Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardcover. How contested notions of modernity, civilisation and being governed were envisioned through the aid of photography. Num Pages: 246 pages, 11 black and white; 29 full color. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089646620
- ISBN
- 9789089646620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.20
€ 131.20
Paperback. The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. This book explores the interplay between 19th-century photography and Europe's vision of the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 colour & 45 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 182 x 16. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606061510
- ISBN
- 9781606061510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.18
€ 38.99
€ 28.18
Paperback. Features overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the world. This volume includes images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures. It will redefine our concept of modernity. Translator(s): Thomson, Graham. Num Pages: 160 pages, 130 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Editorial Tenov S.L. Spain
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788493923143
- ISBN
- 9788493923143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.28
€ 33.99
€ 26.28
Paperback / so. Introductory text in this handsome coffee table book accompanies compelling historic South Texas images, from cowboys to firewood vendors to the imprisoned Geronimo to Mrs. Favre s piano class enjoying a picnic." BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; AC; AGC; AJC; HBJK; HBLL; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 251 x 8. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595346995
- ISBN
- 9781595346995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.31
€ 26.99
€ 24.31
Hardback. This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCP; AJCR; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 292 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1832.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191806
- ISBN
- 9780300191806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.98
€ 50.99
€ 36.98
Paperback. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices, amateur and professional, and of previously unpublished archival material is the first thorough study of photography's interrelationship with social movements Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 13 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DST; 3JJP; 3JM; AJCR; HBTV; JFFS; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099991
- ISBN
- 9780719099991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.26
€ 39.26
Hardback. With almost 200 photographs, many never before published, and an authoritative text that delves into the motivations and aesthetics of the photographers who took them, this is the most ambitious and historically accurate visual record of the Mexican Revolution Series: The William and Bette Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 327 pages, 197 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJC; 3JJF; AJCR; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 5182 x 788. Weight in Grams: 1305.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292735804
- ISBN
- 9780292735804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and exploited for propaganda purposes. It asks whether the images can ever be true representations of the events. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860645464
- ISBN
- 9781860645464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.69
€ 30.99
€ 29.69
Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. Num Pages: 224 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ABA; ACX; AJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081569
- ISBN
- 9780719081569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.22
€ 150.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 158 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816683352
- ISBN
- 9780816683352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. In this souvenir book of the exhibition of the same name (National Museums Scotland 19 June - 22 November) you will meet the pioneers of photography and discover how the Victorian craze for the photograph transformed the way we capture images today and mirrors our own modern-day fascination for recording the world around us. Num Pages: 64 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; AGC; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 245 x 10. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- NMSE - Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905267958
- ISBN
- 9781905267958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.04
€ 9.04
Paperback. January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1KLCB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552152907
- ISBN
- 9780552152907
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. Drawing on declassified documents and interviews with more than one hundred US, South Vietnamese, and North Vietnamese sources, this book dissects the various attempts to eradicate the Viet Cong infrastructure and analyzes the effectiveness of each. Num Pages: 496 pages, 36 photos, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBWS2; JPS; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803216020
- ISBN
- 9780803216020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Hardcover. Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234. .
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910294505
- ISBN
- 9781910294505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.05€ 68.41
€ 75.05
€ 68.41
Paperback. Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is intent on making a career in government. His love life marches hand in hand with his political career, and in both he must decide whether to stay true to his principles. The second ofTrollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Finn paints a vivid picture of some very topical dilemmas. Editor(s): Dentith, Simon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199581436
- ISBN
- 9780199581436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. Traces the development, during the 20th century, of the four central themes in the philosophy of science: inductivism and its critics; conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine thesis; the nature of observation; and the demarcation between science and metaphysics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631183587
- ISBN
- 9780631183587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.03
€ 49.03
Hardcover. This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMG; JPA; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745665436
- ISBN
- 9780745665436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.33
€ 74.33
Paperback. This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JMG; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745665443
- ISBN
- 9780745665443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.28
€ 21.28
Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe
Mcbride, William L.. Ed(S): Raynova, Yvanka B...
Paperback. A philosophical reflection on the changes in Eastern Europe that began in 1989. It focuses on issues such as the role of ideology; "conversions" of intellectuals; the place of philosophers in politics; the relationship between democratic slogans and everyday realities; and women's concerns. Editor(s): Raynova, Yvanka B. Series: Philosophy and the Global Context. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HPCF; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847687985
- ISBN
- 9780847687985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.39
€ 51.39
Hardback. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201552
- ISBN
- 9780872201552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28€ 48.72
€ 63.28
€ 48.72
Paperback. Provides an often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England that the author observed during his nearly three-year exile. This work also provides a translation of the author's "Proposal for a Letter about the English", a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography. Editor(s): Leigh, John. Translator(s): Steiner, Prudence L. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208810
- ISBN
- 9780872208810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.09
€ 15.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Translator(s): Zweig, Arnulf. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226423616
- ISBN
- 9780226423616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 40.05
€ 50.99
€ 40.05
Paperback. Presents the history of analytic philosophy since 1900. This book argues that two developments have remade the philosophical landscape - analytic philosophers' success in understanding and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, and acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in prephilosophical thought. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123127
- ISBN
- 9780691123127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.50
€ 59.50
Paperback. A history of analytic philosophy since 1900, this volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. Though no broad philosophical position achieved lasting dominance, it argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122441
- ISBN
- 9780691122441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.30
€ 50.99
€ 36.30