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Paperback. A collection of essays that asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, it speaks to the difficulty of recovering a past that was largely unrecorded as well as understanding the varied experiences of peoples of Asian descent. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 18. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566399647
ISBN
9781566399647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.84

Hardback. An account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It recounts the behind-the-scenes activities of the staff from the beginnings at Kitt Peak to the closing of the Tuscon offices. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; PGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402032356
ISBN
9781402032356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.35

Paperback. A personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The author recounts the behind-the-scenes activities of the staff from the beginnings at Kitt Peak to the closing of the Tuscon offices. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; PGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2005
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048168224
ISBN
9789048168224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.83

Hardcover. This memoir begins in 1834, when Cornelia James Pond was born to one of the Old South's wealthiest plantation families, and it ends in 1875, when she was a 41-year-old wife and mother trying to cope in the post-Civil War south. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820320441
ISBN
9780820320441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.08

Paperback. Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life. Num Pages: 290 pages, 25 figures, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226406510
ISBN
9780226406510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 29. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442611689
ISBN
9781442611689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 47.73

Hardcover. Implementing many of the trends in contemporary indigenous studies, this title includes seventeen original essays that tackle indigenous identity, cultural perseverance, economic development, and urbanization in a wide array of American Indian and First Nations populations. Editor(s): Wunder, John R.; Kinbacher, Kurt E. Num Pages: 470 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 243 x 28. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896726413
ISBN
9780896726413
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.03

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814341407
ISBN
9780814341407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.81

Hardcover. This volume explores some of the critical reconfigurations of the Union as wrought by the Civil War and offer insights into public memory of what the conflict signified. Editor(s): Morgan, Iwan W.; Davies, Philip John. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137336477
ISBN
9781137336477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Paperback. McMahon demonstrates how FDR's goals of constructing a stronger presidency and undermining the power of conservative Southern Democrats dovetailed with his administration's efforts to seek racial equality through the federal courts. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 115 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226500881
ISBN
9780226500881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.27

Paperback. Over a century ago the United States Supreme Court decided the "Insular Cases," which limited the applicability of constitutional rights in Puerto Rico and other overseas territories. Essays in Reconsidering the Insular Cases examine the history and legacy of these cases and explore possible solutions for the dilemmas they created. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979639579
ISBN
9780979639579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.40

Hardcover. Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112476
ISBN
9780230112476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Paperback. Presents an assessment of American historiography and cinematic historians from the advent of sound to the beginning of wartime film production in 1942. Num Pages: 447 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813192390
ISBN
9780813192390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.41

Hardback. Reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Editor(s): Aguirre, Carlos A.; Buffington, Robert. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 254 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSC; JFSJ; JFSL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026208
ISBN
9780842026208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.56

Paperback. Reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Editor(s): Aguirre, Carlos A.; Buffington, Robert. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 254 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSC; JFSJ; JFSL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026215
ISBN
9780842026215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.73

Paperback. The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330400
ISBN
9780822330400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.35

Paperback. Arguing that lawyers need to share more power with the judge and jury, this study recommends ways in which the basic adversarial system can be retained and improved. It examines the power the attorneys had over the court in the O.J. Simpson case and sheds light on the trial system's weaknesses. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226777184
ISBN
9780226777184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.24

Hardback. This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602816
ISBN
9780230602816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.99

Hardback. This assessment of the prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners interested in the late careers and the future of retirement. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JPQB; KCR; KFFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447326175
ISBN
9781447326175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.99

Hardback. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps, figures, charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933177
ISBN
9780813933177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

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