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Paperback. Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. Offering a portrait of eighteenth-century London as the capital of America, this title recreates the famous city's heyday as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 36 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300178135
- ISBN
- 9780300178135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.82
€ 23.99
€ 17.82
Paperback. Offers an analysis of both visual and textual representations of the commodity and the ritual that was tea in nineteenth-century England. This book demonstrates how tea functions within the literature as an arbiter of taste and middle-class respectability, aiding in the determination of class status and moral position. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821418291
- ISBN
- 9780821418291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Hardcover. Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place. This title overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226081298
- ISBN
- 9780226081298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.10
€ 48.99
€ 38.10
Paperback. An accessible, engaging examination of Lillian Gilbreth, whose research in efficiency and human factors changed the way factories are run, how domestic tasks are completed, and how consumers are "sold" on a product Series: Lives of American Women. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813347639
- ISBN
- 9780813347639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.43
€ 51.43
Hardback. Alaskans were introduced to the airplane as early as 1913, when town officials in Fairbanks invited stunt flyers James and Lilly Martin to fly over the local baseball park on July 4. This publication celebrates the 100th anniversary of this relationship. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; HBJK; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 245 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1026.
- Publisher
- Braun Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037681411
- ISBN
- 9783037681411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.57
€ 26.99
€ 23.57
Hardback. Explores Goethe's ethics of happiness and themes of resignation within them. Prandi uses Lucretius and Spinoza as models of influence for Goethe's "natural morality", considering the similarity between the three in their definition of what makes people rationally happy. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819189912
- ISBN
- 9780819189912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.68
€ 122.68
Paperback. Through its examination of the nature of propaganda and early modern reading practices, and of the central role women played in Protestant reform, Marvelous Protestantism establishes a new approach to interpreting post-Reformation English culture. Num Pages: 282 pages, 44, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405865
- ISBN
- 9781421405865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.33
€ 43.99
€ 37.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCR; HRCV4; HRCX6; JFSJ1; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166768
- ISBN
- 9780231166768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.68
€ 33.99
€ 24.68
Paperback. Beauty shops are places where women can enjoy the company of other women and exchange information or secrets. This work traces the development of the American beauty shop, from its largely separate racial origins, through white recognition of the "ethnic market", to the end of the 20th century. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1; KCCD; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780814793589
- ISBN
- 9780814793589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784993498
- ISBN
- 9781784993498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Paperback. A study of moral education in American universities that examines the consequences of the 19th-century debates over the purpose and pursuit of higher education, and the modernization efforts of the academic reformers of that era. Num Pages: 374 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCX; JNA; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226710204
- ISBN
- 9780226710204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.31
€ 43.99
€ 34.31
Paperback. A collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, it includes stories that tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage. Num Pages: 267 pages, 20 photos. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1DVWYC; BG; HBW; JFFD; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206342
- ISBN
- 9780520206342
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.47
€ 35.99
€ 26.47
Paperback. This study questions the idea that the introduction of coffee to Latin America forced most people to become landless proles working on large plantations. It suggests that small and medium-sized growers in Nicaragua were vital to the economy, constituting the farming and land-owning majority. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFSF; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780896802278
- ISBN
- 9780896802278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.62
€ 34.99
€ 31.62
Paperback. Traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a 'conceptual hierarchy' to a living cultural system. This book seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St Petersburg - with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives - to offer a view of an urban landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130323
- ISBN
- 9780691130323
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.21
€ 46.99
€ 33.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Franck, Julie; Bricmont, Jean. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: HPL; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144759
- ISBN
- 9780231144759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardcover. The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745682129
- ISBN
- 9780745682129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.38
€ 72.38
Paperback. The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745682136
- ISBN
- 9780745682136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
hardcover. Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802099228
- ISBN
- 9780802099228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.76
€ 54.76
Paperback. Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of European and Indian spaces created throughout the hemisphere during the colonial era. Editor(s): Barr, Juliana; Countryman, Edward. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 444 pages, 29 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1K; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL; RGC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223996
- ISBN
- 9780812223996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.71
€ 46.99
€ 41.71
Paperback. Explains in simple and straightforward language just what Heidegger's complex later philosophy is all about. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521006095
- ISBN
- 9780521006095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.29
€ 23.29