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Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349335596
- ISBN
- 9781349335596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 149.23
€ 149.23
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGP; HBJD; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299924
- ISBN
- 9780230299924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.20
€ 150.20
Hardback. Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation and propaganda in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi dictatorship. Num Pages: 239 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217935
- ISBN
- 9780230217935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardback. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413389
- ISBN
- 9781421413389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.48€ 52.34
€ 56.48
€ 52.34
Paperback. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. This work presents accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282. A Sourcebook and Reader. 248 pages, illustrations. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. This work presents accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLA; JPA. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight: 282.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256040
- ISBN
- 9780520256040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Firmly based on the insight that memory is always mediated and that the past is not a stable object, this title demonstrates that we can intervene positively yet critically in the recovery and reinterpretation of events and experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of the past. Editor(s): Fujitani, T.; White, Geoffrey M.; Yoneyama, Lisa. Num Pages: 472 pages, 38 b&w photographs, 3 tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1QSP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325642
- ISBN
- 9780822325642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349447299
- ISBN
- 9781349447299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Hardcover. In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674015418
- ISBN
- 9780674015418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.63€ 127.34
€ 142.63
€ 127.34
Paperback. The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753829226
- ISBN
- 9780753829226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 348 pages, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; JPQB; KCB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842023801
- ISBN
- 9780842023801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.75
€ 50.75
Paperback. Beauty shops are places where women can enjoy the company of other women and exchange information or secrets. This work traces the development of the American beauty shop, from its largely separate racial origins, through white recognition of the "ethnic market", to the end of the 20th century. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1; KCCD; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814793589
- ISBN
- 9780814793589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardback. In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. Series: Studies in Gender and History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBC; HBJD; HBJK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487500498
- ISBN
- 9781487500498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
hardcover. Examines the history, origins, and contemporary directions of Peronism, an important populist movement in twentieth-century Latin America. This volume clarifies many misconceptions about the nature of Peronism and explains how it has influenced Argentine politics and civil society. Editor(s): Brennan, James P. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 232 pages, tables, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780842027069
- ISBN
- 9780842027069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.22
€ 172.22
paperback. In 203 AD a group of Christians in Carthage were sentenced to death. One of these, a young mother, wrote a diary while awaiting execution. This narrative is the focus of this work which studies the conflict that resulted in her martyrdom and places it in an intellectual and social context. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA; HRC; HRKP; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415918374
- ISBN
- 9780415918374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Paperback. Beginning with an hour-by-hour account of one day in Yongle's (Zhu Di, 1360-1424) court, this title presents the multiple dimensions of Yongle's life. It examines the role of birth, education, and tradition in moulding the emperor's personality and values, and paints a portrait of a man characterised by stark contrasts. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 286 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295981246
- ISBN
- 9780295981246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardcover. Tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. This title paints a portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224064408
- ISBN
- 9780224064408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, colour. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117171
- ISBN
- 9780349117171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 5. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347851
- ISBN
- 9780936347851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.55
€ 27.99
€ 21.55
Paperback. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea. Editor(s): Amirell, Stefan Eklof; Muller, Leos. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBL; JKV; LBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469406
- ISBN
- 9781349469406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 148.60
€ 148.60
Num Pages: 138 pages, 250+ color & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JJH; HBJH; HBWQ; JWTR; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1350.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764321139
- ISBN
- 9780764321139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.39€ 46.95
€ 65.39
€ 46.95