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The Americas

Paperback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283732
ISBN
9780520283732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520283725
ISBN
9780520283725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.12
€ 73.24

Paperback. Features a collection of essays questioning the truth of American's color-blind society from outside and inside communities of color. This work addresses such issues as the relationship between skin tone and self esteem, marital patterns, interracial relationships, socioeconomic attainment, and family racial identity and composition. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 355.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781929011261
ISBN
9781929011261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle man and nature to control the fate of their island villages and oyster fleet. Through these lively characters, White paints a vivid picture of life on a skipjack, a wooden oystering sailboat. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; GTB; HBJK; JHBT; KCN; KCU; KJVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442210882
ISBN
9781442210882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Career Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601633477
ISBN
9781601633477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 240 black & white photographs, 3 black & white maps, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Edition
25th Anniversary ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591142133
ISBN
9781591142133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 101 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 703.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816642823
ISBN
9780816642823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Exploring the often difficult relations between hip-hop and schooling, Slam School builds a new and surprising argument: the very reasons teachers and administrators might resist the deliberate introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital. Num Pages: 208 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JNF; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763660
ISBN
9780804763660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. Editor(s): Terland, Matthew N. Num Pages: 71 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
71
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594547607
ISBN
9781594547607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.95
€ 49.34

paperback. Examines what happens to the targets of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and what is happening to public participation in American politics. This book offers solutions for preventing, managing, and curing SLAPPs at various levels of government. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPWD; LNB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781566393690
ISBN
9781566393690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTK; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226123097
ISBN
9780226123097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist incapable of fully transcending his times. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; LA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612710
ISBN
9780700612710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801852503
ISBN
9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. This book demonstrates that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226846705
ISBN
9780226846705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226204772
ISBN
9780226204772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. Here, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 272 pages, index, bibliography, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842024006
ISBN
9780842024006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.29

paperback. Here, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 272 pages, index, bibliography, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842024297
ISBN
9780842024297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.66

Hardback. African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. Editor(s): Fradera, Josep M.; Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18 figs & tables, 5 maps, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KJ; 1KL; 3J; HBJD; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459336
ISBN
9780857459336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.02

Hardback. A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. Editor(s): Halpern, Rick; Dal Lago, Enrico. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217343
ISBN
9780631217343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.08

Paperback. A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. Editor(s): Halpern, Rick; Dal Lago, Enrico. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217350
ISBN
9780631217350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.16

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