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Buenos Aires A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955092, Signal Books, November 2007
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The ci...
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£12,00
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Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243518, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy terr...
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£4,99
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Fools Are Everywhere The Court Jester Around the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226640921, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
444 pp., 23x15 cm, 49 halftones, 66 line drawings
In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history – the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, f...
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£28,00
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Basque Country A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955313, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest people and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic post-mo...
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£12,00
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Catalonia A Cultural history
ISBN: PB: 9781904955320, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to th...
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£12,00
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Zagreb A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955306, Signal Books, August 2007
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Hab...
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£12,00
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Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
ISBN: PB: 9781905422289, ISBN: HB: 9781905422272, Seagull Books, May 2007
173 pp., 19.6x14 cm
Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist. With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of...
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£14,50
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£56,50
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Horse How the Horse has Changed Civilizations
ISBN: PB: 9781904955368, Signal Books, May 2007
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Full of wisdom, passion and wonder, Horse is the utterly fascinating and enlightening story of horses and humans from the beginning of time to the present.Ever since the dawn of human history, horses have held a mystical sway o...
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£9,99
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Prison Manuscripts Socialism and its Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781905422227, ISBN: HB: 9781905422210, Seagull Books, April 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Deaf Way II: Reader Perspectives from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture
ISBN: HB: 9781563682940, Gallaudet University Press, March 2007
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 tables, 14 figures, 21 photos
This extraordinary volume features the very best of the scholarship presented at the Deaf Way II, the second international Deaf gathering in 2002 in Washington, DC. More than 100 contributors from countries as far afield as Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, G...
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£64,00
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