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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall,establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBTB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110533
ISBN
9780230110533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Paperback. Visionary Film has been the dominant study of the American avant-garde cinema for twenty-five years. Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000. Num Pages: 480 pages, 77 halftones & 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195148862
ISBN
9780195148862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.70

Hardback. This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317--589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these two periods in comparative study, linking these historical moments in their unprecedented interactions, and intense fascination, with foreign cultures. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; 3JH; HBJF; HBLA; HBLL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062528
ISBN
9780674062528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Hardback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121705
ISBN
9780231121705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.56
€ 80.25

Paperback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231121712
ISBN
9780231121712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. This text contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the 11th and 16th centuries. Editor(s): Howe, Nicholas. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBG; HRCX8; HRLP7; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268028626
ISBN
9780268028626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Paperback. This text contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the 11th and 16th centuries. Editor(s): Howe, Nicholas. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HB; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268028633
ISBN
9780268028633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Studies Indian's development ideology via cinematic representations Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APFR; GTF; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849045711
ISBN
9781849045711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
271
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816612833
ISBN
9780816612833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Paperback. The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Using historical, psychological, and anthropological perspectives this book sets out to separate the voice of Isobel Gowdie from that of her interrogators, and to determine the experiences and beliefs which may have generated her confessions. Num Pages: 604 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JD; HRLK; HRQX5; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 174 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1072.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
604
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845191801
ISBN
9781845191801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.54

Paperback. Explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. The author focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the "Pure Film Movement", changed not only the way films were made, but also how they were conceived. Num Pages: 344 pages, 22 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Trade Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254565
ISBN
9780520254565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Visions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. Num Pages: 320 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AM; JFC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 790.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748614875
ISBN
9780748614875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.82
€ 114.65

Hardback. How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's pathbreaking book. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDT; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041997
ISBN
9781849041997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 53.33

Hardback. This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the "Second War for Independence." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108134
ISBN
9780230108134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473854321
ISBN
9781473854321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781592830
ISBN
9781781592830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

paperback. From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HRCX8; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802037763
ISBN
9780802037763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

hardcover. From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HRCX8; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802039354
ISBN
9780802039354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.53

Flexibound. An accessible and richly illustrated exploration of how art and design have driven major social and political change in the 21st century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; AKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 277 x 27. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714869704
ISBN
9780714869704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.09

Paperback. In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images. This title argues that these kinds of hyperbolic accounts were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 66 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075341
ISBN
9780226075341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

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