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Paperback. Intended as a general guide to the obelisks that have found their way to the four corners of the earth, this book examines the interest shown in them by the Roman emperors; it discusses each obelisk in detail, and traces individual histories and anecdotes concerning their journeys from Egypt. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675303
ISBN
9781904675303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.13

Paperback. Series: Foundations in Global Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: HBJF; JFFS; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780765639677
ISBN
9780765639677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.74

Paperback. Lucrative and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. This title offers a look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade. It explains the working mechanisms of the fur trade and explores how and why it evolved in a North Atlantic context. Editor(s): Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Num Pages: 702 pages, 9 photographs, 5 maps, 14 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJD; HBTB; JFSL9; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
702
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243293
ISBN
9780803243293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black/white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785700798
ISBN
9781785700798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.76

Paperback. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803281165
ISBN
9780803281165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.72

Paperback. An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700617593
ISBN
9780700617593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 45 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 1KBBSM; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFFC; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691168838
ISBN
9780691168838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes towards world geography from the end of 19th century exploration to the dawn of the Cold War. The work discusses the study of geography and its place in culture and politics Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 halftones, 7 line drawings, 22 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTP; RGR; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226740560
ISBN
9780226740560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Hardback. In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Num Pages: 272 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGV. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 189 x 265 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226740683
ISBN
9780226740683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.49

Paperback. In the 19th century, Americans began to use maps in extraordinary new ways. Medical men mapped diseases to understand epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate to uncover weather patterns, and Northerners created slave maps to assess the power of the South. This book charts how thematic maps demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103969
ISBN
9780226103969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native people in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. This title addresses key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest. Editor(s): Schroeder, Susan. Num Pages: 273 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194758
ISBN
9781845194758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.23

Hardback. The Spaniards portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. This volume addresses aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism. Editor(s): Schroeder, Susan. Num Pages: 273 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192990
ISBN
9781845192990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.15

Hardcover. This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. * Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. * Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Editor(s): Schreibman, Susan; Siemens, Ray; Unsworth, John. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GL; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1080.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405103213
ISBN
9781405103213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 229.08

Hardcover. Num Pages: 271 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; DN; DSB; HBG; HBJF; HBLL; JPQB; JPS; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 585. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821412688
ISBN
9780821412688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.32

Hardback. 2nd Ed. Num Pages: 832 pages, NO. BIC Classification: HP. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470674062
ISBN
9780470674062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.08

Hardback. Science fiction is more than mere entertainment. Historian H. Bruce Franklin defines it as "the literature which, growing with science and technology, evaluates it and relates it meaningfully to the rest of human existence. " Indeed, science fiction is increasingly converging with science fact. Editor(s): Schneider, Susan. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405149068
ISBN
9781405149068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.37

Paperback. Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Editor(s): Schneider, Susan. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118922613
ISBN
9781118922613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 299 x 14. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Kevin Mayhew Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840030099
ISBN
9781840030099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.80

Paperback. How did Tennessee become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women recognizes the women who shaped the "Volunteer State." Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and paintings. Series: More Than Petticoats Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BG; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 12.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762769810
ISBN
9780762769810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 205 x 24. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Caitlin Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894759762
ISBN
9781894759762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.43

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