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hardcover. Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSK; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802044945
ISBN
9780802044945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Hardcover. Presents transcriptions, English translations, and annotations of more than 1,600 gravestones from Suriname's oldest Jewish burial grounds. This title examines three Sephardi cemeteries, whose monuments date from 1666 to 1904. It is based on years of on-site fieldwork in Suriname and research in archives in the United States and the Netherlands. Num Pages: 277 pages, 200 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSS; AMGD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 51. Weight in Grams: 2585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Edition
Pck
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878202249
ISBN
9780878202249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.40

Paperback. This collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation. Editor(s): Brown, Thomas J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402512
ISBN
9781421402512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.04

This collection continues the conversation Warren began fifty years ago, although taking it in unorthodox and challenging directions, to offer fresh and stimulating perspectives on the war's presence in the collective imagination of the nation. Editor(s): Brown, Thomas J. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402505
ISBN
9781421402505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.99

Hardback. Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaeton offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that center blackness, forge links across the African diaspora, and critique the popular Puerto Rican discourse of racial democracy, which conceals racism and marginalizes black Puerto Ricans. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AVGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359456
ISBN
9780822359456
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.84
€ 111.46

Hardcover. Chronicles the experiences of an American stock-market trader from his first job as a quotation boy in a Boston brokerage firm to his influential position on Wall Street in the 1920s. The author provides his observations about the markets and the minds and motivations of a typical trader. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGBA; KFFM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471059684
ISBN
9780471059684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.66
€ 144.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; WGF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 215 x 8. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Fonthill Media LLc United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625450715
ISBN
9781625450715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.05

Paperback. From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa-Quichua-speaking indigenous people-worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. This book probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 362 pages, 17 b&w photos, 4 figures, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292714397
ISBN
9780292714397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. .
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781469629896
ISBN
9781469629896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.04

Paperback. Examines how the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans. Series: CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 b&w photos, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292725409
ISBN
9780292725409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight were sentenced to death. This book explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race and class. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140476
ISBN
9780691140476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. By sharing individual Chileans' recollections of the Pinochet regime, historian Steve J. Stern provides an analytic framework for understanding memory struggles in history. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJPR; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338161
ISBN
9780822338161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.67

Hardcover. In 1977 a twenty-four year old woman moved to remote Abiquiu, New Mexico, to begin a five-year stay as companion and caretaker to then eighty-nine year old Georgia O'Keeffe. Num Pages: 64 pages, 12 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; ACXD; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890135464
ISBN
9780890135464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Chafe, William H.; Gavins, Raymond; Korstad, Robert. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Press, The
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620970270
ISBN
9781620970270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.03

Hardcover. These recollections centre on the American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, film critic and cult hero, James Agee. Contributors include his widow Mia Agee, John Huston, Anderw Lytle and Walker Evans - his collaborator on "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". Editor(s): Madden, David; Folks, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820319131
ISBN
9780820319131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.65

paperback. Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later Editor(s): Burton, Orville Vernon; O'Brien, David. Num Pages: 456 pages, 21 Black & White photographs, 9 Color photographs, 9 charts, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252076657
ISBN
9780252076657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 353.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859182321
ISBN
9781859182321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

Hardcover. Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different voices that attempted to make sense of the trauma, Seidler traces the narratives of fear, loss and vulnerability and the ways in which they evolved into feelings of rage and retribution. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137017680
ISBN
9781137017680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.71

hardcover. Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781442644113
ISBN
9781442644113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.32

paperback. Oral history through a bilingual presentation and skilful analysis of the stories told by the Dakota elder, Eli Taylor. Translator(s): Schommer, Wahpetunwin Carolyn. Series: Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803298446
ISBN
9780803298446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

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