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The Americas

paperback. Examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 283 pages, 8 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520284982
ISBN
9780520284982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.86

Paperback. A collection of Crow recipes, age-old plant medicines and healing remedies. This work imparts the lore of ages along with the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for finding and harvesting plants. Editor(s): Castle, Lisa. Series: At Table. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803293533
ISBN
9780803293533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.58

paperback. Details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Washington Press Seattle
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295979328
ISBN
9780295979328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3,500 color photos and maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. Weight in Grams: 3500.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Second
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176505
ISBN
9780691176505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.52

Paperback. An anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. It assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity, addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism. Editor(s): Miller, Susan Cummins. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 462 pages, New Preface. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896726185
ISBN
9780896726185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.76

Paperback. Presents a collection of non-Occidental music, all from a single tribe. This book divides the songs into three categories: religious ones, sung by a certain class; social ones, involving dances and games; and ones to be sung singly, including dream songs, love songs, captive songs, prayer songs, death songs, sweat lodge songs, and songs of thanks. Num Pages: 152 pages, Songs. BIC Classification: 1KB; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803268876
ISBN
9780803268876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.37

Hardcover. Designed to enhance high school students' appreciation of the rich variety of Texas poetry, this work contains poems from the earliest beginnings of Texas, including work by Sam Houston and Mirabeau B Lamar, to the work of contemporary poets like Naomi Shihab Nye, Larry McMurtry, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jas Mardis, and Carmen Tafolla. Editor(s): Hill, Billy Bob. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 b&w photos, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875653532
ISBN
9780875653532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.26

Hardback. Editor(s): Brater, Enoch. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Edition
Student
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472514974
ISBN
9781472514974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447982265
ISBN
9781447982265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.86

Hardcover. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014074
ISBN
9780226014074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.38
€ 54.95

Hardback. This fascinating account of the Salem Witch Trials explores their religious, social, and political dimensions, their origins, their critics, and their aftermath, as well as their influence on the American cultural imagination to the present day. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HRQX5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 174 x 32. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199890347
ISBN
9780199890347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.48

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190627805
ISBN
9780190627805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.96

Paperback. Traces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle Islands Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 44 illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; HBJK; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992921
ISBN
9780295992921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.12

paperback. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Anchor New York
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385044516
ISBN
9780385044516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.17

Paperback. A comprehensive study of the Whitehorse Mining Initiative, which aimed to revitalize the mining industry. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 0. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780774806022
ISBN
9780774806022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. "Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page."-Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBWM; JWH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353907
ISBN
9780393353907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.17

Paperback. Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 3JJ; JFFG; JKSM; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626898
ISBN
9781442626898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, the author of this volume explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in 18th-century Connecticut. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 524 pages, 18 illustrations, 4 figures, index, appendices. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CBP; CFG; GTC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
524
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0227922
ISBN
9780807847725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 112 pages, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632863782
ISBN
9781632863782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.24

hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w illustrions. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cumberland House Publishing
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781581825879
ISBN
9781581825879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.89

paperback. Series: Music, Nature, Place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 b&w illus., 1 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KB; AVG; JPW; RNA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 391.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253023001
ISBN
9780253023001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. Series: Music, Nature, Place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 b&w illus., 1 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KB; AVG; JPW; RNA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253022684
ISBN
9780253022684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.69

Paperback. This bookproposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation. Num Pages: 302 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL; JPS; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230321762
ISBN
9780230321762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.97
€ 66.96

Paperback. aeo Takes a sweeping account of labor history from a social perspective from colonial times to the present, chronologically arranged. aeo Addresses black, white, native American, male, female, adult and child labor into a single volume. Series: Problems in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSC; JHBL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631207702
ISBN
9780631207702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.09

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