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Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America

by Brantlinger, Patrick

Description: Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book An introduction to the field of cultural studies, which charts the subject's development in both Britain and the USA. The text investigates the establishment of cultural history, and examines the contribution of structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology and critical theory. Slightly twisted.212pp. Read More

Clarence Thomas: a Biography

by Thomas, Andrew Peyton

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book In this unauthorised biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas' remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation's highest court. In his attempt to understand what drives the elusive and sometimes enigmatic Justice, the author located and conducted the first-ever interview with ... Read More

Twentieth-Century Indian Sculpture

by Panikkar, Shivaji K.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: Folio-over 12"-15" tall; D/J in Protective Wrapper Type: Book The most significant trends, tendencies and breakthroughs in the use of the sculptural medium are analysed in this volume along with a sampling of the works of individual artists. The first section has essays by young Indian art historians, critics and theorists on trends in mainstream sculpture of the 1980's and '90's. Section II critically reviews the notion of mainstream 'avant garde' in the ... Read More

Robotics: a Bibliography With Indexes

by Benne, Peter J. (Editor)

Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book Robotics has worked its way from science fiction to science without the fiction to widespread applications not only in manufacturing but in medical research and other fields as well. Progress had been accelerated by the faster-than-light advances in miniaturisation. This book provides important citations, primarily to the book literature, with access through author, subject and title indexes.232pp. Read More

Learning Japanese in the Network Society

by Nakajima, Kazuko (Editor)

Description: Very Good in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book This book addresses current issues of computer-assissted langusge learning (CALL) shared by language-teaching professionals in the new global network society. Focussing on teaching and learning Japanese as a second language, this collection emerged from previously unpublished presentations by leading Japanese scholars. 204pp. Read More

Lady in Boomtown: Miners and Manners on the Nevada Frontier (Vintage West Ser. )

by Brown, Mrs Hugh

Description: Like New. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book Story of life among the miners and their families during the early day's of the West's richest twentieth-century mining towns.127pp. Read More

Books for Writers: a Bibliography With Indexes

by Marlowe, Edith V. (Editor)

Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book It has been estimated that of the approximately six billion people currently living on the Planet Earth, there are seven billion writers. But why? Some want to instruct, others to entertain or to share experience with others to reduce their inner stresses by letting it all hang out. Publishers have reacted to this situation by publishing a non-stop torrent of books on how to do-it writing. This bibliography gathers ... Read More

Biotechnology a Bibliography With Indexes

by Hearns, Edwin C.

Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book 197pp. At the end of the 20th century was a era of the Internet, the beginning of the 21st is said to be the age of biotechnology. The potential economic and social impacts are staggering. But what is it? Modern agricultural biotechnology refers to various scientific techniques, most notably genetic engineering, used to modify plants, animals, or micro-organisms by introducing in their genetic makeup genes for ... Read More

Nursing a Bibliography With Indexes

by Venneti, Nancy R.

Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book 130pp. Read More