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Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Art & Architecture

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: APTX; BGF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136914
ISBN
9780231136914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136907
ISBN
9780231136907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.20
€ 84.95

Paperback. Argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance. The author describes how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 64 illus. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135757
ISBN
9780231135757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 408 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135009
ISBN
9780231135009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.95
€ 98.01

Paperback. Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity. This book explores how their needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231133777
ISBN
9780231133777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardback. Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a coherent, though shifting, American identity. This book explores how their needs coalesced and led to the development of a symbiotic relationship between the film industry and America's stewards of high culture. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231133760
ISBN
9780231133760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 79.98

Paperback. Moving beyond descriptions of what distinguishes American art from other movements and forms, this work explores not only the status of artists and their relationship to their work but also the larger dialogue between the artist and society. It looks to the intensely studied portraits of America's early painters, especially Copley and Eakins. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132978
ISBN
9780231132978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardback. Shows how early American painters transformed themselves from provincial followers of the established traditions of Europe into some of the innovative artists in the world. This book explores not only the status of artists and their personal relationship to their work but also the dialogue between the artist and society. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 246 pages, 96 halftones, 4 full-color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132961
ISBN
9780231132961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 80.02

Hardback. Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 107 half-tones. BIC Classification: ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132084
ISBN
9780231132084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.79

Paperback. The third book in a trilogy that includes Seeing the Divine and Hearing the Divine, this book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today. Num Pages: 160 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231131452
ISBN
9780231131452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.34

Paperback. Since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have both made an important contribution to and offered a critical commentary on our society. This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. It examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 161 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130677
ISBN
9780231130677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Hardback. Demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. This book examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 161 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130660
ISBN
9780231130660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 79.73

Hardback. Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Focusing on several historical case studies, this work explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, B&W Illus.: 121,. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129886
ISBN
9780231129886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.39
€ 85.89

Hardback. This classic text-continually in print for more than half a century-analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Wallis, Kendall. Num Pages: 368 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AM; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127042
ISBN
9780231127042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.81
€ 64.07

Paperback. Since The Voice of America first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, it has undergone a spectacular transformation. This book chronicles this transformation from a fledgling short wave propaganda organ during World War II to a global multimedia giant encompassing radio and the Internet. Num Pages: 544 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126755
ISBN
9780231126755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

Hardback. Since The Voice of America first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, it has undergone a spectacular transformation. This book chronicles this transformation from a fledgling short wave propaganda organ during World War II to a global multimedia giant encompassing radio and the Internet. Num Pages: 544 pages, 24 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126748
ISBN
9780231126748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.84
€ 83.22

Paperback. Moving from an exploration of 19th century popular science and magic to Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, this text examines the history, advancements and connoisseurship of special effects. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 photos. BIC Classification: APFV; UGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125635
ISBN
9780231125635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Published in conjunction with a New-York Historical Society exhibition, this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook by a New York Times senior writer covers 1,079 houses of worship in New York City. Num Pages: 400 pages, 899 photos; 24 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMN; WTHM; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125437
ISBN
9780231125437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124607
ISBN
9780231124607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.44
€ 62.34

Paperback. Focusing on the artists Ice Cube, Dr Dre, the Geto Boys, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, Quinn explores the origins, development, and immense popularity of gangsta rap. Including detailed readings in urban geography, neoconservative politics, subcultural formations, black cultural debates, and music industry conditions, this book explains how and why this music genre emerged. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AVGR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124096
ISBN
9780231124096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. George Gallup's polling techniques achieved fame when he predicted that Franklin D Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. This work traces Gallup's intellectual and methodological developments, examining his comprehensive approach to market research. It takes a look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KJSM; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121330
ISBN
9780231121330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Hardback. A history of public broadcasting, the book questions public television's common-sense priorities and argues that its tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119429
ISBN
9780231119429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.84
€ 83.22

Hardback. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 528 pages, 100 illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116961
ISBN
9780231116961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.30
€ 90.18

Paperback. This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music. Editor(s): Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Richey, William. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113991
ISBN
9780231113991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

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