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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale--and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring,...- $29.99
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Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema
In this engaging and provocative book, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the most important developments in the recent history of black cinema--the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films." Representing explores a distinct contradiction in American society: at the same...- $28.00
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History of Love
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book...Sixty years later and half a world away,...- $16.99
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Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts,...- $190.00
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Hidden Tales: Lesbians in Nordic Folklore
Hidden Tales: Lesbians in Nordic Folklore is a groundbreaking exploration of the often overlooked stories of lesbian love and desire in the rich tapestry of Nordic mythology and folklore. Drawing from ancient sagas, legends, and folktales, this book uncovers the hidden narratives of same-sex...- $13.99
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Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture
Dogs eat burritos, camels smoke cigarettes, and frogs drink beer. Welcome to the Century of the Consumer. In the 20th century, Americans were romanced by consumer culture, which in turn reflected the changing attitudes, priorities, and values of the country. This book compiles entries...- $24.00
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Manual of International Pharmacy: A Very Extensive Collection of Drugs, Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Products With Their Synonyms and Many Rare Formul
This comprehensive manual provides a vast collection of drugs, chemicals, and pharmaceutical products along with their synonyms and many rare formulas. Divided into five parts and replete with an appendix containing the names of druggists, sundries, and prescription directions, this manual is an essential...- $26.95
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Florida for Tourists, Invalids, and Settlers: Containing Practical Information Regarding Climate, Soil, and Productions; Cities, Towns, and People; th
This comprehensive guidebook to the Sunshine State takes readers on a journey through Florida's unique history, culture, and natural beauty. With practical advice for travelers and settlers alike, along with fascinating insights into the people and places that make Florida so special, this book...- $34.95
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Poultry Production
This book is a comprehensive guide to the production of poultry, including chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. Lippincott covers topics such as breeding, feeding, housing, disease control, marketing, and more. This is an essential resource for anyone involved in the poultry industry.This work has...- $39.95
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Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in "die Gartenlaube," 1853-1900
Popularizing the Nation examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to Kirsten Belgum's study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that first appeared in 1853 and became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. In...- $55.00
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Evaluation Research for Educational Productivity
This volume is the seventh in an annual series of works on educational productivity centered on how more can be accomplished in education without consuming additional human, economic, and social resources. In "Evaluation Research for Educational Productivity" a key question addressed by the authors...- $150.99
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Medieval Pottery Kiln at Downpatrick, Co. Down: An investigation of its working life, its products and their distribution
The kiln at Downpatrick is one of only two known examples in medieval Ireland. This study includes an analysis of the kiln and its pottery, attempting to answer questions regarding its period of use, its productivity, and its role within contemporary County Down and...- $69.00
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Production Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (Revised)
In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order.- $46.00
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Productive Performance of Chinese Enterprises: An Empirical Study (1996)
`The book is an excellent example of the application of modern econometric techniques to Chinese data, some of which was especially collected for the research. The results throw new light on aspects of industrial sector reform in China. The book deserves wide attention from...- $109.99
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About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art
A unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists - many underrecognized and overlooked - from the last 50 yearsThough the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the start of the gay rights movement, so much of...- $65.00
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Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Chavín Sphere of Influence (North-Central Andes)
A study of six 1st-millenium BC pottery producing sites in the north-central Andes concentrating on production, exchange and interregional relationships. The author describes the geography and the geoenvironment of the sites, research methodology and analysis of the results including triangulation of the stylistic, archaeological,...- $59.00
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Beyond the Bloom: Bloom refining and iron artifact production in the Roman world
The book describes a series of experiments carried out in order to replicate the working environment of a Roman blacksmith, by using tools and equipment as close to originals as possible. The results provide a database that will enable archaeologists to compare evidence found...- $72.00
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Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Revised)
Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass...- $75.00
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Planning in Wartime: Aircraft Production in Britain, Germany and the USA (1991)
The first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department. Topics covered include the organization of the department, production planning and specific programmes.- $54.99
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Globalisation, Commodification and Cultural Production in Africa: Contemporary Theatre in Sierra Leone
This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study.- $190.00
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