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Editor(s): Morrison, Susan Signe. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b/w photos & 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JJG; 3JJH; 5AN; YNH. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613744574
ISBN
9781613744574
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.04

Hardcover. Rarely seen photographs from the Baltimore Sun, the News-American, and the Afro-American bring to life the rich, personal anecdotes of wartime Baltimoreans and transport readers back to an indelible era of Baltimore history. Num Pages: 176 pages, 129, 129 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 732.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801899836
ISBN
9780801899836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.96

Hardcover. The Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Yet battlefields were not the only landscapes altered by the war. Countless individuals saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. This book reveals this side of the war as it happened, examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Num Pages: 192 pages, 90 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226061856
ISBN
9780226061856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; BM; HBJK; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 289 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
AK Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849352505
ISBN
9781849352505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.97

Paperback. Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform over one hundred years ago and in A Home for Every Child, Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when and why modern adoption practices became a part of child welfare policy. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990644
ISBN
9780295990644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.49

Paperback. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 10 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HBTK; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413570
ISBN
9781421413570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.76

Hardback. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12, 10 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HBTK; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413563
ISBN
9781421413563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.91

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black & white halftones, 155 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 254. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493018468
ISBN
9781493018468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.23

Paperback. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Num Pages: 282 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400. Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. 282 pages, 3 tables. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235274
ISBN
9780520235274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. An ethnography about 'Japan outside of Japan' - specifically, how Japanese families on corporate re-assignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336228
ISBN
9780822336228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 300 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACBK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 294 x 246 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1208.
Publisher
The Heard Museum United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780934351768
ISBN
9780934351768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.57
€ 48.20

paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332404
ISBN
9780822332404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Hardcover. Shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. The author argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a "holy nation," a transnational community of like-minded believers committed to divine law and to one another. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HRCC97. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226255767
ISBN
9780226255767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.88

Paperback. What can today's influx of Evangelical leadership tell us about Christianity and society at large? Num Pages: 208 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814752357
ISBN
9780814752357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. This title provides an intimate account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazare da Silva. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HRQ; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Pap/DVD
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520262652
ISBN
9780520262652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.35

Paperback. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 686. The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 300 pages, 24ill. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520063297
ISBN
9780520063297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Discusses the enduring legacy of Holocaust restitution litigation, which is already being used as a model for obtaining justice for historical wrongs on both the domestic and international stage Num Pages: 411 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 231 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814799048
ISBN
9780814799048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. The roles of ethnicity and cultural identity in the films of Italian American film directors Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252078071
ISBN
9780252078071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813587448
ISBN
9780813587448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813587431
ISBN
9780813587431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.43

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