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Staging a Revolution The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran
ISBN: HB: 9781873968277, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
304 pp., 27.8x21.5 cm, full-colour illus.
The first book to examine this colossal political event through the images that set it in motion – from graffiti, murals and banners to bank notes and chewing-gum wrappers. With previously unpublished historical sources and essays by Peter Chelkowski...
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£45,00
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Landscape and Power Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226532059, University of Chicago Press, April 2002
383 pp., 23x15 cm, 90 halftones
The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of...
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£24,00
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Venice A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669298, Signal Books, May 2001
219 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Established on its many islands by Roman refugees, the centre of a maritime empire, a republic for a thousand years, Venice has always been distinct from the rest of Italy, and from anywhere else. Its unique light and hundreds...
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£12,00
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On European Ground
ISBN: HB: 9780226112947, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
128 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 94 duotones
A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's "On European Ground" considers the battlefields of World War I, the Nazi death camps, and the Berlin Wall, and records the distance between what we remember...
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£48,00
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Madrid A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669274, Signal Books, March 2001
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Planted by royal whim in a harsh, sun-drenched tableland, Madrid flaunts its distinctive Spanish identity as the most vibrant of Europe's capitals. An imperial court, remote from external influences, produced durable curiositie...
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£12,00
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Mexico City A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669076, Signal Books, July 2000
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Mexico City is a place of superlatives. The oldest city in the Americas, it is now the world's largest urban area. Formerly the centre of the Aztec and Spanish empires, this vast modern metropolis is home to over fifteen millio...
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£12,00
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Oxford A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669052, Signal Books, November 1999
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Celebrated by Matthew Arnold as the "city of dreaming spires", Oxford has a long and illustrious history as one of Europe's oldest university towns. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from the medieval to the modern,...
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£12,00
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Being Modern in Iran
ISBN: PB: 9781850655183, Hurst Publishers, August 1999
224 pp., 23x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! The election of Mohammad Khatami as President, the prospect of renewed dialogue between Tehran and Washington, and the display of popular rejoicing that greeted the nation's football team's qualification for the 1998 World Cup...
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£14,95
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Language of Jazz
ISBN: PB: 9781857541649, Carcanet, November 1997
220 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"I invented jazz in 1902", said Jelly Roll Morton. He was in the right place at the right time – New Orleans at the turn of the century – so in a sense his claim is as good as anyone else's; but jazz actually evolved from a complex variety of sources...
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£9,95
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Deaf Way Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture
ISBN: HB: 9781563680267, Gallaudet University Press, August 1994
907 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
"The Deaf Way" documents the vast scholarly and artistic endeavors that took place in July 1989 when more than 6,000 deaf people from around the world met at Gallaudet University to celebrate Deaf culture. More than 150 articles by world-renowned exp...
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£94,00
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