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Paperback. Challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists - Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them - and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 66 color images and 52 halftones, all scattered. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 566. American Art Since 1955. 304 pages, illustrations. Challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists - Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them - and thus to re-assess the relationship of art to politics and social life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; ACXJ. Dimension: 155 x 201 x 19. Weight: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270978
ISBN
9780520270978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271586
ISBN
9780520271586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.87
€ 57.54

Paperback. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, this title analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond. Num Pages: 284 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271807
ISBN
9780520271807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. This title offers a study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271869
ISBN
9780520271869
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? This title suggests an answer that lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 412 pages, 12 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271906
ISBN
9780520271906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 400 pages, 99 color illustrations, 101 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1192. Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 400 pages, Illustrationsstrations. Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923, this volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; ACX; HBJF; HBLW. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 27. Weight: 1192.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Tion
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271951
ISBN
9780520271951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardback. Explores the position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into powerful economic and institutional structures, this title discovers the ways race defined cultural prestige and control of resources and institutional authority. Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584. A Church from Empire to Nation. Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective. 333 pages, Illustrations. Explores the position of the Catholic Church in modern Vietnamese history. By demonstrating how French colonial rule allowed for the transformation of Catholic missions in Vietnam into powerful economic and institutional structures, this title discovers the ways race defined cultural prestige and control of resources and institutional authority. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HRCC7. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 25. Weight: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272477
ISBN
9780520272477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.67

Paperback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464. A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris. 352 pages, illustrations. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication", which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. This title tells the story of Violette. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; JHB; JKV. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 22. Weight: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272729
ISBN
9780520272729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. This biography weaves together three engrossing stories. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273757
ISBN
9780520273757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398. Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. 296 pages, illustrations. Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273795
ISBN
9780520273795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Hardback. Offers fresh interpretations of the decisive moments of 1995, including the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in mainstream American life; the bombing at Oklahoma City, the deadliest attack of domestic terrorism in US history; and the sensational Trial of the Century," at which OJ Simpson faced charges of double murder. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 b/w, 3 line. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273993
ISBN
9780520273993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Paperback. On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. This title traces the variously tangled and perhaps incompletely understood ways that Karo women and men contributed to the founding of the Indonesian nation. Num Pages: 414 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520274877
ISBN
9780520274877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304. Essays on Writers and Writing. 218 pages. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275263
ISBN
9780520275263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and Nazi takeover of Germany, but while telling the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not speak of Julius Caesar and Pericles? This book argues that to understand Nazi regime, we must examine its appropriation of the heroes and lessons of the ancient world. Translator(s): Nybakken, Richard R. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLA1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 278 x 36. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275720
ISBN
9780520275720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.48

Hardback. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their rule; they never imagined that within a decade they would be engaged in an even bigger feud with the United States. This title explores the communist path to war. Series: From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276123
ISBN
9780520276123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.66
€ 43.33

Hardback. Drawing on a range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, this title reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276154
ISBN
9780520276154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 51.02

Hardback. It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950's. This title examines the critical years of 1955 through 1957. Num Pages: 592 pages, 20 halftones and 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 948.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
684
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276512
ISBN
9780520276512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 64.45

Hardback. Features David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century. This book explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520278363
ISBN
9780520278363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.80

Hardback. Links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFH; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520278981
ISBN
9780520278981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.21

Hardback. Based on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279155
ISBN
9780520279155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.54

Paperback. Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, this title explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280106
ISBN
9780520280106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Hardback. At the age of eighteen, a shy and timid Mohandas Gandhi leaves his Gujarati home for a life on his own. At forty-five, a confident and fearless Gandhi arrives back in India ready to boldly lead his country to freedom. What transforms him? The law. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280151
ISBN
9780520280151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusinol. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282469
ISBN
9780520282469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.32

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
€ 24.93

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