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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa. Editor(s): Maltby, Richard; Stokes, Melvyn; Allen, Robert C. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 496 pages, approx. 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 36. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898126
ISBN
9780859898126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.11

Paperback. With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit the features of a 'developing country'; chronic debt, volatile growth and vulnerability to external events. Going South explains how this has happened, arguing that the time for quick fixes is over. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; KCJ; KCP; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230392540
ISBN
9780230392540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.36

Paperback. Compelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 248 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBT; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JFSL; JFSR1; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814797754
ISBN
9780814797754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.18

Paperback. In 1938, the author was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. In this title, he gives an account of his experiences in Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; BM; DSBH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955796
ISBN
9780241955796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Num Pages: 640 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JJPK; JFSL3; JPVH; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393330533
ISBN
9780393330533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.25

Paperback. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and diaries. Ritchie Robertson draws out key themes of his work and explains its lasting importance. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199689255
ISBN
9780199689255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor? This book answers these question. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 203 x 47. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099523697
ISBN
9780099523697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. A woman awakes in a prison cell. She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot. The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784700058
ISBN
9781784700058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the dramatic in architectural history. This book draws on letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. Num Pages: 624 pages, 8pp b/w, 8pp colour inset. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140280999
ISBN
9780140280999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.81

Paperback. June, 1890. The gas workers are on strike and Leeds is close to breaking point. Detective Inspector Tom Harper is more concerned with the disappearance of 8-year-old Martha Parkinson. Then he discovers that there may be a connection between Martha's disappearance and the murder of a replacement gas worker, stabbed to death outside the Town Hall. Series: A Det. Insp. Tom Harper Mystery. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JH; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Severn House Trade Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847515377
ISBN
9781847515377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.72

Paperback. Calendar art appears in all manner of contexts in India: in chic elite living rooms, middle-class kitchens, urban slums, and village huts. This book examines the power that calendar art wields in Indian mass culture, arguing that its meanings derive as much from the production and circulation of the images as from their visual features. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 448 pages, 156 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; ACBP; AFH; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339267
ISBN
9780822339267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

A survey of the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late-18th to the late-20th century, it includes a large collection of pictorial works. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 colour & 148 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; ACQ; ACV; ACX; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815606635
ISBN
9780815606635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 46.13

Paperback. Exploring the confrontation between atheism and the lower classes' traditional beliefs, this work offers a fresh interpretation of early Soviet efforts to create an atheistic, scientific society. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HRQA5; JH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875805955
ISBN
9780875805955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.39

Paperback. "Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinema" Translator(s): Michelson, A. Num Pages: 300 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; APFA; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 128 x 206 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Hachette Books United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306802591
ISBN
9780306802591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848404601
ISBN
9781848404601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.62

Paperback. This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804736664
ISBN
9780804736664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.57

Hardcover. This is an analysis of how 16th- and 17th-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. It argues that these schemes can solve the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and investigation interact. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3JD; 3JF; HRCM; PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268010454
ISBN
9780268010454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.38

Paperback. A fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellectual roots of Al Queda. Num Pages: 384 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349118796
ISBN
9780349118796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Publication date
2003
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574886955
ISBN
9781574886955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.38

Paperback. Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Michigan, 2009) under title: Becoming faithful: Christianity, literacy, and female consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 5 recorded music items, 2 maps, 11 photos, 2 maps, 5 char. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; BGX; BJ; HRCC7; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780295741758
ISBN
9780295741758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.39

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