Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture (Moore Grace)(Pevná vazba)

Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica: Archaeology as Historical Anthropology (Alexander Rani T.)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion (Womack Kenneth)(Pevná vazba)

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion is an anthology featuring leading critical voices, including such figures as Nancy Henry, Julian Wolfreys, Ira Nadel, Joseph Wiesenfarth, and William Baker, among others, as they address ideas of subversion in nineteenth-century

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Pietrzak-Franger Monika)(Pevná vazba)

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the first large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and

Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film (Price Hollie)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores how home was pictured in the 'golden age' of British cinema. Drawing on a wide range of evidence to explore the depiction of domestic life in popular culture, it resituates feature films from the 1940s in relation to narratives of domestic, suburban modernity and the middlebrow

Nothing to Write Home about: British Family Correspondence and the Setter Colonial Everyday in British Columbia (Ishiguro Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary topics including familial intimacy and conflict,

Assembling cultures: Workplace activism, labour militancy and cultural change in Britain's car factories, 1945-82 (Saunders Jack)(Pevná vazba)

Climate Change and British Wildlife (Beebee Trevor)(Pevná vazba)

A pioneering look at how climate change is affecting British wildlife--winners, losers, new arrivals and future prospects. 'Fascinating but frightening, compelling and concerning ... this book brings together all you need to know about how the climate is impacting wildlife.'CHRIS PACKHAM There is

Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 (MacGregor Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

In colonial India, a range of administrators, soldiers, surveyors, and others invested large parts of their lives in attempting to inventory and comprehend the vast country, its teeming populations, and their myriad customs and religions. Company Curiosities offers the first overview of the

Veterinary Hematology: Atlas of Common Domestic and Non-Domestic Species (Reagan William J.)(Pevná vazba)

Now in its third edition, Veterinary Hematology: Atlas of Common Domestic and Non-Domestic Species continues to offer veterinarians and veterinary technicians an essential guide to veterinary hematology. Comprehensive in scope, the atlas presents the fundamentals of both normal and abnormal blood

Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 - Texts and Contexts(Pevná vazba)

Health and Well-Being Considerations in the Design of Indoor Environments (Gonzlez-Lezcano Roberto A.)(Pevná vazba)

Indoor residential environments have a direct influence on human health, both in developed and developing countries. Significant levels of indoor pollution can make housing unsafe and can negatively impact on human health. Housing, therefore, is a key health factor for people all over the world,

British Napoleonic Uniforms (Franklin C E)(Pevná vazba)

For the first time in print a book identifies each regiment and illustrates the change in uniforms, the color of the facings, and the nature and shape of the lace for the officers, NCOs, and private soldiers over the period of the Napoleonic War 17931815. Changes to the uniforms of all the numbered

Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Ratten Vanessa)(Pevná vazba)

An Introduction to Sport Entrepreneurship.- The Sport Industry and Entrepreneurship.- Game Changes in Sport: The Role of Innovation and Creativity.- Athlete Entrepreneurs.- Perspectives of Sport Entrepreneurship.- Sport Business and Entrepreneurship.- System Processes in Sport Entrepreneurship.-

Gunslinging justice: The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law (Joyce Justin a.)(Pevná vazba)

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United

Leading in a Culture of Change (Fullan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The new edition of the best-selling guide for powerful, morally-grounded change leadership in any organization. Change is an inevitable, essential part of the modern world. Change prevents stagnation, fosters creative solutions, and propels innovation. With change comes challenges: to survive and

Assembling Cultures: Workplace Activism, Labour Militancy and Cultural Change in Britain's Car Factories, 1945-82 (Saunders Jack)(Paperback)

Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and

Japan: Courts and Culture (Peat Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

Japan: Courts and Culture tells the story of three centuries of British royal contact with Japan, from 1603 to c.1937, when the exchange of exquisite works of art was central to both diplomatic relations and cultural communication. With discussions of courtly rituals, trade relationships, treaties,

British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan: 100 Years of British Colonial Rule (Van Der Bijl Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

The book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for the rest of The Great War and throughout the

Best of British (Croft Malcolm)(Pevná vazba)

More than 400 great quotes about the British Isles, its people, places and culture. An uplifting and inspring book that manages to distil what makes this island so special in a series of carefully curated quotations, including classics from Winston Churchill to Julie Burchill and from John Lennon

Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century (Chang Elizabeth Hope)(Pevná vazba)

Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the British Society of Literature and ScienceNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplantation of

Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective (Digby Anne)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing

Double-Edged Comforts: Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (Bottinelli Silvia)(Pevná vazba)

Peeking into the home through the eyes of artists and image-makers, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s. Torn between the trauma of World War II and the frenzied optimism of the postwar decades, and haunted by the echoes of fascism, the

Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 (Moore Lindsay R.)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the

Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Tortorici Zeb)(Pevná vazba)

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three