosy know-it-all or if you're unsure where to seat the second wives at your daughter's wedding. That's all crap. Tammy deals with real problems like: 1. What should you wear to your parole hearing? 2. How come lite beer weighs the same as regular beer? 3. IS a dog's mouth really ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Final Causes in Biology

    by Lucas John Mix ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do. Informed by history and philosophy, it focuses on scientific concerns. Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century biologists proposed a menagerie of biological “actors” to explain power without appealing to Aristotelian vegetable souls and final causes. Three constraints on ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin

    On Vegetable Souls

    by Lucas John Mix ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questions of organization, purpose, and agency. For two millennia, the vegetable soul, nutrition, and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction

    Critical Essays on Some English and American Novels

    Edited by David Howard, John Lucas, John Goode ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals itself in the work of several nineteenth century novelists. In the novels studied, and the discussion of fiction that follows, the authors argue that all these novelists’ attempts to confront social change — to connect old with new, past with present and the attempted inclusiveness of ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century

    Essays

    Edited by John Lucas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century
    The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise, in political ideas. This is an exploratory volume, and will be of absorbing interest to anyone ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Thomas Beecham

    An Obsession with Music

    by John Lucas ...
    Thomas Beecham was one of Britain's greatest conductors of orchestral music and opera as well as an entrepreneur and impresario of exceptional energy and brilliant wit. This new life places him - musically, politically and socially - in the troubled times in which he lived and corrects the stories and myths, many of them Beecham's own making, that have grown up around this uniquely gifted and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • William Blake

    by John Lucas ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time. The critical range that is represented includes examples of Marxist, New Historicist, Feminist and Psychoanalytical approaches to Blake. Taken together, the essays consider all areas and moments of Blake's ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Melancholy Man

    A Study of Dickens's Novels

    by John Lucas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The author considers the peculiarity of Dickens being unanimously acclaimed as a great writer considering ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Literature of Change

    Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel

    by John Lucas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this brought with it. Unlike previous critics, who have tended to concentrate on her ‘social-problem’ novels, here the author treats Gaskell’s Sylvia’s ... Read more

    $165.00 USD