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Paperback. When Italian immigrants landed on American shores they were outsiders but over time this community moved from being ethnically suspect to being racially privileged. Asking "are Italians white?", this collection of essays explores how, when and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans. Editor(s): Guglielmo, Jennifer; Salerno, Salvatore; Gugliemo, Jennifer. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415934510
ISBN
9780415934510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21

Hardcover. Examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928838
ISBN
9780813928838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.99

Hardcover. The roaring history of the famed gossip columnist's grip on America's popular and political culture Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFC; JPFM; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814728239
ISBN
9780814728239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.35

Paperback. The first full-fledged history of what was arguably the most innovative community organizing campaign in post-war American history Num Pages: 257 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726983
ISBN
9780814726983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar period. Highlighting 130 works, this title presents the complete history of Baker's collection. Series: Yale University Art Gallery. Num Pages: 261 pages, 185 colour images + 35 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2070.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300153026
ISBN
9780300153026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 37.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606920480
ISBN
9781606920480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.16
€ 39.78

In Shakespeare in Quebec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBD; DSGS; JFSJ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 2. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647978
ISBN
9781442647978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.69

Hardcover. This book examines the jazz-influenced work of five twentieth-century African-American women poets: Sherley Anne Williams, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Harryette Mullen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623156
ISBN
9780230623156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback. An in-depth look at American soldiers' daily lives during World War I. Num Pages: 234 pages, 36 illustrations, 1 map, 1 chronology, 1 glossary. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234871
ISBN
9780803234871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.39

Paperback. She finds that the country and the conscripts-in their view-entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century. Series: War/Society/Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18, 15 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWN; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801874468
ISBN
9780801874468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.49

Hardback. An exploration of the historical interest in medical books, libraries and librarianship. It provides an overview of the Medical Library Association from its conception as a resource for libraries to its role as a national, professional organization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 photographs, 4 tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GLM; GTN; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810834705
ISBN
9780810834705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.59

Paperback. This study of colonial memory asks the question, how do once-colonized people remember the colonial period? Drawing on an ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community in Madagascar, the book develops a practice-based approach to social memory. Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Num Pages: 378 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HSM; 1K; GTB; HBTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520228467
ISBN
9780520228467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.42

Hardcover. On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn - and thus narrowly prevented a devastating suicide bombing of the New York subway. This book tells the dramatic story of that raid, the painstaking police work that went into it, and its unexpected aftermath. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC; JKSW1; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226360904
ISBN
9780226360904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Hardcover. Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school. Series: Education Policy. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137008992
ISBN
9781137008992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.20

Hardback. Jennifer Brule is on a mission, southern style, to teach people to cook. Her method: master twenty-five classic southern dishes, and then - using similar ingredients or cooking techniques or both - make two variations, one contemporary and one inspired by international tastes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 77 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469629124
ISBN
9781469629124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; HRLM7; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040399
ISBN
9780252040399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

Paperback. How grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822335658
ISBN
9780822335658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FPCH; 1KBB; 1MBF; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118274835
ISBN
9781118274835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.59

Paperback. A study that exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. It explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological - and literary - crossings and disruptions slavery engendered. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726532
ISBN
9780814726532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813570709
ISBN
9780813570709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKA; JNMN; VSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 187. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119370987
ISBN
9781119370987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.10

Paperback. This text reader provides a broad-ranging feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and identifies key trends and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Editor(s): Abbassi, Jennifer; Lutjens, Sheryl L. Series: Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742510753
ISBN
9780742510753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.64

Paperback. Series: Ver. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 190 x 12. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780895511270
ISBN
9780895511270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KJH; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801486739
ISBN
9780801486739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

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