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Hardcover. Examines several types of data relevant to ancient Maya dance, including hieroglyphic texts, pictorial images in diverse media, and architecture. This title illustrates the application of various analytical methodologies and offers interpretations of the form, meaning, and social significance of dance performance. Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 color photographs, 160 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; AC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 288 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1096.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292709881
ISBN
9780292709881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.87

Paperback. Presents the comprehensive history of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBTK; JPWQ; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283855
ISBN
9780520283855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.70

Paperback. Provides the analysis of the political, religious and social rationale which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. This book serves as a source of biographical information about hundreds of Huguenot soldiers in British, Dutch and Brandenburg service in the period 1670 to 1700. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBW; JWL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191450
ISBN
9781845191450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.30

Paperback. Schomberg held high command in British, Portuguese, and French armies. But it is as second-in-command to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution that he is chiefly remembered. He died at the famous battle of the Boyne, a fitting end to a very pub Num Pages: 249 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903900611
ISBN
9781903900611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.00

Hardcover. Provides an analysis of the political, religious, and social rationale, which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. In the context of the Huguenot exodus from France and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the role of the Huguenot soldiers within an international Protestant political context is also explained. Num Pages: 230 pages, genealogy table. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902210827
ISBN
9781902210827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.54

Hardcover. Schomberg held high command in British, Portuguese, and French armies. But it is as second-in-command to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution that he is chiefly remembered. He died at the famous battle of the Boyne, a fitting end to a very pub Num Pages: 249 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903900604
ISBN
9781903900604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.33

Hardback. Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. Editor(s): Grant, Matthew; Ziemann, Benjamin. Series Editor(s): Jones, Max. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784994402
ISBN
9781784994402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405919142
ISBN
9781405919142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. .
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846273315
ISBN
9781846273315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.73

Paperback. Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region. Editor(s): Gutmann, Matthew C.; Lesser, Jeffrey. Series: Global Square. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 maps, 30 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JM; HBJK; JFFN; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520277731
ISBN
9780520277731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.82

Paperback. In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science. Num Pages: 474 pages, 31 halftones, 5 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBTP; PDX; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184883
ISBN
9780226184883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.33

Paperback. In his provocative book Matthew Kramer offers a systematic theory of freedom that challenges most of the other major contemporary treatments of the topic. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; LAB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 767.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199545735
ISBN
9780199545735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.88

Hardback. Offers a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty. This book explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Num Pages: 499 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 37. Weight in Grams: 806.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520287037
ISBN
9780520287037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.45

Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804745598
ISBN
9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.47

Hardback. Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Editor(s): Hammond, Matthew. Series: Studies in Celtic History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings, 8 black and white, 2 li. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838531
ISBN
9781843838531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.55

Hardback. A Mentor Commentary. BIC Classification: HR. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 31. Weight in Grams: 734.
Publisher
Christian Focus Publications Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781914281
ISBN
9781781914281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 728 pages, 12 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFSL4; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774830041
ISBN
9780774830041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.75

Paperback. Taking advantage of advances throughout the sciences, this title shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly fourteen billion years ago. Num Pages: 256 pages, 58 halftones, 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: HDW; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226322933
ISBN
9780226322933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRCL1; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Christian Heritage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857920680
ISBN
9781857920680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.69

Hardback. Num Pages: 2512 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 284 x 223 x 60. Weight in Grams: 2602. 2512 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRCG1. Dimension: 284 x 223 x 60. Weight: 2558.
Publisher
Hendrickson Publishers Inc
Number of pages
2512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598562750
ISBN
9781598562750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.48

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