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Paperback. What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? "Losing Our Heads" explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. Num Pages: 255 pages, black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742709
- ISBN
- 9780814742709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
paperback. Despite the expansion of higher education, representation, level of participation and likelihood of academic success remain highest amongst young people from affluent areas and lowest amongst those from deprived neighbourhoods. This report identifies factors which impact upon the minority of disadvantaged young people who enter higher education. Num Pages: 76 pages, 4figs.23tabs. BIC Classification: JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861345080
- ISBN
- 9781861345080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.68
€ 26.99
€ 26.68
Hardback. Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee populations that rise above description.. Series: Refugee & Forced Migration Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 maps, 5 tables, 7 graphs, 7 ills. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFFD; JFFN; JFSF; JHM; JPVH1; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571810830
- ISBN
- 9781571810830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.65
€ 154.65
paperback. Losing the News is a vivid depiction of the dangers facing fact-based, reported news, but it is also a call to arms. Despite the current crisis, there are many hopeful signs, and Jones closes by looking over the horizon and exploring ways the iron core can be preserved. Series: Institutions of American Democracy Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFD; KNT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780199754144
- ISBN
- 9780199754144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.57
€ 20.99
€ 19.57
Paperback. This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BM; HBJH; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783780990
- ISBN
- 9781783780990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFH; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Adventures Unlimited Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780932813251
- ISBN
- 9780932813251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.29
€ 19.29
Paperback. Translator(s): Moshenberg, Daniel. Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- new edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351177
- ISBN
- 9781584351177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.39
€ 16.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling new discoveries for the paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828854
- ISBN
- 9780753828854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Terpstra's meticulous investigation not only uncovers the sad fate of the lost girls of the Casa della Pieta but explores broader themes, including gender relations, public health, church politics, and the challenges girls and adolescent women faced in Renaissance Florence. Num Pages: 266 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC1; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421407722
- ISBN
- 9781421407722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.63
€ 42.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages, 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JFHF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764335686
- ISBN
- 9780764335686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.13
€ 18.99
€ 14.13
Hardback. Linking the study of business and politics, this book reconstructs the debate over the development of the book trade in 19th-century France. It shows how publishers succeeded in transforming the industry from a tightly controlled trade into a free enterprise, with dramatic but paradoxical consequences for literature in France. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 346 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; CBW; HBJD; JFCA; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035768
- ISBN
- 9780674035768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.60€ 59.21
€ 64.60
€ 59.21
Hardback. Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QFM; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 280. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129112
- ISBN
- 9780691129112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252040900
- ISBN
- 9780252040900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.19
€ 118.19
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252082382
- ISBN
- 9780252082382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428664
- ISBN
- 9780099428664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.84
€ 14.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. A lively and eye-opening popular history of Islamic civilisation Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849046893
- ISBN
- 9781849046893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. Series: Dover Occult. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 162. 144 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFSV1. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 9. Weight: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition
- 4 Revised
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486473772
- ISBN
- 9780486473772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.71
€ 11.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Thinkers at the forefront in alternative theories on history, the origins of civilization, technology, and consciousness. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591431176
- ISBN
- 9781591431176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.16
€ 19.16
Paperback. A colouring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves, from the creator of the worldwide bestsellers, Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest. It also features a large double-sided pull-out poster to colour and keep. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: AKLB; JFHF; MQTC; WF; WNCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 253 x 15. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753557150
- ISBN
- 9780753557150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Hardcover. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HB; AV; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226327068
- ISBN
- 9780226327068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.05€ 78.49
€ 94.05
€ 78.49