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The Americas

Hardback. This is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group of students who came to the U.S. in the early 20th century to attend American universities and played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804736961
ISBN
9780804736961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.01

Paperback. The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; GTJ; HBJK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 403.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137353573
ISBN
9781137353573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work questions how peace was made and whether it has endured. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; GTJ; HBJK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120945
ISBN
9780230120945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Paperback. The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. This book tells the story of that migration. Num Pages: 289 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520247017
ISBN
9780520247017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. Captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 1HFGE; 1HFGS; 1KBBW; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991436
ISBN
9780295991436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.41

Paperback. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place, a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International, a network of ex-gay ministries, this title explores why some Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of the program's results - or, frequently, their lack. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226288123
ISBN
9780226288123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.88

Paperback. Blues recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the 1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious part of Southern life. Gussow identifies veiled references to real life incidents of these lynchings within the words of Blues songs and literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGK; DSBF; DSBH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310985
ISBN
9780226310985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

hardcover. A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a "musical color line" in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1. Ausgabe.
SKU
V9780822346890
ISBN
9780822346890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

Paperback. A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a "musical color line" in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347002
ISBN
9780822347002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General; (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 373 x 297 x 5. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780873658164
ISBN
9780873658164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812694093
ISBN
9780812694093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.86

Paperback. Argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386. Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience. Series: Experimental Futures. 280 pages, 24 illustrations. Argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 16. Weight: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353362
ISBN
9780822353362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822353317
ISBN
9780822353317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. Focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216090
ISBN
9780253216090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Hardback. Editor(s): George, Darrell R.; Watkins, Joyce M. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 261 x 14. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
162
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781622574445
ISBN
9781622574445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.85
€ 158.44

Hardcover. Editor(s): Moretti, Anthony C. Num Pages: 160 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; KFFD; KJMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 260 x 15. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781613246504
ISBN
9781613246504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.31
€ 168.80

Hardcover. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
Edition
None ed.
SKU
V9780813523200
ISBN
9780813523200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.18

Paperback. "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell Num Pages: 208 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871401540
ISBN
9780871401540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.83

Paperback. The York Notes series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World. This text covers the selected poems of Sylvia Plath. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582424777
ISBN
9780582424777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Paperback. Offers a selection of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" and "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. This work presents an inspiring portrait of this writer and a testament to the creative process itself. Editor(s): Cope, Stephen. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520252325
ISBN
9780520252325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Complete reprints of reviews of New York stage productions for the first half of the 20th century contained in three volumes. Num Pages: 280 pages, indices. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810818446
ISBN
9780810818446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.78

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Havel, Hippolyte. Editor(s): Berkman, Alexander. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JPFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 205 x 37. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
AK Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849352567
ISBN
9781849352567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

Hardcover. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 42. Weight in Grams: 832.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593777
ISBN
9781841593777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides authorized biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America's pioneering astronauts. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 396 pages, 167 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; TRP; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441984043
ISBN
9781441984043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.71
€ 56.03

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