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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A G Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled a collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. In this book, a series of essays by prominent scholars consider the major works and themes in the collection, relating them to larger issues within the field of British studies. Editor(s): Clarke, Jay A. Series: Clark Art Institute. Num Pages: 272 pages, 447 colour images + 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; ACQ; ACV; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 245 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2048.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300179668
ISBN
9780300179668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.07
€ 42.00

Hardcover. Translator(s): Rittenhouse, Rose. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 318 x 267 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1451.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226399461
ISBN
9780226399461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.04
€ 56.27

Paperback. In "Landscapes and Labscapes" Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 39 halftones, 22 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; PDX; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226450100
ISBN
9780226450100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.12

Paperback. Reveals the history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings. This is a book about power, and what power does in cities. It is a journey of discovery, plunging us into the maelstrom of socialist architecture. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 248 x 30. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780141975894
ISBN
9780141975894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.85

Paperback. As a child, the distinguished historian the author was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his story set to one side. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718197025
ISBN
9780718197025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Hardback. This volume is an ambitious study of efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape-either through social policy or brute force-their societies and populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746229
ISBN
9780804746229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.52

Paperback. This volume is an ambitious study of efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape-either through social policy or brute force-their societies and populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; JHBD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746304
ISBN
9780804746304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.39

Paperback. Describes what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use. In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; 3JH; 3JJ; CF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780520076259
ISBN
9780520076259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.48

Hardback. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular culture. This title traces the growth of a vernacular language from the 'hybrid Slavonic' of the late seventeenth century through the debates between 'archaists and innovators' of the early 19th century. Translator(s): Levitt, Marcus. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 534 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 894.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843123
ISBN
9781934843123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.81

Paperback. Examines language and identity in Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This book offers a study of identity in modern Egyptian public discourse. It helps us to decode and understand the messages put forward by the competing factions in Egyptian politics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JM; CFB; HBJH; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748699940
ISBN
9780748699940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.00

Hardback. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." Editor(s): Gray, Edward G.; Fiering, Norman. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 figures, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; 3J; GTC; HB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571812100
ISBN
9781571812100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.41

Paperback. Originally published in English: London; New Brunswick, N.J.: Athlone Press, 2000. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; CFF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472507211
ISBN
9781472507211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.96

hardcover. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732086
ISBN
9780804732086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.52

Paperback. This work compares extreme rightist organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. The right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile has changed over time and has contained moderate and extreme factions. Num Pages: 512 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745994
ISBN
9780804745994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.32

Hardback. Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 254 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSN; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783270385
ISBN
9781783270385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910294482
ISBN
9781910294482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.04

paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJ; APB; BGF; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Three Rooms Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941110188
ISBN
9781941110188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 200. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Dexter Haven
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903660201
ISBN
9781903660201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.22

Paperback. Filtered through some of its colourful and eccentric inhabitants, from Lady Caroline Lamb in the 18th-century to Princess Diana in the 20th, this work is a portrait of Britain as both empire and the customs and certainties of the old order came to an end. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; BG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571228607
ISBN
9780571228607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China. Num Pages: 816 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 52. Weight in Grams: 968.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828021
ISBN
9780753828021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.43

Hardcover. Drawing on archival research and interviews with directors, writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJPN; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135551
ISBN
9781571135551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Remembrance of a once-thriving Jewish culture in Slovakia Num Pages: 128 pages, 39 color illus., 17 b&w illus., 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 243 x 11. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780253223777
ISBN
9780253223777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. The No. 1 bestselling true story of Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto who, on 11 September, survived the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JM; BTP; JKSW2; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 22. Weight in Grams: 186.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KNW0009763
ISBN
9780752849416
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and one of the most inexperienced men aboard, will save the lives of the South African crew. Lewis is the last man off the sinking boat.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJPR; BTP; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967447
ISBN
9780241967447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

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