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This latest instalment reviews the year 2005, a year in which the first minority parliament since Joe Clark's short-lived government struggled to maintain stability. Series: Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GBCY; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643857
- ISBN
- 9781442643857
Condition: New
€ 139.50
€ 139.50
Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood. Num Pages: 416 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; AFC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643987
- ISBN
- 9781442643987
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Elections in Oxford County, 1837-75 breaks new ground with its detailed treatment of the county's voice-vote method of election, which ended with the adoption of the secret ballot in 1874. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 Figures, 12 Photos, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644045
- ISBN
- 9781442644045
Condition: New
€ 59.22
€ 59.22
The final volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery's critical reception: reviews of her books. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644939
- ISBN
- 9781442644939
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Claude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647695
- ISBN
- 9781442647695
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647701
- ISBN
- 9781442647701
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life and the creation of the Associated Country Women of the World. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647725
- ISBN
- 9781442647725
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Creating Colonial Pasts explores the creation of history and memory in Southern Ontario through the experience of its inhabitants, especially those who took an active role in the preservation and writing of Ontario's colonial past. Num Pages: 232 pages, 53. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648371
- ISBN
- 9781442648371
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; GTF; JFSJ; JHB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649361
- ISBN
- 9781442649361
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Guides readers through a number of classic films from the 1930s and '40s and investigates why films featuring Irish American characters were so popular among American audiences during a period when the Irish were still stereotyped and scorned for their religion. This book also considers films such as "Angels with Dirty Faces", and "Kitty Foyle". Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589662001
- ISBN
- 9781589662001
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Compiles a collection of chapters that cover a range of topics from relationships with parents to views about love, sex, and marriage; from experiences in college to those in the work place; and more. This book portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood, a stage that the editor describes as emerging adulthood. Editor(s): Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen; Tanner, Jennifer Lynn. Series: Decade of Behavior Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSP2; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 830.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591473299
- ISBN
- 9781591473299
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.95
€ 44.99
€ 39.95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611686623
- ISBN
- 9781611686623
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan-owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire-arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by an itinerant carpenter wielding an assault rifle. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611687156
- ISBN
- 9781611687156
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612344935
- ISBN
- 9781612344935
Condition: New
€ 36.27
€ 36.27
Long before it became the slogan of the Obama campaign, Dr. Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto "Yes, We Can." An African American elite descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and possibly a white governor of Virginia, Ferebee was an obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington, D.C. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 35. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345055
- ISBN
- 9781612345055
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
The NYPD's First Fifty Years. Politicians, Police Commissioners, and P...
Whalen, Bernard; Whalen, Jon
Num Pages: 267 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612346564
- ISBN
- 9781612346564
Condition: New
€ 31.18
€ 31.18
Lawrence J. Haas,reveals how the United States created the United Nations to replace the League of Nations, pursued the Truman Doctrine to defend freedom from Communist threat, launched the Marshall Plan to rescue Western Europe's economy from the devastation of war. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWS; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612348124
- ISBN
- 9781612348124
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Highlights Clinton Jencks's dramatic influence on the history of labour culture in the American Southwest through a lifetime devoted to progress and change for the social good. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252037559
- ISBN
- 9780252037559
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Vicki Ohl describes a remarkable life, which included being the first woman to write a Broadway musical and eloping to Oregon with a rodeo cowboy she met at the 1939 World's Fair. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36ill.21mus.exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- New Haven
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300102611
- ISBN
- 9780300102611
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 47.09
€ 59.41
€ 47.09
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Journal. 1851-1852
Thoreau, Henry David. Ed(S): Neufeldt, Leonar...
From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This volume presents nearly eight hundred manuscript pages of this Journal. Editor(s): Neufeldt, Leonard N.; Simmons, Nancy Craig. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 800 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 52. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691065359
- ISBN
- 9780691065359
Condition: New
€ 144.96€ 110.03
€ 144.96
€ 110.03
Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- New York
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801438530
- ISBN
- 9780801438530
Condition: New
€ 90.07
€ 90.07
This book examines the politics, culture, and day-to-day activities of Porto Alegre's citizens. It argues that the Brazilian town's importance may lie not just with its effective governance, but with its political logic, namely a greater access to government functions and government officials for traditionally disenfranchised citizens. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 tables, 5 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751223
- ISBN
- 9780804751223
Condition: New
€ 119.48
€ 119.48
In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643116
- ISBN
- 9781442643116
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTB; JFSG; JH; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199752218
- ISBN
- 9780199752218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.21
€ 59.21