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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Veblen's landmark study of affluent American society exposes the 'pecuniary culture' and 'conspicuous consumption' that results when unessential goods are exploited at the expense of production of true value. This new edition examines Veblen's still pertinent arguments. Editor(s): Banta, Martha. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JH; JFC; JFSC; JHBA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199552580
- ISBN
- 9780199552580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Explores the role played by the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist Party (Seccion Femenina de la Falange - SF) in promoting women's political and professional rights within the authoritarian Franco regime in Spain. This book demonstrates how the SF's national leadership promoted an autonomous social and political agenda. Num Pages: 160 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFSJ1; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194116
- ISBN
- 9781845194116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington. Editor(s): Seaward, Paul. Series: Parliamentary History Book Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444332896
- ISBN
- 9781444332896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Hardcover. This is the first book to give a long-term and comprehensive account of the stories, the histories and the evolution of Irish museums and galleries. Num Pages: 594 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; GM; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1824.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 594
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184752
- ISBN
- 9781859184752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.00€ 38.37
€ 49.00
€ 38.37
Paperback. In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the modern condition: a hyperpluralism of beliefs, intellectual disagreements that splinter into fractals of specialized discourse, the absence of a substantive common good, and the triumph of capitalism s driver, consumerism." Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBTB; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088054
- ISBN
- 9780674088054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.92
€ 31.99
€ 26.92
Paperback. A critical and deeply informed survey of the brave new world of UK Higher Education emerging from government cuts and market-driven reforms. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JNAM; JNKG; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745332932
- ISBN
- 9780745332932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.95
€ 36.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. * A brilliant biography of one of our greatest politicians, from the highly acclaimed Roy Hattersley, out now in paperback Num Pages: 720 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 47. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349121109
- ISBN
- 9780349121109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardback. Editor(s): Tsang, Steve; Men, Honghua. Series: The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series. Num Pages: 373 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JMG; HBJF; HBLX; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319295480
- ISBN
- 9783319295480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.09
€ 228.09
Paperback. Sheds light on contemporary "foodie" culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814770030
- ISBN
- 9780814770030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 380 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JMC; AKT; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 344 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2802.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500519042
- ISBN
- 9780500519042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.29€ 57.50
€ 71.29
€ 57.50
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. For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. This is a history of the cotton in dictating the shape of our world. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBTK; HBTQ; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141979984
- ISBN
- 9780141979984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. Joe Stirling has been a high profile, well-known resident of Norwich for 65 years. The biography is based on hundreds of hours of interviews over three years with Joe, who shared his memories of over eight decades with the author. Num Pages: 240 pages, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BTP; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473843646
- ISBN
- 9781473843646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.66
€ 33.99
€ 24.66
Paperback. Explores the origins, development, combat use and lasting influence of Nazi Germany's automatic rifles, focusing on the Gew 41(W), Gew 43/Kar 43, FG 42 and MP 43/StG 44. This study provides a detailed technical description of each weapon, and also explores how the firearms performed on the battlefields of World War II. Illustrator(s): Bujeiro, Ramiro. Series: Warrior. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 186 x 6. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780963853
- ISBN
- 9781780963853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.63
€ 19.00
€ 15.63
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719065903
- ISBN
- 9780719065903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.00€ 64.09
€ 101.00
€ 64.09
Hardback. Series: History of Photography. Num Pages: 1376 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 354 x 262 x 166. Weight in Grams: 8130.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857226828
- ISBN
- 9788857226828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.23€ 138.01
€ 178.23
€ 138.01
Paperback. Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin are the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam. This book compares the paths taken by these thinkers, exploring how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HRAB; HRLK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691005409
- ISBN
- 9780691005409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.35€ 51.34
€ 65.35
€ 51.34
Paperback. In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AB; HRC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 194 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361732
- ISBN
- 9780822361732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.87
€ 31.99
€ 28.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 123 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752489872
- ISBN
- 9780752489872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. The private life of Marie Antionette Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845886387
- ISBN
- 9781845886387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
Paperback. Exploring the struggles of the American elites as they tried to maintain a democratic, modern mass society, this text reveals the limits of a system ultimately benefiting an abstract "average" consumer. It exposes the internal contradictions that would undermine Americans' belief in their ideology. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226994628
- ISBN
- 9780226994628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. Blending memoir, history and biography, the author uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, which in turn unleash vivid childhood memories of a lost and idealistic world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BM; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478973
- ISBN
- 9780099478973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.90
€ 15.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786449439
- ISBN
- 9780786449439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16
Paperback. On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead, he woke up without a job. Twenty-one years earlier he had left a promising career in journalism to work for Labour in opposition. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; BGHA; JPFF; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784755935
- ISBN
- 9781784755935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61