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aaFrom apple pie to baklava, cannoli to gulab jamun, sweet treats have universal appeal in countries around the world. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive look at global dessert culture.Few things represent a culture as well as food. Because sweets are universal foods, they are the perfect basis for a comparative study of the intersection of history, geography, social class, religion,… Read more about this item

Dust jacket has some shelf wear and scuffung.Slight waving through text block, a good copy. In 1968 the Mountain Ok people of the Papua New Guinea Star Mounts, more commonly referred to as Min, experienced their first exposure to the modern world and the developmental potential it was about to unleash. A major gold and copper deposit was discovered on… Read more about this item

This item is overweight, additional shipping applies.Fitted with an archive quality dust jacket protector.Near fine condition. No markings or inscriptions. The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a definitive resource that brings to life this pivotal moment in Irish history and nation-building. Published to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising, this comprehensive and visually compelling volume brings together all… Read more about this item

Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. This item is overweight, additional shipping applies.Great copy of hard to find book, no marks or inscriptions. Angelika Taschen knows New York. She's been behind the velvet ropes, explored the secret, unmarked restaurants and beloved neighborhood delis, scoured Soho, Nolita and Tribeca's stylish stores, and scoped out hotels uptown and downtown, from sleek and chic… Read more about this item

Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. Has a personalised gift inscription to previous owner, foxing on edges of text block. Though the word 'vegetarianism' was not coined until the mid-nineteenth century, the vegetarian diet has been around for as long as man has; even longer, perhaps, if the primates and hominids are considered. Why should omnivorous man have ever voluntarily… Read more about this item

Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. Cake decorating is a fabulous mixture of cookery and art, a blend of relaxation and excitement, with a sprinkling of inspiration, precise care and reckless use of the imagination all thrown in for good measure. The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating will lead a newcomer through the simplest basics of this wonderful, colourful pastime,… Read more about this item

Slight curl to top of dust jacket. Very light foxing to pages. Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. An unabridged facsimile of the Ausbefuhrte Bauten, photographs of Wrights architecture, published in Berlin in 1911. With over 200 illustrations, appendix, bibliography.

Minor shelf wear to corners of boards, scratching/scuffing top left of rear board. Small ding to top of spine. Very good copy of hard to find book. One of the most iconic and deadliest sports in the world ... enclosed speedway tracks, both wall and dirt, featuring cars and bikes. Images is this wonderful collection are from before World Wat through to… Read more about this item

Fitted with an archive quality dust jacket protector.Clean tight copy. Has booksellers price sticker on rear and inside front flap of dust jacket. Looking at all aspects of penguin evolution, biology, ecology and sociobiology, as well as conservation issues affecting the group, this book is illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs, and has a full-colour photographic section.

Full-page black and white plates, text and maps. Discolouration marking to cloth top rear. Minor foxing. Dust jacket is chipped, top right tape mark and small section of surface removed. Piece missing bottom of spine and top left front of jacket. Good tight copy. Dust jacket colour still vivid with little fade. Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. This is the… Read more about this item

Top of dust jacket has a curl. Fitted with archive quality dust jacket protector. Presentation copy including signed compliments slip from The American-Australian Foundation for the Arts. America, less than fifty ears from declaration of national independence, turned its persistent gaze away from Europe in the East toward the expanse of its native unsettled West. All that was purely… Read more about this item

Includes original card cover band. A collection of the best examples of logo redesign: development, process and real examples. At some point or another in the life of a company comes that time when its logo needs to be redesigned. The reasons can vary: the logo may already be or look outdated or it may be necessary to adapt it to… Read more about this item

Have you ever wondered if dragons were real? Author Ronesa Aveela grew up in Bulgaria, terrified by tales of dragons capturing beautiful girls for their brides. Her grandmother armed her with protective herbs and performed rituals passed down from generation to generation. Dragons, the third book in the series, takes you across Eastern Europe to discover folkloric beliefs, fairy tales,… Read more about this item

Near fine. No marking."Through the Black Mirror is a superb collection of insightful essays examining one of the twenty-first century's most culturally significant television shows. Intellectually and philosophically exciting throughout, its critical readings of each of Black Mirror's twenty episodes locate the series in its contemporary cultural context. The collection is consistently thought-provoking and an excellent resource for anyone interested… Read more about this item

Near fine. No marking."In recent years the study of consciousness has moved well beyond the borderlands of the popular press and pseudoscientific writing, to become an important field of scholarship in its own right. It now increasingly permeates many disciplines such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, and medicine. In this book, one of the first scholarly works on consciousness to specifically… Read more about this item

Near fine copy. No marking."In this volume, a first-rate group of contributors debates the future of copyright at a time when the policy debate is tilting away from maximalism, and re-focusing on the value of copyright limitations and exceptions. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the his-tory of copyright limitations and exceptions, and the current debate over their future… Read more about this item

Near fine copy. No markings. The theft, trafficking and falsification of cultural property/heritage are crimes of a particularly complex nature, that often have international ramifications and signifi-ant economic consequences. Organised criminal groups of various types and origins are involved in these illegal acts. The book Crime in the Art and Antiquities World contains both contributions from researchers specialising in the… Read more about this item

No markings or inscriptions, cover has minor dings to corners, no markings, lightly scuffed.Text block is tight and clean. Scarce, near fine copy. Comprehensive anthology of previously published documents of Australian cinemas building a history of more than 90 motion picture theatres, with an introductory text detailing the development in the USA of cinema design which influenced the architecture of their Australian… Read more about this item

Cover is scuffed and marked. Colour is vivid on front cover, pages are tanned. No marks, inscriptions or ownership marks.Hard to find Australian variation from the series of four colouring books. The Australian variation omits the CBS advertising for Saturday morning cartoons and was replaced by a duplicate of the title page. Inerestingly it is attributed to three illustrators with… Read more about this item

Dust jacket has chips to edges, slight fading to spine, chip to spine, unclipped. No tears. Fitted with an archive quality dust jacket protectorHardcover boards are in fine condition, slight discolouration along end of spine. Text block is tight. Text block tight and clean, no markings or inscriptions. A very good copy.