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American Paratrooper Helmets
ISBN: HB: 9782352501411, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2010
224 pp., 30x22.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Michel De Trez has agreed to open up the showcases and the reserves of the Centre Historique des Parachutistes du Jour-J to present us with this compendium of American paratrooper helmets. This study, the first made of the various helmet markings,...
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£37,00
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Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1
ISBN: PB: 9780300151602, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.
This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores the impor...
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£45,00
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Craft of Scientific Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.
The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...
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£23,00
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Art of Natural History Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780300160246, Yale University Press, March 2010
280 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 164 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.
"Making knowledge visible" is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renai...
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£40,00
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Critical Terms for Media Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.
Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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New Handbook of Literary Terms
ISBN: PB: 9780300164312, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
"A New Handbook of Literary Terms" offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics' definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation...
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£17,00
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