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Hardcover. A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Editor(s): Davis, John; Greenhill, Jennifer A.; LaFountain, Jason D. Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 181 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1326.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470671023
ISBN
9780470671023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.38

Hardcover. The 1846-1848 war between the US and Mexico had conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars also took place. Using information from 24 archives, including the normally closed files of Mexico's National Defense Archives, this book argues that these other conflicts were crucial. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 tables, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875653020
ISBN
9780875653020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.11

Paperback. Examines the Jamaican background, necessary for understanding the cultural significance of dub. This work analyses its musical, cultural and political importance for both African-Caribbean and, particularly, white communities in the United Kingdom during the late-1970s and early 1980s. Series: Studies in Popular Music. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; AVGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845533120
ISBN
9781845533120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.00

Hardback. Series: Haynes Manuals. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 278 x 2. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Haynes Publishing Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785210549
ISBN
9781785210549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.67

Paperback. "William Greider, one of America's most respected political and economic journalists, explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era--and the troubling consequ" Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0216374
ISBN
9781891620454
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Patton's last battle Series: Spellmount Siegfried Line. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Spellmount Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862271494
ISBN
9781862271494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Hardcover. Here is the story of a highly successful marketing technique, printed metal boxes, made from the Victorian period up to the Second World War. These colorful and novel tins helped sell biscuits, then remained in the home to be used as storage boxes or played with as toys. You all have seen them, now look them up and collect them. Num Pages: 200 pages, 441 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1442.
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Edition First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887400162
ISBN
9780887400162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.32

Paperback. Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for appropriate acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFCV; RGC; RNFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
258
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118301920
ISBN
9781118301920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.53

Paperback. Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 320 pages, 57 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSJ; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319245
ISBN
9780822319245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. The hardcover spent months as a #1 national bestseller with over 820,000 copies in print. Now it's in paperback and promises to be an even bigger success! Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 174 x 25. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Number of pages
350
Publication date
1986
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780425091036
ISBN
9780425091036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.04

Paperback. Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. This compelling, easy-to-read biography is illustrated by New Yorker artist John O'Brien. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; YNH; YNM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 137 x 193 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780448478630
ISBN
9780448478630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; TBX; TDPB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226379685
ISBN
9780226379685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Hardback. Num Pages: 100 pages, 108 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 280. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857232034
ISBN
9788857232034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFFE1; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062412584
ISBN
9780062412584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.13

Paperback. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular. Editor(s): Hellegers, Desiree. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 236 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBTD; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116580
ISBN
9780230116580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.91

Hardback. Francisco Goldman provides a timely and provocative journey into the heart of Mexico City. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611856163
ISBN
9781611856163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFD; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KST0009942
ISBN
9780801485619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories of people impacted by injustice across the world. Series: Voice of Witness. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786632272
ISBN
9781786632272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.33

Paperback. Takes a critical approach to the spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, breakfast cereal, serial killers, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571232208
ISBN
9780571232208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. They burned bras, draft cards, and even the American flag. But what drove a group of young Americans to democratic revolution in the tumultuous years of the 1960s, and what made them think they could win? This book looks at the motivations and values of the young rebels of the 1960s. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; GTB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842051415
ISBN
9780842051415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.92

Hardback. Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and consequences: the perception of and resistance to hegemonic structures from within their respective constituencies, the definition of national identity, and the understanding of the 'American Dream.' Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGL; AVGQ; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137378095
ISBN
9781137378095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.77

Hardcover. Let us take a nostalgic trip back in time to the age of Harry Stafford, Charlie Roberts, Sandy Turnbull, Joe Spence, Johnny Carey and Jack Rowley. These were the greats who made Manchester United great. They could lick creation then have a laugh about it. Num Pages: 496 pages. Dimension: 239 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Empire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901746297
ISBN
9781901746297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Hardcover. Strongly influenced by Spanish cooking traditions, Argentinian food is most famous for its first-class beef, herded by the iconic gauchos of the Pampas. This book shows you how to create Matambre a la Pizza - grilled steak topped with tomatoes and chees; crispy tempting fish Milanesas - deep-fried in breadcrumbs; or delicious Alfahores. Num Pages: 128 pages, over 380 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 912.
Publisher
Anness Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908991379
ISBN
9781908991379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.38

Paperback. This publication of the wartime letters of Roswell Lamson marks a major addition to US Civil War literature. Throughout the war, Lamson always seemed to be where the action was and these letters describe the part he played in these events. Lamson's correspondence reveals his deep ambivalence about the war. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 halftones, 8 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KTG0005947
ISBN
9780195130935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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