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Paperback. This comparative look at vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos brings the mythical image of the American cowboy into focus and detail and honors the regional and national variations. Series: M.K. Brown Range Life Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 163 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712409
- ISBN
- 9780292712409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.27
€ 31.99
€ 28.27
Hardback. Since 1993, "Vanity Fair" magazine has featured the celebrated Proust Questionnaire, in which a different noteworthy person each month answers the same series of probing personal questions. This title features responses of 100 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer. Illustrator(s): Risko, Robert. Editor(s): Carter, Graydon. Num Pages: 240 pages, colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Publisher
- Rodale Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605295954
- ISBN
- 9781605295954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.97
€ 24.99
€ 23.97
Hardback. Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book, the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day. Num Pages: 456 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 340 x 288 x 40. Weight in Grams: 3854.
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 8.11.2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781419708633
- ISBN
- 9781419708633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.56€ 55.12
€ 70.56
€ 55.12
Paperback. With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822330745
- ISBN
- 9780822330745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439911198
- ISBN
- 9781439911198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813574592
- ISBN
- 9780813574592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.87
€ 169.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813574585
- ISBN
- 9780813574585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.95
€ 40.99
€ 39.95
Hardback. Presents the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of NativeAmerican patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 424 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJ; JFSL9; JKSM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803280984
- ISBN
- 9780803280984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.10
€ 38.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBFT; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845888855
- ISBN
- 9781845888855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 16.46
€ 26.99
€ 16.46
Paperback. Explains why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. This book describes how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 halftones, 3 line illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFC; JFFE; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691074542
- ISBN
- 9780691074542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.90
€ 52.92
€ 41.90
Paperback. Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires. Num Pages: 244 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBT; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164817
- ISBN
- 9780300164817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.44
€ 24.99
€ 18.44
paperback. Regardless of time, place, and blood type, Laura Enright cordially invites you into the dark underworld of the vampire. She sheds light (but not too much) on this captivating, age-defying creature by exploring topics ranging from the powers it can possess to what will kill it - for good. Series: Most Wanted. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597976787
- ISBN
- 9781597976787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.25
€ 16.99
€ 16.25
This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313364723
- ISBN
- 9780313364723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 87.20
€ 87.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Weiser Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578635603
- ISBN
- 9781578635603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.74
€ 18.99
€ 18.74
textbook. An annotated bibliography of 779 entries divided into five sections: Novels; Anthologies and Novellas; Young Adult; Additional Readings; Unread Undead. Separate author and title indexes are included. Illustrator(s): Temo, Joan. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GBCR; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780810835047
- ISBN
- 9780810835047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.22
€ 79.22
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857850751
- ISBN
- 9780857850751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.57
€ 35.99
€ 30.57
Hardcover. Valuing Older People: Positive Psychological Practice applies Social Role Valorization (SRV) and positive psychology principles to our thinking about how we can contribute to better humanitarian care for people in later life. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSG; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 17. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470683354
- ISBN
- 9780470683354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.44
€ 120.44
Paperback. Valuing Older People: Positive Psychological Practice applies Social Role Valorization (SRV) and positive psychology principles to our thinking about how we can contribute to better humanitarian care for people in later life. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JKSG; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470683347
- ISBN
- 9780470683347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.04
€ 52.04
Paperback. How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing. Editor(s): Edmondson, Ricca; Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim von. Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847422910
- ISBN
- 9781847422910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.08
€ 41.99
€ 39.08
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847422927
- ISBN
- 9781847422927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.99
€ 95.99
Paperback. Universities are increasingly taking an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations but they, their funders and institutions struggle to articulate the value of this work. This book addresses the key challenges in collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Editor(s): Facer, Keri; Pahl, Kate. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBC; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447331629
- ISBN
- 9781447331629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570617
- ISBN
- 9780813570617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.87
€ 169.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570600
- ISBN
- 9780813570600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.74
€ 43.74
Hardcover. This insightful book offers business advice that has endured for thousands of years. While business fads come and go, the ancient lessons of the Talmud are timeless, profound, ethical, and practical-and they're for everyone. Values, Prosperity, and the Talmud is a concise guide to this proven philosophy of business. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC; JFSR1; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471444411
- ISBN
- 9780471444411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.59
€ 26.99
€ 21.59