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Hardback. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten important thinkers in American history. This book recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing themes through philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Num Pages: 592 pages, 50 photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF5; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116763
ISBN
9780231116763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.18

Hardback. This work presents the accomplishments of Roger Nash Baldwin, who - in his 30-year tenure as director of the ACLU - marked the period when the modern understanding of the Bill of Rights came into being. Spearheaded by Baldwin, volunteer attorneys transformed the constitutional landscape. Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History. Num Pages: 608 pages, 37 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119726
ISBN
9780231119726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99

paperback. This is the first book to pay tribute to the genuine cinematic contribution of these magnificent performers. Gallafent traces the development of Astaire and Rogers' star personas both together and apart and how the narratives of their films were designed around those personas. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 156 photos. BIC Classification: APB; APF; ASD; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126274
ISBN
9780231126274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.65

Paperback. Celebrates Pacific Northwest literature through interviews in which 22 authors discuss their work and the region's influence on it. Authors include Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Tom Robbins, Gary Snyder, and Denise Levertov. Two interviews have been added since the publication of Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised and Expanded ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295977232
ISBN
9780295977232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.44

Paperback. Presents a memoir of a Holocaust survivor, who settled in Austria after the war, where he became a successful black market entrepreneur. He took special satisfaction at profiting from the misfortune of his former oppressor and became a compulsive philanderer as well. Eventually, he migrated to America, where he led a quiet family life. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 27 illus. BIC Classification: BTP; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295981161
ISBN
9780295981161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.89

Paperback. Describes the author's early life in a farm-labour camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. This book describes decades of toil and progress before the Filipino community entered the socio-political mainstream. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; BG; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295986425
ISBN
9780295986425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; BG; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 4531 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295986708
ISBN
9780295986708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.29

Paperback. Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during WWII. This memoir tells how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life. Editor(s): Yung, Judy. Num Pages: 227 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJF; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987545
ISBN
9780295987545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.39

Hardback. Sam Kelly's story intersects with the major developments in twentieth-century African American history, from the rich culture of the Harlem Renaissance and the integration of the U.S. Army to the civil rights movement and the political turmoil of the 1960s. Num Pages: 30 illus. BIC Classification: BGA; JN; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990613
ISBN
9780295990613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.99

Paperback. A candid account by a 1950s political operative and shrewd lobbyist Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992327
ISBN
9780295992327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.63

Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BM; HBTB; RNFF; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295999388
ISBN
9780295999388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.25

Paperback. From well-known classical music radio host and author of The Inextinguishable Symphony, Martin Goldsmith, a tale of two journeys--one, a journey from the ill-fated voyage of the SS St. Louis in 1939 to the death camp at Auschwitz; the other, a grandson's journey of remembrance seventy years later. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 black-&-white photos. BIC Classification: BM; HBTB; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 397.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306823718
ISBN
9780306823718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.22

Paperback. The long-awaited and vastly entertaining autobiography of Scott Ian, guitarist and co-founder of the legendary thrash metal band Anthrax Num Pages: 376 pages, 32 pages photos. BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306824197
ISBN
9780306824197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGXA; BM; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HCP US (PG UK)
Edition
Special edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310344889
ISBN
9780310344889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316332774
ISBN
9780316332774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. The memoir from the greatest relief pitcher of all time. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8pp colour photo insert. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316400749
ISBN
9780316400749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 203 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375760464
ISBN
9780375760464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.98

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385347051
ISBN
9780385347051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; 3JM; BGSA; WSBX; WSWY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Anchor Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385681100
ISBN
9780385681100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.68

Hardback. The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Num Pages: 640 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393063899
ISBN
9780393063899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.17

Hardback. A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393068177
ISBN
9780393068177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.51

Hardback. A deeply misunderstood sports legend, once the most hated and loved man in America, gets his due in this absorbing, revelatory biography. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BGS; KNTD; KNTJ; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393080179
ISBN
9780393080179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.67

Hardback. Through parenting a child with a disability, a father discovers patience, acceptance, and unconditional love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJD; VFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393082449
ISBN
9780393082449
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.83

Hardback. A candid, savvy, inspiring, and often hilarious memoir by one of America's most fearless political leaders. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393088977
ISBN
9780393088977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.99

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