The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. A collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. Editor(s): Abel, Elizabeth; Christian, Barbara; Moglen, Helene. Num Pages: 425 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206304
- ISBN
- 9780520206304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.07
€ 41.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. How school-aged girls used the legal system to gain access to contact sports Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBS; LAZ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075841
- ISBN
- 9780252075841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States (Rochester...
Sarah B. M. Webber Rodriguez
Hardcover. An engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing what the therapeutic use of female circumcision and clitoridectomy tells us about American medical ideas concerning the female body and female sexuality. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; MBX; MJT; MN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464987
- ISBN
- 9781580464987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Martinez, Brenda. Num Pages: 105 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSR; JKSW; JPP; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 231 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536100792
- ISBN
- 9781536100792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.87€ 103.66
€ 137.87
€ 103.66
Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican Am...
Carroll, Patrick; Carroll, P.
paperback. Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused to hold a wake for the slain soldier because "the whites would not like it." Series: CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 b&w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 709.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780292712492
- ISBN
- 9780292712492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.30
€ 36.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, 25 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; JFSJ1; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Viva Editions United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781573443562
- ISBN
- 9781573443562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.18
€ 17.99
€ 16.18
Hardback. New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. This book investigates the context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves. Series: Critical Cultural Communication. Num Pages: 317 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814762790
- ISBN
- 9780814762790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Paperback. Italian American identity, now a mix of history and fantasy, flesh-and-bone people and all-too-familiar caricature, still has something to teach us. Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, the author explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 256 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; AB; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814727478
- ISBN
- 9780814727478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
paperback. Editor(s): Pascual, Nieves; Gonzalez, Antonio Ballesteros. Series: Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lit Verlag
- Edition
- 1.,
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783825807900
- ISBN
- 9783825807900
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.78
€ 34.99
€ 29.78
Paperback. While the story of John B. Rayner is not widely known, this African American educator and Populist leader, the son of a politically powerful white slaveholder from North Carolina, was a political maverick who dared to challenge the Democratic Party and the Post-Civil War South's racial orthodoxy. Indeed, John B. Num Pages: 150 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harlan Davidson
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780882959610
- ISBN
- 9780882959610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.81
€ 30.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 226 x 12. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780772663436
- ISBN
- 9780772663436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.82
€ 24.99
€ 22.82
Paperback. This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation--the food trade--and showing the connections between and among social categories. Series: Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American & Latino Art & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w Photographs, 5 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292723269
- ISBN
- 9780292723269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Series: Peabody Museum Collections Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 50 colour illustrations, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; AFKC; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum Press
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873654036
- ISBN
- 9780873654036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.73
€ 27.99
€ 24.73
Paperback. Demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. The book describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's field. The text focuses on Asia and Latin America. Num Pages: 204 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KLC; 1KLS; GTF; KNAC; RNU; TVKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0228294
- ISBN
- 9780807845936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Stewart, Aaron; Gray, Keith. Num Pages: 87 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNAC; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 8. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619422728
- ISBN
- 9781619422728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.68€ 51.97
€ 73.68
€ 51.97
Paperback. The federal government is deeply entrenched in American public education and virtually dictates what can be taught to students. Why? At what cost? And what are the benefits to public school students? To public schools? The author challenges the constitutionality of the feds in the classroom. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFX; JNK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742548596
- ISBN
- 9780742548596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.34
€ 46.34
Hardback. The federal government is deeply entrenched in American public education and virtually dictates what can be taught to students. Why? At what cost? And what are the benefits to public school students? To public schools? The author challenges the constitutionality of the feds in the classroom. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFX; JN; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742548589
- ISBN
- 9780742548589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.01
€ 136.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801492129
- ISBN
- 9780801492129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Presents the first broadscale examination of the increasingly nationalized political activism of US state attorneys general. Focusing on coordinated state litigation as a form of national policymaking, Paul Nolette challenges common assumptions about the contemporary nature of American federalism. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPR; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700620890
- ISBN
- 9780700620890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Paperback. Examines and compares public policy performance across both state and national levels, explaining why state agencies excel at economic outputs and profitability, the management of land with state income in mind - while national agencies are stronger in citizen participation and the inarguably important role of environmental protection. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; JPRB; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878403745
- ISBN
- 9780878403745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.59
€ 70.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 54 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 4. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 54
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590332665
- ISBN
- 9781590332665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.99€ 49.06
€ 62.99
€ 49.06
Hardback. The authors of this book discuss whether federalism promotes or undermines rights. They also examine both the theoretical perspectives on the relationship between federalism and rights, and the historical and contemporary relationship between federalism and rights in the United States. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHC; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847680894
- ISBN
- 9780847680894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.71
€ 159.71
paperback. Examines reasons why environmental laws seldom work out exactly as planned. Casting federal-state working relationships as 'pulling together,' 'coming apart,' or somewhere in-between, this title provides dozens of observations from federal and state officials. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ; JPR; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised and Updated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589011007
- ISBN
- 9781589011007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.74
€ 71.74
Paperback. Samuels, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Richard Snyder, Brown University of Illinois. Editor(s): Gibson, Edward L. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPA; JPHC; JPHV; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801874246
- ISBN
- 9780801874246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.18
€ 34.99
€ 29.18