Munich Culture And History – all Bücher, Page 4

Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. …

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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Jerry D Spangler, Mark E Degiovanni Miller
Red Rock and Rawhide

On the culture and conflicts of ranching in the American West

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials

An "UNEXPECTEDLY PROFOUND," "DEEPLY STRANGE," and "UTTERLY UNIQUE tour of the human body" (Publishers Weekly)"A must read for anyone who's ever been amazed or aghast at …

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domest…

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Matthew A Collins
T&t Clark Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and what significance do they have for understanding Judaism and Christianity? This book introduces the story of the scrolls' discovery, provides a discussion on interpretati…

lieferbar ab 29.4.2027.

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Jeffrey H Cohen
Eating Grasshoppers

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.

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Ronald L Rosmann
A Practical Farmer's Journey

Part historical memoir and part "blueprint" for sustainable farming and the future of agricultural communities, this works follows the life of a born and raised farmer, and the changes to his tr…

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Kevin L Ferguson, Melissa Lenos
Generation X

"This all-in-one resource provides an illuminating overview of Generation X and its enduring impact on American life in such realms as music, television and film, literature, advertising, and societa…

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Elizabeth Adelman
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way-and of their amazing afterlife.Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hu…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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Richard Porter
And on That Bombshell

I was Top Gear 's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also got to hang around with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond …

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Tiffany Jenkins
Strangers and Intimates

An Economist Book of the Year 2025 'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating' - Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen 'An intricate cultural history . . . thought-provoking' - The Sunday Times 'Lucid a…

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Dan O'Brien
Wild Idea

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the…

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Naa Oyo a Kwate
White Burgers, Black Cash

"White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities.…

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Sarah Fouts
Rebuilding New Orleans

Reveals how after Hurricane Katrina, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs

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Malek Khouri
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema

A rigorous examination of the work of Egypt's best-known filmmaker, new in paperbackThis book presents a comprehensive study of the work of Youssef Chahine. Its methodological approach, and more precisely…

lieferbar ab 3.3.2026.

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Mario Slugan
Taking Fiction Film Seriously

An interrogation of fiction as one of two key categorisations of film, exploring its influence upon audience experience and its broader real-life implications.

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Robert Hofler
The Way They Were

The first ever account of the making of the cinematic classic The Way We Were starring Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford, revealing the full story behind its genesis and continued controversies, its ma…

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Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials

Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You? )in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions?from mucus to sweat to poop?reveal…

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