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Bowery to Broadway The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema
ISBN: HB: 9781589662001, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, March 2010
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
Before Johnny Depp and "Public Enemies", there was "The Public Enemy". James Cagney's 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster, Tommy Powers, set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden age of Irish American cinema....
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£19,00
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Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm
"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...
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£24,00
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Sinclair Lewis A Descriptive Bibliography, Second Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781589661561, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, August 2009
350 pp., 23x15 cm, 110 halftones
Sinclair Lewis, celebrated author of "Babbitt and Main Street", wrote more than twenty novels in the course of his prolific career, most of which went through several editions over the years. This is the definitive descriptive bibliography of the Lew...
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£37,50
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From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success
ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...
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£22,50
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£30,00
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Art of Stained Glass
ISBN: HB: 9781589660076, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
135 pp., 29.3x21.6 cm
Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...
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£32,00
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Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9781589660052, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
211 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This book present a multi-disciplinary study of Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba in 1998. The essays represent several disciplines: sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies and theology. Authors agree on several major points: on...
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£23,00
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Anthracite Ghosts
ISBN: PB: 9780940866454, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
103 pp., 28x21.7 cm
Walter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid d...
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£19,00
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