Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Editor(s): Martin, Dave. Series: Re-discovering the Past. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour illustrations, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 4KHN; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 272 x 213 x 5. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Hodder Education United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719585463
- ISBN
- 9780719585463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.06
€ 32.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Fiehn, Terry. Series: Re-discovering the Past. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour illustrations, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; 4KHN; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 257 x 214 x 6. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Hodder Education United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719585449
- ISBN
- 9780719585449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.16
€ 32.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Fiehn, Terry. Series: Re-discovering the Past. Num Pages: 136 pages, colour illustrations, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 4KHN; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 276 x 214 x 8. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Hodder Education United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719585487
- ISBN
- 9780719585487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.16
€ 32.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Huckabee, David C. Num Pages: 47 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 47
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590335093
- ISBN
- 9781590335093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.43
€ 40.99
€ 29.43
Hardcover. This book demonstrates that many domestic and regional sociopolitical and cultural changes credited to the 1952 revolutionaries began decades before the July coup. Arguing against the view of the pre-revolutionary era in Egypt as one of decay, the volume considers the 1919-1952 years as integral to nation-state formation and social transformation. Editor(s): Goldschmidt, Arthur; Johnson, Amy J.; Salmoni, Barak A. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789774249006
- ISBN
- 9789774249006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.75
€ 24.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. As a reaction to rationalism and functionalist Moderne, the post-modern style developed in the 1970s; the idea was that architecture was to acquire a new identity by employing traditional means. This book analyzes discrepancies in architectural theory and the processes that led to a revaluation in the history of architectural production. Editor(s): Moravanszky, Akos; Lange, Torsten; Hopfengartner, Judith; Kegler, Karl. Num Pages: 336 pages, 145 colour illustrations, 145 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 248 x 23. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Publisher
- Birkhauser
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783035610178
- ISBN
- 9783035610178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 44.38
€ 46.99
€ 44.38
Paperback. After the WWII, the need for reconstruction influenced the architectural style in Europe. This volume illustrates that the debate on the humanization of the built environment was carried out with great intensity in the East as well as in the West, irrespective of their political system, that led to similar concepts. Editor(s): Moravanszky, Akos; Lange, Torsten; Hopfengartner, Judith; Kegler, Karl. Num Pages: 376 pages, 170 colour illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 170 farb. Abb., 3 schw.-w. Tab. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 248 x 26. Weight in Grams: 918.
- Publisher
- Birkhauser
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783035610154
- ISBN
- 9783035610154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 44.38
€ 46.99
€ 44.38
Paperback. Written with the assistance, of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, this book gives an account of how pop art, the avant garde underground of the 1960s, and the heady slipstream of London in the sixties was transformed into the fashion cults of revivalism, nostalgia and pop futurism in the early 1970s. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACXJ1; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571229864
- ISBN
- 9780571229864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.35
€ 18.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of hitherto unknown dimensions. The new possibilities offered by science and industry paved the way to large-scale projects in architecture and urban design. This book deals with this topic. Editor(s): Moravanszky, Akos; Lange, Torsten; Hopfengartner, Judith; Kegler, Karl R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 165 colour illustrations, 165 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 246 x 21. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Publisher
- Birkhauser
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783035610161
- ISBN
- 9783035610161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 44.38
€ 46.99
€ 44.38
Paperback. Examines the feature film production of Fascist-era Italy Editor(s): Reich, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; APFA; HBG; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215185
- ISBN
- 9780253215185
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.33
€ 25.99
€ 24.33
Paperback. The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304356744
- ISBN
- 9780304356744
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
paperback. Analyzes late 20th-century responses to feminism, and asks: to what extent does the concept of backlash accurately explain reactions to feminism over time? This book offers feminists and other activists empirically grounded knowledge that can be used to develop legal and political strategies for change. Editor(s): Chunn, Dorothy E.; Boyd, Susan B.; Lessard, Hester. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, approx. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; JFFK; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814126
- ISBN
- 9780774814126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.70
€ 40.99
€ 36.70
Hardcover. This study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyze the fear of reading in 19th century France. The author presents a series of case studies of actual readers. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; CFC; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333921265
- ISBN
- 9780333921265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.68€ 140.76
€ 142.68
€ 140.76
Hardcover. A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135773
- ISBN
- 9781571135773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardback. This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society. Series Editor(s): Lake, Peter; Milton, Anthony; Peacey, Jason; Gajda, Alexandra. Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080241
- ISBN
- 9780719080241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.28
€ 157.28
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New Directi...
Towheed, Shafquat, King, Edmund
Hardcover. Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302700
- ISBN
- 9781137302700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Hardcover. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. This book unravels the complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and tells the story of its transformation. It presents us with a new understanding of the relationship between time and modernity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HBTB; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226257723
- ISBN
- 9780226257723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.07€ 49.03
€ 57.07
€ 49.03
Hardcover. Borrowing from translation and reading studies and weaving together the history of science with intellectual history, this title explores Darwin's global appeal from the perspective of several generations of Arabic readers and shows how Darwin's writings helped alter the social and epistemological landscape of the Arab learned classes. Num Pages: 440 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRAM3; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226001302
- ISBN
- 9780226001302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.12€ 79.61
€ 95.12
€ 79.61
Hardback. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801898747
- ISBN
- 9780801898747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.07€ 72.22
€ 79.07
€ 72.22
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007659
- ISBN
- 9780230007659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.01
€ 129.01
Hardback. Sonia Ryang casts new light on the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themes--love, war, and self--that reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062474
- ISBN
- 9780674062474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.32
€ 45.99
€ 38.32
Paperback. With the expansion of the publishing industry between the 16th and 18th centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people. This work examines the proliferation of romances in early modern England, as well as their vilification by elite writers. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; FRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123792
- ISBN
- 9780231123792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
With the expansion of the publishing industry between the 16th and 18th centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people. This work examines the proliferation of romances in early modern England, as well as their vilification by elite writers. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; FRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123785
- ISBN
- 9780231123785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 135.20
€ 135.20
Hardcover. Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Num Pages: 270 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438. Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China 1919-37. 272 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 1 charts. Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KNTJ. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 21. Weight: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019829
- ISBN
- 9780230019829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85