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Hannah Arendt For Love of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300105889, Yale University Press, November 2004
624 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writ...
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£19,99
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Deaf Hearing Boy A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563683053, Gallaudet University Press, September 2004
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Born in 1938, R. H. Miller was the oldest of four hearing boys with deaf parents in Defiance, Ohio, a small agricultural community. Deaf Hearing Boy is Miller's compelling account of the complex dynamics at work in his family, including the inter-gen...
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£17,50
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Edmund Booth Deaf Pioneer
ISBN: PB: 9781563682735, Gallaudet University Press, September 2004
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime, Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds,...
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£28,00
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Whistler on Art
ISBN: PB: 9781857547641, Carcanet, August 2004
240 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a central figure in the artistic life of mid-nineteenth-century Paris and London. His distinct aesthetic, with its emphasis on appreciating a work of art as an arrangement of colours, lines and shapes, can be se...
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£9,95
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Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781857547481, Carcanet, August 2004
312 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) has long been recognised as one of Britain's greatest film directors. His studies of national life, and particularly his three war time films "Listen to Britain", "Fires Were Started", and "A Diary for Timothy", invaluab...
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£14,95
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From Pity to Pride Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
ISBN: HB: 9781563682704, Gallaudet University Press, June 2004
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The antebellum South's economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. "From Pity to Pride" examines th...
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£46,00
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Malinowski Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1881-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780300102949, Yale University Press, May 2004
720 pp., 23.9x16.9 cm, 40 illus.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most colourful and charismatic social scientists of the twentieth century. His contributions as a founding father of social anthropology and his complex personality earned him international notoriety an...
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£30,00
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Alone in the Mainstream A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School
ISBN: PB: 9781563683008, Gallaudet University Press, April 2004
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn't know that she was "different". If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn't react because she couldn't hear the music. So began her journey a...
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£22,50
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