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Paperback. Describes preservation programs in Seattle and King County, how they developed, and the extent of protection offered landmark properties. The descriptions and photographs in this book provide a guide to individual buildings and landmark districts, demonstrating how each played a part in the remarkably swift development of county and city. Num Pages: 240 pages, 260 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; AM; JFF; TNKX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 17. Weight in Grams: 785.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295978468
- ISBN
- 9780295978468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.95
€ 41.95
Paperback. Introduces an area of scientific research: materials science. This book describes how scientists are inventing materials, ranging from synthetic skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselves and adapt to their environment, that swell and flex like muscles, that repel any ink or paint, and that capture and store the energy of the Sun. Num Pages: 472 pages, 17 color illus. 61 halftones 83 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFC; PD; PN; TGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691009759
- ISBN
- 9780691009759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50
Paperback. Hobbes' extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. This book argues that it was Hobbes who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143255
- ISBN
- 9780691143255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.39
€ 36.99
€ 27.39
paperback. Primordial, mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuenai of South America, available in English for the first time ever Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 photographs; 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFHF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075704
- ISBN
- 9780252075704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.29
€ 25.99
€ 24.29
Kentucky native Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) was at the forefront of the suffrage movement at both the state and national levels. Breckinridge inherited a sense of noblesse oblige that compelled her to speak for women's rights. This title recounts the remarkable life of this well-known vanguard of social change in the commonwealth. Series: Topics in Kentucky History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; BGH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813125329
- ISBN
- 9780813125329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.10
€ 46.10
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609805579
- ISBN
- 9781609805579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.21
€ 18.99
€ 17.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Brenner, Lennie. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HRCX; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 627.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Barricade Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781569802731
- ISBN
- 9781569802731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.83
€ 19.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226380704
- ISBN
- 9780226380704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.00
€ 25.99
€ 21.00
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649115
- ISBN
- 9780691649115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.36
€ 123.36
Paperback. Madison's Managers challenges public management scholars and professionals to recognize that the legitimacy and future of public administration depend on its constitutional foundations and their specific implications for managerial practice. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883194
- ISBN
- 9780801883194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.69
€ 34.99
€ 30.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Macnaughton, Jane; Saunders, Corinne. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; JFC; JMS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349726462
- ISBN
- 9781349726462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
Paperback. Is there justifiable (if exaggerated) anxiety about dangerous mentally disordered people being "loose" in the community? Dr Peter Morrall examines the perennial problem of balancing the rights of the insane with the rights of the rest of society. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV; JMK; MBPK; MMH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861561640
- ISBN
- 9781861561640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.07
€ 71.07
Paperback. Explains what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. This book argues that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of an approach which is more consistent with what we know about the human mind. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMP; MMH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140275407
- ISBN
- 9780140275407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; BGA; HBAH; HBTB; JMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403917652
- ISBN
- 9781403917652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447314578
- ISBN
- 9781447314578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.10
€ 104.10
Hardback. Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFG; JFSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218802
- ISBN
- 9780230218802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Paperback. Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. In this Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull examines the social, historical and culturally variable responses to madness over the centuries. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 18 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 174 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199608034
- ISBN
- 9780199608034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.20
€ 14.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Chavez-Silverman, Susana; Allatson, Paul; Spitta, Silvia D.; Campo, Rafael. Series: Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BM; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299236243
- ISBN
- 9780299236243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.43
€ 23.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197827
- ISBN
- 9781845197827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.61
€ 40.99
€ 36.61
Paperback. Adam Ashforth, an Australian who has spent many years in Soweto, finds his longtime friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother and has thrown him out on the street. Convinced that his life is cursed, Madumo seeks help among Soweto's bewildering array of healers and prophets. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BG; HRQX5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226029726
- ISBN
- 9780226029726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.14
€ 30.99
€ 25.14