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Biography: general

Paperback. In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. This is a biography of Owen. Num Pages: 356 pages, 20 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: BGT; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226731773
ISBN
9780226731773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Paperback. From his memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume Abraham Lincoln was a national hero rather than a controversial president. Drawing on an array of material, this is a study of the role Lincoln's reputation and memory has played in American life. Num Pages: 382 pages, 48 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
University of Chicago Press, 2000
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226741987
ISBN
9780226741987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.92

paperback. A court-painter to Marie Antoinette, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun was rediscovered in the 1970s as part of the "hidden feminist heritage". This text uses her career to explore the position of "woman-artist" in the moral, philosophical, professional and medical debates about women in 18th-century France. Num Pages: 368 pages, 45 halftones. BIC Classification: AFC; AGB; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226752822
ISBN
9780226752822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 283.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226779812
ISBN
9780226779812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.39

Paperback. Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 468 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BGT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226793610
ISBN
9780226793610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226798462
ISBN
9780226798462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. Marianna De Marco Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic. Num Pages: 192 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226808307
ISBN
9780226808307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. Offers a study of those at the centre of Western civilization's vision of the world - the Enlightenment: nobles, priests, functionaries, men of letters, artists, explorers, soldiers and women. This book examines the fundamental structures of society, and attitudes to birth, death and sexuality. Editor(s): Vovelle, Michel. Translator(s): Cochrane, Lydia G. Num Pages: 460 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226865706
ISBN
9780226865706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 50.62

Paperback. Series: Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: BG; PD; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226870557
ISBN
9780226870557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Hardcover. Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people. Num Pages: 424 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; PDX; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226871820
ISBN
9780226871820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.48

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 125 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJG; ACX; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226893587
ISBN
9780226893587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 79.10

Paperback. An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left over from the old regime. This text explores this using true stories of torture victims in Brazil and Uruguay who, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, settled their own accounts. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1KLSU; BG; JHM; JPH; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226893945
ISBN
9780226893945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231029889
ISBN
9780231029889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 3. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
52
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231034999
ISBN
9780231034999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231045063
ISBN
9780231045063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.51
€ 86.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231055307
ISBN
9780231055307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43
€ 90.24

Paperback. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes. Num Pages: 454 pages, 28 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZW; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231056878
ISBN
9780231056878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.41

Hardback. The biography of a man who came to occupy a major position in the history of North American palaeontology. Using personal letters, archives and accounts from those who knew Matthew, this volume presents a portrait of his excavations, travels, research and family life. Num Pages: 275 pages, 61 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231079648
ISBN
9780231079648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 73.01

Paperback. Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activists such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, who played an important role in the development of a unified nation state. Num Pages: 423 pages, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BGHA; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231101738
ISBN
9780231101738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Hardback. Shows how Eleanor Roosevelt, after being freed from the constraints imposed by her role in the White House, expanded her career and challenged both the Democratic party and American liberals to practice what they preach. Num Pages: 298 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104043
ISBN
9780231104043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.95
€ 83.22

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