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Paperback. In the two decades after World War II, New York was shaken by struggles over urban renewal. Manhattan Projects offers a fresh look at the history of those conflicts, showing how the idea of urban renewal was made and unmade as the state of the art technique for remaking cities. Num Pages: 496 pages, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBJK; HBTB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199874057
ISBN
9780199874057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.15

Paperback. The only child of Irish immigrants to New York in search of a better life, Alice Carey had an isolated and sometimes violent childhood. A poignant tale of a young girl raised in a difficult environment juxtaposed with the story of a grown woman trying to make sense of her childhood. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBBEY; 3JJP; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Collins Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
SKU
KSG0019081
ISBN
9781848892736
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, this title celebrates New York's Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571241781
ISBN
9780571241781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.33

Hardcover. Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century New Jersey. Series: Gender and Race in American History. 222 pages, 2, 2 black and white. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ2. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 19. Weight: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463935
ISBN
9781580463935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.78

Paperback. Entering a distinctively male space-the saloon-to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion-politics-again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892561
ISBN
9780801892561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.51

paperback. Critiques "Manifest Destiny's" exclusive claim as an explanatory national story in order to rethink the meaning and boundaries of the West and of the United States' national identity. This work considers the American West before it became a trusted symbol of US national character or a distinct literary region in the later nineteenth century. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218451
ISBN
9780803218451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801488467
ISBN
9780801488467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.97

Paperback. With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they were named. This downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal, shows their world that is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any society. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 color illustrations, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; PSVW79. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060388
ISBN
9780674060388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Manitoba's long history of conflict, and the impact that has had on the rest of Canada, is revealed in these political biographies of the province's first eighteen premiers. Editor(s): Ferguson, Barry; Wardhaugh, Robert. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889772168
ISBN
9780889772168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.86

hardcover. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Africa Book Centre Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9789768138606
ISBN
9789768138606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.13

Paperback. Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 308 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFF; JFSJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041391
ISBN
9780226041391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.29

Hardcover. Examining the novels and short stories of Victorian America, this book uncovers the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. It offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America's attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226586663
ISBN
9780226586663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 49.58

Hardback. More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24, 17 black & white halftones, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801871252
ISBN
9780801871252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.19
€ 48.80

Paperback. More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24, 17 black & white halftones, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFCV; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405841
ISBN
9781421405841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.33

Paperback. In this new, accessible package, Sanderson takes you on a trip back through time, to explore Manhattan in its primitive form. Readers will be given a glimpse of what Manhattan looked like to its early explorers; before the skyscrapers, before the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections of avenues and streets Illustrator(s): Boyer, Markley. Num Pages: 352 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTP; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 249 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Abrams United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781419707483
ISBN
9781419707483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.19

Paperback. Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th C. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 463 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
463
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814775639
ISBN
9780814775639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; JKSW1; JKVM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311660
ISBN
9781477311660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.29

Hardback. A preeminent authority on El Salvador's street gangs reports on three nongovernmental organizations that, advocating for human rights, have attempted to reform the country's gang policy-only to be stifled by sweeping, politically popular Mano Dura (Iron Fist) laws. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; JKSW1; JKVM; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311219
ISBN
9781477311219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.30

Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 100 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 242 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2250.
Publisher
Ten Speed Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
y First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607743972
ISBN
9781607743972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 41.72

Paperback. The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India, and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India, Mantra presents an introduction to the use of sound-mantra-in the practice of Indian religion. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; HRK; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129619
ISBN
9780231129619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

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