The Americas
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The Americas
Paperback. In 1946 and 1953, Irving "Ben" Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavations - until now unpublished. Series: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Yale Peabody Museum. Num Pages: 193 pages, 86 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913516287
- ISBN
- 9780913516287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.91€ 59.41
€ 75.91
€ 59.41
Hardcover. On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men left New York City on an epic 3,554-mile footrace to Los Angeles nicknamed the Bunion Derby. For seventy-eight consecutive days, the men pushed their bodies and spirits to the breaking point as they chased a $25,000 first prize in what is arguably the greatest long distance footrace in history. Series: Sports and Entertainment. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; WSBX; WSKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610366
- ISBN
- 9780815610366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays that assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, and Western civilization manifested in the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games and shows how they are still relevant. Editor(s): Brownell, Susan. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 490 pages, 27 photographs, 1 figure, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 43. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803210981
- ISBN
- 9780803210981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.35
€ 60.35
paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations, map, table, index. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803266629
- ISBN
- 9780803266629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.05
€ 26.99
€ 25.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, 15 b/w photos & 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH1; JFHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Trine Day United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937584146
- ISBN
- 9781937584146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.26
€ 21.99
€ 19.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 165 pages, over 200 bw/color images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1152.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 165
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764329210
- ISBN
- 9780764329210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 35.24
€ 52.99
€ 35.24
hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GBCB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801439582
- ISBN
- 9780801439582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.74
€ 41.99
€ 37.74
paperback. An intimate treatise on the subject through the ramblings of a student and practitioner of the culinary arts of this exotic region with basic recipes and their variations. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393334425
- ISBN
- 9780393334425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.36
€ 26.99
€ 25.36
Paperback. This guide covers "classic" parks, national historical parks, national monuments, national battlefields, national scenic trails, and beyond. Num Pages: 480 pages, 100 Colour Photographs, 100 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 203 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781426207341
- ISBN
- 9781426207341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.81
€ 26.81
Hardcover. This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a "democratic" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor. Editor(s): Mendez, Juan; O'Donnell, Guillermo; Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio (Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JPVH; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Edition
- First edition, presumed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043018
- ISBN
- 9780268043018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.81
€ 132.81
Hardcover. A groundbreaking study of the 'white other' figure in American intermarriage literature and film. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287168
- ISBN
- 9781137287168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its eighty-six crewmen alive. Though some of the Flier's mysteries remain with the submarine beneath the sea, this title sheds light on the nature of underwater warfare and naval protocol. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124810
- ISBN
- 9780813124810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.63
€ 35.63
Paperback. Tise Vahimagi details in this text the development of the "Gangster" genre, and "The Untouchables"'s relations to American cinema and television of the 1950s and 1960s, offering a sidelight on the social and political events of the period. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HBTB; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851705637
- ISBN
- 9780851705637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.80
€ 37.99
€ 32.80
hardcover. This is a painstaking reconstruction of the original version of Orson Welles's film, which was drastically recut by RKO Studios in 1942 before its release. It examines all surviving evidence, including rare studio documents and the recollections of Welles and other participants in the film. Num Pages: 318 pages, 100 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078574
- ISBN
- 9780520078574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.89€ 49.47
€ 61.89
€ 49.47
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; GTF; JFSJ; JHB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649361
- ISBN
- 9781442649361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Num Pages: 176 pages, over 200 b/w and color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JWG; JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887409127
- ISBN
- 9780887409127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.10
€ 48.99
€ 32.10
Paperback. A short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784783402
- ISBN
- 9781784783402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.31
€ 25.99
€ 21.31
Hardback. Offers fresh insights into the changing perceptions of the relationship between humans and the environment and a new understanding of environmental and animated cinema Num Pages: 296 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFV; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803235120
- ISBN
- 9780803235120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.05
€ 64.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFDT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226421520
- ISBN
- 9780226421520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.12
€ 21.99
€ 19.12