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The Americas
Hardback. "Rather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist." -John Rohrbach Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 color + 107 duotone illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 319 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1956.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300215397
- ISBN
- 9780300215397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.94
€ 43.99
€ 34.94
Paperback. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? This book brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power. Editor(s): Wolfe, Christopher. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116686
- ISBN
- 9780691116686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Traces Staten Island's political sympathies in the American Revolution to local conditions that favored the status quo instead of revolutionary change. Num Pages: 185 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBE; HBJK; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814767665
- ISBN
- 9780814767665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Great fun, this illustrated, fact-filled trivia guidebook to the first decade of rock & roll, breezily written (but painstakingly accurate), will take the baby boomer down a musical memory lane strewn with genuine "golden-oldies." Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGP; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069192
- ISBN
- 9780252069192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.21
€ 24.99
€ 23.21
Hardcover. Provides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479854530
- ISBN
- 9781479854530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.76
€ 47.76
Paperback. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage. This book shows how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287600
- ISBN
- 9780520287600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.31
€ 31.99
€ 23.31
Hardback. The first and only book to detail the history of Black images in animated cartoons. That's Enough Folks includes many rare, previously unpublished illustrations and original animation stills and an appendix listing cartoon titles with black characters along with brief descriptions of gags in these cartoons. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFV; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 994.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832503
- ISBN
- 9780810832503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.91
€ 172.91
Hardcover. A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920s, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma Tenayuca's story serves as a model for young and old alike about courage, compassion, and the role everyone can play in making the world more fair. Illustrator(s): Ybanez, Terry. Num Pages: 40 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; YNH; YXN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916727338
- ISBN
- 9780916727338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.82
€ 25.99
€ 23.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFDT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226421520
- ISBN
- 9780226421520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.41
€ 23.99
€ 19.41
Paperback. A short, sharp, irreverent rejoinder to right-wing red-baiting Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784783402
- ISBN
- 9781784783402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.31
€ 25.99
€ 21.31
Num Pages: 176 pages, over 200 b/w and color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JWG; JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887409127
- ISBN
- 9780887409127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 32.61
€ 48.99
€ 32.61
Hardcover. In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model. Num Pages: 222 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399205
- ISBN
- 9781137399205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; GTF; JFSJ; JHB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649361
- ISBN
- 9781442649361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Paperback. Tise Vahimagi details in this text the development of the "Gangster" genre, and "The Untouchables"'s relations to American cinema and television of the 1950s and 1960s, offering a sidelight on the social and political events of the period. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; HBTB; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851705637
- ISBN
- 9780851705637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.17
€ 38.99
€ 33.17
On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its eighty-six crewmen alive. Though some of the Flier's mysteries remain with the submarine beneath the sea, this title sheds light on the nature of underwater warfare and naval protocol. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124810
- ISBN
- 9780813124810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.63
€ 35.63
Hardcover. A groundbreaking study of the 'white other' figure in American intermarriage literature and film. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287168
- ISBN
- 9781137287168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a "democratic" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor. Editor(s): Mendez, Juan; O'Donnell, Guillermo; Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio (Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFF; JPVH; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Edition
- First edition, presumed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043018
- ISBN
- 9780268043018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.40
€ 134.40
Paperback. This guide covers "classic" parks, national historical parks, national monuments, national battlefields, national scenic trails, and beyond. Num Pages: 480 pages, 100 Colour Photographs, 100 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 203 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781426207341
- ISBN
- 9781426207341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.81
€ 26.81
paperback. An intimate treatise on the subject through the ramblings of a student and practitioner of the culinary arts of this exotic region with basic recipes and their variations. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393334425
- ISBN
- 9780393334425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.46
€ 26.99
€ 25.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 165 pages, over 200 bw/color images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1152.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 165
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764329210
- ISBN
- 9780764329210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 35.80
€ 53.99
€ 35.80