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Paperback. Documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City, the authors recall how they gained entry to the New York graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s and describe the techniques that they used to photograph it. Num Pages: 128 pages, 153 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPN; ACXJ; AFJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 338 x 11. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500292129
ISBN
9780500292129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.52

Paperback. Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. This book investigates a crucial and heretofore ignored factor in determining the nature and direction of limited war: information institutions. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FMV; 1FPK; 1KBB; HBJK; JPSH; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226107714
ISBN
9780226107714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.65

Hardback. Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. This book investigates a crucial and heretofore ignored factor in determining the nature and direction of limited war: information institutions. Num Pages: 344 pages, 2 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FMV; 1FPK; 1KBB; HBJK; JPSH; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226107684
ISBN
9780226107684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.79
€ 83.32

hardcover. This volume takes the reader on an insider's tour of the psychology of stock market investing. Based on observation and more than 3000 hours of interviews with insiders, it demonstrates how the prejudices of four different types of players influence the ups and downs of the market. Num Pages: 220 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; KFFM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847694907
ISBN
9780847694907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.56

Hardback. Cathy Ann Trower's analysis provides colleges and universities a considerable inside advantage to get on the right track toward a happy, productive workforce. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18, 18 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKH; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405971
ISBN
9781421405971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 46.10

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 317 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Brash Publishing Canada
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781895208030
ISBN
9781895208030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 22.23

Hardcover. Creates a resource where women can find a role model, someone with whom they can relate. Profiling women with a wide diversity of experiences and career opportunities allows the reader to find a common connection. This series of book highlights both the pleasant and unpleasant career experiences which these women underwent. Editor(s): Hinkle, Amber S.; Kocsis, Jody A. Series: ACS Symposium Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 28 halftones, 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; KNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP USA
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004189
ISBN
9780841239128
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of essays and tutorials that offer both practical and humorous makeup, travel, sex, dating (more topics TBD) advice from one of the most popular drag queen comedians on YouTube. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; WHX; WJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455566198
ISBN
9781455566198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.67

Hardcover. For Caribbean women, the image of sucking salt has long signified how they have endured hardship and found ways to transcend it. This study examines the fiction and poetry of both emigrant and island women to explore strategies they have developed for overcoming the oppression of racism, sexism, and economic deprivation in their lives and work. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826216656
ISBN
9780826216656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.20

Hardcover. This compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature Series: North American Religions Series. Num Pages: 253 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814722992
ISBN
9780814722992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 52.81

Paperback. Explores the rise of an ethic of self-sacrifice in American science. This work describes when and how science came to rely on an investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. It examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813539515
ISBN
9780813539515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.14

Paperback. A study of the first attempts to understand how radiation affected the survivors of the atomic bomb and subsequent generations of Japanese, this book argues that Cold War politics and cultural values shaped this research. Using varied sources, it examines how US science was socially constructed. Num Pages: 298 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JPQB; JWL; JWMN; MBGR; MM; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226482385
ISBN
9780226482385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSJ; JFSL; JPHF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801450860
ISBN
9780801450860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 51.54

Paperback. Presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 illustrations, 31 tables, 1 map, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTS; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807848777
ISBN
9780807848777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.60

Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis. Series: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 75 black & white illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817318918
ISBN
9780817318918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.43

Paperback. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed.. Editor(s): Bosma, Ulbe; Giusti-Cordero, Juan A,; Knight, G. Roger. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845457846
ISBN
9781845457846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.39

Hardback. Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era. Editor(s): Bosma, Ulbe; Guisti-Cordero, Juan A.; Knight, G. Roger. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; KNAC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845453169
ISBN
9781845453169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.30

Hardback. Suing Alma Mater provides a clear-eyed perspective on the legal issues facing higher education today. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM; LNTD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409221
ISBN
9781421409221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.39
€ 55.42

Paperback. Suing Alma Mater provides a clear-eyed perspective on the legal issues facing higher education today. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM; LNTD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409238
ISBN
9781421409238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.75

Paperback. One of California's most remarkable wetlands, Suisun Marsh is the largest tidal marsh on the West Coast and a major feature of the San Francisco Estuary. This title includes information about the ecological and human history of Suisun Marsh, its abiotic and biotic characteristics, and alternative futures facing this ecosystem. Editor(s): Moyle, Peter B.; Manfree, Amber D; Fiedler, Peggy L. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 17 color maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; PSAF; PSP; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276086
ISBN
9780520276086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.51

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