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Paperback. Robbers Roost is a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. This book features an introduction by Floyd A O'Neil, director of the American West Center at the University of Utah that discusses landscape, the law and the Wild Bunch, and the author's lifelong preparation for this subject. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 14. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803260894
ISBN
9780803260894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.55

Hardback. Covers a year of Pavel Weiner's life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terezin from April 1944 until liberation in April 1945. A Boy in Terezin registers the young boy's insights, hopes, and fears and recounts a passage into maturity during the most horrifying of times. Translator(s): Weiner, Paul; Weiner, Karen. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127791
ISBN
9780810127791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.39

Hardback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361152
ISBN
9780822361152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.11

Hardback. This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience. Translator(s): Magnus, Shulamit S. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: BG; BM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804768795
ISBN
9780804768795
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.69

hardcover. Make the Night Hideous explores mysterious transformation of the charivari using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442640771
ISBN
9781442640771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476426
ISBN
9780801476426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. This volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting, law, culture, and the global economy. Editor(s): Fass, Paula S.; Grossberg, Michael. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223187
ISBN
9780812223187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162577
ISBN
9780691162577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804797023
ISBN
9780804797023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719858
ISBN
9780804719858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.32

Paperback. Explores the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. This work explains the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others. Editor(s): Hamilton, Paula; Shopes, Linda. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592131419
ISBN
9781592131419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Hardback. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. Editor(s): Findlen, Paula; Roworth, Wendy Wassyng; Sama, Catherine M. Num Pages: 504 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804759045
ISBN
9780804759045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 449 pages, 30 b&w reproductions, 1 map, 6 museum floor plans, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; GM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; P; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
449
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520205086
ISBN
9780520205086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.39

Paperback. Series: Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295974262
ISBN
9780295974262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: AMV; DNF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223545
ISBN
9780812223545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Hardback. Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 228 pages, 114 color photos. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; AJB; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 7112 x 661. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477309391
ISBN
9781477309391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.31

paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311134
ISBN
9781477311134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.70

Paperback. Rembrandt's life coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their "golden age". This study explores a society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past, a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen, to pursue an overseas empire that led to wealth and a cultivation of the arts. Series: Daily Life. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 214 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722018
ISBN
9780804722018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. .
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393249385
ISBN
9780393249385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JNF; JNKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552664018
ISBN
9781552664018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.86

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