The Americas
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The Americas
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government
Eggers, William D.; O'Leary, John
hardcover. The American people are frustrated with their government. Yet the US has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, the national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing. The US need more successes like these to reclaim the government's legacy of competence. This title explains how to do it. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 168 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Review Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781422166369
- ISBN
- 9781422166369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.35
€ 26.99
€ 24.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; KNS; KNXB2; LNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456558
- ISBN
- 9780801456558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.70
€ 35.70
Hardback. Reflects the range of thought by African Americans on the major wars fought by the United States. This book includes African American perspectives on 10 wars, from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq. Editor(s): Stanford, Karin L. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTJ; JFFE; JFSL3; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742541139
- ISBN
- 9780742541139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.19
€ 124.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HPS; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781101979983
- ISBN
- 9781101979983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.30
€ 27.99
€ 23.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552663264
- ISBN
- 9781552663264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.48
€ 25.99
€ 22.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252065323
- ISBN
- 9780252065323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Exploring the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, this title focuses on the late 19th century, leading to the 1905 withdrawal of British military forces from the region. It shows how fire-lit social upheavals served as forerunners of political independence movements. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11 illustrations, 1 table, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227591
- ISBN
- 9780807855232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; WSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 34.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762778485
- ISBN
- 9780762778485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.26
€ 26.99
€ 21.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Brosius, Peter. Num Pages: 136 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; YNDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816681143
- ISBN
- 9780816681143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; AFC; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 308 x 15. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857231266
- ISBN
- 9788857231266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.84
€ 37.99
€ 31.84
Hardcover. The untold story how Dwight Eisenhower secretly saved the world a second time as USA President by preventing a nuclear war from igniting when other countries invented the A-bomb. Num Pages: 494 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Publisher
- Gibson Square Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908096944
- ISBN
- 9781908096944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.75
€ 33.99
€ 23.75
Hardback. Ile Aiye redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ile Aiye questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137578174
- ISBN
- 9781137578174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.98
€ 112.98
Paperback. This work describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law, but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, anecdotes with analysis, the book uncovers what is really at stake in such crimes as insider trading, blackmail and plagiarism. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB; LNF; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226425948
- ISBN
- 9780226425948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.64
€ 34.99
€ 27.64
hardcover. This work leads us through a tangled realm, with puzzles and dilemmas, to find the underlying principles that not only guide the law but our moral decisions as well. It aims to uncover what is really at stake in crimes such as insider trading, blackmail and plagiarism. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JKV; LAB; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226425931
- ISBN
- 9780226425931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.29€ 44.59
€ 52.29
€ 44.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Downs, Kelly; Rasmussen, Delmer. Num Pages: 153 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JKV; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 153
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619426313
- ISBN
- 9781619426313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.73€ 115.01
€ 168.73
€ 115.01
Hardcover. Editor(s): Harper, Lesley. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631179723
- ISBN
- 9781631179723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.88€ 132.29
€ 194.88
€ 132.29
Paperback. Dissects the political debates over contemporary immigration reform in the US Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814758434
- ISBN
- 9780814758434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Hardback. A day after 'N' first crossed the US border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, he crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. In this book, he details the constraints, deceptions, and humiliations that characterize alien life "amid the shadows." Series: Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038310
- ISBN
- 9780252038310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.81
€ 117.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691175867
- ISBN
- 9780691175867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.68
€ 24.99
€ 18.68
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; KCR; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691169590
- ISBN
- 9780691169590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 35.96
€ 50.99
€ 35.96
Hardcover. An account of the state's development, from the earliest native settlements. Focusing on the state's changing population over time, this book highlights the achievements of ordinary people, including the women, the African Americans, and the other minorities. Containing illustrations, it appeals to students of history and general readers alike. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875803494
- ISBN
- 9780875803494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.75
€ 138.75
Hardback. Editor(s): Conzen, Michael P.; Carr, K. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875801285
- ISBN
- 9780875801285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BG; HBJK; HBLW; LAT; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226350103
- ISBN
- 9780226350103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.05
€ 25.99
€ 21.05
Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; BGS; BK; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 290 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1026.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807591
- ISBN
- 9780875807591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.43
€ 42.43