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Paperback. Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television. Series: Console-ing Passions. 360 pages, 35 illustrations, 10 tables. During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket headlines became ubiquitous in America as the 'tabloidisation' of the nation's media took hold. This title analyses important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFD; KNTD. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 22. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325697
- ISBN
- 9780822325697
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.12
€ 31.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- None ed.
- SKU
- V9780813541761
- ISBN
- 9780813541761
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.79
€ 45.99
€ 40.79
Hardback. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society. Editor(s): Lewis, Robert M. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 749.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801870873
- ISBN
- 9780801870873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
Hardcover. Editor(s): Clark, Jordan G.; Rodriguez, Ian R. Num Pages: 131 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633213678
- ISBN
- 9781633213678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.91€ 129.44
€ 189.91
€ 129.44
Hardback. This analysis of the USA's foreign policies towards Israel questions whether Israel is of strategic value to the USA or is instead a liability. The study covers such issues as the Israeli-Arab conflict, the Suez Crisis, the invasion of Lebanon, and the influence of pro-Israeli lobbies. Translator(s): Cohen, James Alan. Series: Institute for Palestine Studies Series. Num Pages: 324 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1KBB; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231084925
- ISBN
- 9780231084925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.07€ 62.71
€ 81.07
€ 62.71
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBBEY; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642499
- ISBN
- 9780691642499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.55€ 112.97
€ 150.55
€ 112.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 293 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813108377
- ISBN
- 9780813108377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.18
€ 53.18
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803271579
- ISBN
- 9780803271579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
Paperback. In eight decades photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo created works of art that display an array of styles and themes. This volume contains 50 images with extended commentaries on each by Robert Tejada, a curator and critic. There is also a transcript of a symposium on Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Series: In Focus. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; ACX; AGB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 194 x 11. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780892366255
- ISBN
- 9780892366255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.62
€ 21.99
€ 17.62
Paperback. This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989639
- ISBN
- 9780761989639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Paperback. Ethnocentrism - our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups - pervades societies around the world. This book explains how ethnocentrism shapes American public opinion. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 25 line drawings, 44 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226435718
- ISBN
- 9780226435718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Focuses on six contemporary Native Americn artists - James Luna, Gerald Clarke, Dana Claxton, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil, and Will Wilson. This volume is accompanied DVD that presents James Luna's in-your-face performance works that question stereotypes about Native Americans. Editor(s): Nottage, James H. Num Pages: 120 pages, 79 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987811
- ISBN
- 9780295987811
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Paperback. During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. This work gives us a commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball. It shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian - and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 28.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130439
- ISBN
- 9780691130439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.46
€ 23.99
€ 18.46
Hardcover. Included are old tombstone epitaphs, paintings, murals, needlework, furniture, fraktur, lamp shades, feather wreaths, and ceramics preserved in documents from this county settled early in Pennsylvania's history. Num Pages: 285 pages, 289 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1032.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916838355
- ISBN
- 9780916838355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.81
€ 36.99
€ 24.81
Paperback. This book explores the means used by government officials, police officers, church representatives, and ordinary settlers to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted. Series: The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL9; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- AU Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781897425398
- ISBN
- 9781897425398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.97
€ 44.99
€ 39.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, colour photos & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBER; 1KBBES; WGG; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Tide-Mark Press United States
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559498784
- ISBN
- 9781559498784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.93
€ 18.99
€ 13.93
Hardback. Leonard Seabrooke argues that the key to understanding change in international finance since the 1960s rests with US structural power. He demonstrates how the US promotion of direct financing has encouraged Britain, Japan, and Germany to catch up to US-led innovations. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCLF; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333921678
- ISBN
- 9780333921678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98
€ 64.98
Num Pages: 192 pages, 476 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1244.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764331084
- ISBN
- 9780764331084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 31.77
€ 47.99
€ 31.77
hardcover. Brown traces how the faculty evolved past its early defining traits of elitism and exclusivity to its current form - a remarkably diverse body with students of all ages, backgrounds, and academic interests. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JNB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442645134
- ISBN
- 9781442645134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.82
€ 68.82
Hardback. An examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps, port. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774822879
- ISBN
- 9780774822879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.42
€ 113.42
Paperback. A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 408 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JHMP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338475
- ISBN
- 9780822338475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.25
€ 35.99
€ 32.25
Hardback. The focus of this book is the moving stories of more than 20 women journalists who reported from New York, Washington and Pittsburgh during and following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPWL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742519435
- ISBN
- 9780742519435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.63
€ 96.63
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ferrero, Giosue; Balducci, Camilla. Num Pages: 150 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KFFD1; KNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613248799
- ISBN
- 9781613248799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.33€ 107.12
€ 156.33
€ 107.12
Paperback. Exploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044101
- ISBN
- 9780226044101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.01
€ 38.99
€ 31.01