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Hardcover. This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a "democratic" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor. Editor(s): Mendez, Juan; O'Donnell, Guillermo; Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio (Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JPVH; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Edition
- First edition, presumed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043018
- ISBN
- 9780268043018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.40
€ 134.40
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; GTF; JFSJ; JHB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649361
- ISBN
- 9781442649361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920s, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma Tenayuca's story serves as a model for young and old alike about courage, compassion, and the role everyone can play in making the world more fair. Illustrator(s): Ybanez, Terry. Num Pages: 40 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; YNH; YXN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916727338
- ISBN
- 9780916727338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.82
€ 25.99
€ 23.82
Paperback. A collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles. It includes rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the Paracas to the Inka and Colonial periods, 200 BC to the late 18th century AD. Series: Fabric Folios. Num Pages: 88 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; AFW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 372. Series: Fabric Folios. 88 pages, 100 colour illustrations. A collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles. It includes rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the Paracas to the Inka and Colonial periods, 200 BC to the late 18th century AD. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLSX; AFW. Dimension: 225 x 230 x 8. Weight: 368.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 88
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714125848
- ISBN
- 9780714125848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.83
€ 27.83
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3J; KND; TDG; TDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632476
- ISBN
- 9780691632476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 90.75
€ 117.54
€ 90.75
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KND; TDG; TDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691603032
- ISBN
- 9780691603032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. Textiles Fiestas of Mexico is at once a celebration of Mexican folklife and a practical guide to finding the best collector textiles in the country. Num Pages: 120 pages, 200 Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AKT; WTH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 256 x 11. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Thrums Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780996447584
- ISBN
- 9780996447584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.47
€ 31.99
€ 21.47
Hardback. Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades. Editor(s): Fregoso, Rosa Linda; Bejarano, Cynthia L. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 2 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JKV; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 731.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346692
- ISBN
- 9780822346692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Paperback. Feminist and human rights activists, attorneys, and scholars from Latin America and the U.S. respond to the escalation in violence against women in Latin America during the past two decades. Editor(s): Fregoso, Rosa Linda; Bejarano, Cynthia L. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 2 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JKV; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346814
- ISBN
- 9780822346814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.90
€ 41.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. This book examines the persistence of social violence and public insecurity in Honduras. Using a spatial perspective, the author looks at the Honduran state's security polices - known as Mano Dura - and the challenges authorities face. She points to the state's historical difficulty producing and ordering political territory and space. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027948
- ISBN
- 9781137027948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Paperback. Analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. This book offers an ethnographic account of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN's) visions, strategies, and practices, and chronicles and analyzes the movement's struggles for autonomy, and territory. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century. Num Pages: 456 pages, 5 tables, 2 maps, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 33. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343271
- ISBN
- 9780822343271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DSB; HBTB; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580465809
- ISBN
- 9781580465809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. 'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826942
- ISBN
- 9780753826942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. Focusing on an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, Gill examines the ways in which neoliberal policies reorder social relations among poor men and women-and between them and the state. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JFSC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118040
- ISBN
- 9780231118040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 91.03
€ 117.54
€ 91.03
Paperback. Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 line drawings, 18 b/w images, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTK; KCZ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284906
- ISBN
- 9780520284906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. Why do modern agricultural techniques, which are environmentally damaging, continue to be used? This path-breaking book seeks the answer to that question in an understanding of evolution of agricultural research in its cultural context. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JH; KNAC; PSAK; RNP; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333751398
- ISBN
- 9780333751398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Paperback. A rare in-depth look at the inner workings of Huichol shamanism Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRKT; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620554616
- ISBN
- 9781620554616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Studies of the Am...
José Antonio Sánchez Román
Hardcover. This book provides a historical narrative of the Argentine tax system in the twentieth century. It argues that the failure to build permanent trust between the state and the civil society and the unraveling of confidence within Argentine society itself account for the collapse of the progressive tax system. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBT; JPA; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341265
- ISBN
- 9780230341265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; JFSL4; JPA; KFFD1; LNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271035628
- ISBN
- 9780271035628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.52€ 66.02
€ 77.52
€ 66.02
Paperback. Common stereotypes of the tango are dispelled by this history of a rich and complex dance, and the contemporary cultural response to it. Num Pages: 232 pages, 17 b&w illus., 23 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KLS; ASD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219053
- ISBN
- 9780253219053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.10
€ 22.10
Hardcover. Num Pages: 182 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Publisher
- Ten Speed Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607745624
- ISBN
- 9781607745624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.49
€ 24.99
€ 23.49
Hardback. Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFSK2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349266
- ISBN
- 9780822349266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Paperback. Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349457
- ISBN
- 9780822349457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79