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The Americas

Paperback. Editor(s): Glickman, Lawrence B. Num Pages: 432 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; JFFT; JHM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801484865
ISBN
9780801484865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems. Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226039558
ISBN
9780226039558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge the author takes up in this book, using Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone. Num Pages: 600 pages, 4 fine line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF; JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674258624
ISBN
9780674258624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674016279
ISBN
9780674016279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.10

Paperback. In 1938, the United States abandoned the constraints imposed by the Washington Teaty and began work on a different class of super-battleships. This book covers the design, construction, and employment of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest in the American fleet. Illustrator(s): Bryan, Tony. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW; HBW; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 188 x 4. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846035111
ISBN
9781846035111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.10

Paperback. Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMD; JPVH2; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583670668
ISBN
9781583670668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.87

Paperback. This comparative look at vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos brings the mythical image of the American cowboy into focus and detail and honors the regional and national variations. Series: M.K. Brown Range Life Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 163 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292712409
ISBN
9780292712409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.72

paperback. The Frontier of Leisure examines the centrality of leisure to the history of Southern California, and how the region's tourist resorts and residential recreation influenced the nation, from ranch houses and the landscape of postwar suburbia to relations of labor and race, and the place of nature in everyday life. Num Pages: 336 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Usa United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199891924
ISBN
9780199891924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.73

Hardcover. Shows that conservative efforts to expand markets and shrink government often have the ironic effect of expanding government's reach by creating problems that force legislators to enact new rules and regulations. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226076423
ISBN
9780226076423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.07
€ 49.03

Argues that widespread public disinterest in global affairs, a prevailing characteristic of American political culture, has given private interest groups a paramount influence over the formulation and implementation of US foreign policy. This title examines the causes and the serious consequences of Americans' apathy toward foreign policy. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813125244
ISBN
9780813125244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.18

Paperback. A master spy's memoir of playing the game in the most strategically influential country in 1960s Africa Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; 1KBB; BGH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781586485641
ISBN
9781586485641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Using documentary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the fighting at Cowpens, 1781, this volume provides a minute-by-minute account of the clash that many believed turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the South. Num Pages: 231 pages, 6 illustrations, 6 tables, 19 maps, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807849262
ISBN
9780807849262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
93
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811200417
ISBN
9780811200417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811212731
ISBN
9780811212731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Paperback. Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 53. Weight in Grams: 684.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753825884
ISBN
9780753825884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Hardback. Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. This book documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. Series: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 265 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 277 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1732.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164541
ISBN
9780300164541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Chronicles the remarkable story of the Huston family, which boasts three Oscar winners, from Walter to John to Angelica, with particular attention to the rich career and tumultous personal life of director/actor John Huston (1906-1987). Num Pages: 872 pages, 61 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; BGF; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 64. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629142371
ISBN
9781629142371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.52

Paperback. Includes essays that offer a sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing inseparability from contemporary structures of economic and political power and from our everyday lives. This title reveals the ways in which popular culture is being mobilised in the service of economic and political struggles. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319177
ISBN
9780822319177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Presents the urban biography of Omaha. This book describes the building of the transcontinental railroad, the penetration of the Great Plains by homesteaders, the establishment of the meat packing industry, and the creation of an elaborate national defense system. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Enlarged ed.
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803279674
ISBN
9780803279674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.60

hardcover. In Sound the Trumpet, Lawrence J. Haas examines the effort by advance freedom and democracy around the world. Haas argues forcefully that, for all of our missed opportunities and tragic errors, the world is a better place because of our efforts. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442216587
ISBN
9781442216587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.42

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