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The Americas

Paperback. This work draws ideas from two projects which took place in French Guiana - the Ariane Rocket programme and the Devil's Island penal experiment. The two are compared and connected with developments and events, with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this place into greater extended systems. Num Pages: 361 pages, 21 b/w photographs, 4 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSF; JHM; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520219854
ISBN
9780520219854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.98

Hardback. Taking a balanced look at issues that have contributed to decline of America's manned space program, such as lack of political support and funding, this book offers not only a critique but also a plan for enhancing US space security through cooperation rather than competition. It focuses on how policy changes of mid-1990s have changed the nation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136549
ISBN
9780231136549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.82
€ 56.82

Paperback. This volume presents the culture, history, chronology and character of archaeological remains for a region of the Southeast. It includes artifact definitions, descriptions of sites destroyed by construction and agricultural projects, and information collected from museums around the United States. Series: Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology & History S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illustrations, 1 map, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of Florida Florida
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
192
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0212688
ISBN
9780813016344
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. This volume presents the culture, history, chronology and character of archaeological remains for a region of the Southeast. It includes artifact definitions, descriptions of sites destroyed by construction and agricultural projects, and information collected from museums around the United States. Series: Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology & History S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 illustrations, 1 map, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
University Press of Florida Florida
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
KEX0212687
ISBN
9780813016344
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Drawing on a plethora of sources, including decades of contact with senior Soviet figures, Raymond Garthoff offers the most authoritative assessment to date of how Soviet leaders and intelligence chiefs understood -- and misunderstood -- the United States during the Cold War. Num Pages: 160 pages, 5 tables, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBTW; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626162297
ISBN
9781626162297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBJD; HBLW3; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496. From Stalinism to the New Cold War. 328 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBJD; HBLW3; JPB. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight: 496.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148979
ISBN
9780231148979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.39

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691651811
ISBN
9780691651811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.39
€ 120.90

Hardcover. This text examines changing Soviet and Russian press coverage of the USA from the mid-1980s to 1996. It suggests that the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a more self confident Russia means that the symbolic and discursive significance of the United States for Russia has diminished. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD; JPH; JPS; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333643143
ISBN
9780333643143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardback. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300206692
ISBN
9780300206692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.62

Paperback. Focuses on Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. This book argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of sovereignty emerged in Americas as a response to European imperial crises in the age of revolutions. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DS; 1KL; HBJD; HBJK; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691142777
ISBN
9780691142777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.76

Paperback. Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness". Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252072666
ISBN
9780252072666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Paperback. The first ethnography of the vibrant Aboriginal media community in Vancouver, Sovereign Screens uncovers the social forces shaping that community, including community media organisations and avant-garde art centres, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 photographs, 1 map, 1 appendix, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBC; APFA; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803296961
ISBN
9780803296961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages, col. Illustrations, col. maps. BIC Classification: 1K; ACBK; AFK; WF; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 273 x 13. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Roundhouse Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873586566
ISBN
9780873586566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 24.07

Paperback. With 53 colour photographs and an appendix of adapted plants, this guide is a useful resource for reaping the rewards of landscaping with native and adaptive plants. It is suitable for gardeners facing the challenging winds, soils, and droughts of low- and high-desert gardens. Num Pages: 144 pages, 58 colour & 51 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890131664
ISBN
9780890131664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, 366 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFKG; AFTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 294 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1220.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764348686
ISBN
9780764348686
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.93

Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 236 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 1KBBWU; 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 287 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1064.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764340932
ISBN
9780764340932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 137 color photos & 4 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591866145
ISBN
9781591866145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.91

Paperback. Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813577166
ISBN
9780813577166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Hardback. Southerners, Too? challenges the view that 'southern heritage' refers to white southerners only by revealing that, historically and culturally, African-Americans have been integral to southern life and history. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761828716
ISBN
9780761828716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.47

Hardcover. Examination of some prominent recent figures in Southern fiction. Hobson focuses on the differing ways in which such writers as Bobbie Ann Mason, Lee Smith and Barry Hannah have responded to the influences of commercial culture, such as television, rock music and theme parks. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820312750
ISBN
9780820312750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.70

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