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The Americas
Paperback. Lyndon B Johnson's presidency was characterised by domestic successes and vilified international policies. He presided over the advancement of civil rights and educational reform while escalating the disastrous war in Vietnam. This title offers a balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. The United States and the World, 1963-69. 240 pages. Lyndon B Johnson's presidency was characterised by domestic successes and vilified international policies. He presided over the advancement of civil rights and educational reform while escalating the disastrous war in Vietnam. This title offers a balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JPS. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 13. Weight: 370.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748649013
- ISBN
- 9780748649013
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.01
€ 36.99
€ 33.01
unknown_binding. October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black and white, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBTW; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780748696307
- ISBN
- 9780748696307
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Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 29.39
€ 39.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. Traces the story of America's Muslims from the seventeenth-century slave trade to the eighteenth-century immigration wave to the Nation of Islam. Drawing on interviews in communities from industrial Michigan to rural California, Curiel portrays the diversity of practices, cultures and observances that make up Muslim America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848855991
- ISBN
- 9781848855991
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.71
€ 25.99
€ 22.71
Hardback. The Mobius Strip is an extensively researched study of the complex transformation of space-from the spatial politics of the state to the spatial practices of peasants-during three centuries of colonial rule in Mexico. Num Pages: 688 pages, 20 tables, 23 figures, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1365.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748933
- ISBN
- 9780804748933
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Condition: New
€ 111.02
€ 111.02
Hardcover. Editor(s): Antonellis, Jonathan D.; Barone, Nicholas P. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPQ; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613244180
- ISBN
- 9781613244180
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Condition: New
€ 171.11€ 116.58
€ 171.11
€ 116.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; KNXB1; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485541
- ISBN
- 9780801485541
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food. Editor(s): Sarna, Jonathan D.; Dalin, David G. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268016562
- ISBN
- 9780268016562
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855539
- ISBN
- 9780807855539
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Condition: New
€ 56.44
€ 56.44
Paperback. Reveals the power and complexity of the music at the heart of collective rituals across Lowland South America Editor(s): Hill, Jonathan David; Chaumeil, Jean-Pierre. Num Pages: 440 pages, 26 illustrations, 1 map, 2 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; AVRN; HRLF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220928
- ISBN
- 9780803220928
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.60
€ 46.99
€ 41.60
paperback. Primordial, mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuenai of South America, available in English for the first time ever Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 224 pages, 17 photographs; 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFHF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075704
- ISBN
- 9780252075704
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Hardback. Catalogue of an exhibition held October 3, 2015-January 10, 2016 at the Tacoma Art Museum; Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Ga.: February 20-May 22, 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY: June 23-September 11, 2016. Num Pages: 288 pages, 200 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6782 x 5334 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295994949
- ISBN
- 9780295994949
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.70
€ 47.99
€ 39.70
hardcover. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia's northern border, this work argues for a localized, idiosyncratic understanding of the Civil war. This book reveals that, for many participants, this war was fought less for abstract ideological causes than for reasons tied to home, family, friends, and community. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813925493
- ISBN
- 9780813925493
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Condition: New
€ 79.85
€ 79.85
Paperback. Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez truly revolutionary? Some see the president as a shining knight of socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. But the Chavez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these distinguished essays make clear. Editor(s): Eastwood, Jonathan; Ponniah, Thomas. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JMC; HBJK; HBLX; JPF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061385
- ISBN
- 9780674061385
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.61
€ 27.99
€ 24.61
Paperback. A selection of Jonathan Edward's sermons, which seeks to recognise their crucial role in his life and art. The 15 sermons reflect a life dedicated to experiencing and understanding spiritual truth, and address a wide range of occasions, situations and states. Editor(s): Kimnach, Wilson H.; Minkema, Kenneth P.; Sweeney, Professor Douglas A. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DNF; HRCM; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 334
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300077681
- ISBN
- 9780300077681
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486446011
- ISBN
- 9780486446011
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Condition: New
€ 10.85
€ 10.85
Hardback. Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725415
- ISBN
- 9780804725415
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Condition: New
€ 78.03
€ 78.03
Hardback. Jonathan Vance examines Canada's role in the formation of an important aspect of international law, traces the growth and activities of a number of national and local philanthropic agencies, and recounts the efforts of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBG; HBLW; JWT; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774805049
- ISBN
- 9780774805049
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Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
Hardback. Tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. This title shows how Robert Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Num Pages: 270 pages, 220 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1364. The Art of Robert Arneson. 270 pages, illustrations. Tells the story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. This title shows how Robert Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ; AFKB; AGB. Dimension: 286 x 224 x 25. Weight: 1364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273832
- ISBN
- 9780520273832
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Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.48
€ 59.42
€ 46.48
Paperback. A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007234257
- ISBN
- 9780007234257
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
€ 13.99
€ 10.61
Hardback. Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142786
- ISBN
- 9780231142786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.58€ 79.12
€ 104.58
€ 79.12
Paperback. How did Japan and the United States end up at war on December 7, 1941? What American decisions might have provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor? In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utley examines the ways domestic politics shaped America's response to Japanese moves in the Pacific. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Fordham University Press Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224722
- ISBN
- 9780823224722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326724
- ISBN
- 9780822326724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APB; APT; BM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781101986233
- ISBN
- 9781101986233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.93
€ 29.99
€ 23.93
Paperback. On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York ,Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites of notorious murders. This is a fusion of true crime and travel writing, with reflections on American manners and morals observed during this serendipitous transcontinental journey. Num Pages: 208 pages, 27 photographs & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227609
- ISBN
- 9780873388252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99