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Paperback. Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity. This book demonstrates that bounded - not full - rationality drives the spread of innovations across countries. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPA; JPB; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134710
ISBN
9780691134710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.27

Hardback. Policy analysis in Brazil is the first book to paint a comprehensive panorama of policy analysis activities in Brazil. It brings together 18 studies by leading Brazilian social scientists on policy analysis as a widespread activity and offers key insights into the practice of this field. Editor(s): Vaitsman, Jeni; Ribeiro, Jose M.; Lobato, Lenaura. Series: International Library of Policy Analysis. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 177 x 21. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447306849
ISBN
9781447306849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.97

Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
115
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557537485
ISBN
9781557537485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.20

Hardback. Helps us to understand violence in borderland regions generally around the world. Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 maps, 1 glossary. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFFE; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803237667
ISBN
9780803237667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas--including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. Editor(s): Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo; Kikumura-Yano, Akemi; Hirabayashi, James A. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744621
ISBN
9780804744621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas--including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. Editor(s): Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo; Kikumura-Yano, Akemi; Hirabayashi, James A. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744614
ISBN
9780804744614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Hardback. The Indians in Latin America make an effort to claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. Editor(s): Munoz, Elana. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 220 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL9; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026796
ISBN
9780842026796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.99

Hardcover. Editor(s): Naciamento, Lara; Sousa, Gustavo. Num Pages: 201 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606923498
ISBN
9781606923498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.02
€ 70.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCB; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781942094203
ISBN
9781942094203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.67

Hardcover. This volume examines Chile's political culture by considering its origin and the persistence of its "grammar", which the authors define as the ability of each member of society to function within social categories and rules. This "grammar", they believe, is what gives character to national culture. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268008406
ISBN
9780268008406
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.20

Paperback. Editor(s): Larson, Brooke; Harris, Olivia; Tandeter, Enrique. Num Pages: 440 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822316473
ISBN
9780822316473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Explores the lives and self-understanding of Mexicans of African descent living in the agricultural village of San Nicolas on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Num Pages: 392 pages, 43 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351214
ISBN
9780822351214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Paperback. Explores the lives and self-understanding of Mexicans of African descent living in the agricultural village of San Nicolas on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Num Pages: 392 pages, 43 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBTB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351320
ISBN
9780822351320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

paperback. Explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. This book describes how the meanings attached to the caste categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto and mestizo were generated within that setting. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HRQX5; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822331476
ISBN
9780822331476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. Reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, this title argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Translator(s): Whitty, Diane Grosklaus. Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series. Num Pages: 374 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292702363
ISBN
9780292702363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.00

Paperback. Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, this title examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. Series: Chicana Matters. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 b&w photos, 8 color photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780292722880
ISBN
9780292722880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350439
ISBN
9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Providing a re-assessement of the cause of Bolivia's 1952 revolution, this book argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that rural indigenous activists helped shape populist projects of 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; HBTV; JFC; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340676
ISBN
9780822340676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570372
ISBN
9780813570372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Hardback. In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate the country's cinemas, many of Mexico's cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui Invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In this book, the author contends that Hollywood films were not simply tools of cultural imperialism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 46 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJG; APF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356417
ISBN
9780822356417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

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