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    - French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914
    by Zeynep Celik
    £45.99

    Examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces. By shifting the emphasis from the 'centers' of Paris and Istanbul to the 'peripheries', this title presents a more nuanced look at cross-cultural exchanges.

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    - Architecture and the Art of the Nation
    by Alice Y. Tseng
    £45.99

    It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. This title documents Japan's unification of national art and cultural resources to forge a modern identity influenced by European museum and exhibition culture.

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    - A Painter's Visions of a Playwright
    by Joan Templeton
    £35.99

    Explores the interrelationships between two Norwegian giants of European modernism. Edvard Munch's work stretches from portraits of Ibsen to innovative depictions of scenes from Ibsen's plays such as Ghosts and Peer Gynt to set designs. Joan Templeton is professor of English at Long Island University and president of the Ibsen Society of America. She is the author of Ibsen's Women.

  • - The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan
    by Joyce Brodsky
    £28.99

    Examines the life and work of Chinese born painter Yun Gee and his Chinese American daughter Li-lan in the context of trans-nationalism and hybridity, race, identity, and globalization.

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    - Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
     
    £70.99

    Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body.

  • - Frances Blakemore, 1906-1997
    by Michiyo Morioka
    £25.99

    Northwest artist Frances Blakemore had a lifelong love affair with Japan. She first went to Japan in 1935 and spent most of her adult life in Tokyo. Her experience with Japan encompassed the entire period from pre-World War II militarism to post-war modernization. This book introduces the adventures of an American artist.

  • - Jeweled Earth
    by Nathan Kernan
    £22.49

    For nearly four decades, Joseph Goldberg has produced paintings of great intelligence and sumptuous beauty. The paintings of the 1980s pursued a variety of motifs abstracted from architecture and landscape. This title includes an essay that examines Goldberg's oeuvre and explores the role of poetry in the artist's life and work.

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    - Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
    by Phillip Thurtle
    £75.99

    Explains the technological, economic, cultural and narrative transformations necessary to make genetic thinking possible. This book offers a cultural history that challenges our own ways of organizing knowledge even as it explicates those of an earlier era.

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    £68.49

    Looks at how people in the world manage to store and process massive amounts of information that overloads their senses and their systems, and discusses how tools can help bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal. This book offers approaches to conceptual problems of information management.

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    - Memoirs from the Political Inside
    by Ted Van Dyk
    £19.99 - 75.99

    Contains stories from a historic period of national American politics, portraying brilliant and not-so-brilliant leaders and ideas, and also illuminate politics' darker side.

  • - The Pike Place Public Market
    by Alice Shorett
    £15.49

    Pike Place Market is a space that annually draws more people than any of the city's major sporting and cultural events. It has a reputation among American markets that is comparable to Les Halles in Paris and Convent Garden in London - the difference being that it has survived. This book illustrates the many people who have fought to sustain it.

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    - Authorship and the EnglishText Trades, 1660-1760
    by Lisa M. Maruca
    £75.99

    Drawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.

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    by Hazard Adams
    £75.99

    There is something offensive about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope.

  • - Poems
    by Nance Van Winckel
    £13.99 - 75.99

    Accomplishes what has proven to be so difficult for poets across time: a deeply satisfying balance of the spiritual and political. This book focuses on both singular and communal: the self on its journey through the world and our responsibilities as a people for the precarious state of that world.

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    - Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
    by Ramya Sreenivasan
    £68.49

    The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.

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    - Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs
    by Thomas Heberer
    £23.49 - 75.99

    Presents the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents economic data gleaned from fieldwork in Liangshan. This book documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the market-oriented economic structure and how economics affects Nuosu culture.

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    - The Art of Elizabeth Sandvig
    by Regina Hackett
    £20.99

    Much of Elizabeth Sandvig's work has dealt with the transitory and fragile qualities of nature. Using materials that include cast polyester resin, aluminium and polyester screen, nylon thread, and silicon gels, she has emphasized a sense of layered transparency, creating a shifting visual energy affected by light and position.

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    - How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
    by William L. Dwyer
    £19.99 - 70.99

    During William L Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a US District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. This volume contains fifteen of his speeches that cover a span from 1978 to 2002 and reveal the breadth and scope of Dwyer's legal wisdom.

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    - The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
    by Richard A. Walker
    £80.99

    This book tells how the Bay area got its green grove. Its most cherished environmentsÂ--Muir Woods, the Napa Valley, Point Reyes, the Carquinez StraitsÂ--have engendered some of the fiercest and most defining environmental battles in this region, and they make up the story recounted here.

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    - From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
    by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
    £42.49

    Pries (1897-1968) was one of the most influential teachers of architecture and design at the University of Washington. This title offers a celebration of Pries' professional legacy, tracing his evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist. It shows how Pries absorbed and synthesized disparate influences and movements in design.

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    by Ruth Kirk
    £32.49

    Archaeology - along with Native American traditions and memories - holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This book presents a sample of sites representing Washington's geographic regions and touches on historical archaeology, including excavations at fur-trade forts and the Whitman mission.

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    - Teaching the Holocaust in Colleges and Universities
    by Myrna Goldenberg
    £42.49

    The Holocaust was an upheaval in politics, culture, society, ethics, and theology. This book can be read as an injunction to teach and act in a manner with a message: that there can be no tolerance for moral neutrality about the Holocaust, and that there is no subject in the humanities or social sciences where its shadow has not reached.

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    - A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century
    by John Haykin Lombard
    £23.49

    No other developed area in the world matches the Puget Sound region's combination of beauty, wealth, natural resiliency, and history of environmental concern. This title develops a practical proposal to conserve the Puget Sound region's important ecosystems in the face of long-term population growth.

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