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The Americas
Hardcover. Set during the sexual revolution of the sixties, this work recalls the decade's prodigious effect on a generation of Americans that came of age during that transformative time of changing mores. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; VFVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608899
- ISBN
- 9780815608899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.36
€ 26.99
€ 25.36
paperback. Explains how the American military's anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, 'Don't Ask/Don't Tell.' This title shows that this ubiquitous phrase implies that it discharges service members not for who they are, but for what they do. It is suitable for legal scholars, policymakers, activists, and military historians. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK2; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323174
- ISBN
- 9780822323174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.21
€ 25.99
€ 24.21
Hardcover. This critical biography of Charles A. Dana, the 19th-century editor of the "New York Sun", blends the democratic ideal of the man with social and media history. Focusing on Dana's early years and political emergence, it analyses the "Sun" as the conscience and advocate for the working class. Num Pages: 300 pages, 18 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGB; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815625797
- ISBN
- 9780815625797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.65
€ 45.65
Paperback. The Seattle bungalow was the nation's first modern home, and it established the essential characteristics of popular housing. This book modifies the common notion that architectural change flows only from the design elite - the architects, reformers and planners - and argues that ordinary people played a crucial role in creating the bungalow. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 38 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JJ; AMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 13. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986272
- ISBN
- 9780295986272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.22
€ 39.22
Paperback. Focuses on the staples of American welfare system such as Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. This book maintains that these programs form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138527
- ISBN
- 9780691138527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
€ 37.99
€ 27.43
Paperback. Explores the two-hundred-year-old American tradition of freewheeling, improvisational, and asymmetrical quilts, whose makers experimented boldly with design, color, and pictorial motifs. This work examines the aesthetics and the social history of quilts from the nineteenth century onwards, including Amish, African American, and modern art quilts. Num Pages: 176 pages, 66 illus., 48 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WFBQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295983097
- ISBN
- 9780295983097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.17
€ 37.99
€ 34.17
Paperback. An investigation of the indigenous arts of the US and Canada in the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series. The importance of these arts to the integrity of spiritual, social, political and economic systems within Native North American societies is considered through issues such as gender, representation, the colonial encounter and contemporary arts. Series: Oxford History of Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, 53 colour plates, numerous black and white halftones, 16 line drawings, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; ACBK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780192842183
- ISBN
- 9780192842183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.91
€ 27.99
€ 20.91
Paperback. Understand the Occupy Wall Street movement - and why it matters now more than ever both in America and around the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; JPWF; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 209 x 38. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316220217
- ISBN
- 9780316220217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.31
€ 31.99
€ 21.31
Paperback. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. Editor(s): Burroway, Janet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014104
- ISBN
- 9780226014104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.31
€ 24.99
€ 20.31
Hardcover. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014074
- ISBN
- 9780226014074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.14€ 55.38
€ 65.14
€ 55.38
Hardback. Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979), this book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays. Num Pages: 177 pages, Plans transparencies :Bibliography: p157-166. - Includes index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810824485
- ISBN
- 9780810824485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.75
€ 94.75
Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YNM; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 193 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 163.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Dgs
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780399544248
- ISBN
- 9780399544248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.39
€ 9.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Lane, Janet B. Num Pages: 142 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594546976
- ISBN
- 9781594546976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.33€ 55.92
€ 79.33
€ 55.92
Paperback. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329475
- ISBN
- 9780820329475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.12
€ 45.12
Paperback. Showcasing the colorful, even raucous, political, social, and unique cultural qualities of Louisiana history, this new collection of essays features the finest and latest scholarship. Louisiana Legacies is an ideal documentary reader to supplement courses in Louisiana state history. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118541890
- ISBN
- 9781118541890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.39
€ 37.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 590 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1040.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 590
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816633364
- ISBN
- 9780816633364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardback. An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora. Series Editor(s): Horne, John. Series: Globalizing Sport Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSL1; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784994075
- ISBN
- 9781784994075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.55
€ 149.55
As unique as the city it describes, Annapolis, City on the Severn builds on the most recent scholarship and offers readers a fascinating portrait into the past of this great city. Num Pages: 512 pages, 191, 164 black & white halftones, 22 colour illustrations, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 263 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1780.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801896590
- ISBN
- 9780801896590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.39
€ 60.39
Paperback. Cases of child abuse and neglect reported in the media have led to a crisis of confidence in the current child protective services (CPS) systems in the USA, and to frequent calls for reform. Jane Waldfogel agrees that the public has a right to be concerned. Num Pages: 296 pages, 43 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFFE1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674007239
- ISBN
- 9780674007239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.93
€ 45.99
€ 37.93
Paperback. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- second edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147118
- ISBN
- 9780231147118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.61
€ 37.99
€ 27.61