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  • 1
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    UID:
    gbv_896610632
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 367 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781618117915 , 9781618110602
    Inhalt: In "Cultures in Collision and Conversation", David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times, the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible, and Messianic visions, movements, and debates from antiquity to the present. These essays include a monograph-length study of Jewish attitudes toward general culture in medieval and early modern times, analyses of the thought of Maimonides and Nahmanides, an assessment of the reactions to the most recent messianic movement in Jewish history, and reflections on the value of the academic study of Judaism
    Inhalt: Machine generated contents note: Cultural Environment: Challenge and Response -- Identity, Ideology, and Faith: Some Personal Reflections on the Social, Cultural and Spiritual Value of the Academic Study of Judaism -- Judaism and General Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Times -- How Did Nahmanides Propose to Resolve the Maimonidean Controversy? -- Miracles and the Natural Order in Nahmanides -- Polemic, Exegesis, Philosophy, and Science: Reflections on the Tenacity of Ashkenazic Modes of Thought -- Malbim's Secular Knowledge and His Relationship to the Spirit of the Haskalah -- Uses of Maimonides by Twentieth-Century Jewry -- Institute for Jewish Studies on its Eightieth Anniversary -- Interpreting the Bible -- `The Wisest of All Men': Solomon's Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Kings -- On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis -- Yearning for Redemption -- Three Typological Themes in Early Jewish Messianism: Messiah son of Joseph, Rabbinic Calculations, and the Figure of Armilus -- Some Ironic Consequences of Maimonides' Rationalist Approach to the Messianic Age -- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages: An Examination of the Historiographical Controversy -- Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus: The Impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's History of the Second Temple -- Fragility of Religious Doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox Acquiescence in the Belief in a Second Coming -- Epilogue -- Image of his Father: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Hadoar Author Isaiah Berger
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1936235242
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781936235247
    Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berger, David, 1943 - Cultures in collision and conversation Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies, 2011 ISBN 1936235242
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781936235247
    Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berger, David, 1943 - Cultures in collision and conversation Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies, 2011 ISBN 1936235242
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781936235247
    Sprache: Englisch
    Fachgebiete: Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
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    Schlagwort(e): Judentum ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte ; Electronic books
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  • 2
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    New York : NYU Press
    UID:
    gbv_783188536
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (312 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9780814708460
    Serie: Cultural Front v.8
    Inhalt: Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, ""wild"" children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the 'disarticulate'-those at the edges of language-have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fu
    Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate; 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure; 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity; 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn; 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability; 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience; Epilogue: "Language in Dissolution" and "A World without Words"; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N , OP; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; About the Author
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780814708330
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780814708460
    Weitere Ausg.: Print version The Disarticulate : Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
    Sprache: Englisch
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 3
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    [s.l.] : Elsevier professional
    UID:
    gbv_679204296
    Umfang: Online Ressource (238 S.)
    Ausgabe: 1. Aufl.
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 0123740169 , 0123740169 , 9780123740168
    Inhalt: Peter Currie
