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Hardback. A technocratic view of teachers as credentialed specialists has led to a growing reliance on migrant teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. The author investigates the result: transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with their students. Num Pages: 170 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
170
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055360
ISBN
9780674055360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America-within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States-during the past two centuries. Editor(s): Hoerder, Dirk; Faires, Nora. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 photo, 6 tables, 20 maps, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 1KJ; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JFFN; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350514
ISBN
9780822350514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. This book examines the migration, integration and transnational activity of overseas Americans - American migrants - in France, Germany and the UK. It examines the reasons for their migration, introduces the concept of 'accidental migrant' and explores the question of overseas Americans' integration and identity formation. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230296961
ISBN
9780230296961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.84

Hardback. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the US and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx of refugees from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. Editor(s): Munz, Rainer; Weiner, Myron. Series: Migration & Refugees S. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJPN; JFFD; JFFN; JPQB; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571810878
ISBN
9781571810878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.96

Hardcover. This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CFB; CFH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008861
ISBN
9780230008861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. This groundbreaking book examines the links between migration and the United States' ongoing economic and demographic revolution. Utilizing an explicitly geographic perspective, the contributors highlight the crucial role played by scale and spatial context in both immigration and internal migration. Editor(s): Pandit, Kavita; Withers, Suzanne Davies. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847693931
ISBN
9780847693931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.39

Hardback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361152
ISBN
9780822361152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361343
ISBN
9780822361343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. This work analyzes the 7500 people who travelled from London to America and Europe in 1635, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration. Together, the migrants' stories offer a social history of the 17th century. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones, 38 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; HBG; HBLH; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674007024
ISBN
9780674007024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 36.24

Paperback. At a time when anti-immigrant feeling is rising among the American public and when immigration is often cast in economic or deviant terms, this book humanizes the controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants' desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews, it focuses on the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey. Num Pages: 238 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLX; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066144
ISBN
9780674066144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Hardback. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPS; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634846042
ISBN
9781634846042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.54
€ 135.43

Hardback. Recognizing that the US is an immigrant country and Germany is not, historians and demographers from each describe how the two countries have come to have the largest number of immigrants among advanced industrial countries; how their conception of citizenship and nationality differ.. Editor(s): Bade, Klaus J.; Weiner, Myron. Series: Migration & Refugees S. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; JFFN; JPQB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571811257
ISBN
9781571811257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.99

Hardcover. Analyses the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of 'order and progress', and how they shaped their lives rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. This study is intended for scholars, students, and general audiences interested in additional views of colonialism, modernization, and diversified economies. Num Pages: 274 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115897
ISBN
9780230115897
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Sarkowsky, Katja; Schwarze, Sabine; Schultze, Rainer-Olaf. Series: Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks. Num Pages: 270 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBC; JFFN; JPB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer VS
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658065829
ISBN
9783658065829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804717892
ISBN
9780804717892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.62

Paperback. Discusses the unprecedented challenges that the movement of peoples across national borders poses, for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin. Editor(s): Benhabib, Seyla; Resnik, Judith. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPA; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 688.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814776001
ISBN
9780814776001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. Discusses the unprecedented challenges that the movement of peoples across national borders poses, for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin. Editor(s): Benhabib, Seyla; Resnik, Judith. Num Pages: 520 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPA; JPVH1; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814775998
ISBN
9780814775998
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Paperback. Mike captures Pearson's intellect, his sense of humour, and his humanity, offering a charming look at the youth of a great statesman. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442615649
ISBN
9781442615649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. Editor(s): Crews, Clyde F. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813118987
ISBN
9780813118987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.84

Paperback. This volume of Mike covers Pearson's election as leader of the Liberal Party, his years in opposition to the Diefenbaker government, and his achievements as prime minister. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
366
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442615663
ISBN
9781442615663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

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