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The Americas
Hardcover. Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation. This title discusses the lessons Jefferson's efforts offer us. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB; LAZ; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition (1st printing)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927718
- ISBN
- 9780813927718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.11
€ 42.11
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bedford/St. Martin's
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312085858
- ISBN
- 9780312085858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.74
€ 44.99
€ 39.74
Not trusting biographers, Jefferson wrote his autobiography at 77. This text returns to original manuscripts and correspondence for a new view of the statesman's life. It extends the story where Jefferson left off, weaving excerpts from other writings with passages from the autobiography. Num Pages: 216 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122359
- ISBN
- 9780813122359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.87
€ 39.87
Hardcover. A close look at the presidency of Jefferson Davis. It seeks to provide a clear picture of his leadership and ability to handle domestic, diplomatic and military matters under the most trying circumstances - without the resources of the north and without the formal recognition of other nations. Num Pages: 576 pages, 39 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1148.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700611706
- ISBN
- 9780700611706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.78
€ 77.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 x 16 page color insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 170 x 37. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608195435
- ISBN
- 9781608195435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.89
€ 21.99
€ 20.89
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803251380
- ISBN
- 9780803251380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.63
€ 23.99
€ 22.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 27 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JFSJ1; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 163.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493017287
- ISBN
- 9781493017287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.68
€ 16.99
€ 14.68
Paperback. Jean Harlow's looks and shockingly blatant sexuality made her Hollywood's first and most sensational sex goddess. In all the history of Hollywood since her death in 1937, no star has made such an impression. This book reveals the truth behind the star, including the circumstances behind her death. Num Pages: 471 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747409885
- ISBN
- 9780747409885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.65
€ 19.65
Paperback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 black and white photographs, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252081606
- ISBN
- 9780252081606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. Editor(s): Ake, David; Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Goldmark, Daniel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271036
- ISBN
- 9780520271036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.61€ 57.73
€ 74.61
€ 57.73
Paperback. What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. Editor(s): Ake, David; Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Goldmark, Daniel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426. The Music and Its Boundaries. 312 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Ake, David; Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Goldmark, Daniel. What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 19. Weight: 426.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271043
- ISBN
- 9780520271043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.91
€ 41.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Just after World War I, jazz began a journey along America's waterways from its birthplace in New Orleans. This title brings to life the vibrant history of this music and its newfound mainstream popularity among the American people. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVGJ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226102672
- ISBN
- 9780226102672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.22
€ 23.99
€ 19.22
Hardback. Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970. Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AVGC6; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810839076
- ISBN
- 9780810839076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.68
€ 113.68
Paperback. The Story of American Vernacular Dance Num Pages: 508 pages, 32 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASD; AVGJ; AVGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306805530
- ISBN
- 9780306805530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.61
€ 25.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781477312278
- ISBN
- 9781477312278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? Editor(s): Gabbard, Krin. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780822315964
- ISBN
- 9780822315964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
paperback. By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. This book shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different - and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116532
- ISBN
- 9780691116532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Hardcover. The story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner. Num Pages: 720 pages, 38 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1144.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393068610
- ISBN
- 9780393068610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.10
€ 52.99
€ 44.10
Hardback. Editor(s): Medina, Gregory. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; MMG; PST; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634830898
- ISBN
- 9781634830898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 288.95€ 216.21
€ 288.95
€ 216.21
Sheet map, folded. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; WTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 109 x 4. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- National Geographic Maps United States
- Number of pages
- 1
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566956611
- ISBN
- 9781566956611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.54
€ 19.99
€ 18.54
Hardback. The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists Editor(s): Zinn, Betsy Stepina. Num Pages: 1578 pages, 1317 color + 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; ACXD9; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 248. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1578
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780300227420
- ISBN
- 9780300227420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 680.96€ 505.23
€ 680.96
€ 505.23
Hardcover. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 5 maps, 11 illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBBW; HBJF; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295998336
- ISBN
- 9780295998336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Hardback. Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause of the 1924 U.S. immigration law. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJG; JPS; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 579.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738132
- ISBN
- 9780804738132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.77
€ 86.77
Paperback. Traces the struggles and achievements of Japanese Americans in claiming their place in American society. This title outlines three forces shaping ethnic groups in general: shared interests, shared institutions, and shared culture, and chronicles the Japanese American experience within this framework. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813544335
- ISBN
- 9780813544335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.73
€ 44.99
€ 39.73