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Paperback. Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, The Housekeeper's Tale champions the invisible women who ran the English country house. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 page colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Aurum Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781314104
- ISBN
- 9781781314104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. This book explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer insights into Roman social life. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 color plates 122 figs. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 193 x 253 x 18. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029092
- ISBN
- 9780691029092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 48.64
€ 54.99
€ 48.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 224 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 258 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1088.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691167619
- ISBN
- 9780691167619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 42.58
€ 53.51
€ 42.58
Paperback. An examination of the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. Series: Material Worlds. Num Pages: 312 pages, 48 photos, 8 tables, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCH; HBJK; HBLA; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347040
- ISBN
- 9780822347040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. A history of housesteads Num Pages: 205 pages, 75 illustrations, 25 colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 173 x 11. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752428901
- ISBN
- 9780752428901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. From mop-wielding turn-of-the-century housewives to modern soccer moms, American advertising from the late 1800s to today has been consistently depicted housework as women's work. This book analyzes print and TV ads, ad agency documents, and trade journals to show how the housewife framed household work as exclusively feminine care for the family. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347237
- ISBN
- 9781137347237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349296187
- ISBN
- 9781349296187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called into question the housewife stereotype, homemaking has remained an American feminine ideal. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFDV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114890
- ISBN
- 9780230114890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Charles Abrams-influential intellectual, ardent civil rights crusader, and fierce critic of Robert Moses-was one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and engaging reformers. This life-and-times biography traces a vivid portrait of this fascinating individual. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 180 x 29. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119504
- ISBN
- 9780231119504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.14
€ 99.14
Paperback. A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of England, told through the story of A. E. Housman and his much-loved poetry collection, A Shropshire Lad. Num Pages: 624 pages, b/w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 2AB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349140681
- ISBN
- 9780349140681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. Drawing on social and cultural history, this book shows how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations - particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles - complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282582
- ISBN
- 9780520282582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745332512
- ISBN
- 9780745332512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.70
€ 104.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Triumph Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600789380
- ISBN
- 9781600789380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.62
€ 24.62
Paperback. This book examines the extraordinary events that led to China's transformation from a closed agrarian economy to an invincible manufacturing powerhouse of the global economy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; KCM; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351432
- ISBN
- 9781137351432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. This book examines the extraordinary events that led to China's transformation from a closed agrarian economy to an invincible manufacturing powerhouse of the global economy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; KCM; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137019363
- ISBN
- 9781137019363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.31
€ 128.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dragon Hill Publishing Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896124193
- ISBN
- 9781896124193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, this book claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221308
- ISBN
- 9780253221308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Soon after the publication of "How Did Davy Die?", the "London Daily Mail" associated Kilgore with 'the murder of a myth'; he became the subject of articles in "Texas Monthly" and the "Wall Street Journal". This title reviews the origins and subsequent impact of Kilgore's book, both on the historical hullabaloo and on the author. Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. Num Pages: 120 pages, 2 line art illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603441940
- ISBN
- 9781603441940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.14
€ 26.14
hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 tables, 2 charts/graphs, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780801441264
- ISBN
- 9780801441264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
paperback. Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; and why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp black 8pp colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780670919147
- ISBN
- 9780670919147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Focuses on how the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule. This work offers a detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604. Italy, 1922-1945. 384 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. Focuses on how the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule. This work offers a detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520074576
- ISBN
- 9780520074576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Hardback. In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For black men and women, the question is: how free is free? Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. This book probes the story of racial inequality and the fight for freedom in black America. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031524
- ISBN
- 9780674031524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Dragon Hill Publishing Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896124186
- ISBN
- 9781896124186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1987
- SKU
- V9781349188451
- ISBN
- 9781349188451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.67
€ 48.67