Animation: The Global History (Furniss Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

Animation: The Global History (Furniss Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

The first-ever comprehensive history of animation surveys the evolution of this dynamic industry around the world - from Hollywood to Tokyo, from Moscow to

Art in Motion, Revised Edition: Animation Aesthetics (Furniss Maureen)(Paperback)

Art in Motion, Revised Edition is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and

France in the World - A New Global History(Paperback / softback)

London 1945 (Waller Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

Reissued to commemorate the 75th VE Day anniversary, the critically acclaimed social history of London, during a crucial year in the city's great history, from the acclaimed writer of 1700: Scenes from London

Feminisms - A Global History (Delap Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Shock Of The Old - Technology and Global History since 1900 (Edgerton David)(Paperback / softback)

Ball is Round - A Global History of Football (Goldblatt David)(Paperback / softback)

Aims to provide a definitive history of global

Animation: A World History: Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age (Bendazzi Giannalberto)(Paperback)

A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering

Shot (Kerr Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers.America, 1960. In Washington, DC, John F Kennedy has just been elected President. In Havana, Fidel Castro has been in office for a year, and with Cold War tensions rapidly heating

House of Islam - A Global History (Husain Ed)(Paperback / softback)

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Osterhammel Jrgen)(Paperback)

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth

Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation (Johnston Andrew R.)(Paperback)

Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema Animation and technology are always changing with one another. From hand-drawn flipbooks to stop-motion and computer-generated imagery (CGI), animation's identity is in flux. But many of these moving image

What Is Global History? (Conrad Sebastian)(Paperback)

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in

Planet Ponzi (Feierstein Mitch)(Paperback / softback)

As the global economy struggles to avoid meltdown, so the greatest Ponzi scheme in history approaches its final death rattle. This book tells you what's happened, what can happen next and how to protect yourself and your

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

A new global history of slavery from its ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present

The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Goldblatt David)(Paperback)

The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope

Hitler's Peace - gripping alternative history thriller from a global bestseller (Kerr Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Never before published in the UK: a gripping, masterful alternative history thriller from the author of the Bernie Gunther

Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography (Paton Maureen)(Paperback / softback)

In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of

Protestants - The Radicals Who Made the Modern World (Ryrie Alec)(Paperback / softback)

On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern

Psychological Testing: History, Principles, and Applications, Global Edition (Gregory Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Cannabis: Global Histories (Richert Lucas)(Paperback)

Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the

Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times (Bendazzi Giannalberto)(Paperback)

A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering

Victorians (Wilson A.N.)(Paperback / softback)

People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis