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Keepers of the Game celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel and ten-team leagues and who wielded an influence and power within the game that are unthinkable today. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 B index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSBX; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597976916
- ISBN
- 9781597976916
Condition: New
€ 42.66
€ 42.66
Paul Rexton Kan demonstrates that the ongoing war in Mexico, now in its sixth year, is a mosaic war, with several wars occurring at once: cartels battle each other, cartels suffer violence within their own organisations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people and gangs combat gangs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table; 2 figures; 4 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BTC; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597977074
- ISBN
- 9781597977074
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq explores the dynamic trajectory of beliefs, actions, and their consequences in what will forever be debated as among the most controversial and costly operations in U.S. history in terms of security, power, wealth, and honor. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes; index. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JM; HBWS5; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597979443
- ISBN
- 9781597979443
Condition: New
€ 29.90
€ 29.90
Bat, Ball, and Bible chronicles the collision of moral and social forces in the argument over playing baseball on Sunday or upholding New York's blue laws, meant to restrict social activities and maintain Sunday's traditional standing as a day of religious observation. Num Pages: 232 pages, 27 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597979474
- ISBN
- 9781597979474
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597979504
- ISBN
- 9781597979504
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. This title explores our collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes our individual and national identity, and why we make portraits and more. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGHF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1318.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688924
- ISBN
- 9781611688924
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.30
€ 54.99
€ 43.30
The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 black and white photographs, 1 map, 4 charts, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036521
- ISBN
- 9780252036521
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Organizing the "unorganizable" Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252037320
- ISBN
- 9780252037320
Condition: New
€ 57.95
€ 57.95
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253006301
- ISBN
- 9780253006301
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072831
- ISBN
- 9780674072831
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Highlights 100 of the nearly 8,000 books that the Princeton University Press has published. In addition to descriptions of the 100 titles and a short introduction on the history of the Press, this book features five essays by prominent scholars and writers: Michael Wood, Anthony Grafton, Sylvia Nasar, Daniel Kevles, and Lord Robert May. Num Pages: 192 pages, 104 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122922
- ISBN
- 9780691122922
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824040
- ISBN
- 9780774824040
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Num Pages: 296 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449901
- ISBN
- 9780801449901
Condition: New
€ 47.76
€ 47.76
For entomologists, limnologists, and ecologists, Dragonfly Genera of the New World is an indispensable resource for field identification and laboratory research. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1650, 24 colour illustrations, 31 black & white halftones, 1595 black & white line drawin. BIC Classification: 1K; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 177 x 33. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801884467
- ISBN
- 9780801884467
Condition: New
€ 113.61€ 102.04
€ 113.61
€ 102.04
Without question Volume XV of the DCB/DBC will take its place as one of the finest to appear in this distinguished ongoing series of Canadian lives. Editor(s): Cook, Ramsay; Belanger, Real. Series: Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Num Pages: 1100 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GBCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1950.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 1100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802090874
- ISBN
- 9780802090874
Condition: New
€ 172.95
€ 172.95
Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802091536
- ISBN
- 9780802091536
Condition: New
€ 106.37
€ 106.37
Schooling in Transition is ideally structured to accommodate a one-semester university-level course: each chapter contains a short thematic introduction, two articles addressing the common theme, and suggestions for further readings. Num Pages: 440 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 187 x 29. .
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098610
- ISBN
- 9780802098610
Condition: New
€ 106.37
€ 106.37
The first mapping of the sacred geography ("mythscape") of the Northern Arawak-speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and Baniwa sacred narratives Num Pages: 408 pages, 18 photographs, 7 illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803243941
- ISBN
- 9780803243941
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Herbert Kritzer addresses a number of questions about contingency fee legal practice and argues that to be successful, contingency fee lawyers must generate a portfolio of cases similar to an investment portfolio with its associated risk. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 tables, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAS; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749671
- ISBN
- 9780804749671
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made sense of Spanish legal principles and processes when the dust of conquest had begun to settle after 1600. This work reveals how Indians saw the law as a practical and moral resource that allowed them to gain a measure of control over their lives and to forge a relationship to a distant king. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758635
- ISBN
- 9780804758635
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16