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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, there is a clear need to look further than the simple image of a failed state so often portrayed in the media. This title offers an understanding of this remarkable and highly contradictory country. Num Pages: 592 pages, 16 pp. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 201 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141038247
ISBN
9780141038247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. An updated and revised account of economic and political decision-making in Pakistan during 1971-77 under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Questioning the reasons for Bhutto's reversal of policy in 1974, the author argues that Bhutto's actions were influenced by prominent social groups. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JJPL; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333450864
ISBN
9780333450864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

hardcover. A study of Pakistan's foreign policy with an emphasis on geostrategic environment. This book undertakes a critical review of Pakistan's interaction at the bilateral, regional and international levels, focusing mainly on the period from 1972 to the present. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
1993rd Edition
SKU
V9780333565544
ISBN
9780333565544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718829421
ISBN
9780718829421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.48

Paperback. A beautiful showcase of David Reed s 1974 75 paintings and related works. Num Pages: 200 pages, 100 Colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; ACXJ; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 185. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Gagosian/Rizzoli
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847859368
ISBN
9780847859368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 37.67

Hardcover. Cultural modernity has habitually been defined as a focus on the means of representation themselves, as opposed to art that imitates external reality or expresses its maker's inner life. This study in cultural history explores how Spanish culture took a radical turn toward the medium of representation itself in the 1850s and early 1860s. Num Pages: 364 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; ACV; AFC; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
364
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911137
ISBN
9781575911137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.73

Paperback. Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The book covers various areas including works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism. Series: The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series. Num Pages: 621 pages, 75 colour plates, 232 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; ACV; ACX; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 940.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
621
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
6th Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300056495
ISBN
9780300056495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 96 colour, 98 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; ACN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 303 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271029559
ISBN
9780271029559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.94
€ 46.12

Paperback. An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 colour plates, numerous black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; ACN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
191
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192821447
ISBN
9780192821447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1QDAK; 3JD; HDD; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 268 x 19 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1084.
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884024187
ISBN
9780884024187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.43
€ 64.19

Paperback. The book ends with the 2003 OxyContin arrest of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, a cautionary tale about deregulation and the widening gaps between the overmedicated and the undertreated. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15, 11 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; JPA; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418407
ISBN
9781421418407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.47

Paperback. What does it mean for a society to be so closely identified with both inflicting and withstanding enormous suffering? This work reconsiders Germany's past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy and urban history. Editor(s): Betts, Paul; Eghigian, Greg. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739382
ISBN
9780804739382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history. It explores pain at the intersection of the living, suffering body, and the discursive cultural webs that entangle it in its specific moment. Editor(s): Boddice, Robert Gregory. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3J; HBLL; HBTB; MBX; MMBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137372420
ISBN
9781137372420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardback. The education of humanity is the key to 21st-century culture, social and practical life. The main concerns of education are perennial, but the continuous flood of inventions, technological innovations that re-shape life, demands a re-appraisal of the situation, such as only philosophy can provide. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 498 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
498
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792363194
ISBN
9780792363194
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 259.20

Paperback. Translator(s): Baldick, Robert. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590171905
ISBN
9781590171905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region. Num Pages: 384 pages, 43 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; JFCK; JFFJ; JFSL3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469629865
ISBN
9781469629865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.08

Paperback. A book of inspiration and the real-life stories of Pagans who are walking their talk. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782797838
ISBN
9781782797838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.34

Hardcover. Few army chaplains had as varied a career during the First World War as the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke. A regular army chaplain who had seen service in the Boer War he was mobilised with 54 other chaplains at the start of hostilities. He went to France with 4 Field Ambulance where he was taken prisoner by the Germans at the end of August 1914. Editor(s): Howson, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; BJ; HBWN; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Helion and Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910294703
ISBN
9781910294703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.39

Paperback. Packaging the Presidency, third edition, is Jamieson's updated study of history of presidential campaign advertising. It offers an examination and criticism of every presidential election from 1952 to 1992. Num Pages: 608 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JPHF; JPVL; KJSA; KJSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 30. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195089424
ISBN
9780195089424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.46

Paperback. Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC99. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411279
ISBN
9781421411279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.81

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 1018 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HPS; JPSF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
1018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691622361
ISBN
9780691622361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 162.53
€ 124.04

Hardcover. Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory. Series: Global Asia. Num Pages: 526 pages, 0 black and white; 36 full color. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBJQ; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 240 x 34. Weight in Grams: 916.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089644206
ISBN
9789089644206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.86
€ 194.97

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
597
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393343410
ISBN
9780393343410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396. The Making of the US-Canadian Borderlands. Series: American Crossroads. 264 pages, illustrations. In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. This book reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight: 396.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271692
ISBN
9780520271692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

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