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Hardcover. Tells how Los Angeles came to be what it is today. Exploring the cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history via the work of myriad photographers, this book examines the city's critical developments ranging from the real estate booms of the 1880s to the uncontrolled urban sprawl of the late 20th century. Editor(s): Heimann, Jim. Num Pages: 572 pages, chiefly Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 347 x 262 x 47. Weight in Grams: 3700.
- Publisher
- Taschen GmbH Germany
- Number of pages
- 572
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Mul
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783836502917
- ISBN
- 9783836502917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.07€ 51.17
€ 59.07
€ 51.17
Paperback. Evaluating changes in liberal political theory and jurisprudence, particularly American liberalism after WWII, this book argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. It documents the indifference of liberal theorists and jurists to what were long deemed core elements of children's welfare. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPB; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134703
- ISBN
- 9780691134703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 42.32
€ 53.17
€ 42.32
Hardback. A study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. It describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St Lawrence, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Ohio valleys. Series: The Iroquoians & Their World. Num Pages: 408 pages, 12 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803213692
- ISBN
- 9780803213692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Hardback. Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts. Num Pages: 392 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 30. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643994
- ISBN
- 9781442643994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.63
€ 80.63
Paperback. The rich have always valued early education. More middle-class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. This work shows that their needs are key to the call for universal preschool. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032354
- ISBN
- 9780674032354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.20
€ 45.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. Wry and insightful, "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line" takes readers on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016347
- ISBN
- 9780674016347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.93
€ 38.99
€ 32.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801448522
- ISBN
- 9780801448522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Hardback. Provides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship. Num Pages: 268 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347156
- ISBN
- 9780822347156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Paperback. Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. 288 pages, 34 illustrations. Investigates the emergence of 'queer liberalism', the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822347323
- ISBN
- 9780822347323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.51
€ 29.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ2; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326366
- ISBN
- 9780822326366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? This title considers how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. It gathers an array of voices and experiences that represent the communities of a queer Asian-America. Editor(s): Eng, David L.; Hom, Alice Y. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 445 pages, 13 b&w photographs, 7 cartoons. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSK1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396400
- ISBN
- 9781566396400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 43.03
€ 47.99
€ 43.03
Paperback. Editor(s): Brown, David L.; Swanson, Louis E. Series: Rural Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271022420
- ISBN
- 9780271022420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.41
€ 47.99
€ 37.41
Paperback. Explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers and their adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handling problem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - that went to sea in 1962. Series: Perspectives. Num Pages: 492 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB; JWF; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 26. Weight in Grams: 845.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 492
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471472209
- ISBN
- 9780471472209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.07
€ 95.07
Paperback. * A concise introduction to American drama from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century. * Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period, among them Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405120876
- ISBN
- 9781405120876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.93
€ 45.99
€ 45.93
Paperback. Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. This title traces the story of The Mother Road from origins to decline, including the roadside attractions and cottage industries it spawned and the efforts to save and restore it. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150. New.
- Publisher
- Shire
- Number of pages
- 56
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747811329
- ISBN
- 9780747811329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.89
€ 8.89
Hardcover. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604560619
- ISBN
- 9781604560619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.59€ 71.42
€ 101.59
€ 71.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 28 photographs, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJPK; HBJK; JFFJ; JFSL1; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803288553
- ISBN
- 9780803288553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. With fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history from a stellar collection of writers, including Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Washington Irving, Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck, A Route 66 Companion offers a literary historical portrait of the most legendary open road in America Editor(s): Dunaway, David King. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 330. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292726604
- ISBN
- 9780292726604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.94
€ 23.99
€ 21.94
Paperback. For most bills in American legislature, the issue of turf - or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill - is crucial. This study explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress, and dissects the politics of "turf-grabbing". Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 218 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226436241
- ISBN
- 9780226436241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.79
€ 35.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 100 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 242 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2250.
- Publisher
- Ten Speed Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- y First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607743972
- ISBN
- 9781607743972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.24
€ 54.99
€ 42.24