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Hardcover. From the moment Cecil Beaton arrived at Cambridge University in 1922 wearing evening jacket, red shoes, black-and-white trousers, to his appearance forty years later at Truman Capote's 1970 Black and White Ball, Beaton expressed a flamboyant sartorial nonchalance - a sprezzatura. This title deals with the changes in his wardrobe over the years. Num Pages: 144 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; AKT; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 317 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500518335
ISBN
9780500518335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 6.75

Hardback. This book uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJG; HBJF1; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748641871
ISBN
9780748641871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.02
€ 103.50

Paperback. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489167
ISBN
9780801489167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Hardback. Focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. This title presents a study that elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 figures, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJ; JPFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762472
ISBN
9780804762472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.77

Paperback. Focusing on New York City, this title examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic's disastrous performance of John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt's demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival; founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and, the emergence of Iggy Pop. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 3 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268517
ISBN
9780520268517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754453
ISBN
9780804754453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.07

Paperback. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226290317
ISBN
9780226290317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. A collection of essays by historians of the Canadian-U.S. border region and those focused on the Mexican-U.S. border, examining borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Editor(s): Johnson, Benjamin; Graybill, Andrew R. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 384 pages, 23 photos, 1 table, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTP; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822346883
ISBN
9780822346883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

Paperback. In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was imprisoned by the Third Reich. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. He spent a year and a half in Auschwitz where he was forced to remove gold teeth from corpses. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813190129
ISBN
9780813190129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.30

hardcover. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance. Num Pages: 424 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTB; HBTK; JPFF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 860.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641945
ISBN
9781442641945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

paperback. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance. Num Pages: 424 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTB; HBTK; JPFF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 754.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442611054
ISBN
9781442611054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.07

Hardback. This work presents a biography of the artist Marc Chagall in dialogue with events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses different aspects of his life (1889-1985) including his roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and his inerests. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 166 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AGB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 266 x 201 x 65. Weight in Grams: 2132.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742139
ISBN
9780804742139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.15

Hardcover. This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the "cinema of 1968," and its social and aesthetic contexts. Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of films reflecting the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt-cinema that did not merely entertain, but was made the barricades. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPK; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331107
ISBN
9781785331107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.79

Hardcover. Series: October Books. Num Pages: 592 pages, 114 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACX; AGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 189 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The MIT Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262028523
ISBN
9780262028523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 48.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403980038
ISBN
9781403980038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.21

Hardcover. Following France's defeat, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler's heel. Some Nazi elites argued for a pan-European cultural empire to crown Hitler's conquests. Benjamin Martin charts the rise and fall of Nazi-fascist soft power and brings into focus a neglected aspect of Axis geopolitics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 756.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674545748
ISBN
9780674545748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.68

Hardcover. For France, the decade and a half before the Great War were years of plenty. The author examines daily life, the prevailing national mood, and the attitudes of France's prime ministers in July 1914 and August 1939, the months preceding the two world wars. Num Pages: 189 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804682
ISBN
9780875804682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.63

Paperback. A new exploration of how religions respond to science in our modern world. Series: New and Alternative Religions. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HRAM3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814797211
ISBN
9780814797211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403974471
ISBN
9781403974471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149165
ISBN
9780691149165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.82

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