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The Americas
Paperback. Through a discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, this title investigates what the author terms 'the paradox of negative emotion' and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. It describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420. American Film and the Spectator's Experience. 296 pages, illustrations. Through a discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, this title investigates what the author terms 'the paradox of negative emotion' and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. It describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight: 424.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Trade Paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256965
- ISBN
- 9780520256965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.86
€ 40.99
€ 28.86
Paperback. An analysis of the foundations of autobiography in America Num Pages: 255 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390. Fine copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- New Hampshire
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KST0009829
- ISBN
- 9781584651321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, over 430 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1498.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764312908
- ISBN
- 9780764312908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.67€ 45.85
€ 64.67
€ 45.85
Paperback. Why do severe recessions happen? Could we have prevented the Great Recession and its consequences? And what actions are needed to prevent such crises going forward? This book offers convincing answers to some of the most important questions faced by the economy. Num Pages: 227 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition, Enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226271651
- ISBN
- 9780226271651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.30
€ 16.30
Paperback. One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, Lehman Brothers bank's downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This title presents the inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman and the crash that didn't have to happen. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCX; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091936150
- ISBN
- 9780091936150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.42
€ 21.99
€ 16.42
Sheet map, folded. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 110 x 11. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Publisher
- National Geographic Maps
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566956857
- ISBN
- 9781566956857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.40
€ 19.99
€ 18.40
Paperback. This bookproposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation. Num Pages: 302 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL; JPS; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321762
- ISBN
- 9780230321762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.83€ 66.61
€ 105.83
€ 66.61
Paperback. The York Notes series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World. This text covers the selected poems of Sylvia Plath. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Longman
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582424777
- ISBN
- 9780582424777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.30
€ 11.30
Hardcover. A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812245196
- ISBN
- 9780812245196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.38
€ 104.38
Paperback. Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 halftones. 6 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHBA; JPA; JPHV; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142906
- ISBN
- 9780691142906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Paperback. Although the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 page colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; BM; CF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846680403
- ISBN
- 9781846680403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.04
€ 17.99
€ 13.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQG; YQN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 281 x 217 x 6. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Publisher
- Charlesbridge
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570919657
- ISBN
- 9781570919657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.64
€ 11.64
Paperback. Ranging from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, this book points out that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. It shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks. Num Pages: 584 pages, 6 halftones. 164 line illus. 18 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KLS; PBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135267
- ISBN
- 9780691135267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.21
€ 46.99
€ 33.21
Paperback. Forgotten Dead uncovers a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the first comprehensive study of lynching of hundreds of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Num Pages: 322 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190610692
- ISBN
- 9780190610692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.14
€ 55.14
Paperback. Offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways religion has been leveraged by African Americans to respond to different racial regimes in the United States. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195182897
- ISBN
- 9780195182897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.40
€ 13.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. Written in an informed and accessible by one of the leading authorities in the field, A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers alike a concise and thoroughly up-to-date history of the American literary tradition. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192309
- ISBN
- 9781405192309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.47
€ 41.99
€ 41.47
Hardcover. Keywords: "Humour - Love, Sex & Marriage,Humour - Political,Humour - Satire, General,Subjects - Humour - General,Su"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Sanctuary Publishing Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KHS0047909
- ISBN
- 9781860746147
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Sanctuary Publishing Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KNW0010222
- ISBN
- 9781860746147
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. The Big Apple in miniature. Special photographic techniques create a bird's eye perspective thus transforming the City. Accompanied by quotes about the City, this is for tourists and New Yorkers alike. Series: Resized. Num Pages: 144 pages, 140 colour. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AJB; AJG; AJR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 195. .
- Publisher
- Lannoo Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401443395
- ISBN
- 9789401443395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.99
€ 8.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Chiappari, Christopher L.; Lopez, Silvia L. Num Pages: 328 pages, 59ill. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646685
- ISBN
- 9780816646685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.20
€ 29.99
€ 27.20