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The Americas

Hardcover. American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike. This book looks at the topic from the viewpoint of men: Why should they participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Encounter Books
Edition
6.1.2013
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594036750
ISBN
9781594036750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.31

Hardback. Focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 186 pages, biographies, map, chronology, tables, bibliography, further reading, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842028189
ISBN
9780842028189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.13

Paperback. This history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. It shows that the nominally conservative institutions of small-town life - home, church, school and workplace - were the very sites where queer sexuality flourished. Num Pages: 398 pages, 22 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226354705
ISBN
9780226354705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. By exploring of the construct of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature, Greven discovers that far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone, striving to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137298089
ISBN
9781137298089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback. Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s. Num Pages: 416 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465044542
ISBN
9780465044542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.64

Hardcover. In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 1MBFQ; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230250178
ISBN
9780230250178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Series: Insider's Guides. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JMC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
GPP Travel United States
Edition
4 Rev ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762748662
ISBN
9780762748662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.73

Paperback. Outlines the budgeting process through a series of memos from a budget director to a freshly elected governor. This title covers the steps of budget preparation, from strategy to execution, explaining technical vocabulary, and discussing key topics including baseline budgeting, revenue forecasting, and gap-closing options. Num Pages: 136 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; KFFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589019249
ISBN
9781589019249
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JH; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816667093
ISBN
9780816667093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Hardcover. Editor(s): Rothenberg, Daniel. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 615.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403964472
ISBN
9781403964472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 48.23

Hardcover. Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBA; JFC; JHB; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137290168
ISBN
9781137290168
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. Num Pages: 696 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC8; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993867
ISBN
9780295993867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures. Series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Num Pages: 335 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSU; JFF; JPA; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137485007
ISBN
9781137485007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures. Series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Num Pages: 335 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JPA; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137269386
ISBN
9781137269386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Paperback. Though America did not join rebellious Cuban forces against the Spanish empire until 1898, Frederick Funston (1865-1917) was so moved by a speech by Gen Daniel Sickles that he went to Cuba as a filibuster in the battle for Cuban independence. This title presents an account of his adventures in the Cuban Revolution and the Philippine-American war. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJC; 3JJPG; BM; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803222892
ISBN
9780803222892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 234 color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 279 x 11. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764327681
ISBN
9780764327681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.42

Paperback. This book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations-Panama, China/Taiwan, and the United States. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 figures, 1 illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCP; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758468
ISBN
9780804758468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

hardcover. This book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations-Panama, China/Taiwan, and the United States. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 figures, 1 illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCP; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804753029
ISBN
9780804753029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.08

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780028609980
ISBN
9780028609980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 24.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJ; HBJK; JHMC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361022
ISBN
9780822361022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

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