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Paperback. An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 496 pages, 45 musical examples, 75 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3J; AVGC; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 35. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520292444
- ISBN
- 9780520292444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.08
€ 40.99
€ 29.08
Paperback. A collection of essays examining Latin American cultural history through a focus on animals and their vital but often ignored roles in colonization and nation-building. Editor(s): Few, Martha; Tortorici, Zeb. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353973
- ISBN
- 9780822353973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.38
€ 32.99
€ 32.38
Hardback. Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America Editor(s): Few, Martha; Tortorici, Zeb. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353836
- ISBN
- 9780822353836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.12
€ 131.12
Hardcover. 814pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KHS1014248
- ISBN
- 9780517603543
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. The blood of the Hambletons is the blood of Maryland, a rich land stretching from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the tidal basins of the mighty Chesapeake to the mountains of the west, a poetic framework that illuminates one truly American family that continues its legacy of building new generations of strong Americans. Num Pages: 690 pages, 406, 181 black & white illustrations, 225 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3J; HBJK; WQH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Maryland Historical Society United States
- Number of pages
- 690
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780996594400
- ISBN
- 9780996594400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.34€ 68.07
€ 75.34
€ 68.07
Paperback. Series: International Monographs in Prehistory, Ethnoarchaeological S. Num Pages: 113 pages, with 46 figs & illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- International Monographs in Prehistory United States
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781879621169
- ISBN
- 9781879621169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.96
€ 69.96
Hardback. Series: International Monographs in Prehistory, Ethnoarchaeological S. Num Pages: 113 pages, with 46 figs & illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- International Monographs in Prehistory United States
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781879621176
- ISBN
- 9781879621176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.37
€ 200.37
Paperback. Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 to 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage by correspondence. This book draws upon the hundreds of letters they wrote and tells their moving story and reveals a personal perspective on war. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674030510
- ISBN
- 9780674030510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.27
€ 35.99
€ 30.27
Paperback. How did individual Americans respond to the shock of President Lincoln's assassination? Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a complicated, untold story Num Pages: 408 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300219753
- ISBN
- 9780300219753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.23
€ 29.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly). Num Pages: 384 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393330298
- ISBN
- 9780393330298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.24
€ 19.99
€ 18.24
Paperback. Translator(s): Howell, Martha C. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485602
- ISBN
- 9780801485602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.33
€ 29.99
€ 27.33
paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; HBJM; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315933
- ISBN
- 9780822315933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314600
- ISBN
- 9780226314600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 35.78
€ 46.99
€ 35.78
Paperback. After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show Martha true love and affection. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJP; BGA; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780576114
- ISBN
- 9781780576114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69
Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis Xiv´s Chapel at ...
Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds
Hardback. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent palace chapel at Versailles. The story of this carefully calculated dynastic shrine will interest all historians of the ancien regime. Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1384.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491883
- ISBN
- 9781611491883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.79
€ 169.79
Paperback. An interpretative racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from pre-Hispanic times to the present. It uses the concept of racialisation to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican and US authorities constructed racial status hierarchies. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 389 pages, 50 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292752542
- ISBN
- 9780292752542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.47
€ 34.99
€ 33.47
Hardback. Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceara between 1845 and 1889. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774567
- ISBN
- 9780804774567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.40
€ 86.40
Hardcover. Editor(s): Oppenheim, A Leo; Roth, Martha T; Reiner, Erica. Series: Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the Univers. Num Pages: 435 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DB; HBJF1; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 211 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918986108
- ISBN
- 9780918986108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.01
€ 92.01
Hardcover. First edition - Good copy in dustwrapper - KAW0507 - 144pp. - Immigrants in Australia series.Australian National University Press, Canberra Australia
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Immigrants in Australia series.Australian National University Press Canberra Australia
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1975
- SKU
- KCK0002441
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardcover. Including 27 articles, this book presents the range of the research on Ladakh, a small state in the Himalayas. Editor(s): Beek, Martijn van; Bertelsen, Kristoffer Brix; Pedersen, Poul. Series: Recent Research on Ladakh. Num Pages: 414 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; GTF; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 179 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772887913
- ISBN
- 9788772887913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.67
€ 33.67
Paperback. Collection of essays that focuses on questions of gender and culture in early Christianity. Editor(s): Martin, Dale B.; Miller, Patricia Cox. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822334224
- ISBN
- 9780822334224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Brings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take. Editor(s): Martin, Michael T.; Yaquinto, Marilyn. Num Pages: 728 pages, 6 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBJK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 42. Weight in Grams: 993.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 728
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340249
- ISBN
- 9780822340249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.02
€ 41.99
€ 37.02
Hardcover. From 1505 to 1689, Russia's Tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides and the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, this book offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Num Pages: 396 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804484
- ISBN
- 9780875804484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.50
€ 63.50
Paperback. Analyzes Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator" from historical, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. This work examines the film's presentation of Roman history and culture. It considers its cinematic origins and traditions. It draws out the film's modern social and political overtones. It also includes relevant ancient sources in translation. Editor(s): Winkler, Martin M. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; APFA; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405110426
- ISBN
- 9781405110426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14