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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBZ; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Beacon Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807076996
ISBN
9780807076996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.29

Paperback. Espouses that government can be a force for good in society, while addressing critics simultaneously. Through coverage of events and an accessible writing style, this text fosters interest and involvement in state and local politics, policy, and public service. Num Pages: 352 pages, colour illustrations, colour tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 188 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
6th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781285737485
ISBN
9781285737485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 113.68

Paperback. In most parts of highland Ecuador, people still identify themselves as indigenous and as belonging to a particular ethnic subgroup by the clothes and ornaments they wear. This book offers insight into the role of costume-clothing, jewelry, and bodily adornment - in a society changing from a subsistence economy to one based on wage income. Editor(s): Rowe, Ann Pollard. Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 400 pages, 286 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; AKTA; JFCK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 204 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295977423
ISBN
9780295977423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.70

Hardback. Using a wide variety of archaeological and archival evidence of indigenous clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles, scholars trace the history of costume in Ecuador from prehistory to the twentieth century. Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Num Pages: 382 pages, 9 color and 194 b&w photos, 7 line drawings, 8 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292725911
ISBN
9780292725911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.24

hardcover. Using concepts from political economy, feminism, and public policy, this study will be of interest across a range of disciplines. Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 diagrams, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; JFSJ; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035233
ISBN
9780802035233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.41

Paperback. Using concepts from political economy, feminism, and public policy, this study will be of interest across a range of disciplines. Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 diagrams, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; JFSJ; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802084088
ISBN
9780802084088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 43.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 75 black & white halftones, 25 colour illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 204 x 14. Weight in Grams: 721.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608931750
ISBN
9781608931750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.46

Paperback. Could a mother shoot her own children? This title is a reissue of a true crime classic. Num Pages: 624 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWR; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 40. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751535563
ISBN
9780751535563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Series: Wildflowers in the National Parks Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 324 colour illustrations, 2 maps, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; WNP; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 105 x 12. Weight in Grams: 16.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Falcon Guides
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762770113
ISBN
9780762770113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50, 4 black & white line drawings, 34 black & white halftones, 12 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801898266
ISBN
9780801898266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.27

Paperback. A portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement. It explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups - social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates - that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party. Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFM; LAQ; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226768342
ISBN
9780226768342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.41

Paperback. Fits, trances, visions, clairvoyance, and possession. Believers have viewed these experiences as religious - as manifestations of God, or the Christ within. This book explores the myriad ways in which believers and detractors interpreted these experiences in Anglo-American culture between the mid-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 halftones 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HRCS; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 231 x 32. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691010243
ISBN
9780691010243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 50.55

Paperback. Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council of the Indies in Spain to purchase legitimations. This analysis provides a detailed picture of attitudes to illegitimacy in colonial Spanish America. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 tables 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3J; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731485
ISBN
9780804731485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.62

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813564807
ISBN
9780813564807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.87

paperback. First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822339168
ISBN
9780822339168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Hardback. Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGC; AJC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1157.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063317
ISBN
9780271063317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.82

Hardcover. Examines crisis, transition and metamorphosis in American independent cinema. This book explores various rites of passage (the teen movie, the road movie, the western), these films deal in images of crisis, transition and metamorphosis. It offers images that both engage with and undermine modes of cliched representation. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748693603
ISBN
9780748693603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 94.53

Series: New Directions in Southern History. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813134246
ISBN
9780813134246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.79

Paperback. Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326144
ISBN
9780822326144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Hardcover. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Forging Rights in a New Democracy explores high school-aged students' understanding of rights and justice, and how they interpret and appropriate discourses of citizenship and civic values in the school setting as well as on the streets in the context of peaceful mass protests. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244267
ISBN
9780812244267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.66

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