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Paperback. Traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. This title discusses changes in the structure of the studio system - including the shift to independent production - and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 582 pages, 164 b/w photographs, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBT; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 176 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1242. American Cinema in the 1940s. Series: History of the American Cinema S. 582 pages, 164 b&w photographs. Traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. This title discusses changes in the structure of the studio system - including the shift to independent production - and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBT; KNTC. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 37. Weight: 1228.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
582
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221307
ISBN
9780520221307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. What he describes is, in fact, a drawn-out period of acculturation, characterized more by continuity than by change and conflict and leading to the creation of a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 480 pages, 18, 6 maps, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892707
ISBN
9780801892707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.19

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566637114
ISBN
9781566637114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.15

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645391
ISBN
9780691645391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; HBT; JNF; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781610486040
ISBN
9781610486040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 49.96

Thomas Dunlap shows how bird guides have changed with science and popular interest and how birding's twin activities, conservation and recreation, have over the last 120 years shaped our understanding of nature and supported its preservation as part of the nation and our lives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 halftones & 8 pg color insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; PDX; PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199734597
ISBN
9780199734597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.06

Paperback. BIC Classification: HBT. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
SKU
9780718197285
ISBN
9780718197285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.68

Paperback. Explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277519
ISBN
9780520277519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. Explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520277502
ISBN
9780520277502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.21

Paperback. *the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa Num Pages: 768 pages, Section: 32, B&W. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 51. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780349104492
ISBN
9780349104492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.04

Paperback. Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, this book offered was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself and set up an independent republican government. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTR; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107590
ISBN
9780143107590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTR; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195051919
ISBN
9780195051919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.34

Paperback. In Human-Built World, Thomas P. Hughes restores to technology the richness and depth it deserves by writing its intellectual history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 42halftones. BIC Classification: HBTK; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
science.culture
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226359342
ISBN
9780226359342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.94

Paperback. In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295326
ISBN
9781349295326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.87

Hardback. Translation of: Schlafender Lotos, trunkenes Huhn. Translator(s): Margolis, Karen. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 216 pages, 48 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231161862
ISBN
9780231161862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Presents an account of the concept of revolution in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. This title provides the full length account of Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to a concrete revolutionary struggle. It also outlines the theoretical and practical origins of the return to political revolution. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HBTV; HPS; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748699797
ISBN
9780748699797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How did these ceramics, which were more than a hundred years old, find their way to this remote area? Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; KCLT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804738491
ISBN
9780804738491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651279
ISBN
9780691651279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.78

Paperback. Proffers diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. This book brings political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means. Editor(s): Bisson, T. N. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812215557
ISBN
9780812215557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.30

Hardback. A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Editor(s): Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 636 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JFFS; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1252.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405198936
ISBN
9781405198936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.57

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