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By tracing the varied role of women as producers and distributors of welfare during the period 1780-1930 in both metropolitan and provincial contexts, this collection argues that philanthropy predated, shaped and co-existed with the formation of the "classical" welfare state. It highlights the bias of gender and class in social work. Editor(s): Jordansson, Birgitta; Vammen, Tinne. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778383396
- ISBN
- 9788778383396
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.98
€ 30.99
€ 22.98
Paperback. The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. In this fifth volume of the series "History of the American Cinema", the author examines various aspects of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 483 pages, 165 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 483
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203341
- ISBN
- 9780520203341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 39.95
€ 45.99
€ 39.95
Hardback. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 237 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509505654
- ISBN
- 9781509505654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.74
€ 30.74
Paperback. Series: Teatro. Num Pages: 142 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; DD; HBJD; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Linkgua Ediciones Spain
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788498164985
- ISBN
- 9788498164985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.51
€ 16.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRK; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Mandala Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781886069718
- ISBN
- 9781886069718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.53
€ 13.99
€ 13.53
Paperback. Tise Vahimagi details in this text the development of the "Gangster" genre, and "The Untouchables"'s relations to American cinema and television of the 1950s and 1960s, offering a sidelight on the social and political events of the period. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HBTB; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851705637
- ISBN
- 9780851705637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.25
€ 37.99
€ 32.25
hardcover. Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), the years that are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution. Editor(s): Tismaneanu, Vladimir. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639776555
- ISBN
- 9789639776555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.51
€ 236.51
Hardcover. Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208292
- ISBN
- 9780872208292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.66€ 47.00
€ 59.66
€ 47.00
Paperback. Includes text in English and Spanish. This work is the translation of Titu Cusi Yupangui's "Instrucion" - an account of the Conquest by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire. It features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208285
- ISBN
- 9780872208285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.13
€ 27.99
€ 21.13
Paperback. Offers reflections on human embodiment and emotion, commitment and freedom, reason and moral theory. This book explores how metaphysics serves psychology, writes on confronting reductionist notions of biology, and discusses the historical context for understanding religious freedom. Editor(s): Titus, Craig Steven. Series: John Henry Cardinal Newman Lecture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780977310364
- ISBN
- 9780977310364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.80
€ 35.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 193 x 4. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The Sri Lanka Institute of Traditional Studies Sri Lanka
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789559028055
- ISBN
- 9789559028055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.79
€ 14.99
€ 13.79
Paperback. A colored window onto the lofty intellectual and spiritual climate that conceived the marvel that is Gothic architecture. It features a new appendix with three sections, a Foreword, and 25 fresh illustrations. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGR; AMN; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 301 x 212 x 14. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933316772
- ISBN
- 9781933316772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.26
€ 24.99
€ 24.26
Paperback. Titus Burckhardt was a renowned expert on the art of traditional worlds. This book takes the reader through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon architecture, iconography, and illumination. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 colour photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 204 x 11. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- World Wisdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933316123
- ISBN
- 9781933316123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.72
€ 19.72
Paperback. In this volume of the New Church's Teaching Series, Titus Presler offers a fresh vision of mission in the multicultural environment of a global community. Series: New Church's Teaching. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cowley Publications
- Edition
- Underlining/Spine Lean
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781561011902
- ISBN
- 9781561011902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.71
€ 13.71
Paperback. An account of survival is told by a Budapest lawyer who secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife and his two children following the invasion of the Germans in March 1944. Translator(s): Tonkin, Humphrey. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BGHA; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841951805
- ISBN
- 9781841951805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.25
€ 14.99
€ 11.25
Paperback. Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 416 pages, 45 h/t, 1 line, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285637
- ISBN
- 9780520285637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.41
€ 39.41
Paperback. House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872673
- ISBN
- 9780807872673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.20
€ 55.20
Paperback. Buried under a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the eruption of Vesuvius, the remarkable preservation of this Early Bronze Age village in Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. Here, micromorphology is used to identify the type and range of human activities, the function of features and buildings, and the intensity of site occupation. Num Pages: 210 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 300 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Archaeopress United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784912116
- ISBN
- 9781784912116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 97.70
€ 97.70
Paperback. A gripping memoir about the fated love affair between a Hindu monk and a Western woman in the Indian Himalayas. Num Pages: 327 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; BM; HRLK; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Number of pages
- 327
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780999166
- ISBN
- 9781780999166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.87
€ 20.99
€ 19.87
Hardcover. Editor(s): Tlusty, B.Ann. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603848428
- ISBN
- 9781603848428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.62€ 41.09
€ 51.62
€ 41.09
Paperback. Editor(s): Tlusty, B.Ann. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603848411
- ISBN
- 9781603848411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.65
€ 20.99
€ 16.65
paperback. Told through the letters of a young Irish officer, this is the story of Irish soldiers in the First World War and the capture of the Flemish village of Wijtschate on the Messines ridge, just south of Ypres in June 1917. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBG; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The Mercier Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781174845
- ISBN
- 9781781174845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.93
€ 19.99
€ 6.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KB; HRKT; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Crossing Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580911498
- ISBN
- 9781580911498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.28
€ 13.99
€ 13.28
Paperback. Blowing the myths wide open, this exciting exploration of the notorious Aleister Crowley, packed with previously unpublished information, is the true story of a poet, explorer, mystic, mountaineer, philosopher, prophet and spy Num Pages: 496 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Publisher
- Watkins Media Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780283845
- ISBN
- 9781780283845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.85
€ 38.99
€ 25.85