    Inhalt: Zebrafish are widely considered the best model for vertebrate development. The embryo is transparent, thereby enabling visualization and use of labelling and transgenic approaches. Moreover, because of the ease of inducing new mutations in zebrafish and similarity with the human genome, this organism may be used effectively for disease studies. For example, mutant zebrafish are being utilized for testing drugs that will combat a range of human diseases, from Alzheimer's and cancer to kidney failure and congenital heart disease. For the first time, this atlas provides the research community with a complete reference for zebrafish anatomy spanning the early embryo all the way to adulthood. The authors employ the technique of optical projection tomography (OPT), and offer a series of sections in multiple planes from each sample. The contents are organized by developmental stages, with over 200 images that contain annotations describing anatomical structures relevant to development. In addition, chapters feature explanatory text that highlights major developments in the zebrafish during each stage
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227) and index , I. Introduction. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. FishNet: An Interactive Database of Zebrafish Development -- Chapter 3. Methodology and Interpretation of the Atlas -- II. The Early Embryo. Chapter 4. 24hours -- Chapter 5. 48 hours -- Chapter 6. 72 hours -- Chapter 7. 96 hours -- Chapter 8. 120 hours -- III. The Developing Larvae. Chapter 9. 5-7mm -- Chapter 10. 8-10mm -- Chapter 11. 10-14mm -- IV. The Adult Zebrafish -- Chapter 12. 15-17mm. , Zebrafish are widely considered the best model for vertebrate development. The embryo is transparent, thereby enabling visualization and use of labelling and transgenic approaches. Moreover, because of the ease of inducing new mutations in zebrafish and similarity with the human genome, this organism may be used effectively for disease studies. For example, mutant zebrafish are being utilized for testing drugs that will combat a range of human diseases, from Alzheimer's and cancer to kidney failure and congenital heart disease. For the first time, this atlas provides the research community with a complete reference for zebrafish anatomy spanning the early embryo all the way to adulthood. The authors employ the technique of optical projection tomography (OPT), and offer a series of sections in multiple planes from each sample. The contents are organized by developmental stages, with over 200 images that contain annotations describing anatomical structures relevant to development. In addition, chapters feature explanatory text that highlights major developments in the zebrafish during each stage
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0080920616
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780080920610
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780080920610
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0080920616
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780123740168
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0123740169
    Sprache: Englisch
    Fachgebiete: Biologie
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Atlas
    URL: Volltext  (An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information)
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    Philadelphia : JPS
    UID:
    gbv_738913235
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (150 p)
    ISBN: 9780827606364
    Inhalt: The persistence of anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that challenges Jewish historians to make ethical judgments a part of historical analysis. This comprehensive collection meets that challenge as its authors provide fresh insight into the complexities of anti-Semitism. The eight essays included in this volume are by noted scholars, each an expert in a specific historical period-from the ancient world to the twentieth century
    Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Anti-Semitism: An Overview; Anti-Semitism in the Ancient World; "Anti-Semitism" in Antiquity; Medieval Anti-Semitism; Robert Chazan's "Medieval Anti-Semitism"; Anti-Semitism and the Muslim World; Comparative Perspectives on Modern Anti-Semitism in the West; American Anti-Semitism; Contributors; Index;
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780827609891
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780827606364
    Weitere Ausg.: Print version History and Hate : The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism
    Sprache: Englisch
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    UID:
    gbv_739069802
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (158 p)
    ISBN: 9780789025708
    Inhalt: Explore the travel/tourism possibilities of this exotic yet tourist-friendly countryVietnam Tourism presents a unique ethnographic-semiotic analysis of some of the most important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. In addition, it offers a firsthand analysis of many aspects of daily life in Vietnam and a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. A twelve-page photo section brings vibrant images of this unique country to life.Vietnam Tourism also presents an essential overview of what Vietnam has to offer tourists, looking at the exciting possibilities?and the potential pitfa
    Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Vietnam Tourism; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A NOTE ON ETHNOGRAPHY; THE DESIGN OF THE BOOK; WHY PEOPLE BECOME TOURISTS: USES AND GRATIFICATIONS; PART I: VIETNAM AS A TOURIST DESTINATION-AN ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE; Chapter 1 The Pros and Cons of Vietnam Tourism; STATISTICS ON TOURISM IN VIETNAM, THAILAND, AND CAMBODIA; VISITORS IN VIETNAM BY COUNTRY IN 2001; SOME PROBLEMS OF VIETNAM'S TOURISM INDUSTRY; BENEFITS OF VIETNAM AS A TOURIST DESTINATION; Chapter 2 The Consumer Culture and Vietnam; TOURISM AND CONSUMER CULTURES: THE GRID-GROUP TYPOLOGY , CONSUMER CULTURES AND TOURIST CHOICESTRAVEL PREFERENCES IN VIETNAM AND CULTURAL ALIGNMENTS; ABOUT IMAGINING, INTERPRETING, AND REMEMBERING VIETNAM; PART II: VIRTUAL VIETNAM-IMAGINING VIETNAM; Chapter 3 Vietnam: Image and Reality; VIETNAM AS AN IMAGINED PLACE; PICO IYER'S PICTURE OF SAIGON AND HANOI; TWO WRITERS ON THE VIETNAMESE PASSION FOR FOOD; THE VIETNAM WAR; Chapter 4 Touring Vietnam in Safety and Comfort; LOGISTICS; TF HANDSPAN GROUP TOUR ITINERARY; ANNIE, THU, AND PROBLEMS WITH NAMES; ADVENTURE WEAR AND MAGIC GLASSES: I GO HIGH TECH; TEACHING THE VIETNAMESE ABOUT AMERICAN CULTURE , ESCAPING WITH ONE'S LIFE WHILE TOURING VIETNAMA RAINBOW THE DAY WE LEAVE; ON THE MATTER OF VIETNAM'S APPEAL FOR TOURISTS; PART III: SEMIOTIC VIETNAM-INTERPRETING THE COUNTRY; Chapter 5 Understanding Vietnam: Culture and Geography; SCHOLARLY APPROACHES TO STUDYING FOREIGN CULTURES; THE IDEAS OF ROLAND BARTHES; QUOC NGU: THE VIETNAMESE WRITTEN LANGUAGE; THE CAO DAI CATHEDRAL AT TAY NINH; SAPA AND THE HILL-TRIBE GIRLS; THE MEKONG DELTA; HANOI; HO CHI MINH CITY/SAIGON; Chapter 6 Exploring Vietnam's Culture: Food and Entertainment; PHO; NUOC MAM (FISH SAUCE); VIETNAMESE METAL COFFEE POTS , SPRING ROLLSNON LA (CONICAL HATS); AO DAI: THE TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE COSTUME FOR WOMEN; HO CHI MINH'S BODY; GENERAL GIAP: THE SNOW-COVERED VOLCANO; GREEN PITH HELMETS; CU CHI TUNNELS; CD CAFÉS; DONG AND DOLLARS; ROI NUOC (WATER PUPPETS); PART IV: REMEMBERING VIETNAM-BACK IN THE UNITED STATES; Chapter 7 Reflections on Touring Vietnam; A JUMBLE OF MEMORIES; THE ACTUAL VIETNAM VERSUS THE VIRTUAL VIETNAM; STREET CULTURES AND HOUSE CULTURES; AN AGE-OLD QUESTION; Chapter 8 Conclusion; THE TOURIST AS STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND; A FINAL WORD; Bibliography; Index;
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781136427725
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780789025708
    Weitere Ausg.: Print version Vietnam Tourism
    Sprache: Englisch
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books
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  • 6
    UID:
    gbv_1655479636
    Umfang: 1 online resource (393 p.)
    ISBN: 9780822391265 , 0822391260
    Serie: American encounters/global interactions
    Inhalt: Introduction: tourism studies and the tourism dilemma / Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood -- The U.S./Mexican war and the beginnings of American tourism in Mexico / Andrea Boardman -- Teotihuacán: showcase for the centennial / Christina Bueno -- On the selling of Rey Momo : early tourism and the marketing of carnival in Veracruz / Andrew Grant Wood -- Goodwill ambassadors on holiday : tourism, diplomacy, and Mexico/United States relations / Dina Berger -- Behind the noir border : tourism, the vice racket, and power relations in Baja California's border zone, 1938/65 / Eric M. Schantz -- Fun in Acapulco? the politics of development on the Mexican Riviera / Andrew Sackett -- Colonial outpost to artists' Mecca: conflict and collaboration in the development of San Miguel de Allende's tourism industry / Lisa Pinley Covert -- José Cuervo and the gentrified worm : food, drink, and the touristic consumption of Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Cancún and the campo : indigenous migration and tourism development in the Yucatán Peninsula / M. Bianet Castellanos -- Marketing Mexico's great masters : folk art tourism and the neoliberal politics of exhibition / Mary K. Coffey -- Golfing in the desert : Los Cabos and post-PRI tourism in Mexico / Alex M. Saragoza -- The beach and beyond : observations from a travel writer on dreams, decadence, and defense / Barbara Kastelein -- Conclusion: should we stay or should we go? reflections on tourism past and present / Andrew Grant Wood and Dina Berger.
    Anmerkung: Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references and index
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780822345541
    Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Holiday in Mexico Durham, NC [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9780822345541
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780822345718
    Sprache: Englisch
    Fachgebiete: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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    Schlagwort(e): Mexiko ; Tourismus ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 7
    UID:
    gbv_1656647966
    Umfang: 1 online resource (377 pages)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781136592898
    Serie: Routledge Approaches to History Ser.
