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Paperback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780823242559
ISBN
9780823242559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242542
ISBN
9780823242542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.52

Paperback. Is the United States "overstretched" in its international commitments? This book examines differing responses to overstretch in modern history, focusing mostly on military and economic policies in the U.S. and Britain over the past century. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113274
ISBN
9780231113274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.53

Hardback. Is the United States "overstretched" in its international commitments? This book examines differing responses to overstretch in modern history, focusing mostly on military and economic policies in the U.S. and Britain over the past century. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113267
ISBN
9780231113267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.91
€ 90.75

Paperback. What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 268 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814735435
ISBN
9780814735435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively deteriorating 'American work ethic', and the class, race, sexual and gender biases at the root of the policy and debates. This title argues that activists could make great strides towards achieving social justice, even in the reactionary climate. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKS; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814797556
ISBN
9780814797556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This work compares the coverage of Nixon in the three national newsweeklies , "Newsweek", "Time", and the "US News and World Report", from his resignation from the presidency in August 1974 until his funeral in April 1994. Num Pages: 112 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761818557
ISBN
9780761818557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.12

Paperback. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future. Editor(s): Neu, Charles E. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863325
ISBN
9780801863325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.04

Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220768
ISBN
9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. Editor(s): Bearman, Peter; Neckerman, Kathryn M.; Wright, Leslie. Num Pages: 456 pages, 51 illus.; 72 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; JPQB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157773
ISBN
9780231157773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Editor(s): Bearman, Peter; Neckerman, Kathryn M.; Wright, Leslie. Num Pages: 456 pages, 51 illus.; 72 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; JPQB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157766
ISBN
9780231157766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.36
€ 102.15

Paperback. This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume "Toward Renewed Economic Growth In Latin America". It presents the work of a group of leading Latin American economists who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing. Editor(s): Kuczynski, P.; Williamson, John. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; KCB; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Peterson Institute for International Economics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881323474
ISBN
9780881323474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Sparks a fresh conversation about the war on crime and its consequences Editor(s): Lopez, Ian Haney; Frampton, Mary Louise; Simon, Professor Jonathan. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS; JKV; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814727614
ISBN
9780814727614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566638593
ISBN
9781566638593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.08

Paperback. Editor(s): Dickel, Simon. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; AB; DSBH; JFCA; RNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837628937
ISBN
9783837628937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The New Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595581167
ISBN
9781595581167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.24

Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, Figures: 60,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165822
ISBN
9780231165822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Hardcover. When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. This title reveals that even in politically sensitive wartime environments, individual members of Congress frequently propose legislation, hold investigative hearings, and engage in national policy debates in the public sphere. Series: Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 halftones, 20 line drawings, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL; JPS; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226453552
ISBN
9780226453552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.15
€ 94.65

Paperback. When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. This title reveals that even in politically sensitive wartime environments, individual members of Congress frequently propose legislation, hold investigative hearings, and engage in national policy debates in the public sphere. Series: Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 halftones, 20 line drawings, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHL; JPS; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226453569
ISBN
9780226453569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Paperback. Luciak cautions that while active measures to advance the political role of women have strengthened formal gender equality, only the joint efforts of both sexes can lead to a successful transformation of society based on democratic governance and substantive gender equality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1KLCN; 1KLCS; JFSJ1; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867804
ISBN
9780801867804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.16

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