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The Americas
Hardcover. Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. This title traces Humboldt's ideas for "Cosmos" to his 1799 journey to the Americas, where he first experienced the diversity of nature and of the world's people. Num Pages: 424 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; PDX; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226871820
- ISBN
- 9780226871820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.69
€ 44.99
€ 34.69
Hardcover. Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; MBX; MJW; MMZF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674281448
- ISBN
- 9780674281448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.02€ 52.81
€ 57.02
€ 52.81
Paperback. Reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, this title argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Translator(s): Whitty, Diane Grosklaus. Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series. Num Pages: 374 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292702363
- ISBN
- 9780292702363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
paperback. A powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774821858
- ISBN
- 9780774821858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Suitable for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multi-national corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and non-governmental organizations, universities, and more, this book includes insightful testimonies about what these careers are really like from junior and senior professionals in these fields. Editor(s): Cressey, Laura E.; Helmer, Barrett J.; Steffensen, Jennifer E. Num Pages: 368 pages, 7 tables, 5 figures, 39 text boxes, 5 figures, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- Ninth
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626160750
- ISBN
- 9781626160750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.95
€ 32.99
€ 28.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSJ; JFSL; JPHF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801450860
- ISBN
- 9780801450860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.58
€ 51.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 85 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AJB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803237858
- ISBN
- 9780803237858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 550 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 115 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Scott & Nix, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935622598
- ISBN
- 9781935622598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.09
€ 25.09
Paperback. An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. It explores the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 284 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072185
- ISBN
- 9780252072185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.21
€ 24.99
€ 23.21
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252066009
- ISBN
- 9780252066009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, this title examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists. Series: Chicana Matters. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 b&w photos, 8 color photos in section. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; AB; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780292722880
- ISBN
- 9780292722880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day. Editor(s): Gotkowitz, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350439
- ISBN
- 9780822350439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Providing a re-assessement of the cause of Bolivia's 1952 revolution, this book argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that rural indigenous activists helped shape populist projects of 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; HBTV; JFC; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340676
- ISBN
- 9780822340676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Paperback. Grindstaff takes the reader behind the scenes of daytime television talk shows. This study draws on interviews with producers and guests and asks not just what talk shows can tell us about mass media, but also what they reveal about American culture more generally. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309118
- ISBN
- 9780226309118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardback. This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike." Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137596741
- ISBN
- 9781137596741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.07
€ 116.07
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813570372
- ISBN
- 9780813570372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. What kinds of stories win cases, and why? Drawing on trial transcripts and appellate court opinions in civil adultery cases, and on literary examples from Mark Twain, E.D.E.N Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Laura Korobkin sheds new light on the intersections of gender, genre, law and story. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Casebook ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231105095
- ISBN
- 9780231105095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.11
€ 47.11
Hardback. Series: Intersections. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; MFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479808175
- ISBN
- 9781479808175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. Series: Intersections. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK; MFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479894864
- ISBN
- 9781479894864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. From the author of Unbroken - a major motion picture releasing in 2015 - this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse, Seabiscuit. Num Pages: 496 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BT; WSNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841150925
- ISBN
- 9781841150925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33