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Paperback. A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States-chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing-to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 10 color, 107 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFCD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 180 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1026.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222005
- ISBN
- 9780812222005
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.42
€ 47.99
€ 42.42
Hardcover. The book takes the social contract as a metaphor for understanding the challenges to education within a context of paradigmatic transition, and of profound social and political transformations. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JNA; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105386
- ISBN
- 9780230105386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.46€ 44.94
€ 51.46
€ 44.94
Paperback. As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local television news has grown from a curiosity into a powerful journalistic and cultural force. This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence. Series: Great Lake Books Series. Num Pages: 234 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; APT; JFC; KNTD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814333020
- ISBN
- 9780814333020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.56
€ 36.99
€ 31.56
Paperback. Suitable for those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies, this book investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; GTE; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326939
- ISBN
- 9780822326939
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.42
€ 35.99
€ 32.42
Paperback. A perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical texts by Hawthorne, Poe, James and Faulkner, and contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Rice. Num Pages: 162 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879728441
- ISBN
- 9780879728441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.32
€ 20.99
€ 19.32
Hardcover. A perspective on the gothic novel in America, this study engages underlying currents that define American culture as one of consumption through the rereading of canonical texts by Hawthorne, Poe, James and Faulkner, and contemporary gothic novels of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Rice. Num Pages: 162 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879728434
- ISBN
- 9780879728434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.81€ 49.84
€ 53.81
€ 49.84
Paperback. Offers a reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. This book defends the holistic view that scientific belief is tested by experience but that such testing is rightly applied to systems or conjunctions of beliefs, not isolated beliefs. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123981
- ISBN
- 9780691123981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.86
€ 40.99
€ 28.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879721947
- ISBN
- 9780879721947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.31
€ 17.99
€ 16.31
Hardcover. Looks at the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, this title analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. Series Editor(s): Franklin, Wayne. Series: American Land & Life Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; JFC; RGC; RNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587295348
- ISBN
- 9781587295348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.63
€ 43.99
€ 36.63
Hardback. This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place relationship. It explores such topics as the history of food and agriculture, the globalization and localization of food, and the role of place in defining the broader societal consequences of this ever-changing phenomena. Editor(s): Fitzpatrick, Kevin M.; Willis, Don. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 maps, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCV; RGC; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408365
- ISBN
- 9781137408365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy 1...
Adams, Pauline, Thornton, Emma
Paperback. Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the "money power." Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879722043
- ISBN
- 9780879722043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.24
€ 11.24
Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, , colour plates. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826517838
- ISBN
- 9780826517838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.51
€ 40.99
€ 33.51
Hardcover. The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Bowling Green University Popular Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879720773
- ISBN
- 9780879720773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.59
€ 40.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. The subjects treated in this symposium have one major characteristic in common, that they have recently, or relatively recently, enjoyed high popularity among readers. Also, they have received from substantial to torrents of comment. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879720780
- ISBN
- 9780879720780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.40
€ 24.99
€ 21.40
Paperback. Walt Whitman dreamed of inspiring "a race of singers" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein embraced and reconfigured Whitman's vision, Bryan Garman shows that Whitman succeeded. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 352 pages, 14 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; GTB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807848661
- ISBN
- 9780807848661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29€ 46.67
€ 50.29
€ 46.67
Paperback. Argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. This title explores the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, to whom the author read as a young man, and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300172089
- ISBN
- 9780300172089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.79
€ 19.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. Providing a re-assessement of the cause of Bolivia's 1952 revolution, this book argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that rural indigenous activists helped shape populist projects of 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; HBTV; JFC; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340676
- ISBN
- 9780822340676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.17
€ 35.99
€ 32.17
Paperback. Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. This book deals with this topic. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 8.7.2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152608
- ISBN
- 9780691152608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.72
€ 29.99
€ 21.72
Paperback. Illustrates how style is increasingly a global system of communication as people around the world understand what it means to dress a certain way, to dance a certain way, to decorate a certain way, to speak a certain way. This book sees style as a system of signification grounded largely in image, aesthetics, and extrarational modes of thinking. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFCK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809328581
- ISBN
- 9780809328581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.62
€ 50.99
€ 42.62
Paperback. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186337
- ISBN
- 9780141186337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.21
€ 17.99
€ 13.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 234 x 10. Weight in Grams: 410. 64 pages, col. Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFCA; JFCV. Dimension: 232 x 234 x 10. Weight: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617751349
- ISBN
- 9781617751349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.50
€ 18.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. This work takes readers on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how surroundings reflect important changes in culture. The book examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads and shopping malls. Num Pages: 222 pages, 62 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMA; JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1/22/96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300063974
- ISBN
- 9780300063974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.17
€ 26.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Harbour Books (East) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905128242
- ISBN
- 9781905128242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.87
€ 18.99
€ 14.87
Paperback. Discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, this book focuses on scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HP; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221230
- ISBN
- 9780253221230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.72
€ 27.99
€ 25.72