    Inhalt: Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue durée it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, and Germany, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality -both continuities and breaks- in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture.
    Inhalt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 1 Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History -- 2 History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France -- 3 'That Which We Learn with the Eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris -- 4 Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and Germany -- PART II Popular National Histories in Multiple Pasts from the Late 18th to the Late 20th Century: Ethnographies, Historiographies, Fiction and Film -- 5 Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British, and German Cinema, 1927-39 -- 6 Balkans Baedecker for Übermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy -- 7 Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden -- 8 Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories -- PART III Popular and Unpopular Pasts: National Histories after 1945 -- 9 Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas -- 10 Filming a Liveable Past: The 1970s-80s in Contemporary Russian Cinema -- 11 On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History -- 12 A City and Its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization -- 13 The Internet and National Histories -- 14 'Unpopular Past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Their Rebellion against History -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
    Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; PART I Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 1 Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History; 2 History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France; 3 'That Which We Learn with the Eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris , 4 Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and GermanyPART II Popular National Histories in Multiple Pasts from the Late 18th to the Late 20th Century: Ethnographies, Historiographies, Fiction and Film; 5 Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British, and German Cinema, 1927-39; 6 Balkans Baedecker for Übermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy; 7 Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden; 8 Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories , PART III Popular and Unpopular Pasts: National Histories after 19459 Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas; 10 Filming a Liveable Past: The 1970s-80s in Contemporary Russian Cinema; 11 On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History; 12 A City and Its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization; 13 The Internet and National Histories , 14 'Unpopular Past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and their Rebellion against History; Notes on Contributors; Index; , ethnographies, historiographies, fiction and film -- pt. 3. Popular and unpopular paste : national histories after 1945
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780415894357
    Weitere Ausg.: Print version Popularizing national pasts 1800 to the present
    Weitere Ausg.: Popularizing national pasts New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2012 ISBN 9781138118393
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780415894357
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0415894352
    Sprache: Englisch
    Fachgebiete: Ethnologie
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    Schlagwort(e): Europa ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Popularisierung ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Geschichte 1800-2012 ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Popularisierung ; Europa ; Geschichte 1800-2012 ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Mehr zum Autor: Lorenz, Chris 1950-
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    Online-Ressource
    Calton [England] : T. & A.D. Poyser
    UID:
    gbv_1694776921
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (155 p., 24 leaves of plates) , ill
    Ausgabe: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Ausgabe: Also issued in print
    ISBN: 9781472597052
    Serie: Poyser monographs
    Inhalt: "Dr Janet Kear, Assistant Director of the Wildfowl Trust and Curator of its Martin Mere Reserve, and Professor Andrew Berger of the University of Hawaii, have written a timely and absorbing account of the recent history of the Hawaiian Goose, or Nene, its descent to near extinction, its eleventh hour rescue and current restoration to the wild. The species declined from an estimated population of 25,000 in Hawaii in the 18th century to less than fifty birds in the 1940s. Today, thanks largely to the extended breeding programmes at Slimbridge and Pohakuloa, there are probably more than 2000 Hawaiian Geese in the world. The achievement is justly applauded and well-known, but whether this impressive experiment in conservation has been truly successful will not be clear until it becomes evident that the released birds can maintain a breeding population in the wild. As the authors explain, the outcome is far from predictable. The causes which led to the species' decline and the hazards and difficulties faced by the reintroduced population are discussed at length, but the core of the book is the propagation programmes at Slimbridge and Pohakuloa, and the problems and successes they brought during many years of patient work. For the conservationist and aviculturalist the accounts of captive breeding under headings such as infertility, diet, longevity, mortality and the effects of foster mothers, geographical latitude and genetic strain, will be essential reading. Appropriately, Sir Peter Scott, whose imterest and involvement in the rescue of the Hawaiian Goose was of prime importance, is one of the artists whose drawings supplement the text. There is also a colour frontispiece and 24 monochrome plates."--Bloomsbury Publishing
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Also issued in print. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781408137581
    Sprache: Englisch
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books
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