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Kingston A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669373, Signal Books, November 2004
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Kingston wrestles with the enduring legacy of colonial rags and riches, recent episodes of political strife and the occasional outburst of modern-day turf rivalry. Formerly the hub of Britain's Caribbean Empire, the Jamaican ca...
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Cairo A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669779, Signal Books, November 2004
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce; in its mosques the wealthy and the destitute pray next to each other. The...
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 Reproduced from the Original Typescript, War Department, Washington, DC
ISBN: HB: 9781851240852, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2004
48 pp., 14.8x10 cm
In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the "British, their country, and their ways". The guide was intended to lessen the culture shock for those embarking on their...
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Deaf Way II: An International Celebration An International Celebration
ISBN: PB: 9781563682742, Gallaudet University Press, August 2004
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
This Volume captures in 250 full-color photographs the international celebration of 9,000 deaf people that took place July, 2002, in Washington, D.C.
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£32,50
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Cambridge A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669793, Signal Books, May 2004
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its origins in the thirteenth century the University of Cambridge has attracted notable students and teachers, both brilliant and eccentric. From Erasmus to Bertrand Russell, the university has been at the forefront of phi...
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Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
ISBN: PB: 9780226571584, ISBN: HB: 9780226571577, University of Chicago Press, January 2004
353 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 83 halftones
How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelso...
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£70,50
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