Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JD; HPCD; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894435
- ISBN
- 9780801894435
Condition: New
€ 88.91
€ 88.91
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States...
. Ed(S): United States Congress; Bowling, Ken...
A rich source of information about the members of Congress, their lives in New York, their concerns about their families, and the services they performed for their constituents, the documents from these three new volumes will be incorporated into The Early Republic, an innovative online reference hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Editor(s): United States Congress; Bowling, Kenneth R.; DiGiacomantonio, William Charles; Veit, Helen E. Series: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Num Pages: 1136 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894466
- ISBN
- 9780801894466
Condition: New
€ 148.71
€ 148.71
His findings reshape our understanding of scientific discourse in this critical period and contribute to the growing field of cross-cultural Christian-Muslim studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QRM; 3JB; 3JD; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894763
- ISBN
- 9780801894763
Condition: New
€ 66.72
€ 66.72
Paperback. This sequel to the bestselling, American Book Award-winning Lakota Woman continues the dramatic story of Mary Brave Bird's life as a Native American in white-dominated society. Brave Bird shares the sorrow of her divorce from American Indian Movement leader Leonard Crow Dog, and her present happiness asa new wife and mother. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JFFJ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802143396
- ISBN
- 9780802143396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.80
€ 15.99
€ 14.80
Hardcover. Martin Sandler breaks new ground with an in depth look at Japanese internment during WWII Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSL1; JWXR. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 272 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802722775
- ISBN
- 9780802722775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.33
€ 26.99
€ 25.33
Hardcover. Examining rents and taxes in 19th- and 20th-century China, this text shows how in real terms, tax burdens on landlords rose due to higher state levies. Simultaneously, rents earned by landlords fell due to state interference and peasant resistance, csusing a progressive weakening of landlord power. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718806
- ISBN
- 9780804718806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.58
€ 106.58
Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict. Series: Cold War International History Project. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FMV; 3JJP; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747127
- ISBN
- 9780804747127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.17
€ 82.17
The Self and It makes a fresh and bold intervention in histories and theories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects proliferating in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel as vital tools for fashioning the modern self. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756969
- ISBN
- 9780804756969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.77
€ 84.77
This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763844
- ISBN
- 9780804763844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.30
€ 38.30
Hardcover. An introduction to contemporary Latin American narrative published in the 1970s, presenting ten major writers. Num Pages: 168 pages, Plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810813595
- ISBN
- 9780810813595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.10
€ 87.10
Hardcover. Attempts to advance the understanding of Russia by listing, categorizing, and describing some 600 recent books concerning Russia, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. All books included were published between 1991 and 1996 (inclusive). Series: Magill Bibliographies S. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPR; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832985
- ISBN
- 9780810832985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.56
€ 153.56
The first full-length account of the life and work of Joseph H. Lewis, the noted director of films such as My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and The Halliday Brand (1957). Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834071
- ISBN
- 9780810834071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.81
€ 91.81
The memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary Hollywood story of someone who was there from the very beginning. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810834323
- ISBN
- 9780810834323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.40
€ 87.40
Hardcover. Presents information in concise and informative entries on many of the significant civilian and military persons, crucial diplomatic and political actions, as well as the essential military aspects of the Persian Gulf War. Series: Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution & Civil Unrest. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJPR; GBC; HBJF1; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810835115
- ISBN
- 9780810835115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.11
€ 162.11
Hardcover. This work attempts to provide short profiles of Africa's leaders and their main challengers. It concentrates on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. Each profile has a short assessment of their character and career followed by a life history. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JM; GTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840195
- ISBN
- 9780810840195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.72
€ 126.72
Terry Gibbs, jazz vibraphonist and bandleader, was 12 years old when he began his career as a professional musician. This autobiography tracks jazz from the turbulent post-war years through the rise of bebop, traversing its changes through the eyes of a practitioner. A discography is included. Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 368 pages, 33 b&w photographs, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVGJ; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810845862
- ISBN
- 9780810845862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.50
€ 89.50
Paperback. Series: The A to Z Guide Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; GBC; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 30. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810855939
- ISBN
- 9780810855939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.76
€ 69.76
Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810872660
- ISBN
- 9780810872660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 140.42
€ 140.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; 3JJP; 3JMC; AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810877498
- ISBN
- 9780810877498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.65
€ 145.65
Hardcover. Series: Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras. Num Pages: 1032 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; GBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 65. Weight in Grams: 1730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 1032
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810878174
- ISBN
- 9780810878174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.62
€ 191.62