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The Americas

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The Americas

Paperback. Cemis are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirits, which the Tainos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with super-natural or magic powers. This title looks at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemi power. Series Editor(s): Curet, L. Antonio. Series: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817355159
ISBN
9780817355159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.46

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785044
ISBN
9780804785044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.42

Exploring the tropical flavours and rich culinary traditions of Puerto Rixo with Jose Santaella's collection of recipes, inspired by the locals. Num Pages: 256 pages, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KJP; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1372.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780789327437
ISBN
9780789327437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.91

Paperback. Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079122
ISBN
9780252079122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.08

Hardback. Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252037580
ISBN
9780252037580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.02

Hardback. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253022745
ISBN
9780253022745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.84

This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities. Series: Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442237605
ISBN
9781442237605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.27

Hardback. Explores the works of American abstract painter and watercolourist Suzan Frecon (b 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of colour, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. This book features ten oil paintings and thirty watercolours dating from the late 1990s to 2007. Series: Menil Collection. Num Pages: 116 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 46 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 298 x 212 x 22. Weight in Grams: 966.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300125528
ISBN
9780300125528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.04

Hardcover.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KIN0001181
ISBN
9780393061352
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "A bracing and intelligent reminder that, for all its woes, America remains extraordinarily dynamic, innovative, and resilient."-Fareed Zakaria Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Liveright
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871408464
ISBN
9780871408464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.62

Hardcover. A provocative and contrarian work-filled with great lessons from history-that challenges the pervasive notion that America is on the decline. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404497
ISBN
9780871404497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. The Habana Cafe's list of 'Bests' began in 1997, soon after the Cuban family restaurant opened its doors on Florida's Gulf Coast and served its first steaming platters of homemade picadillo, arroz con pollo and lechon asado. These dishes, along with many more, are included in this cookbook. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 colour photographs, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJC; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813027371
ISBN
9780813027371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.31

Hardback. A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the official security discourse in Colombia, this book investigates discursive and material practices that write the identities of state, self and others. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 288 pages, Tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719079856
ISBN
9780719079856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.28

Paperback. As a young mum-of-three, the author was determined to get her troubled life back on track. But then she met Gary Heidnik and the next four months became a living nightmare. Along with five women she was held captive in a cellar where she was starved, beaten, and repeatedly raped to fulfil Heidnik's desire of creating a 'family' of ten children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091955717
ISBN
9780091955717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.39

Paperback. Series: United States in the World: Foreign Perspectives. Num Pages: 234 pages, xvi, 220 p. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 283.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226852058
ISBN
9780226852058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.92

Hardback. African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. Editor(s): Fradera, Josep M.; Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 figs & tables, 5 maps, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KJ; 1KL; 3J; HBJD; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459336
ISBN
9780857459336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.99

Paperback. First cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power Editor(s): Joseph, Gilbert M.; Rubenstein, Anne; Zolov, Eric. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 528 pages, 54 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJH; 3JJP; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327189
ISBN
9780822327189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.26

Paperback. Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America. Editor(s): Joseph, Gilbert M.; LeGrand, Catherine C.; Salvatore, Ricardo Donato. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 592 pages, 25 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLS; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 953.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320999
ISBN
9780822320999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.90

Paperback. The first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico Editor(s): Nugent, Daniel. Num Pages: 456 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314677
ISBN
9780822314677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.67

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341215
ISBN
9780822341215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.26

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