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The Americas

The end of the cold war left the United States without a plan for navigating the international security challenges of a new world order. Few can agree on what, if any, grand strategy should replace containment. This text examines the debates over US. grand strategy in light of US. security policies and interests in tactical regions worldwide. Editor(s): Hentz, James J. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813123325
ISBN
9780813123325
Condition: New

€ 46.57

Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPF; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442215375
ISBN
9781442215375
Condition: New

€ 70.77

A comprehensive analysis of the Obama presidency, its actions in office and its policy directions. The changes in orientation and policy directions that took place are both accounted for and explained in a policy and political context as are their consequences for the institution of the presidency itself. Editor(s): Crotty, William J. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMG; JPHC; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739172346
ISBN
9780739172346
Condition: New

€ 145.85

Hardback. Editor(s): Ashbee, Edward; Dumbrell, John. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 8 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 282 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319410326
ISBN
9783319410326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.44

Paperback. Perspectives on the Obama campaign and early administration Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JPHL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252078224
ISBN
9780252078224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. An incisive evaluation of foreign policy and the meaning of power in the Obama era Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; 3JMG; JPF; JPHL; JPL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190659943
ISBN
9780190659943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.36

Hardback. The Obama Administration and Educational Reform seeks to situate, problematize, and bring to light the goals, accomplishments, experienced blockades, and disappointments of the Obama administration's educational policies. Editor(s): Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M. Series: Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research Policy and Praxis. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783507092
ISBN
9781783507092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.55

Hardback. This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSP1; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774816397
ISBN
9780774816397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.37

paperback. This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 392 pages, 38 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHB; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774816403
ISBN
9780774816403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. This title explores this shift and its connections to the transformation of the US from a welfare state to a neo-liberal one. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226895291
ISBN
9780226895291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Editor(s): Maes, Nathan T.; Willems, Caroline L. Num Pages: 84 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; JWJ; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613247938
ISBN
9781613247938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.91
€ 48.84

Paperback. Explores the socio-cultural fallout of America's technoscientific project - the atomic bomb. This book examines how diverse groups - weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists - have engaged the US nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period. Num Pages: 448 pages, 54 halftones. 21 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JPS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691120775
ISBN
9780691120775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. This brief and easy-to-use 'Reader's Guide'offers teachers, principals, district and state administrators--anyone with a vested interest in improving the quality of science education--the tools they need to fully absorb the new Next Generation Science Standards and begin to implement them, effectively, into classroom practices. Num Pages: 42 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNU; YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
National Science Teachers Association - NSTA Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781938946066
ISBN
9781938946066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691163208
ISBN
9780691163208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.09

The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel-a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751872
ISBN
9780804751872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.95

Hardback. Based on extensive sources, including newspapers, trial documents, and local histories, this gripping account of a seemingly typical woman who achieved extraordinary notoriety will appeal to true crime lovers and historians alike. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420202
ISBN
9781421420202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.28

Hardcover. Explores the deeper tension between the ideal of Puritan family life and its messy reality, complicating the way America has thought about its Puritan past Series: North American Religions. Num Pages: 251 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition, 1st Printing
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814723722
ISBN
9780814723722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.34

Hardback. Collected by the Ronald Reagan Foundation, this book includes both Reagan's own original writing that honors a lifetime of work in the arts and politics, and includes his favorite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature. It encapsulates a lifetime of reflections on work, marriage, and family in classic one liners. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white halftones, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 218 x 30. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062065131
ISBN
9780062065131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. Addresses the world of elder care from the vantage point of gender, race, ethnicity and social class, and systematically describes the experiences of family caregivers, workers in the caring labour force and the frail elderly themselves, showing how each is affected by long-term care practices. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSG; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742528314
ISBN
9780742528314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.41

Hardback. Addresses the world of elder care from the vantage point of gender, race, ethnicity and social class, and systematically describes the experiences of family caregivers, workers in the caring labour force and the frail elderly themselves, showing how each is affected by long-term care practices. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSG; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742528307
ISBN
9780742528307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.90

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