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The Americas

Paperback. Originally published in 1864, this volume is a telling of the journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents the author's account of the wilderness. It is a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting. Editor(s): Moldenhauer, Joseph J. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 376 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; 3JH; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118772
ISBN
9780691118772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

Paperback. Shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; BG; JFC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479814664
ISBN
9781479814664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. This book recounts their exploits. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 maps, 65 photographs, chronology, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289956
ISBN
9780803289956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.42

Paperback. In 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture and economy, recasting theories of development for other postcolonial nations. Num Pages: 464 pages, 18 halftones, 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; GTF; JHM; JPHV; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226116020
ISBN
9780226116020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; AFKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 244 x 12. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Royal British Columbia Museum Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780772647733
ISBN
9780772647733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Zambrana, Ruth Enid; Hurtado, Sylvia. Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JNFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477307250
ISBN
9781477307250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 3JJG; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 32. Weight in Grams: 786.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition, First ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486799629
ISBN
9780486799629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Virgin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KTM0006723
ISBN
9780753500941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; HBTB; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 235.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Trine Day United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937584511
ISBN
9781937584511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.65

Hardcover. A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book From an "imaginatively twisted and fearless" writer (Los Angeles Times), a hilarious memoir of middle age. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JM; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393088687
ISBN
9780393088687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.01

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DD; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 8. Weight in Grams: 80.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474293273
ISBN
9781474293273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.32

Paperback. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the author's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In the preface, it discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. Num Pages: 360 pages, 19 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300157529
ISBN
9780300157529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.60

Paperback. Offers an account of the Las Vegas gambling scene that surrounded the first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. This book raises the question of whether this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse - and what, finally, it all means. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803213838
ISBN
9780803213838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.72

Hardback. Engagingly written and soundly argued, this study clarifies and highlights the political origins of the nation's foundational document and argues that American constitutionalism is primarily about countervailing power not legal limits enforced by courts. Series: The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC; LND. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888526
ISBN
9780801888526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Paperback. Looks at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. This book includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. Editor(s): Adler, E. Scott; Lapinski, John S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691121598
ISBN
9780691121598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Editor(s): Dornbusch, Rudiger; Edwards, Sebastian. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Num Pages: 411 pages, 32 figures, 85 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226158440
ISBN
9780226158440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. This new edition marks the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies. Num Pages: 430 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195133516
ISBN
9780195133516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.08

Paperback. The M1 Garand gave the US infantryman a marked edge during World War II. It shot faster and further than enemy infantry rifles and hit harder. No less an authority on killing the enemy than General George S Patton called the Garand, The greatest battle implement ever devised. This book deals with this rifle. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter; Gilliland, Alan. Series: Weapon. Num Pages: 80 pages, 40 b/w; 15 col. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 186 x 7. Weight in Grams: 270.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849086219
ISBN
9781849086219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPN; BTC; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062458360
ISBN
9780062458360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.74

Paperback. Offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. This book asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth. Num Pages: 436 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCV2; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224919
ISBN
9780520224919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Traces the political and legal history of the Indians of Robeson County, arguing that Lumbee political activities ave been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others' conceptions of who they are. This book offers insights into the workings of racial ideology and practice in both the past and the present South. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803261976
ISBN
9780803261976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493008490
ISBN
9781493008490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.32

Paperback. Uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. The author paints a picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans. Num Pages: 344 pages, 45 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Expanded paperback edition with a New preface by
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155326
ISBN
9780691155326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJQ; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772030204
ISBN
9781772030204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

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